Quote (IceWarrior @ Jan 30 2010 03:51am)
i just troll
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll
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Trolling is a kind of prank and a lost art form, full of failed attempts and people who don't even know what trolling is.
Most ignorant newfags think that trolling is merely someone getting in an argument, or a fight, or attacking others. However, people do this all the time on the internet when they're not trolling. Trolling that does this is obvious and usually fails. People who think everyone who disagrees with them is a troll are so easily trolled that they'll fall for Concerned Mother. A skilled troll can just appear to cause no conflict and agree with people and do it in such a way to provoke everyone else into a shitstorm.
The internet is full of people that think just being internet trash makes them a real troll. Acting racist for lulz is trolling but simply being a racist is not. Acting as stupid as Chris-chan because you really are that stupid makes you a lulzcow and not a troll. If someone goes and slips razor blades inside the hamburgers of little kids and goes "haha you have been trolled nublol", despite being hilarious, that's not trolling, it's being a psychopath and a poser. Even worse than that, there are furries. Common sense would say that no one could seriously be like that, that all furries are trolls, but then again, common sense is often very, very wrong.
Even when someone knows how to troll, they usually fail to be funny and then experience troll's remorse A.K.A being a butthurt, empathetic, douchenozzle. Such feelings tend to pass once they realize that people who take the Internets seriously enough to get upset by trolling really ought to kill themselves. Once they reach this point, they are said to suffer from Internet troll personality disorder. After long enough, they may even develop Chronic Troll Syndrome.
The most important thing that any troll should remember is not to believe in what you are saying, and be comfortable with telling made up lies whilst avoiding the truth or any factual details about your own life because not only are these boring, they could be used to identify you (unless, of course, you also lie about the details of your life.) To avoid the onset of troll's remorse, follow this technique and just lead them further down the avenue of trolling, swallowing your bait hook, line and sinker.
Only when one is a skilled troll can they pull off trolling IRL, such as Agent Pubeit, Penis Pump Sex Scandal, IRL Harry Potter spoilers, etc.
History
This woman invented trolling.
Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful
epic troll is epic
Trolling as we know it was invented by Socrates and called Socratic Irony. It was performed IRL. Unfortunately, primitive people found irony confusing and scary, so they forced him to drink hemlock and die.
The Bible writers were the OTs (original trollers). They were so fucking good people are still RRRAAAGGGGing over that bullshit today.
Quite possibly one of the lulziest cases of historical trolling occurred in 1857 in the British colony of India. The British included native-born soldiers, both Muslim and Hindu, into their army, and then royally pwned their asses by putting pig grease on the bullet cartridges for the Muslim soldiers, and cow grease on the bullet cartridges for the Hindu soldiers. These are paper cartridges, mind you, and every soldier was trained to bite open the wrapping in order to pour the gunpowder down the barrel. It was later recorded in the respective holy books of the two religions that every one of these soldiers burned for eternity in sand nigger hell.
Much lulz ensued until the Hindus and the Muslims found out and staged a revolt. Then the British killed them all, and even more lulz were had by all.
In the early 1700s two English writers, Trenchard and Gordon, trolled the English government with their Letters to the Editor, that were collected and published as Cato's Letters. These were extremely popular in the colonies and provided some of the arguments for American independence. Without trolling, America would not exist.
Trolling was later taught as a college-level course by Professor Tim Pierce, resulting in Wikicide.
U.S. courts have found that trolling is a Constitutionally-protected right [1] Recently, trolling has been destroyed by retards who think that trolling is just spamming the same word over and over.
How to tell a troll
Sometimes it's just fucking obvious.
You want to be careful when you are fighting a troll.
Inject both at once for Troll Superpowerz.
Most trolls believe that they are, in fact, funny. Anyone who does not agree with them is obviously either: overly sensitive, has no life, no sense of humor, or is a combination of two or all of these. In many instances, one can see where troll has in fact messed up but is too wrapped in his own little laugh to notice how much of a douche they have really been. These trolls are the easiest to identify, as they often stop leaving comments when it is obvious even to a monkey with a brain tumor that they have fucked it up, or when you see a comment that begins with telling the owner of the site/picture/story/etc that they suck for no good reason. To be absolutely sure, look for the word "lulz" anywhere in their comments, or YHBT at the end of the comments.
Additionally, attention whores are not trolls, just irl bimbos.
