On 8/2/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
"Trolling" is thrown around way too much on this list and on Wikipedia. Do you really think that ArmedBlowfish does not mean his/her comments in good faith and is only saying these things to cause an argument? Because that's what trolling is. It's not simply saying argumentative things; it's doing so deliberately to cause an argument for your own amusement.
That's what trolling originally meant, but as words tend to do, its meaning has changed. It is perfectly acceptable to use "trolling" as "needlessly inflammatory". I agree completely with Stephen, it is incredibly insensitive to compare this to rape. The rhetoric needs to be dialed down.
--Oskar