On 11/7/07, Flameviper Velifang theflameysnake@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]].