What is trolling?

[madskillz]

ClaudeLv250 said:

zexen_lowe said:

Riot Of The Blood said:

 

That stuff is not trolling. Basicly, you're saying having negative opinions about consoles is trolling. There's no point in posting on a message board if you're going to offended or banned because of that.

Trolling is like:

Let's say I make a thread about Vesperia being the best RPG ever. You come in and say something like, "No it isn't. FF7 is, and you're a dumb fuck for thinking that".

That's not trolling, that's flaming

 

Something interesting in the wiki article

"The most likely derivation of the word troll can be found in the phrase "trolling for newbies," popularized in the early 1990s in the Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban (AFU).^[7][8] Commonly, what is meant is a relatively gentle inside joke by veteran users, presenting questions or topics that had been so overdone that only a new user would respond to them earnestly. For example, a veteran of the group might make a post on the common misconception that glass flows over time. Long-time readers would both recognize the poster's name and know that the topic had been done to death already, but new subscribers to the group would not realise, and would thus respond. These types of trolls served as a Shibboleth to identify group insiders. This definition of trolling, considerably narrower than the modern understanding of the term, was considered a positive contribution.^[9][7] One of the most notorious AFU trollers, Snopes,^[7] went on to create his eponymous urban folklore website."

So, Rol's a troll

You can't spell troll without rol!

 

 

LOL! This!