Question

[amythest_n_ice]

I have to ask, what may be the dumbest question in the history of dumb questions; what EXACTLY is trolling? My only notion of Trolls is the ugly little dude that lived under a bridge and was thwarted in his attempts to eat the three billy goats gruff.

Comments

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia knows all.

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! Arigato!

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

Basically it's leaving comments or making posts which are deliberately offensive or likely to cause heated debate. The sort of people who go on, say, a Jack/Ianto comm and say that they think Ianto's a big girl and that Jack should be with Gwen. You know the ones - there are a lot of them in the TW fandom :S

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I just called that ignorance, *g*, I never realized that it had a special name, thank you.

[misswinterhill.livejournal.com]

I believe it comes from fishing (trolling a line) but then the image of the troll was too cool to let go.

Who am I kidding? Wikipedia will explain better than me.

Trolls make me sad.

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

Trolls are very sad, that they have nothing better to do with their time :(. I was only curious because I joined a couple of comms recently that were both on moderated posting, because a Troll had been stirring up fights between them, despite the two comms shipping exactly the same relationship, between exactly the same characters.