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Posted by: SonicJohn
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Posted by: SonicJohn
Negative trolling IS trollingYes...
...what you classify as "positive trolling" is simply joking, satire, joshing...Yes...
although you could use trolling as a word to mean those things it's actual meaning is different.Is that not how synonyms work?
Trolling is essentially greifing, you're doing something to someone to provoke a emotional response, something that is most commonly negative."Griefing" isn't the same as "provoking an emotional response". Would you say that a positive emotional response is griefing? Is humour a form of griefing? Don't think I follow you on this one.
(You can't say "You are a lovely person" to someone, watch them walk away smiling, then smile to yourself and say "That dude got trolled".)Um. Obviously. That's a pretty bad attempt at trolling. You could, however tell someone that you love them, then when they're basking in the happiness, tell them that you also love bad breath so that might be why. That's still kinda weak trolling, but it's still better than that weak-ass attempt you laid out.
Both of you need to stop attempting to define trolling... because neither of you are right. And neither is anybody else. "Troll" when it comes to a user of the internet is a indefinite word that is better defined through experience with trolls than with an actual definition. If somebody wants to know what a troll is, you don't define a troll, you show them some examples.
This argument will be neverending and pointless until the end of time.