Marc Riddell wrote
The word "trolling", the phrase "to
troll", and what
defines "a troll" all seem to have different meanings to different people in
the Community. One person, writing in this thread, defined it as "stirring
shit up".
A troll, to translate, is a provocateur. There are numerous ways of doing the provocation.
I suppose the classification is roughly into those who value the attention, and those who
value the mischief. Either way, the non-feeding advice is always the soundest. I'm
afraid meditations on essentialism for trollness, tenable or not, fail that test.
Charles
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