Stephen Bain schrieb:
On 8/28/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
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.
It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the trolls is to not call them trolls.
Only a troll would say such a thing.