On 8/1/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
If the word is being used in this way, it conveys less meaning. The
problem is that 'troll' has become such a loaded word on Wikipedia
that it is now best avoided.
-Matt