On Mon, 10 May 2004 19:01:58 UTC, Mark Richards
<marich712000(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
As far as I can see,
this is an attempt by an advocacy group to get their
point of view to dominate certain articles - my
understanding was that we were using the term 'troll'
to mean users who post to deliberately stir up
controversy.
[for its own sake. -- my addition]
We were; and that was the meaning when it was first used in newsgroups.
In applying the term to Larry Flynt's disreputable political move (I take
no stance on whether it was a _bad_ political move) is helping to take
away the meaning of a useful word; cf. hacker.
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