Troll posters

[EdWingfield]

To "troll" means to allure, to fish, to entice or to bait.
Internet trolls are people who fish for other people's confidence and, once found, exploit it.
Trolls are various in nature and the type of damage they do ranges greatly, such as:
• Cause irritation to others
• Disrupt an email list or online group
• Degrade the trust viewers have in the forum at large

The ego of the successful troller is massaged by his approving mates who tell him he’s quite a clever sh11te.

 

[Lakesailor]

Is this a troll?

 

[Searush]

Sounds like common sense to me Lakey, especially with Dyflin crying his eyes out over a response to Daka.

Come on lads - taking the pee isn't clever, it just shows the poster to be completely crass.

 

[l'escargot]

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Is this a troll?

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No, this is:

 

[SailorFrank]

totally agree - lets move on,

 

[eidiohir]

Troll posters is related to Bill posters but unlike Bill didn't come to a sticky end but went on to thread his way through various posts in life and to build up a name as a fisherman of note.He was to be found happily fishing under bridges when not engaged with his on-line groups. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Wasn't Bill Posters prosecuted?

 

[eidiohir]

He was and many people believe that he was framed before being nailed to the wall.

 

[photodog]

Spent a couple of weeks staking out the king of Bill Posters for the Standard a couple of years ago, V nice house in V nice village... It was July and I spent most of the job snoozing with my feet out the window. Still dont know what he looked like.

/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[B175Chris]

Photo that someone just tried to post :

Sorry didn't see name of forumite

 

[eidiohir]

Thank you

 

[Marmalade]

sorry - thought the flares on new year's eve troll was funny. there's a fine line between an overtly comical post and a cynical troll. not sure where the line's drawn exactly but humour and wit are staples of this community I think.

Simon

 

[duncanmack]

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Wasn't Bill Posters prosecuted?

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Its this bloody country Phil, Gone tae the dogs. They said he wuz goany be prosecuted, but the thing is HE WUZ INNOCENT!

Wuz he no wan of the renault 5 by the way?

 

[Danny Jo]

Troll posters do it because it's nice to be noticed and because they get lots of rewarding feedback, proving that they are somebody after all.

This begs two questions:
1) Why do non-troll-posters post? (My tentative answer - erm, because it's nice to be noticed and because they get lots of rewarding feedback, proving that they are somebody after all.)

2) Given that no-one, apart perhaps from Freestyle, wants to get nominated as the Forum bore, most posters seek to pose questions that stimulate robust debate. So where is the dividing line between a stimulating question and a troll? (My tentative answer - there ain't one: all forum posting may be seen as attention-seeking, with varying degrees of desperation.)

 

[damo]

Re: Troll posters..and a wall to hang them on

Troll Wall

 

[Lakesailor]

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all forum posting may be seen as attention-seeking, with varying degrees of desperation.)

[/ QUOTE ] So you're desperate?

 

[Danny Jo]

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So you're desperate?

[/ QUOTE ] Yes, but not for attention.