[WikiEN-l] WP:DENY is a steaming pile of crap.

[Ron Ritzman]

On 11/7/07, Flameviper Velifang <theflameysnake at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Basically, the word "troll" means "person who annoys me"

My definition of a "troll" is someone who takes an opposing position
simply for the sake of pissing people off regardless of what his
actual position on an issue is. A troll's purpose is to create drama
simply for drama's sake. What Encyclopedia Dramatica does is
"trolling" and they more or less say so right on their website, that
is, pissing people off who take themselves too seriously such as
radical feminists and such. Not because they really believe that women
should stay in the kitchen but because groups with extreme positions
are easy to offend.

I think that many of the people labeled "trolls" on WP aren't "trolls"
in the classic sense because they really believe in the positions that
they take. They are just very obstinate about their positions and
can't take "no" for an answer. We have another term for such people
and you can read all about it at [[m:dick]].