The value of trolling

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I haven't completed a lot of classes and I don't have enough motivation to complete them any time soon.

You seem interested in philosophy. Maybe you could use that as your starting point?

If you want to go all out trolling 4Chan and YouTube are the best places to troll!

My attitude too. Made me think a lot, this thread, my sense of humour is often really out there, off-the-wall - I would never want to offend or hurt anyone by it and hope I never have. Thanks to devilkisses for starting a really interesting thread, here!

Most people who troll the internet (or cyber bully in other forms) do it as an outlet to feel power to make up for a lack of it in person. It's really a bad practice.

I don't even know if trolling is the right word for this. Maybe I should call it nicetrolling instead.

Meh, I think trolling is a subjective term. People seem to have their own definition of it. I think it means different things and there are different degrees of it. Not all trolling is malicious or bad and some trolls are funny and some are harmless because none what they are posting is going to get anyone all heated up thinking it's a real post. I often see fake questions on Yahoo Answers and some of them are no even bad. I suspect some people ask them to get answers because they are doing research or they want to see what people think and some are living a fantasy so they ask fetish based questions.

There are 2 types of trolling in my book.

Trolling 1: Being silly pulling pranks and being annoying out of jokery and occasionally intentionally offending to get laughs. The kinda trolling equivelant to ringing the door bell and running away and making prank calls the kind out of boredom and myschief which I myself have been known to do.

Trolling 2: Making personal attacks, intentionally offending but more intense, inducing shock and making personal threats as well as saying racist and sexist slurs running onto the grounds of cyberbullying.

Type 1 is the kind I find amusing, that I occasionally partake in. Type 2 is the type that unfortunately gets all of the attention, and gives Type 1 a bad name.

I rarely ever do trolling number 2 unless another person is using trolling number 2 on me for no reason I tend to very good at counter trolling. I tend to flip the table use my disability as bait and belittle the person attempting to bully me and display certain skills like my expertise in Mandarin and science and tell that person how obsolete and pathetic that person is for trying to bully an autistic person who happens to be making a joke out of the bully. Anywho that reminds me of a troll who tried so hard to bully me but failed and I played him like a cat toy. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt226155.html a while back enjoy my lovely counter trolling skills.

We need better emoticons - one for 'nice troll' one for 'sarky git' - excetera, excetera.

I think I did some trolling! In my other forum we got this kooky guy in the religious debate section, who said he belongs to the Flat Earth Society.

He was saying how the earth is really flat and any evidence that it's round is a hoax and a conspiracy. And since the mods for that area are busy with finals, his kooky spamming 6 of so threads didn't get locked and turned into a really crazy debate session. So I decided to have fun being snarky with him.

I asked him if the Flat Earth Society serves Kool_Aid. One of his threads was the moon is flat too, so I started arguing with him about the moon being made of cheese. Everybody loved it and I got lots of likes and I think even some rep points

That gave me a chuckle. You sure he isn't just pulling your leg?

Unfortunately he came right out and admitted it with a "gotcha" and told everyone how stupid they he thinks they are. We all thought it was fun while it lasted. Things have been kinda slow lately.

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/ I feel so tempted to um troll them using actual scientific evidence!

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