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For your edification...What is a troll?

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Dogbert - 01 Sep 2005 16:36 GMT
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From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

"Often a person will post a sincere message that they are emotionally sensitive about. Skillful trolls know that the easiest way to upset them is to disingenuously claim that the person is a troll. On other occasions a person may not instantly understand or fit into the social norms of a forum where most users are the same. As a result, their acting just slightly out of social norms (often unintentionally, and for legitimate reasons) garners the label "troll". Whether they actually "are" a troll depends wholly on whether one takes the political view of trolling, in which motives are not considered.

Sometimes people who are merely attempting to be funny are accused of trolling, when that is not their intent. Many trolls now find that the traditional trolling tactics are so overused and commonplace that they have to disguise their trolling to make it effective - although, quite often, the disguising merely involves accusing others of being trolls themselves."

By using this definition, I have compiled a short list
of TROLLS that frequent this group:

Howard C. Berkiwitz
Victor M
Dan M,
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
Jo Firey
Nan
Cheryl Perkins
Adrian
badwilson
Ted Davis - 01 Sep 2005 21:35 GMT
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>Sometimes people who are merely attempting to be funny are accused of trolling, when that is not their intent. Many trolls now find that the traditional trolling tactics are so overused and commonplace that they have to disguise their trolling to make it effective - although, quite often, the disguising merely involves accusing others of being trolls themselves."

The cannonical definition of 'troll' in the usenet context is found in
"The Jargon File":
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/troll.html>.  It doesn't much
resemble the above.  That seems internally inconsistent, but mostly
more appropriate to 'clueless newbie'.

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