Different kinds of Internet Trolls
Ironically, the owner of this is most likely a person you should troll.
Groups
A person affiliated with Bantown, the GNAA, Penis Pump, /i/, TA, PN, the Marcab Confederacy, or any other trolling organization.
Hater
Also, he trolled the world.
Hater is YouTube for troll. Being a bunch of illiterate trailer trash, your average YouTube blogger is unaware that internets exist outside of YouTube. Quite possibly because most of those internets require better than a third grade reading level to successfully navigate.
Trolling YouTube is deceptively simple. Just wait for some schmuck to post a video whining and crying over something nobody cares about (9/11) and post a response video calling them a drama whore. YouTubers are still naively sheltered from the realities of the internet, making their reactions even more lulzy. It's kind of cute.
Examples
* Joshu2uber
* Angry Homo Kid
Griefer
A video game species of troll. Griefers are unable to resort to the time-honored techniques of text-driven drama and, as such, have concentrated on ruining the game experience for others. This takes many forms, from breaching the fourth wall on roleplaying servers, to filling in-game chat windows with commentary about monkey fucking.
Then, of course, are the spawn campers, the lag-fags, and lets not forget the cheaters and the glitchers.
Griefers can often be ingenious in finding ways to annoy people, but more often than not they're just fuckwits.
myg0t is one of the most successful and well-respected raging (griefing) organizations.
Trolls in RPGs
In Dungeons & Dragons, trolls take full damage from acid and fire. Because trolls have green rubbery flesh and naturally enhanced regeneration, damage caused by slashing, piercing or bludgeoning is halved.
In World of Warcraft, Trolls are a powerful race of giant green bean people that live in towering can cities. They worship the almighty Jolly Green Giant.
All this RPG troll stuff came from trolls in Norse mythology. Lolki, god of mischief (among other things), invented trolling and shitty tribal art tattoos.
However, none of this is important, because everyone knows D&D and WoW are for gays.
Troll for a Day (TFAD)
Found on those rare well-heeled (adults with no lives) boards such as Yahoo's SCO board. A board may suffer from group think and stagnate. One poster will create a new pseudonym and log in to tweak the other posters into a flame war. The Troll for a Day will announce they are a TFAD (TFADing) and everyone will congratulate the regular after getting over their murderous impulses. Posters on message boards who have experienced this behavior will immediately try to label all newbies as "TFADs". These trolls are often pussies.
Techniques
The 50 Hitler Post is a classic trolling technique, known both for its versatility and widespread appeal.
There's even tools to troll the blind.
Handy chart to trolling /tv/.
Not exactly epic, but still fun.
Some techniques:
* Always use proper grammar and spelling. Failure to do so will result in the obvious retort.
* Choose an insane idea and STICK WITH IT. Ignore all other arguments and any other form of logic or common sense.
* Kidnapping Jew soldiers. Classic Hezbollah troll for inciting Holy War and for Ninja Evangelist Christians trying to jump-start The Rapture.[2]
* Use many sock puppets to try to convince everyone that someone at random is a troll.
* Use people's ignorance about IP addresses to your advantage.
* Use Caller ID Spoofing for general lulz via phone
* Fifty Hitler Post
* Fake journals
* HAGGER?????????????????
* Crapflooding
* Posting offensive links or images and claiming they are work safe
* Using the word abortion in a sentence
* Making a conservatism post in liberal comm or vice versa
* Suing someone in Internet court
* Listen to TrollfesT to get in the mood.
* Hacker
* Inane flame
* Ministry of truth
* Mail lists
* Sprinkle "citation needed" tags into user comments on Wikipedia talk pages.
* Google Drop their name all over the Internets.
* Posting an offensive image as the userpage for a new user via administrative means on AE and then locking the page so it cannot be edited.
* Even making the suggestion that racist stereotypes are, in fact, with merit.
* Guides on trolling is also another good way to troll.
* Make an intoductory post on a forum that starts out "Hi my name is _____ and im a scientologist from..." just sit back and watch the moral fags educate you and everyone else about scientology while others try to stick up for you.
* It is possible for one to troll by pretending to get trolled. Furthermore, it is possible for another to troll by pretending to be trolled by the one pretending to be trolled. The vicious chain continues on to the point where all are trolled simply by trying to follow and understand it.
nope you used troll incorrectly
you're "Lurking"