Poll: Are you an internet troll?

[Astoria]

I'm not but damn it is so tempting to be on facebook at times.

 

[Zanakanishi]

I only am on websites where it wont have any consequences like you tube or chat roulette.

I beg to differ, I was listening to a song and a comment was posted and the poster said that he's father was a fisherman who loved to sail and be on the sea and when he died that this song was played at his funeral, it was very emotional because this person was opening up his heart and soul to the internet. This person was immediately trolled by someone who said "fag, you should have played some (heavy metal band here)" Now you cant say to me that this didn't have any consequences and didn't make someone feel awful, I felt awful just reading about how this persons father died but for someone to go and offend him over something so serious and emotional is just pathetic and deplorable. Yeah, most of the time on YouTube no one cares about trolling, but there are times like the one I mentioned which shows how unjustified and how bad the internet troll situation has gotten.

If there is a light conversation, nothing serious, and I feel like it I might antagonize a few people but generally no I'm pretty reasonable.

Lol, that is the whole point of trolling, i mean why would someone not want to do a proper job when they troll, it's basically more points for the worse you make someone feel, if someone feels horrible then you win lots of internets, also, the game.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Not really, but I have said some things that might seem trollish.

"I love mainstream FPS more than indies or games that try to be innovative." Not really trollish but I pissed some people off saying that.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

I only am on websites where it wont have any consequences like you tube or chat roulette.

I beg to differ, I was listening to a song and a comment was posted and the poster said that he's father was a fisherman who loved to sail and be on the sea and when he died that this song was played at his funeral, it was very emotional because this person was opening up his heart and soul to the internet. This person was immediately trolled by someone who said "fag, you should have played some (heavy metal band here)" Now you cant say to me that this didn't have any consequences and didn't make someone feel awful, I felt awful just reading about how this persons father died but for someone to go and offend him over something so serious and emotional is just pathetic and deplorable. Yeah, most of the time on YouTube no one cares about trolling, but there are times like the one I mentioned which shows how unjustified and how bad the internet troll situation has gotten.

If there is a light conversation, nothing serious, and I feel like it I might antagonize a few people but generally no I'm pretty reasonable.

Lol, that is the whole point of trolling, i mean why would someone not want to do a proper job when they troll, it's basically more points for the worse you make someone feel, if someone feels horrible then you win lots of internets, also, the game.

And I bet you're one of those stupid internet trolls who will tease a crying girl over the internet about the death of her kitten and her grandmother?
I can understand that it can be fun to antagonize people for an angry reaction, I have little sister so I can say I've done it before. But if you go and antagonize someone about something very emotional that you are likely to make the person cry, then you are more then an internet troll, you are a low life scum that plagues the internet and you should be very lucky that the people you pick on don't find you in real life because you are likely to be savagely attacked.

 

[Zanakanishi]

I only am on websites where it wont have any consequences like you tube or chat roulette.

I beg to differ, I was listening to a song and a comment was posted and the poster said that he's father was a fisherman who loved to sail and be on the sea and when he died that this song was played at his funeral, it was very emotional because this person was opening up his heart and soul to the internet. This person was immediately trolled by someone who said "fag, you should have played some (heavy metal band here)" Now you cant say to me that this didn't have any consequences and didn't make someone feel awful, I felt awful just reading about how this persons father died but for someone to go and offend him over something so serious and emotional is just pathetic and deplorable. Yeah, most of the time on YouTube no one cares about trolling, but there are times like the one I mentioned which shows how unjustified and how bad the internet troll situation has gotten.

If there is a light conversation, nothing serious, and I feel like it I might antagonize a few people but generally no I'm pretty reasonable.

Lol, that is the whole point of trolling, i mean why would someone not want to do a proper job when they troll, it's basically more points for the worse you make someone feel, if someone feels horrible then you win lots of internets, also, the game.

And I bet you're one of those stupid internet trolls who will tease a crying girl over the internet about the death of her kitten and her grandmother?
I can understand that it can be fun to antagonize people for an angry reaction, I have little sister so I can say I've done it before. But if you go and antagonize someone about something very emotional that you are likely to make the person cry, then you are more then an internet troll, you are a low life scum that plagues the internet and you should be very lucky that the people you pick on don't find you in real life because you are likely to be savagely attacked.

