Trolls . . . .what?

[Framiga]

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

http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm

Ciao

[KennyR]

"Finally, trolls create a paranoid environment, such that a casual criticism by a new arrival can elicit a ferocious and inappropriate backlash."

Yup, 100% correct.

[alx]

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

[Framiga]

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

Ciao

[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

[Rudei]

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

[lempkee]

Cannon FUD III is out now , from sensible software!!  , what is new from the 2 older games?

instead of beeing set in a jungle/war theme , its now inside everyone's computers and its main thing is to take over the people using em.

you start as a normal newbie, later stages includes trolls and zealots and alot more..

check it out now...

;LOL;

[Casper]

Trolling is a fishing method, BTW ...

Shouldn't that be "trawling"?

[Rudei]

@lempkee

Sounds good!   :-D

[Framiga]

Nooo! i'm still to compute "troll" :-(

Ciao

[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

[Wain]

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 ...

One with a great big red shiny blinking button at the end of the reel that says PUSH ME, and makes loud noises like slot machines.

[Casper]

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 ...

Yes, you are of course correct. I've never heard about trolling as a fishing method before, only trawling, but looking it up on the net I see that trolling is indeed a fishing method.

[Casper]

One with a great big red shiny blinking button at the end of the reel that says PUSH ME, and makes loud noises like slot machines.

I think you should skip the trips to Las Vegas for a while...  :-)