Trolls & how to deal with them.

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So how do we deal with them? Of course the obvious answer is to ignore them, but this is becoming increasingly more difficult to do. Especially if they now have the ability to tamper with people's posts.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

3 Billy Goats Gruff to thread.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

If they can help, then bring them on!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Do they have the ability?

Everyone knows how to deal with trolls. It's just nobody actually does it.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

he didnt tamper with that post pinkpanther (the one that appeared to come from nickalicious i take it?), something odd happened with the database, im still not sure what. actually, i'll go attempt to delete that thread and see what happens

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh right, well it certainly did work in his favour tho!

Everyone knows how to deal with trolls. It's just nobody actually does it.
So...?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of us actually do not feed them.

You know what my solution is.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

tim believes in violence. i like too

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

see the troll be the troll

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

He who smelt it dealt it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

He who made the rhyme did the crime.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Was there ever a follow up to that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a clincher I feel.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm too ill
I represent Park Hill
See my face on a twenty dollar bill

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth you're from Yorkshire.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth has a poetic license to kill. With guns.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I think a name-and-shame the troll-feeders thread should be instituted.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I name hstencil.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I always find it so difficult to ignore as they're so annoying!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

''a poetic license''!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i think pinkpanther is a troll and should be banned.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa there chaki - you have opened a whole keg o pain for yourself with that one

― james (james), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Think of all the animals you've ever heard about
like rhinoc'ruses and tigers cats and mink
There are lots of funny animals in all this world
But have you ever seen a panther that is pink?

Think!

A panther that is positively pink,

Well here she is, the pink panther,
The rinky-dink panther,
Isn't she a panther ever so pink?

She really is a groovy cat,
and what a honey, what a scholar, what an acrobat !

Sh's in the pink - the pink panther
The rinky-dink panther,
and it's as plain as your nose,
that she's the one and only, truly original,
Panther-pink (panther) from head to toes !

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ban james harrison please mods. thnk u.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah thanx for that Chaki! I don't even have the inclination to argue. Say whatever the fuck you want.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No actually, fuck you Chaki!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

stop typing troll!

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

chaki is joking pink. come on, don't worry abt it.

calum doesn't have the ability to tamper with ppls posts as has been explained.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

thx for ruining my fun julio

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah that would be a good idea actually - im sure id actually get on and do something instead of whinging and posting pics

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:33NsHhoH3_kC:www.brownielocks.com/background_files/ban.jpg

― james (james), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Lure them to the Bar Between the Bridges in DUMBO with promises of an Under the Bridge Playground Troll FAP.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Trolls are integral to the online message board experience! Feed 'em, grow 'em strong!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

troll

1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies" which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling", a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT. 2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll." Compare kook. 3. n. [Berkeley] Computer lab monitor. A popular campus job for CS students. Duties include helping newbies and ensuring that lab policies are followed. Probably so-called because it involves lurking in dark cavelike corners.

Some people claim that the troll (sense 1) is properly a narrower category than flame bait, that a troll is categorized by containing some assertion that is wrong but not overtly controversial. See also Troll-O-Meter.

The use of `troll' in either sense is a live metaphor that readily produces elaborations and combining forms. For example, one not infrequently sees the warning "Do not feed the troll" as part of a followup to troll postings.

-- The Jargon File

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just cottoned onto the fact that that definiton of troll is itself a troll.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

is pink panther banned yet?

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I have taken to baiting them on the Manics thread, this is possibly unhealthy behavior.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

yes larcole is exibiting troll-like behavior on that thread and should be banned.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Chaki you cruel man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ban ned.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon wins. Now all we need is one of those looping WAVs of aggravating computer noise.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 25 July 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Search and Destroy ILX trolls.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://hem.fyristorg.com/mongobarn/20000715/06-troll-before.jpg

― Dada, Friday, 25 July 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

awww...you couldn't hate them you really couldn't.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 26 July 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

BAN DADA PLEASE

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

BANDANA FREEZE

http://members.aol.com/path2005/private/Freeze.jpg

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

everytime i see that kid, i get the almost overwhelming desire to kick him in the crotch.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

could he, like, get a 40?

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5193295

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"In a way, we are facing the same problems faced by the first preachers who met resistance when they moved into new communities," said Goddard.

Yeah, those Roman Empire Internet nerds, lemme tell ya.

OMG AUGUSTUS YOU ROXOR.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post

Shouldn't that desfinition say it comes from 'trawls' not 'trolls'?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 20 May 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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