What is trolling?

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Non Sequor said:

Originally, trolling was a USENET term for making intentionally inappropriate, stupid, or offensive posts to a group in order to provoke a reaction from the group.

For example, someone might troll a technical group by asking an extremely stupid question, thus resulting in comedic gold when some poor fool interprets it as a legitimate question.

More destructive forms of trolling are posting graphic sexual or violent material or flooding a group with nonsense text.


I think that a lot of what gets called trolling isn't really trolling under the traditional definition. The traditional definition requires that someone be trying to deliberately interfere with a discussion for their own satisfaction. Around here, I think we have a bunch of people who are unintentionally inappropriate, stupid, or offensive.

 

 This!

Right on.

and btw.. The Darkspear Trolls are alligned with the Orcs of Orgirmar yes, but time can always change such an alliance.