Trolling?

[S3 Kieran]

Sorry guys, having been on the forum for a while, I should probably have worked it out, but having read a thread below, I'm wondering...what exactly is trolling?

Thanks

Tim Nicebutdim

P.S. while I'm being thick, is it just me, or does ticking the box for email notification of replies not work for anyone?

[alt]

As far as I know 'trolling' is pretending to be something you're not whilst in a chatroom. Eg. posting just to provoke a reaction either by posting incorrect info or info that'll wind people up.
I'm sure others will have a better explanation?

[AllTorque]

Hi mate - a troll is someone who posts something that they may not necessarily believe, but do it anyway to wind people up.

E.g. coming on here and saying Chimaera's are driven by golf-playing hairdressers.

[craigalsop]

S3 Kieran said:

Sorry guys, having been on the forum for a while, I should probably have worked it out, but having read a thread below, I'm wondering...what exactly is trolling? Thanks Tim Nicebutdim P.S. while I'm being thick, is it just me, or does ticking the box for email notification of replies not work for anyone?

It's when someone states an obviously upsetting comment on a message board with the apparent purpose of luring other people into posting inflammatory responses.

Oh, and it's just you

[S3 Kieran]

Thanks y'all, now feeling less thick.

Annoying re: email replies to post not working - I ticked the box on this one, but no 'bing-bong' from my PC?

Any moderators out there who can fix this?

[PetrolTed]

The system does work, but often falls found of spam traps, particularly with Hotmail accounts. Are you trying to pick up your mail via Hotmail?

[drum4it2]

I don't get the emails either Kieran...

by the way, I thought a Troll was a little creature with fuzzy hair that lived under a bridge???

[WildfireS3]

drum4it2 said:

I don't get the emails either Kieran... by the way, I thought a Troll was a little creature with fuzzy hair that lived under a bridge???

Don't they eat children?

[S3 Kieran]

WildfireS3 said:

Don't they eat children?

No, but they say they do on the mothercare website (you see, I'm learning!)

Ted - No I'm on regular email thru' broadband...?

>> Edited by S3 Kieran on Wednesday 1st October 09:33

[nubbin]

"Trolling" is a corruption of "trawling" (for a response to an inflammatory posting). How sad and pathetic are people who do that?

[Plotloss]

Porsches are much better than TVR's....

[S3 Kieran]

Is that all TVRs or just your clapped out old heap?

[MEMSDesign]

nubbin said:

"Trolling" is a corruption of "trawling" (for a response to an inflammatory posting). How sad and pathetic are people who do that?

Who's pathetic, the respondant, or troll?

Some trolls can be quite sophisticated and/or entertaining.

>> Edited by MEMSDesign on Wednesday 1st October 09:52

[burriana500]

Plotloss said:

Porsches are much better than TVR's....

(indignanton)... I take it back what I said on the other thread about you being a kindred spirit... I hope yer bridge collapses on you! (indignantoff)

[zumbruk]

nubbin said:

"Trolling" is a corruption of "trawling" (for a response to an inflammatory posting).

No it isn't. "Trolling" is a fishing technique where you drag a lure behind a boat to see what bites. By extension, it has come to mean the posting of inflammatory material (the term originates on Usenet and predates the web) to see who bites. A punning extension of that is that the person who trolls must be a troll, and therefore lives under a bridge.

The full definition is in the Jargon File, here;

http://jargon.mu.nu/Archives/002047.html

[FourWheelDrift]

I find them easy to spot, if they look like this then they are a troll.

[Painey]

I also don't get the emails but that may be because I use a machine far superior to your usual Microsoft piece of kit, namely an Apple Mac!!!

Oh and I thought the Trolling thing was something one of my mates does on Satuday nights because he always ends up with one!

[Mrs_T]

Forwheeldrift, How kind of you to find another catalogue pose from Podie.
Karen

[Mrs Fish]

[quote=Painey]I also don't get the emails but that may be because I use a machine far superior to your usual Microsoft piece of kit, namely an Apple Mac!!! /quote]

me too - far superior

[yellow peril]

Mrs_T said:

Forwheeldrift, How kind of you to find another catalogue pose from Podie. Karen

Mrs T ....how unkind.....

I remember those troll thingies....used to stick a pencil up its's backside when I was at school...many moons ago...
They were keyrings too........

...//P//