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Originally Posted by Maru
Are you the one who trolled the troll poll?  |
You gotta troll the troll poll if you wanna get into this boy's soul... you gotta troll the troll poll to get in! If you want the baby boy's soul you gotta troll the troll poll, you gotta troll the poll to get in! Troooll poll! What you say? Troooll poll! Hey hey heeey.. Troll poll!
But nah it wasn't me.
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What is the primary definition of trolling for you?
I was around when the name was new/new-ish, but it used to be used as an insult to try to finger wag/shame people being assholes ... then it kinda became a thing that people did for fun. Then it kinda tee-d off from that in my experience into applying to various use cases for the word...
For me trolling is mostly when you are deceiving others for some cause.. it can be as light as baiting someone into making certain commentary (stealth trolling)... but it doesn't have to involve any bullying. It doesn't even have to involve humiliation. It does often involve the deception component... particular with the purpose of forcing others to show their hand
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Largely I agree with that as the definition; it generally involves a bit of harmless immaturity, "poking the bear with a stick". Mischief, I suppose. Annoying / irritating people in a way that, if done skillfully, as you said can often prompt people to spill what they've been holding back. Then you had unskilled trolls who were JUST annoying and trying to amuse themselves, but again, more or less harmless.
Where the definition was lost, for me, was when the media adopted it (at least here, I don't know about over there) as a blanket term to describe something else: Any and All online bullying. Facebook hate campaigns, with real malice and intent to cause harm behind them, were reported as "trolling" when (in my opinion) it's a complete misuse of a term that had a specific meaning online. A hateful bully is simply
a bully... offline or online.
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