Trollery for fun and profit

[starrkers]

MarshAlien posted this link on another thread, but I thought it needed a higher profile

The New York Times Magazine, some two or three weeks ago, printed a fascinating article called "Malwebolence, The World of Web Trolling" (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/ma...3trolls-t.html - I have no idea if the link will work if you're not a "member," but "membership" is free, and you get NYT headlines e-mailed to you each day!) One paragraph in particular stood out:

“Lulz” is how trolls keep score. A corruption of “LOL” or “laugh out loud,” “lulz” means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium. “Lulz is watching someone lose their mind at their computer 2,000 miles away while you chat with friends and laugh,” said one ex-troll who, like many people I contacted, refused to disclose his legal identity.

 

[TxRad]

A "bump" back to the top

 

[Anna_Malia75]

If the definition of trollery is disrupting someone's emotional equilibrium, I can think of a couple of trolls here on the AH. Heck, I think I've been a troll myself recently.

Of course, there are more than a few people here whose emotional equilibrium appears to be balancing on the head of a pin.

 

[keeblercrumb]

Dreams of Polina

If the definition of trollery is disrupting someone's emotional equilibrium, I can think of a couple of trolls here on the AH. Heck, I think I've been a troll myself recently.

Of course, there are more than a few people here whose emotional equilibrium appears to be balancing on the head of a pin.

And a few pin heads who are in emotional equilibrium, now that you mention it......



-KC

 

[rgraham666]

Read that.

The sample of people the man interviewed is hardly statistically significant, but those he did interview were severely emotionally damaged.

I felt kinda sad for them.

 

[Anna_Malia75]

Read that.

The sample of people the man interviewed is hardly statistically significant, but those he did interview were severely emotionally damaged.

I felt kinda sad for them.

I wouldn't say I was severely emotionally damaged.

 

[keeblercrumb]

Dreams of Polina

I wouldn't say I was severely emotionally damaged.

Just enough to engage in inappropriate sexual behavior?? About that much damaged?



-KC

 

[Anna_Malia75]

Just enough to engage in inappropriate sexual behavior?? About that much damaged?



-KC

Who squealed? Was it Terri? I'll kill her.

 

[DesertPirate]

Who squealed? Was it Terri? I'll kill her.

It was Juan

 

[starrkers]

Was Juan a troll or a trollee?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Was Juan a troll or a trollee?

He was funny, and that is enough for me

 

[Stella_Omega]

Was Juan a troll or a trollee?

He kiked down the door and camed in her face.

 

[DesertPirate]

Was Juan a troll or a trollee?

Anna and Jomar had a thread going a couple month ago about him. His English was ... lacking, yeah that works.
We had fun with it like, it's a juanderful night ...
The sillier the better.
He was one that might have been a troll if you could take him seriously, but nobody could

 

[cloudy]

iam juan you no lik my father he real mens no like you you sick lebsians you sick

 

[sr71plt]

Of course, there are more than a few people here whose emotional equilibrium appears to be balancing on the head of a pin.

Amen to that.

 

[TE999]

iam juan you no lik my father he real mens no like you you sick lebsians you sick

Makes one juander what happened to him.