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What is Trolling?

By Richard Champlin
Sun Mar 12, 2006 at 02:30:45 PM PST
Section: Diary Topic: General news/info

I know this is a waste of some peoples' time (those who have been doing this for a long time and thus think they know more than most), but what is "trolling"? I received a warning message about it, and I have no idea what it is.

After I posted a diary titled "Three Little Monkeys" I got this warning message about trolling. If trolling means asking for opinions, or stating one's own opinion, what the heck is the use of the blog then?

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What is Trolling? | 25 comments (25 topical)

Denfinitions

A lenghty definition can be found on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
A shorter definition can be found in the glossary at Daily Kos (scroll abou 2/3 the way down the page)
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Kossary

by Cherisse on Sun Mar 12, 2006 at 03:19:25 PM PST

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Trolling

Trolling = Someone who disagrees with me. ha!

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by Belltowner on Mon Mar 13, 2006 at 01:27:32 AM PST

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I'm guessing,

since I didn't see any comments about trolling in the other diary (unless it was removed), that he is referring to the warning above every comment before it is posted:

Post Comment
Trolling is not tolerated here. Any comment may be deleted by a site admin, and all trolls will be deleted. This is fair warning. If you don't know what trolling is, then you're probably not about to do it, so don't worry. :-)

I could be wrong.

by SeattleLiberal on Mon Mar 13, 2006 at 06:27:25 PM PST

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How this ended up here by SeattleLiberal, 03/13/2006 06:28:48 PM PST (none / 0)
you're probably right by N in Seattle, 03/13/2006 06:43:00 PM PST (none / 0)

"You can be immature forever" by Richard Champlin, 03/31/2006 05:59:21 PM PST (none / 0)

Richard -- I read 3 little monkeys --

and there was no trolling in there that I saw.

Can you tell me who sent you the message and what the text was?

Thanks!

noemie

by noemie maxwell on Sun Mar 12, 2006 at 04:02:35 PM PST

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a misreading? by N in Seattle, 03/13/2006 01:26:12 AM PST (none / 0)

See my comment by SeattleLiberal, 03/13/2006 06:30:25 PM PST (5.00 / 1)
Gorillas in the mist? by Richard Champlin, 03/31/2006 06:02:03 PM PST (none / 0)

Short answer.

A troll is someone who posts specifically with the intent of upsetting people and/or disrupting discourse. Some folks seem to love getting a community riled up and screaming at each other.

Since some poorly-expressed or hastily-written comments may offend people unintentionally, polite folks often check for a pattern of inflammatory posting before getting out the troll-repellant. (On DailyKos, trolls can expect to be responded to with recipes).

by robespierrette on Sun Mar 12, 2006 at 10:00:06 PM PST

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Point of Clarification:

Just curious, but is there a rating for a DLC Troll in Progressive's clothing?

Peace,

Chad (The Left) Shue

by The Left Shue on Mon Mar 13, 2006 at 07:31:25 AM PST

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There should be. by jzo, 03/13/2006 11:02:46 AM PST (none / 0)
DLC = what's a blog? by Belltowner, 03/13/2006 10:27:47 PM PST (none / 0)
for every DLC dem ... by asshat2001, 03/14/2006 12:58:33 AM PST (none / 0)

you have a little math problem - by rmdSeaBos, 03/14/2006 06:06:11 AM PST (none / 0)

you have a little reality problem by asshat2001, 03/14/2006 06:23:00 PM PST (none / 0)

"Centrism" is not a philosophy by dlaw, 03/14/2006 11:25:40 PM PST (none / 0)

I recalll centrism ... by asshat2001, 03/15/2006 12:59:30 AM PST (none / 0)

well... by N in Seattle, 03/15/2006 11:26:51 AM PST (none / 0)

Centrism bad, Clinton good, librul GOP of 70s good by Belltowner, 03/15/2006 10:41:02 PM PST (none / 0)

Total Unreality by dlaw, 03/15/2006 01:31:26 PM PST (none / 0)
Do you not notice?.... by dlaw, 03/15/2006 01:48:15 PM PST (none / 0)

Incite V. Debate

for thorazine liberals, debate = incite.

rmm

;)

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by rmdSeaBos on Mon Mar 13, 2006 at 08:13:37 PM PST

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Yeah, if conservative Dems were WINNING...

...you'd have a point.

But they're not. So you don't.

Dems who are taking strong stands - against corruption, the war, reckless Bush policies - are the ones putting the party together. "Triangulating" Dems are parasites who do no political work.

by dlaw on Tue Mar 14, 2006 at 01:34:19 PM PST

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