Posted by yxibow on February 8, 2007, at 0:36:02
In reply to trolling?, posted by elanor roosevelt on February 7, 2007, at 21:47:01
> what is "trolling"?
Without making a double PBC, I will describe it in person neutral fashion. Trolling, and it is described in some of the FAQs on this board if you dig around enough, is the posting of inflammatory, bizarre, or counterproductive posts in the hope that someone will respond to the "troll".
A troll, among other dictionary definitions is a type of fishing boat, a trolling boat that throws out a net in a hope to capture something.
People do it for all sorts of reasons, possibly psychological, who knows, but mainly to get attention.And the attention scales in magnitude, and soon everybody is sucked into a thread that basically ends up being a waste of energy that could have been spent discussing something else.
I made a generalization and while I may argue one way or the other about the individual I have to respect the board even if the individual is doing something odd. The best response is no response.
I think I posted this in as neutral a fashion as possible, I hope.-- Jay
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