July 22, 2004

This being my first online community experience, I found this link to be especially interesting. I had no idea trolling and the response to it was so, um, multi-layered.
  • What a great article. Thanks for posting this.
  • Yes, thanks SideDish. (Why 'Troll', incidentally? Are there other magic inhabitants of the enchanted Web? Fairy Godmothers, who try to grant other member's wishes? Tinkerbells, who die if no-one comments on their post? Piskies, who... on second thoughts, let's not go there.)
  • It's a reference to a fishing technique where you have the hook trail behind the boat called Trolling.
  • More here
  • Oh yeah, shawnj, showing us just how smart you are...sheesh... *rolls eyes* This site comes in handy.
  • Are there other magic inhabitants of the enchanted Web? Why, yes there are.
  • Could I just say that this is crappy link and you're all lame for liking it and...uh you smell and your mom is fat and you're about as necessary to this community as david gest's genetalia. Oh and I'm a duck o<.
  • Oh yeah? Quack on this.
  • i thought the way to kill a troll was to turn her thread into a long-running joke, and keep teasing her until she voluntarily left. or does that only work with daisy_mae?
  • That only works if they eat the food you feed them.
  • Yeah well I think Ariel Sharon should be allowed to spank his kids with guns in their SUV while bringing them up vegetarian. If only to avoid the liberal bias in the media.
  • And before you respond to that - just remember: I almost have a college education.
  • caution: some of the links on jerry's suggested site are NSFW big-time. yikes.
  • (specifically, the "beaver you've been a very bad boy. OMG!!!)
  • We should feed the trolls David Gest's genitalia. It's foolproof.
  • How about we feed the trolls to david gest's genetalia?
  • Chomp chomp chomp more chocolate eclairs and fresh mayonnaise please
  • Ooops! Thanks for the save, SideDish. Sorry for the unmarked dangerous link, tracicle.
  • This being my first online community experience So... was it good for you? *lies back, blows smoke rings*
  • i kinda like those goblins, myself. they can have a more complex nature, more depth of character.
  • *Googles 'David Gest,' immediately regrets doing so*
  • SideDish, once upon a time, long long ago, a chat room I frequented was a leetle too trusting, gave OPs automatically to everyone who entered. Weeeell, one day we were invaded by a gang of Greek gods who promptly de-opped all of us and squatted in our chat room until they got bored and went away. I had never in my life imagined I would be displaced by Greek gods which just goes to show you... What was most interesting to me was the reaction of some of our more testosterone-overburdened, who immediately wanted to declare war on kiddies who clearly knew far more than any of us knew about IRC. Me, I just thought we could change the room's name, sort of move over and ignore the punks. Okay, I know that's not quite on topic, but still...