Skitto

I get all that, that's fine, I don't do it, but I see how fun it can been

Oh, btw, lemonclan ftl through ... time? Time picking them off by old age and VD?

It scarred me for life to see that, and that's why I wonder if certain trolling measures shouldn't be toned down... idk, not my place, but it's an interesting topic to me.

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Yeah, well, you're just that awesome, I guess. It's not like I guessed so anyways.

Iliftrocks

I've been on a couple of forums and inadvertently trolled. I thought the subject was an obvious joke, so I "played along", only to find out these bozos were serious. I've quit pretty much any semblance of trolling since then, as it was not funny to me anymore, that people were that dumb, or touchy about silly shit. I still like playing the devil's advocate occasionally to flush out good arguments and opinions, but I try to make it fairly obvious.

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Idyllic

I think you are all wrong, absolutely wrong.

Why would anybody lie online, really?

You don't know them, they have no reason to make up a lie, everything people say online is the truth, and I can prove it, see it must be true, because I said so, and I am online, so there.

What do you have to say about that?

By the way, your not really a boy, your a girl and you just don't know it yet.

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If your a girl, your really a girl who likes boys that are really girls, which makes you a lesbian, so all girls are lesbians.

p.s. And I'm not a troll, I'm a fairy, thank you very much......... fairly ever wrong that is...... hehehe

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Skitto

See? Now that is the perfect example of what I mean! Thank you so much for that!

Trolling is simply devil's advocate taken to a narcotic level, for whatever reason, pleasure of the troll in the confused responses of illogical beings in their attempts to refute his "non-reason-able" facade,

It's fun, and I love it, but to state something that pisses everyone off equally, as in Idyllic's cross-section of l33t-ness, is completely purposeless to me. I will only play devil's advocate to polarize people, get them thinking a little more about their own ideals; turning everyone on me would have no working value, except maybe in the purest form of reactionary demographic research.


Oh, and if you're going to say that this is the stupidest thing you've ever heard, bearing no resemblance to a coherent thought; Idyl, just know that I get it, you work in a purely anti-logic rationale to fuck people up, get them to trip over themselves.

But if there's anything I can do to weed out the immortal n00bs from your ranks, I'd be glad to take them on as... well, I'll find something for them to do.

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God, finally we have a decent troll in this thread.

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Cernunnos

On some internet forums that I frequent, the manner in which one responds to a provocative, insulting statement reveals his or her relative familiarity with that particular community and the internet in general. Expressing genuine emotion towards what others perceive as an obvious attempt at baiting is gleefully pointed out, and quite often, ridiculed. Trolling separates the experienced from the inexperienced, divides the newbies from the veterans, and provides a certain amount of amusing conflict between forum participants that sustains the community as a whole. This hostility and deception can obviously be unsettling, and it functions as an effective filter that ensures survival for only the jaded or endlessly masochistic. The emotional weaklings leave in tears, while the 'strong' remain.

I find myself engaging mildly in this type of misanthropic behavior, but only when I sense that my adversary is cooperating in jest, or that the target of my trolling is capable of enduring the incident without the risk of permanent emotional damage. This could take the form of arguing for an antithetical position to that which the community favors, dropping brief statements intended to shock or alienate those who view it to the point of responding angrily, or fooling someone into believing that I am on their ideological side of the fence, only to brutally demolish their confidence in an attempt at causing frustration. Generally, I confine myself to deadpan remarks with subtle humor that only some within the forum community would understand, or participating in a string of posts that support a ridiculous fact or belief, to the incredulity of others. We'll link to a video depicting gruesome violence or similarly distasteful content, only to describe the linked site in an alternate fashion, mentioning puppy dogs, fluffy clouds, rainbows, and anything that would lead to false conclusions prior to viewing the actual content, which could be NSFW or worse.

I refrain from this behavior on Tilted Forum Project and other sites where the community doesn't approve of and actively encourage it. Basically, trolling for me results in slight schadenfreude through taking advantage of and manipulating the ignorance of others, and by witnessing their reactions from an anonymous position. I savor the vulgar profanity, mashed keys, and cries of pent up rage. I relish the dropped jaws, displays of insecurity, and petty vengefulness. I derive immense satisfaction from realizing that my actions have evoked an immediate, intense reaction from another human being thousands of miles away, through the use of nothing but my fingertips and mind.