Years ago KRC was posted something about her minivan. I tossed in a comment like "your right front tire is low and needs air."
She FREAKS OUT. "HOW DID YOU KNOW MY RIGHT FRONT TIRE WAS LOW???!!!?!??!!!"
All minivans have low right front tires.
IMHO the greatest trolls - like legendary con artists and salespeople - are the ones who you never know are trolling.
Many of the people on the list are pretty obvious. They make fun of fat women, they pick on "retards", they use the n-word, they do all the things you do if you want to make people all outraged and stuff. And they're effective because people love nothing more than to be outraged. But most people can see these guys coming a mile away.
But the true trolls - the real masters of deceit who manage to totally fuck up everybody - are the ones who we never knew were trolling - the users who had us fooled.
For that reason, I have to choose KRC. She totally fooled me. I was floored when she was outed. Bravo.
IMHO the greatest trolls - like legendary con artists and salespeople - are the ones who you never know are trolling.
Many of the people on the list are pretty obvious. They make fun of fat women, they pick on "retards", they use the n-word, they do all the things you do if you want to make people all outraged and stuff. And they're effective because people love nothing more than to be outraged. But most people can see these guys coming a mile away.
But the true trolls - the real masters of deceit who manage to totally fuck up everybody - are the ones who we never knew were trolling - the users who had us fooled.
For that reason, I have to choose KRC. She totally fooled me. I was floored when she was outed. Bravo.
I think they are one in the same.
I agree with you a milliontypercent. While open trolling can be [choose your adjective], it's creepy as hell to discover (be it publicly or privately) a fire ant nest of crazy-ass crap perpetuated by people behind the scenes or off the boards. Sometimes you have no idea how big that damn nest is until you creep step-by-disturbing-step down that road. Then you start getting that skin-prickly feeling that there's a giant, drooling drama troll around the corner.
"What we have here, children, is a super-humpy-trollfest full of ugliness."
Some of those threads are endlessly funny. The snarky, cynical bitch inside of me just can't stop laughing. Especially when Dolf, Pointless, and Garnate get hold of them. I also have the adjoining feeling that many of those threads are started for the sake of kicking up the shit.
Stealing this.
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The media cottoned onto the term Troll and misunderstood its meaning long after it had been doing the rounds, then again people started to use it to win an argument on a forum or in comments when things were not going their way. So easy to say, shut up troll rather than come up with a decent counter argument.
Original trolls were pretty much as Lauren describes, they would go into a chat room, forum, even MMORPGS and undertake an opposite stance on whatever was the majority position in that community, they would then cleverly provocative, incite arguments or situations and then after lighting the blue touch paper, watch the sparks fly.
A good troll would be able to do this, only make one or two posts/comments and they would sit back and watch the results. The community sometimes only realising they had been had once the troll had disappeared, if they ever caught on at all.
The media now has anyone posting bullying, racist, nagative,hurtful remarks marked as a troll. They are not trolls and they actually besmear the good names of the original trolls who if anything were only really cunning mischief makers. (kinda like modern fairy tales
So if any of the nominated managed to do this then they should be voted for.
I would also be interested to find out if the gender-genies had used their faux gender to stoke and fuel arguments among the lit forum members. With others being non the wiser. That would be top trolling. Unless they were just gender bending to be sad and get cock pictures posted to them, then they are pretty much fail.
EDIT: Took a while to post this and since then MBates has posted a dictionary definition, which basically has come about through the media and misunderstanding of the Originals.
