Trolls . . . .what?

[takemehomegrandma]

Framiga wrote:

Yes i know, i'm a bit "slow", but i've just known what is a "troll":

AFAIK, "Trolling" is originally short for "Trolling for Newbies". That is, when a very experiensed person (with a lot of knowledge) deliberately pretends to be clueless by writing clueless questions, with the only purpose of trying to get even more clueless answeres and explanations from real newbies, just for the laugh of it. You throw a bait, and the poor victim bites just because he doesn't know better, and then it is obvious for everyone that he is a newbie. Trolling is a fishing method, BTW ...

by alx on 2003/7/28 19:46:39

Good grief - you've been on Amiga sites for a while and you didn't know what a troll was

as already said, i'm a little bit "slow" :-) . . sometimes

 :-o  :-o  :-o

I hope you didn't "troll" me now!  :-P

[takemehomegrandma]

Rudei wrote:
Time to confuse you a little more, do you know what FUD is?  :-D

FOLDOC - Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
:-)

[takemehomegrandma]

Casper wrote:

Trolling is a fishing method, BTW ...

Shouldn't that be "trawling"?

Hmm, I'm no fishing man, but I think that when you Trawl you are using a big fishing boat that pulls a very long net on the ocean. When you troll, you are rowing a small boat (in a lake perhaps) with a special kind of fishing rod ...

 :-o

[takemehomegrandma]

Well it seems to be some fisher-men among us. Nice, seems like I have learned something today too! :-)

BTW, I found this interesting and amusing article on the subject "trolling" (not the fisherman activity, the other). Some links there too, for further reading. Brought me some laughs ... :-)