Troll?

[boat fan]

Can someone actually explain the exact meaning of TROLL ? as regarding this forum . I feel really silly asking since I have come across this
term so often now. :confused:

[Meerkat]

Trolling is the practice of throwing out some sort of inflamatory remark(s) to get the crowd stirred up, usually without any real stake in the argument.

[boat fan]

Thanks Meer... smile.gif

[Phillip Allen]

OH YEAH???!!! smile.gif

[ishmael]

It's more complex than that. Some trolls are looking to disrupt a board, by any means. But some trolling is kinda like the flash of a whitetail deer, come hither, look.

With destructive intention, a strong troll can wreck havock. They get people worked to a frenzy. But I trolled when I asked about great apes at the end. Not to get people worked, just to hear their opinions and thoughts and sorrows.

There are good and bad trolls.

[boat fan]

Thanks Ishmael,

I`m learning ... :rolleyes:

[Phillip Allen]

"There are good and bad trolls..."

I wonder if a bad troll is simply the absence of interest in the stated topic...I've asked queations and started threads in which I was interested in what folks thought or in countering a notion I didn't agree with...etc.

[jack grebe]

Jack..you trolled? say it isn't so......say your not Dutch are ya :D

[John B]

I trolled once. bad bad bad to the bone.

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by boat fan:
Thanks Ishmael,

I`m learning ... :rolleyes: Be careful from whom you learn... ;)