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I'm glad we get to have this conversation, because I want to clear up the misconception of what trolling really is. The word is used far too often in this forum, and misused more often than not.
Posted by: Le Petit Chien
Posted by: x Foman123 x
My god, people, please stop using the word "trolling" as a substitute for "lying." They're not the same thing.
I'm not lying though. I'm deceiving, and the art of trolling is to deceive.First of all, lying and deceiving are the same thing. Just ask any woman you're in a relationship with.
Second,Posted by: DarkSunnyboy1
The art of trolling is to rustle jimmies.^This. Trolling is about making some or all people mad. But really, it's about making SOME people mad.
Anyone can post something that is obviously intended to make almost everybody else mad (for example, if I made a thread claiming everybody in the Flood is stupid). Trolling only approaches an "art form" (or whatever) when three criteria are met:
1) The trolling is done skillfully enough that only a certain subset of people get mad;
2) Everybody else gets the joke;
3) Everybody else not only gets the joke, but they also play along with it.
[Edited on 12.03.2012 10:32 AM PST]