nephandi
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Joined: 9/23/2005 From: Cold and magickal Norway in a town near Bergen! Status: offline
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Hi Trolling is a term from long ago when internet chatting was usually done by BBS, it basically mean to ask a quetion, not to really get an answer to to see what response one would get. For exsample a troll could be somone that speaks about a consept for a new computer game and see what responses pepole give the idea, or a common trolling in real life is when a woman tell her frinds, i am so ugly, only hoping to get compliments. That is called fishing but it is the same thing basically. In modern times though trolling usually means trying to insult pepole on a forum to gain one particular replay. Like if a femenist that go into the Gorean section and start talking about women being superior to men and all men being slaves, just to get angry responses or when somone go into an Spiritual forum and says there is nothing Spiritual and we that belive so are all just crazy and idiots. Trolling is an atempt to gather allot of respnses about a topic by putting something out on the internet and see what pepole say, often it is meant to anger or insult. It can be for comersial purpoes, or to test the waters for an opinion or just for fun and it is considerd to be very bad form. i wish you well
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