What is trolling?

Lichen

Well-known member
My guess is that a troll is a lurker who clambers occasionally from underneath his bridge and says something unpleasant to a goat.

I'm worried I may have behaved in a troll-like manner. But I'm a blurting lurker, not a troll.
 

sufi

lala
nope
trolling afaik is a fishing term about dragging long lines in the ocean to see what's dragged up, the online metaphor is that if you post up something inflammatory, no matter how dumb, the chances are you'll get a bite sooner or later.
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check wikipedia...their page on slashdot trolling phenomena is most educative
 

Ness Rowlah

Norwegian Wood
or as the case may be just one line,
not to be confused with trawling (a net dragged after the boat).

Nessie (summers spent in fishing factories in the Arctic north)
 
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