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"Interesting discussion about Trolls"

Once paragraph catching my eye: -

"I have the sneaking suspicion that if I asked one and actually got them to take the question seriously, I might get an answer like "I say the things I say because you all need to lighten up." Or "I'm just telling it like it is and you all are persecuting me."

The question then being, why do trolls repeatedly (and many have a history of the same modus operandi across successive message boards) feel the need to position themselves as 'lighteners-up' or 'straight-talkers' in the face of considerable opposition? What is it about these roles that appeals, particularly, to trolls? I suspect it relates, again, to early experiences of relating to one's peers and, as you suggest, putting an ego-protective gloss on what might otherwise be regarded as social failure. More positive to tell oneself 'people are too po-faced/pretentious to handle my edgy humour/no-bulls**t approach' than 'people avoid me because I'm irritating'."

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Hmmm...and doubtless they would refer to my continued insistence for them to provide explanations for their viewpoints as trolling?

What a strange, deluded bunch they are...

You see my point. :)

Oversimplified arguments are trolling?

Hell, that would make Bell, Forest, and Ms Thraves the worst, most ridiculously stupid trolls of all time...

Most regulars on this site have trolled at somepoint. Hell, over-simplifying an argument could be classed as 'trolling'.

Cong_Man wrote:
> Personally, I don't know why I keep coming back here. I feel fairly
> ostracised by the majority of posters being much younger than myself
> and having very different philosophies on lie.
>
> But the WWE forum is one of the best on the net...

For some reason I felt compelled to well, troll that.

Personally, I don't know why I keep coming back here. I feel fairly ostracised by the majority of posters being much younger than myself and having very different philosophies on lie.

But the WWE forum is one of the best on the net...

Ug.

*Bashes with club and drags off to cave*

You're all trolls to me. Big hairy things that stink.

Your Honour wrote:
> and then to see him still posting a social-life
> killing 1200+ posts a month?

Oh look this is designed to get a rise out of someone.

You're trolling by their definition. You can almost smell the irony (Double irony, let's say).

OddToe wrote:
> Goaty should really come back.

Maybe he is, trolling under a different name.