What is a troll?

[stonepicker]

For you sk3. A number of months ago there was mention of bto and burbert being trolls, but you said they were great and added a lot to the discussion? Most people i think consider them trolls. Now tweety comes on, obviously is knowledgeble, and has the nerve to question you on some of your many complaints ( with some sarcasm at times ) ( do you ever use sarcasm?) What makes tweety a troll and not bto? Remember, yesterday you said you were twins.

[Tucker]

Well a message board troll comes on and posts incendiary stuff only to start arguments. Usually not anything they even agree with, just poking people with a stick trying to start a fight. The pinnacle of trolling is to post only once and incite such an argument that other board members keep arguing even without the original troll posting again.

There are/were lots of members here who can/could be considered trolls. Recognize it and don't rise to the bait. Slum to the bait I guess is more appropriate. Wilagro is my favorite troll. I think he may actually believe his old communist/socialist diatribe though so he probably doesn't qualify.

[wilagro]

Wilagro is not a troll you two-bit idiot.

I have that from good authority.

[stonepicker]

Tucker, i think that's a pretty darn good definition!

[Hopperbin]

From wiki def of troll.
And I believe wilagro is not a troll a troll at all.
Perhaps wiki needs to add that a troll is someone who disagrees with your point of view.



In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum,chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[3]This sense of the word troll and its associated verbtrolling are associated with Internet discourse, but have been used more widely. Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment. For example, mass media has used trollto describe "a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families."[4][5

[grower99]

Anybody here a PMO troll?

[Tucker]

Nope Wilagro you're not. You actually believe deep down that you have the right to tell me what I can do with the grain I grow. Not a troll, just an old bully.

[stonepicker]

Hopperbin, i don't agree that a troll is someone who disagrees with you or me, but the the rest makes good sense.

[Hopperbin]

Pasturized Milk Ordinance troll?

[SASKFARMER3]

Tweety is just what I said. Any one who wishes 20% more rain than last year on some one is a troll!
But hey he's free to post any time just some things hit a nerve.

[greybeard]

so does that make BTO,Burbot or tweety trolls?
What about Grassy?
Do all message boards just degrade to needling like the local coffee shop?

[stonepicker]

Well sk3, i know tweety can speak for himself, but i think he was using a bit of sarcasm, and remember your twins ( or was that sarcasm )

[grower99]

Can you sell your "regular" veggies as organics?

[agchat]

So, what does that make people who call other people a troll. Does that make them a troll also, or just a ****ing asshole... LOL

[Tucker]

Agchat. It means you think their ideas are so out there and wrong that they have to be kidding or just saying stuff to get you mad.