On 8/1/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@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