Home
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the newsgroups members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings, and upon judging a poster a troll, make the offending poster leave the group. Their success at the former depends on how well they — and the troll — understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.
Trolls can be costly in several ways. A troll can disrupt the discussion on a newsgroup, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the newsgroup community. Furthermore, in a group that has become sensitized to trolling — where the rate of deception is high — many honestly naïve questions may be quickly rejected as trollings. This can be quite off-putting to the new user who upon venturing a first posting is immediately bombarded with angry accusations. Even if the accusation is unfounded, being branded a troll is quite damaging to one's online reputation.
Trolling in Action
Some techniques:
* Always use proper grammar and spelling. Failure to do so will result in the obvious retort.
* Choose an insane idea and STICK WITH IT. Ignore all other arguments and any other form of logic or common sense.
* Kidnapping Jew soldiers. Classic Hezbollah troll for inciting Holy War and for Ninja Evangelist Christians trying to jump-start The Rapture.
* Use many sock puppets to try to convince everyone that someone at random is a troll.
* Use people's ignorance about IP addresses to your advantage.
* Use Caller ID Spoofing for general lulz via phone
* Fifty Hitler Post
* creating crapp
* Fake journals
* HAGGER?????????????????
* Crapflooding
* Memorial page tourism
* Posting offensive links or images and claiming they are work safe
* Using the word abortion in a sentence
* Making a conservatism post in liberal comm or vice versa
* Suing someone in Internet court
* Listen to TrollfesT to get in the mood.
* Hacker
* Inane flame
* Ministry of truth
* Mail lists
* Sprinkle tags into user comments on Wikipedia talk pages.
* Google Drop their name all over the Internets.
* Posting an offensive image as the userpage for a new user via administrative means on AE and then locking the page so it cannot be edited.
* Even making the suggestion that racist stereotypes are, in fact, with merit.
* Guides on trolling is also another good way to troll.
* Make an introductory post on a forum that starts out "Hi my name is _____ and im a scientologist from..." just sit back and watch the moral fags educate you and everyone else about Scientology while others try to stick up for you.
* It is possible for one to troll by pretending to get trolled. Furthermore, it is possible for another to troll by pretending to be trolled by the one pretending to be trolled. The vicious chain continues on to the point where all are trolled simply by trying to follow and understand it.
TYPES
Hater
Also, he trolled the world.
Hater is YouTube for troll. Being a bunch of illiterate trailer trash, your average YouTube blogger is unaware that internets exist outside of YouTube. Quite possibly because most of those internets require better than a third grade reading level to successfully navigate.
Trolling YouTube is deceptively simple. Just wait for some schmuck to post a video whining and crying over something nobody cares about (9/11) and post a response video calling them a drama whore. YouTubers are still naively sheltered from the realities of the internet, making their reactions even more lulzy. It's kind of cute.
Griefer
A video game species of troll. Griefers are unable to resort to the time-honored techniques of text-driven drama and, as such, have concentrated on ruining the game experience for others. This takes many forms, from breaching the fourth wall on roleplaying servers, to filling in-game chat windows with commentary about monkey fucking.
Then, of course, are the spawn campers, the lag-fags, and lets not forget the cheaters and the glitchers.
Griefers can often be ingenious in finding ways to annoy people, but more often than not they're just fuckwits.
myg0t is one of the most successful and well-respected raging (griefing) organizations.
Trolls in RPGs
* In Dungeons & Dragons, trolls take full damage from acid and fire. Because trolls have green rubbery flesh and naturally enhanced regeneration, damage caused by slashing, piercing or bludgeoning is halved.
* In World of Warcraft, Trolls are a powerful race of giant green bean people that live in towering can cities. They worship the almighty Jolly Green Giant.
* All this RPG troll stuff came from trolls in Norse mythology. Lolki, god of mischief (among other things), invented trolling and shitty tribal art tattoos.
However, none of this is important, because everyone knows D&D and WoW are for gays.
Troll for a Day (TFAD)
Found on those rare well-heeled (adults with no lives) boards such as Yahoo's SCO board. A board may suffer from group think and stagnate. One poster will create a new pseudonym and log in to tweak the other posters into a flame war. The Troll for a Day will announce they are a TFAD (TFADing) and everyone will congratulate the regular after getting over their murderous impulses. Posters on message boards who have experienced this behavior will immediately try to label all newbies as "TFADs". These trolls are often pussies.
The Troll's Prayer
A prayer for trolls made for the lulz.
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray thee not my trollz to take.
And if I die before I wake
I pray thee lord those Jews to bake.
It's burning, it's roaring;
The Jews are all mourning.
I stuck one on a pyre
And set him on fire
Lived he not to see the next morning.
Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the newsgroups members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings, and upon judging a poster a troll, make the offending poster leave the group. Their success at the former depends on how well they — and the troll — understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.
Trolls can be costly in several ways. A troll can disrupt the discussion on a newsgroup, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the newsgroup community. Furthermore, in a group that has become sensitized to trolling — where the rate of deception is high — many honestly naïve questions may be quickly rejected as trollings. This can be quite off-putting to the new user who upon venturing a first posting is immediately bombarded with angry accusations. Even if the accusation is unfounded, being branded a troll is quite damaging to one's online reputation.
Trolling in Action
Some techniques:
* Always use proper grammar and spelling. Failure to do so will result in the obvious retort.
* Choose an insane idea and STICK WITH IT. Ignore all other arguments and any other form of logic or common sense.
* Kidnapping Jew soldiers. Classic Hezbollah troll for inciting Holy War and for Ninja Evangelist Christians trying to jump-start The Rapture.
* Use many sock puppets to try to convince everyone that someone at random is a troll.
* Use people's ignorance about IP addresses to your advantage.
* Use Caller ID Spoofing for general lulz via phone
* Fifty Hitler Post
* creating crapp
* Fake journals
* HAGGER?????????????????
* Crapflooding
* Memorial page tourism
* Posting offensive links or images and claiming they are work safe
* Using the word abortion in a sentence
* Making a conservatism post in liberal comm or vice versa
* Suing someone in Internet court
* Listen to TrollfesT to get in the mood.
* Hacker
* Inane flame
* Ministry of truth
* Mail lists
* Sprinkle tags into user comments on Wikipedia talk pages.
* Google Drop their name all over the Internets.
* Posting an offensive image as the userpage for a new user via administrative means on AE and then locking the page so it cannot be edited.
* Even making the suggestion that racist stereotypes are, in fact, with merit.
* Guides on trolling is also another good way to troll.
* Make an introductory post on a forum that starts out "Hi my name is _____ and im a scientologist from..." just sit back and watch the moral fags educate you and everyone else about Scientology while others try to stick up for you.
* It is possible for one to troll by pretending to get trolled. Furthermore, it is possible for another to troll by pretending to be trolled by the one pretending to be trolled. The vicious chain continues on to the point where all are trolled simply by trying to follow and understand it.
TYPES
Hater
Also, he trolled the world.
Hater is YouTube for troll. Being a bunch of illiterate trailer trash, your average YouTube blogger is unaware that internets exist outside of YouTube. Quite possibly because most of those internets require better than a third grade reading level to successfully navigate.
Trolling YouTube is deceptively simple. Just wait for some schmuck to post a video whining and crying over something nobody cares about (9/11) and post a response video calling them a drama whore. YouTubers are still naively sheltered from the realities of the internet, making their reactions even more lulzy. It's kind of cute.
Griefer
A video game species of troll. Griefers are unable to resort to the time-honored techniques of text-driven drama and, as such, have concentrated on ruining the game experience for others. This takes many forms, from breaching the fourth wall on roleplaying servers, to filling in-game chat windows with commentary about monkey fucking.
Then, of course, are the spawn campers, the lag-fags, and lets not forget the cheaters and the glitchers.
Griefers can often be ingenious in finding ways to annoy people, but more often than not they're just fuckwits.
myg0t is one of the most successful and well-respected raging (griefing) organizations.
Trolls in RPGs
* In Dungeons & Dragons, trolls take full damage from acid and fire. Because trolls have green rubbery flesh and naturally enhanced regeneration, damage caused by slashing, piercing or bludgeoning is halved.
* In World of Warcraft, Trolls are a powerful race of giant green bean people that live in towering can cities. They worship the almighty Jolly Green Giant.
* All this RPG troll stuff came from trolls in Norse mythology. Lolki, god of mischief (among other things), invented trolling and shitty tribal art tattoos.
However, none of this is important, because everyone knows D&D and WoW are for gays.
Troll for a Day (TFAD)
Found on those rare well-heeled (adults with no lives) boards such as Yahoo's SCO board. A board may suffer from group think and stagnate. One poster will create a new pseudonym and log in to tweak the other posters into a flame war. The Troll for a Day will announce they are a TFAD (TFADing) and everyone will congratulate the regular after getting over their murderous impulses. Posters on message boards who have experienced this behavior will immediately try to label all newbies as "TFADs". These trolls are often pussies.
The Troll's Prayer
A prayer for trolls made for the lulz.
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray thee not my trollz to take.
And if I die before I wake
I pray thee lord those Jews to bake.
It's burning, it's roaring;
The Jews are all mourning.
I stuck one on a pyre
And set him on fire
Lived he not to see the next morning.
