what is a troll?
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Que?...por favoro..y me comprenditto tu usted un el chess.com memberdito trollissimo! Un complimente!
Says_Arthurs wrote:
Quid?...poor favors..y moe compare ditto Tzu usted urn eel chesss.con memberemdito trollissimo! Urn compliments!
btickler wrote:
johnmusacha wrote:
btickler wrote:
johnmusacha wrote:
Stricter forum moderation is not going to do anything. Trolling will just have to be more subtle, that's all.
You give trolls far too much credit, but in any case, if the trolling becomes subtle enough to actually make trolling topics appear as if they are discussing new topics, not harassing, etc. then it's really the trolls that are fooling themselves as they have then become reasonable citizens without realizing it ;)...
"Lol at all u suckas...all I have to do is pull this lever and I get a free banana! I r in control..."
Trolling is all about wasting other people's time. This is best done subtly and subversively.
Therefore, if the troll has to spend more time trolling than the average person is wasting reading it, then they are trolling themselves and wasting their own time.
Take your average troll who is creating a new sockpuppet every week...case in point, Erik the Viking. Obvious troll from maybe the second post on. Time spent for me being "trolled"...maybe 1-2 minutes being generous here; it's often 15 seconds). Time to select avatar, create new account, and post inane messages? Maybe 5-15 minutes. Who is losing here, exactly?
Now add the "subtlety". If in the pursuit of not being IDed as a troll, a troll actually has to disguise their trolling topic and responses to the point that a discussion actually covers new ground and other posters bring new content to the table and thus a real discussion ensues...then nobody has been trolled in the end, now have they? The troll is wasting their time ;).
Oh, come, sir, you picked a poor example.
Secondly, the troll never wastes his own time, because he derives utility from his actions.
not futility?
There's subjective utility and objective utility ;)...
Mathemagics wastes his time here and a few do seem to tango with him.
If you look very carefully, you will notice a troll in the background of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1LZVmn3p3o
Ironman111 wrote:
John Conner is a terminated.
i am looking forward to the new terminator 5 movie
kaynight wrote:
King of the swingers, or what?
what is a swinger?
Sorry, I don't have time to post a video... priceless!
i think garry kasparov is in this movie.
at 0:32 of the trailer, he is talking to sandra bullock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqH3k6uwuWg
Maybe_Player wrote:
kaynight wrote:
The Jungle V.I.P.
The jungle IS FOR VIPs.
You are terminated.Maybe_Player was killed by a plasma rifle.
Erik-the-Viking wrote:
Mathemagics wastes his time here and a few do seem to tango with him.
Tip: When someone gets decimated and has to flee the scene, it's not successful trolling. The idea of trolling is that to your also-worthless trolling friends, you appear to have won; not that everything you posted gets refuted and your ignorance is exposed to everyone ;). It kind of kills the "look at me, I'm a sly, cynical, devil-may-care troll who is above all the riff-raff..." vibe that trolls desparately seek.
Till_98 wrote:
A troll is somebody like you who tries to sound serious whilst he asks questions to which he knows the answer and who tries to make fun of other guys. There is a difference between good and bad trolls, a good troll for example is user Kaynight or user Macer. They are both good trolls because they arent annoying and they are at least funny. There are also bad trolls like you who seriously ask others what a troll is while you are a troll yourself...
And then you have the other troll type where they give accuse others at any moment....Also, they usually can't read
btickler wrote:
Syd_Arthur wrote:
Me understando usted capacitia por valente?
Estado importante muy me puedes dar lar la quenta.
What?
"Understando?"
Apparently you can't tell Spanish from Italian. Va bene.
Scanning,copy complete.Gained ability to translate.