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Subject: Trolls?

What is a troll? How and why would a person want to troll? I am just curious because I keep hearing about them, and have no idea as to what they are.

TL;DR What is a troll?

  • 11.23.2011 11:40 PM PDT

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There's a Wiki for that.

  • 11.23.2011 11:48 PM PDT

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A troll is someone who says things in hope of getting an emotional response. For example, a troll on the Halo Reach forum might say "Lt Colonels are better than Inheritors" etc.

Don't reply to them, just report and move on.

  • 11.23.2011 11:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: Papa Chief 6
Someone who post just to piss someone off, being a jack ass, pretty much me. I'll troll you soon, you'll see what I mean.

Thing is, you probably just got trolled by the OP right now :D

[Edited on 11.23.2011 11:51 PM PST]

  • 11.23.2011 11:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: SonicJohn
There's a Wiki for that.

  • 11.24.2011 7:29 AM PDT

Whats a troll? Is this a Warcraft forum?

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  • 11.24.2011 9:16 AM PDT
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A "troll" is a commonly used internet term that describes someone who posts something strictly with the intention of making people mad.

If you're new here, you may eventually see a person named "John Cena" spam links to meatspin. He is not a troll, but instead an overweight forty-year-old who spends his spare time dwelling in his mothers basement repeatedly typing his name over and over on a video game developers website.

Ah, here's a picture of him:

  • 11.24.2011 9:22 AM PDT
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There is no concrete definition of the word "Troll". It's a word that's definitiOn has been shaped over a few years by the uncoordinated and ununified masses which are, collectively, referred as the people of the Internet.

The word is used in so many situations and in so many (if marginally) different ways that to attempt to get a concrete definition of the word is almost impossible. Honestly, the best way to figure out what it means is to hear it used in context over and over again until you can create an idea in your own head of what situations the word is applicable in.

  • 11.24.2011 9:41 AM PDT


Posted by: WinyPit82
A "troll" is a commonly used internet term that describes someone who posts something strictly with the intention of making people mad.

If you're new here, you may eventually see a person named "John Cena" spam links to meatspin. He is not a troll, but instead an overweight forty-year-old who spends his spare time dwelling in his mothers basement repeatedly typing his name over and over on a video game developers website.

Ah, here's a picture of him:

Ctrl-V.

  • 11.24.2011 9:46 AM PDT

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  • 11.24.2011 10:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: WinyPit82
A "troll" is a commonly used internet term that describes someone who posts something strictly with the intention of making people mad.

If you're new here, you may eventually see a person named "John Cena" spam links to meatspin. He is not a troll, but instead an overweight forty-year-old who spends his spare time dwelling in his mothers basement repeatedly typing his name over and over on a video game developers website.

Ah, here's a picture of him:

Ctrl-V.
Trust me, that's not a Ctrl-C , Ctrl-V.

Also, I think you should use google, OP.

  • 11.24.2011 12:07 PM PDT

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  • 11.24.2011 12:13 PM PDT

What a hipster.

I'll let the Muppet's explain.

  • 11.24.2011 3:10 PM PDT

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  • 11.24.2011 3:11 PM PDT

What a hipster.

Posted by: Exalted Kezia
I think they need to start adding Google to the school curriculum.
I'm pretty sure the OP is brilliantly soft trolling us with that TL;DR comment and lack of reply to the thread.

  • 11.24.2011 3:14 PM PDT

A troll is someone who hides behind their computer and talks -blam!- to anyone they feel like~ -blam!-s who dick around because they feel big when they talk like that -_-"

  • 11.25.2011 3:06 PM PDT

oh lol, one of my first posts, i was not aware they out "blam" XD blam one-shiz blam two-a-hole :P

  • 11.25.2011 3:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: SonicJohn
There's a Wiki for that.


I understand wikipedia is regarded as "knower of everything". But why the hell is there an article on trolls with a trollface. Irrelevant really. Funny though.

  • 11.25.2011 5:36 PM PDT

I have no idea.

  • 11.25.2011 5:52 PM PDT