Why Do You Troll?
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I can't lie. I've done it occasionally, more to play Devil's Advocate than specifically to piss people off. Sometimes it is just very dry humour that is intended as a joke, but taken really seriously by some people. I do that just to remind them that they will die one day and not to get so wound up by some things, often they are good sports when they realise I'm playing but some get really arsey. Can't please everyone.
But doing the whole HALO IS BETTER THAN HALF-LIFE! FUCK ALL YOU HALF-LIFE FANS!!!!! thing isn't really for me.
But doing the whole HALO IS BETTER THAN HALF-LIFE! FUCK ALL YOU HALF-LIFE FANS!!!!! thing isn't really for me.
But if they are true trolls then we know they are going to go off and start trolling the threads. Surely we would want rid of them now rather then later after they've already spoilt things? Or is that just how i would do it?wordsmith said:
And yet you have one for an avatar. Hah! That works on two levels.Z of the Na said:
Just because trolling isn't allowed on the forums doesn't mean shit.
I am a troll in real life, and I am only a minor one. I know one life-troll who INVENTED a person that never existed, said that person KILLED himself, and got his high school associates to think they KNEW this guy.
Trolling is just damn good fun
You know when people say that you shouldn't argue an idiot, because an idiot will just drag you to his level and claim victory?
Fuck that.
Smart person is smart enough to be better at stupid than morons are, and beating one in their own game is like playing tic-tac-toe with a kid.
Someone starts whacking you with a stick, you don't start lecturing about the pointlessness of random violence. Just go and grab bigger stick, jump right in and gracefully land a blow in the nuts.
Fuck that.
Smart person is smart enough to be better at stupid than morons are, and beating one in their own game is like playing tic-tac-toe with a kid.
Someone starts whacking you with a stick, you don't start lecturing about the pointlessness of random violence. Just go and grab bigger stick, jump right in and gracefully land a blow in the nuts.
1.) To me, trolling is a mean, racist cousin to "griefing" and griefing IS FUNNY... sometimes. (I don't partake, but you can't tell me you don't laugh when you think of Ventrilo Harassment's "OVER 9000 THOUSAND?!"
2.) The whole "man behind the mask" thing is... kinda appealing... for all we know this is *quickly looks for a popular poster* someone's alt. account. Just made for the lulz to say things they wouldn't want to say as their main face.
2.) The whole "man behind the mask" thing is... kinda appealing... for all we know this is *quickly looks for a popular poster* someone's alt. account. Just made for the lulz to say things they wouldn't want to say as their main face.
That might be how you would do it, but you'd have something of an uprising on your hands if you did. Personally, I would never (intentionally) troll these boards. I might have shed a few sparks at a Turbine fan here or there, but I wouldn't go out of my way to troll (thread creation, alternate accounts, that sort of thing). If I don't troll these boards but admit I do elsewhere, I'm still inside the rules.DemonicKitten said:
If you will, it's like the Dutch "Hash Tourists". They are people from countries in which marijuana is illegal, and they travel to Holland (where it can be legally sold and smoked in certain areas) with the express intention of getting high. Now, a person saying to a UK official "I smoked pot in a restaurant" would be admitting an illegal act, and they could be fined on that confession. Because they smoked it in an area which it is legal, there has been no crime, so no action can be taken against them.
You follow?
Funsies. Actually, I don't and thanks for keeping it out of here but go die. In a hole. On fire. Next to Hitler.
(1) Not quite sure what you mean here.Maldaris said:
This thread is not search bar approved (not like you care, you naughty little troll you). On a troll-related thread recently, a very enlightened escapist summed up the phenomenon in a much more articulate manner than I am about to recreate:
A troll is a person on the left or right or perhaps in the middle, who has been so blinded by his or her own rage that they no longer possess the ability to effectively debate with others, instead hurling insults at them for daring to disagree, or else a troll is a jaded, useless kid who lives in his mother's basement and hates on the words and works of others instead of adding his own ideas to the creative pool, or else a troll is a complete sociopath.
So I guess my question is, which are you? And (2) to what variety of troll are you speaking?
Also, in case you are of the second variety I described (by way of lackluster paraphrasing, I'll admit), I would inform you that "because I can" as a motivation for anything other than making another human being come is not very impressive. But once you move out of your aunt's cellar you'll realize that
I agree, though his avatar does look like a man who touches children. And speaking of sexual impropriety with children...Gilbert Munch said:
My one 4chan experience began and ended when I saw a picture of what looked like 2 nude 9-year-old girls in the shower, pussies and all. I exited immediately and took a long shower to clean the dirty off me. Haven't been back since. But from what others tell me that isn't "the whole 4chan experience." They just need to do something about it -either bump the pedos off post-haste or bring in a few detectives to track IP's.