..It was like 2 seconds, but I saw enough.neoman10 said:
Ah well, I have games to kill it in my mind.
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Ah well, I have games to kill it in my mind.
I think you're definitely right in that there are trolls who can brilliantly manipulate people's egos to piss them off for their own amusement, but I think a larger amount of trolls are probably egotistical people who just like to be infuriating assholes on the internet. From what I've seen so far (although I haven't been on the Escapist for that long) This site seems largely friendly and mostly empty of theses people, but there are the occasional jerks who sully our good name.Mozared said:
But of course, that's why we have the Spanish Inquisition >
I have to admit it, I am a troll. I go on /b/ every day and I only use my YouTube account to troll random people. I join my /b/rothers in raids and turn on them once the raid is over with an Advice Dog thread. God, I love to troll!
I troll because I, like many people, go through a lot of stress. I always watch what I say in person and I never try to offend anyone. But, once I am behind my computer screen, I am 100% anonymous. No one knows who I am. There are no consequences for what I say. I can say ANYTHING and not have to worry about what my friends or family would think. It's a way of relieving stress. It's a way of showing my true face without showing myself.
Is there anything wrong with trolling? Maybe. I have never really thought to deeply about the "victim". If they ever respond, I just give them another dose. I troll until the person finally decides that the best move is to give up. Trolling can also teach you how to handle criticism too!
By the way, remember back when 4chan raided us? Well, I did not participate in that raid. I did not go on /b/ until June 2009 (yes, I am a "newfag").
I troll because I, like many people, go through a lot of stress. I always watch what I say in person and I never try to offend anyone. But, once I am behind my computer screen, I am 100% anonymous. No one knows who I am. There are no consequences for what I say. I can say ANYTHING and not have to worry about what my friends or family would think. It's a way of relieving stress. It's a way of showing my true face without showing myself.
Is there anything wrong with trolling? Maybe. I have never really thought to deeply about the "victim". If they ever respond, I just give them another dose. I troll until the person finally decides that the best move is to give up. Trolling can also teach you how to handle criticism too!
By the way, remember back when 4chan raided us? Well, I did not participate in that raid. I did not go on /b/ until June 2009 (yes, I am a "newfag").
It's just like you said, one dudes terrorist is another dudes freedom fighter.DracoSuave said:
It shouldn't just be that everyone who says something which you disagree with is a troll, motivation is key. Purpose, to cause anger, hate, and sorrow or to cause discussion, inform others of your view. In most cases, it's the former.
There are different types of trolls and they each have different motives, and there are often cases of mistaken identity as when someone responds to flames or engages in debate they might mistakenly be identified as a troll.
I think most trolls are either insecure or attention starved.
For the insecure, trolling is often a power trip, especially when their intention is to annoy people they feel like they're in control of other people's emotions and reactions and they get some strange satisfaction out of knowing that they have the power to make other people miserable. They often make intentionally stupid arguments against anything that someone says, misrepresenting what you say and invoking ad-hominim attacks. These trolls are typically the flamers, the ones who attack others in order to provoke a response then fill their exchanges with insults and act like you're the unreasonable one if you insult them back.
For the attention starved it's often a way of becoming the center of attention, even though it's bad attention everyone is focusing on them and paying attention to them and reacting to what they say. These types of trolls are often ignored, neglected, and/or spoken over in their personal life so they desperately seek the attention they crave by provoking people. It's the only time that people ever really pay attention to them, it's sad really. They use shock jock behavior because even if everyone is disgusted by the shock jock, at least they're paying attention to him.
I think most trolls are either insecure or attention starved.
For the insecure, trolling is often a power trip, especially when their intention is to annoy people they feel like they're in control of other people's emotions and reactions and they get some strange satisfaction out of knowing that they have the power to make other people miserable. They often make intentionally stupid arguments against anything that someone says, misrepresenting what you say and invoking ad-hominim attacks. These trolls are typically the flamers, the ones who attack others in order to provoke a response then fill their exchanges with insults and act like you're the unreasonable one if you insult them back.
For the attention starved it's often a way of becoming the center of attention, even though it's bad attention everyone is focusing on them and paying attention to them and reacting to what they say. These types of trolls are often ignored, neglected, and/or spoken over in their personal life so they desperately seek the attention they crave by provoking people. It's the only time that people ever really pay attention to them, it's sad really. They use shock jock behavior because even if everyone is disgusted by the shock jock, at least they're paying attention to him.
Look at me, nobody knows who I am. I am powerful and invisible on the Internet.
Except I'm not. Everywhere I go and everything I do online leaves a virtual fingerprint. If somebody wants to, they can find all my personal information easily and track me down. Trolls are gambling that nobody cares enough to do these things. Someday I'd like to pay them back by finding out their personal info and making it public.
Annoy ME, will you?
Except I'm not. Everywhere I go and everything I do online leaves a virtual fingerprint. If somebody wants to, they can find all my personal information easily and track me down. Trolls are gambling that nobody cares enough to do these things. Someday I'd like to pay them back by finding out their personal info and making it public.
Annoy ME, will you?
As far as i know he tried 3 times the first day. He got up to 81 posts, then 15, then he only got something like 4 or 5. Then the next day, he created v4 and got at least 30 before i went to go make a sammich. I didn't catch how many posts he got up to. And idk if he made a v5 because i started playing L4D2.shewolf51 said:
You know, the more you talk about trolls, the more likely you are to become a target.
Just saying.
Just saying.
I dunno, I remember Insane Clown 69. His thread spanned an incredible 15 pages or soMacksheath said:
From what I know, there are only 4 versions. Besides, trolls have had many more different accounts than just four.grimsprice said:
I remember that thread. You couldn't actually post before another page of posts suddenly appeared, which was quite scary seeing as most of them were from about two or three users. I remember a few other trolls but I don't want to go into detail on them in case I risk getting in trouble for referring to them too much.Kuchinawa212 said:
I tried looking him up; all his posts and threads have been deleted for obvious reasons from what I've heard (I never saw the threads).Fniff said:
I view trolls on three different levels. All of them go for the same goal, but different ones go for it via different actions:
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[li]First, there's your average forum troll. These people can vary in subtlety from 'obvious troll is obvious' to being a troll which can actually convince you that they mean what they say on the internet. Most these guys will ever face for their actions is a ban, yet the attention they get is few and select.[/li]
[li]Next, we have the /b/tards. These guys are a branch of trolls who prefer to troll en mass rather than on their own, and whom mainly work together with DD0$ to hack sites and rig polls, as well as various raids on social sites and discussion boards they talk on. Like the standard forum troll, these people won't experience much consequences or attention for their act with the exception of massive raids that hits national/ international awareness. It is also generally these guys who will get a meme going if one does start going.[/li]
[li]And then you have people mentioned in the article. These people are the worst trolls of them all. Generally, they have a tendancy to hack at the internet accounts of users, fake themselves for who they want to blame this all on and basically want to mess up people's lives, as well as being the most skilled at messing up said people's lives. If you have any details of yourself leaked onto the internet, it will generally be leaked via these guys. These people will almost always get the biggest attention from users, however they also have the most to lose. A lot of people would do a lot of things for Jason Fortuny's address, so he, amoungst other trolls of this status, must be careful what they have on the internet and know what's going to happen as a result of their actions.[/li]
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