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xongsmith
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Message 24 of 89 (648688)
01-17-2012 4:20 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by New Cat's Eye
01-17-2012 3:16 PM


Re: Trolls?
CS says:
straggler2hooah writes:
And you do at times seem intent on inflaming your opponent rather than engaging them in debate. Which I guess is where the troll accusations come from.
Exactly, as that is exactly what trolling is. I wouldn't say that "he is a troll" but I would say that "he does troll".
The original definition of a troll seemed more to emphasize a desire to see tons of responses (the fish) to a provocative statement (the bait) appear in the newsfeed in the old days of unix usenet, before the world wide web & Mosaic, before the disgusting tour buses of Prodigy and AOL arrived on our news feed.
Inflaming - we called it just Flaming in those days - only one opponent would seem to be an EPIC FAIL in this, but rather call back instead the ancient legendary days of the Meeks-Lor core wars waging on for years in rec.sport.basketball.pro (rsbbp) and else where. (In particular, rsbbp had the Dick Stockton - Isiah Thomas debate, complete with bodily threats.) They never trimmed, but replied with rebuttal after rebuttal and each next post would run numerous pages of point & counter-point. RAZD here has nothing on them.
Those core wars extremely aggravated most of the spectator fleet, but I was entertained. In fact I started off one of their multi-month spitfests just with an idle, innocent comment once in my sig file. Now that's trolling!

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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