Cool story bro, but look up the rules of troll club, I am breaking 2 of them just telling you about the rules in short your opinion is irrelevant... The definition of trolling clearly states that what I said was true, and what you said is just another way of saying you have too many morals, I mean... Why so serious?

 

[FarleShadow]

And I bet you're one of those stupid internet trolls who will tease a crying girl over the internet about the death of her kitten and her grandmother?
I can understand that it can be fun to antagonize people for an angry reaction, I have little sister so I can say I've done it before. But if you go and antagonize someone about something very emotional that you are likely to make the person cry, then you are more then an internet troll, you are a low life scum that plagues the internet and you should be very lucky that the people you pick on don't find you in real life because you are likely to be savagely attacked.

Here's the thing about internet trolling, which I believe most people (You can include yourself, if your post has anything to go by) think that a consequence free, image free, free speech environment is the perfect place to establish rules of morality.

If we use your example of the girl, crying over her dead grandmother (Which is worse than a dead cat, so fuck it, we'll stick with that), in real life we would be universally ass-kicked if we made fun of her, she didn't choose to have a dead elderly relative and its not like most people can stop from crying in those situations.

But on the other hand, we take the same girl, then she video's herself crying and then posts it on the web. The fact people view it is not incidential (At school/in public), its a diliberate attempt to get sympathy from others and as a result garners very little sympathy but quite alot of trolls. Advertising your misery is the quickest way to getting inter-spanked by the buttpirates of the web.

That said, trolling on the internet only ever works on the lowest common denominator, because everyone else has figured out why the 'block user' button exists. Or even the sense not to post about their Japanese RealDoll collection's 'personalities'.

TLR/Edit: Essentially, the internet allows you to project whatever image you want onto it, so the mocking you get is due to the image you CHOSE to project. Like choosing to be a fat, ugly girl in a generic movie Highschool.

 

[Blemontea]

Its the internet the possibility of actually meeting one of you people, especially with my social life, is slim to none so when those day come around, *ahem*

TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOLO, lolololo...

 

[Twilight_guy]

If you say that you are a troll isn't that kind of like saying "I'm lying right now."

I'd like to think I'm not a troll but I have been known to get upset and act stupid.

 

[Weskerbot3000]

I troll forums
I troll my co-workers
I troll my college club members
I troll all day erry day
My troll switch is stuck in the on postion

 

[imperialreign]

I'm not but damn it is so tempting to be on facebook at times.

I'll be the first to admit fb is awesome for trolling . . .

regarding the topic that's evolved of this thread - the intranetz would be a vastly boring place without trolls. Could you imagine? Every forum you go to where everyone either agrees or respectfully disagrees?

An internet without flaming and baiting . . .

. . . it's like dividing by 0.

 

[DanDeFool]

No but I have been known to feed trolls because I like to argue with people and be right, something that hardly ever happens when I'm talking with reasonable people .

I also delight in reading about their antics and exploits. Example The Saga of Bloodninja [http://people.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/funny/bloodcyber.html] (WARNING: NSFW).

 

[Stalk3rchief]

Yes I am.
Not all of the time though.
But I turn into a huge Troll when I see something absurd that pisses me off. So I guess I'm kind of a vigilante troll, protecting internet decency and content by pissing off the problem. lol

 

[Flying Dagger]

I wouldn't call myself an internet troll.

I don't restrict my trolling to the internet, I troll in all forms of communication.

 

[Sarge034]

Troll is such a broad term really....

 

[similar.squirrel]

When I'm feeling bitter yes.

 

[Retronana]

Troll a few of my mates on Facebook sometimes for a laugh.

One time I trolled on of my friends into flaming me over EA, apparently he wasn't impressed with my comments on how "Why can't valve make more good games like EA". There was so much wrong with that statement...

 

[Haydyn]

Nope. I have trolled to take down trolls, and joined in the fun when mods abandon the forums. I do however like feeding trolls. It's a guilty pleasure.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

*Takes of "Professional Troll" shirt*

No

Generally I'm nice on the Internet. It's where I live after all.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

um, nooo?​

 

[Mimssy]

Naw, I just want everyone to play nice. Conflict makes me edgy.