On 5/17/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Excess testosterone can cause you to feel happy when people make angry faces at you...
AKA: Getting off by pissing people off :-).
Also, the emotional message, "I can affect someone".
It's the motivation for certain kinds of trolling, pissing people off just for the sake of pissing them off. The best targets for this are people and groups who have strong beliefs and/or are easily offended.
Traditional examples are Usenet's "Meowers", and "Usenet performance artists". More modern examples are sites like Encyclopedia Dramatica. They have a large collection of other people's goats.