(Jan) said:Quoted message said:Subject: Fravia's tutorial on troll, flamer, kook, shill
etc... From: W_B [email hidden] Date: 3/18/2004 5:58
PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id:
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A short excerpt from the site:
A troll is basically one who posts messages intended to
insult and provoke
Suits you to a T.
Jan
Make a note: it is *you* not me that fits the definition.
If you were capable of reading further, with understanding,
you would have included:
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<quote> per fas et nefas (see [Trolls and Schopenhauer]
below). For each person who responds, the poster (the troll
as a person) will consider that person "caught". The troll
(the troll as an action) is considered to have been a
complete success if it disrupts beyond repair the normal
traffic on a newsgroup or on a messageboard. In extreme
cases, trolls are posted by groups of trollers and
crossposted to unrelated newsgroups in an attempt to
destroy those groups by flooding them with flames and off-
topic ranting.
Variants:
1.spamming troll, one who posts -or crossposts on many newsgroups-
the same, exact post, multiple times (mostly one liners:
"cascade"😉. Some of these 'listings' with all answers and
counter-answers, can grow into huge files.
2. kook: a regular poster who continually posts messages
with no apparent grounding in reality. The kook trademark
is paranoia and grandiosity. Kooks will often build up
elaborate imaginary support structures, fake corporations
and the like, and continue to act as if those things are
real even after their falsity has been documented in
public. While they may appear harmless, and are usually
filtered out by the other regular participants in a
newsgroup or mailing list, they can still cause problems
because the necessity for these measures is not
immediately apparent to newcomers; there are several
instances, for example, of journalists writing stories
with quotes from kooks who caught them unaware. </quote>
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