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Anonymous Tue Sep 22 10:17:13 2009 No.3419457 [Reply] [Original]

For those who aren't familiar or have a negative connotation with the word: Internet Trolling is a technique where you set out "bait" and use "luring techniques" in order to capture (and release if you so desire) "prey". The prey the troll wishes to capture can be all sorts of things: from replies created by clueless newbies to useful information shared by informed users. Most people who have a negative opinion of trolls either read ones by unimaginative trolls who poorly use flame bait (a provocative or insulting post with a good share of ad hominem thrown in for good measure), or ones by opinionated flamers rather than trolls.

Anyway, one of my interests is reading amusing trolls, since I happen to find that trolls tend to be a little higher on the respectability bell curve since they have transcended beyond taking the internet or life without unnecessary seriousness. Ostensibly, the respectability of a troll pretending to be a racist is miles above a person who is actually racist. It's much like the distinction between the satire "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift to a real plea by a genuine lunatic who believes people should actually feast upon their own children (People in the latter case are called Kooks).

I'll use this thread just to share things I believe to be trolls. Starting with this little gem I found on Yahoo answers:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...25011942AAlTR7b

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