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VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24830 |
 Posted: March 21 2012 at 05:34 |
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Sometimes kind of funny, sometimes slightly irritant, always a minor issue.
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20620 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 05:21 |
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Other option:
but in the poll, I chose vaguely funny, but ultimately, like Andy, I don't care much.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 04:57 |
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Other.
I don't give a sh!t. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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CPicard
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 03:43 |
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I've learned this: when reading something a news website... When watching a video online... When reading a webcomic... Never... Listen me well... NEVER ever read the comments!
It's not only that the trolls are annoying most of the time and that most of them seem to be real morons, it's also that reading their insane and inane rantings (ratings?) leave a taste of bile in the mouth. |
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Vompatti
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VIP Member Joined: October 22 2005 Location: elsewhere Status: Offline Points: 67468 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 03:20 |
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It doesn't amuse me.
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Man With Hat
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166183 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 02:50 |
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I find a****les much more annoying. Trolls are usually easily ignorable.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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JJLehto
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Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 00:54 |
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I actually lived under a bridge at one point.
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Icarium
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VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34090 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 00:43 |
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i think the word has an old-norse relation, but it i haz nothing to do with Trolls but with the fishing techniqies used when you set out bait, for fish and come back laiter to pull in the fish = trolling
Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water. This may be behind a moving boat, or by slowly winding the line in when fishing from a static position, or even sweeping the line from side-to-side, e.g. when fishing from a jetty. Trolling is used to catch pelagic fish such as salmon, mackerel and kingfish. Trolling can be phonetically confused with trawling, a different method of fishing where a net (trawl) is drawn through the water instead of lines. Trolling is used both for recreational and commercial fishing whereas trawling is used mainly for commercial fishing. A troll is a mythological creature, related to elves, dwarves, or monsters. The verb troll originates from Old French troller, a hunting term. The noun troll comes from the Old Norse word for a mythological monster.[7] In modern English usage, the verb troll is a fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat.[8] The word evokes the trolls of Scandinavian folklore and children's tales, where they are often creatures bent on mischief and wickedness. |
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Henry Plainview
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Joined: May 26 2008 Location: Declined Status: Offline Points: 16715 |
Posted: March 21 2012 at 00:20 |
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I generally find it more annoying and dumb than funny.
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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VanVanVan
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Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 756 |
Posted: March 20 2012 at 23:55 |
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I think trolling can be pretty funny if it's done well. It can be annoying but that's usually only if you take the bait and get sucked in.
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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JJLehto
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Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: March 20 2012 at 23:38 |
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What's the big deal.
Yes, I am trying to recover from trolling addiction but really, it's a god damn joke and most trolling makes fun of itself. Like, painfully obvious and people just go along with it. If you don't get it or are too sensitive just go away! It just requires clicking an X in the corner! Not to be confused with actual cyber bullying or stuff like that. That's not cool. |
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Dayvenkirq
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
Posted: March 20 2012 at 23:27 |
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World news section of Reuters has trolling posts? ... Oy.
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RoyFairbank
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 07 2008 Location: Somewhere Status: Offline Points: 1072 |
Posted: March 20 2012 at 22:59 |
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Youtube is indeed not a good place for human communication in general. There is such a diversity of people of all ages, they are not committed to making a legitimate comment on any one of those temporary pages, so you get fragments of fragments, usually trollish. I've noticed however that even serious websites like the world news section of reuters for example tends to have equal weight in troll posts as in genuine posts. So I agree with wikipedia that it is a pervasive phenomenon. |
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Dayvenkirq
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Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
Posted: March 20 2012 at 22:51 |
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Minor or occasional issue. Luckily, I do not encounter trolling much; only when I watch certain PF videos on YouTube.
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RoyFairbank
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 07 2008 Location: Somewhere Status: Offline Points: 1072 |
Posted: March 20 2012 at 22:45 |
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I post this after reading the grim wikipedia entry on trolling, which identifies it as a dangerous anti-social activity that borders on criminality, and is buttressed by quotes that the internet needs to be policed.
 I would get stupid from it, or even "uninhibited," and vulgar, but it is not particularly damaging to me, and I think many people on sites like ESPN and news sites read the comments just for the ridiculous trolling, which is often entertaining. On a site like this it is more disruptive, but a kind of perversion? What does the forum think? |
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