What's the big deal with trolls?

I keep hearing people talk about these trolls and I can't help but wonder what the big deal is.

A troll is a person who says something either irrelevent or non contributing. I for one truly hate trolls. They infest a forum thread by saying something like im first or something.

i might of got it wrong but r u talking about story trolls or forum trolls?

An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response^[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.

jolaur wrote:

An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.

nice defintion...I was under the impression it was someone just throwing in a quick two cents that really has no importance...such as a "lol" to a previous funny post

I guess I too am not a fam of someone that deliberately submits posts to disrupt

rich wrote:

cheater_1 is a troll then.

Maybe he is....I'd have to check his posts first

Cheater 1 cant be a troll he makes posts the size of my t.v ! He contributes to loads of discussions and without him, chess.com is gone, finished.

well...if the defintion of an internet troll is someone that posts things irrelevant to the topic with the intention of "stirring" things up then first he has to deviate from the topic.

He definitley likes to stir things up but what I have seen he is usually on topic

definitely a pot stirrer

So let's vote is he or isn't he .

I vote he is .

Cheater_1 is definitely a troll. I think all of us have figured this out already...

Cheaters who write in a provocative way and often use all caps are trolls, duh...

I vote he is a troll

yeah...he's a troll

I just read everything in wiki about what an internet troll is

A clever troll, who is regularly fed by the same souls who then complain about him. Perhaps it hasn't dawned upon them yet that trolls usuaully leave when ignored for a prolonged time.

I have trolls very often whenever i post stuff about math.

It bothers me a lot.

Ok...i have looked through some of cheaters posts and where he likes to stir the pot he does stay on the subject or at least follows the subject from someone else

so I think he only qualifies as a  T.I.T. (Troll In Training)

yep