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    Default Quick question?

    Wont keep you long.

    What's a troll?
    And why do people get so iriate when it's thrown around?

    Before you start slagging the hell out of me (i know you will), yes at this stage i should know about it. But i dont and i'd like to know.
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    Here you go Rince, form Wiki

    In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
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    Thanks buddy.

    As clear as mud now.


    And you dident even ridicule me. Your loosing your touch? or are you taking pity on me?
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    Not a bother
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    Quote Originally Posted by rincewind View Post
    thanks buddy.

    As clear as mud now.


    And you dident even ridicule me. Your loosing your touch? Or are you taking pity on me?
    dont listen to him, a troll is a little fecker that lives in a cave underground,prodaly has long blue hair that stands up.only about four foot tall but a nasty little critter all the same,they cans see in the dark to
    mam mammy mam mam mam mammy

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    Its when you have to pay some money to access a road, bridge etc which is why so many of the regular drivers get pissed off on here when it gets mentioned...

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    Default I shall keep it short and simple.

    Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players.

    The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the newsgroups members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings, and upon judging a poster a troll, make the offending poster leave the group.
    Their success at the former depends on how well they — and the troll — understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.

    Trolls can be costly in several ways.
    A troll can disrupt the discussion on a newsgroup, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the newsgroup community. Furthermore, in a group that has become sensitized to trolling — where the rate of deception is high — many honestly naïve questions may be quickly rejected as trollings. This can be quite off-putting to the new user who upon venturing a first posting is immediately bombarded with angry accusations.
    Even if the accusation is unfounded, being branded a troll is quite damaging to one's online reputation.

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    Default Calling WD40

    Now that was funny.
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