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A Definition of "Forum Troll"
A "Forum Troll" is a person who posts outrageous message to provoke people to respond. The Forum Troll delights in sowing discord within a forum. A troll is someone who inspires flaming rhetoric, someone who is deliberately controvertial, baiting and pulling people into a "flaming" discussion. Flaming discussions usually end with name calling, a flame war and at best a locked thread or in extreme cases a deleted thread.
Forum Trolls & What To Do About Them
It's Time To Take A Stand Against Forum Trolls...
Enter "Forum Know How" a new forum where you pay a small one off annual fee (currently only $48) to become a member and where trolls, whiners and negative people are not welcome.
Are You Sure They Are Trolls?
One of the most common explanations for the name Forum Troll could be that it was taken from the Troll in Norwegian folklore; a slow, stupid and often rabble-rousing ogre.Recently, the term forum troll has developed into an excuse for using Master Suppression Techniques on opponents in forum disputes. By calling someone a forum troll, you give yourself and others a reason to ignore, mock, blame and withhold information from your opponent, despite the fact that the person has done nothing wrong.
Many people have been forced into exile from the a forum Community simply because they have been falsely accused of forum trolling.
Before jumping to conclusions, and accusing someone of being a forum troll, be sure to check your facts!
Spam Often Features On The Forum Menu
It doesn't matter what your forum rules say about including hyperlinks in posts or in forum signatures, because he's so busy spamming forums that he doesn't have the time to read the rules!
The forum spammer will litter affiliate links in his posts, he'll try to game the system by using throw away domains with redirects. He'll include links to any type of site that will make him money.
Whatever you do, Do Not Click A Forum Spammers Link!
You could very easily end up with a screen full of pop-up windows, you'll probably end up with a ton of cookies being downloaded to your PC or, worse still, you could even have your PC infected with Adware, viruses or trojans.
You have been warned.
And, if you are a forum spammer... Get a life and a job you dumbass!
Don't Feed The Trolls
Leave It To The Moderator
Well meaning defenders can create chaos simply by responding to trolls. The more responses a troll gets the more ammunition he has to stir things up further.
The best response is to ignore a troll starve them of the food they live on, or to report a message to a forum moderator. Most moderators will usually delete troll messages or simply delete their accounts.
When Did It All Start?
An early recorded example
Nobody knows for sure if this instance represents the use of "troll" as it is applied today, or if it was simply a chance choice of epithet. Whatever, I like the thinking behind the response...
"You are so far beyond being able to understand anything anyone here says that this is just converging on uselessness. The really sad part is that you really believe that you're winning. You are a shocking waste of natural resources - kindly re-integrate yourself into the food-chain. Just go die in your sleep you mindless flatulent troll."
I particularly like the use of the word "Flatulent" :)
Add Your Comments...
Feel Free To Rant About Forum Trolls
cmorgansweb wrote...
Being a forum owner, yes, I love the description, trolls, they can be exhausting and run rampant on many forums. As a forum owner you really need to learn how to diplomatically put them in their place without sounding like a troll yourself. The right words and it only takes one message to silence those troll fingers.
Posted February 20, 2009
DannyCutts wrote...
Hmmm Never heard people get called that before but sooooooo true!
Posted September 15, 2008
Alanas_Vintage_Collectibles wrote...
Very good lens! Being a new forum owner, this is something we have not had to deal with too much yet but worth reading your lens about! Thank-you for sharing your lens! Gave a five stars
Posted March 21, 2008
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Posted February 13, 2008
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Posted February 12, 2008
NorDac wrote...
Very interesting lens, I'd been on forums for a while before I'd first heard a reference to a trolling, couldn't figure out for sure wat they were talking about. First thought was trolling (as in fishing) for links (i figured it out later).
Pretty interesting to hear where the term first came from. Good researching. Gave you a 5
Posted February 11, 2008
flowergardener wrote...
John-Lakeshost, you have truly educated me, and I needed it, Thank You.
Posted February 11, 2008
mom2amor wrote...
Great lens John! So true.....I honestly didn't think the link was going to work. Very funny - added a nice lift to my day!
Posted February 09, 2008
ThomM wrote...
Hi John,
AWESOME! Great job you're doing at the WF and now this.
I always thought of forum trolls from the fishing definition of the word. Now combine that with your definition and picture your troll in a boat trolling in a lake with all the fish laughing at it.
Posted February 09, 2008
Oh, my God. I just read the post in warrior forum and was expecting to see an error when I clicked on the link.
Cant believe that there is actually a lens about forum trolls. Awesome.
bye,author of Wealthy affiliate Guide.
Posted February 09, 2008
ItsYourturn wrote...
Well Done! A plague we all deal with: The Expose by JT!
Thanks for the brilliant marshalling at WF!
Ed
Posted February 09, 2008
MistrTim wrote...
Another thing Forum Trolls do is they ALWAYS POST THEIR SUBJECT LINES IN ALL CAPS!! (sorry I didn't mean to "yell")
Man when I see that I cringe and DELETE!
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Posted January 18, 2008
LaurieKristensen wrote...
Hi John, great lens, never heard this defined before this way (maybe I'm still too much of a newbie to have heard it)... anyway, I think it's extremely clever! 5 stars. ~ Laurie
Posted June 29, 2007
Who's Twittering About Forum Trolls?
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- barbedwyer
- @Sundaytwist gone through something similar recently with a forum troll too - sad they have nothing better to do with their time isn't it? x
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- Aleveria
- @LesleySmith @brigwn Just remember, for every forum troll loudmouth, there are 100 of us that love the site. We're just less vocal. ;-)
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- Mgccl
- Best way to troll a linux forum "I login as root all the time."
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- Vixxenkiss
- Ahh that troll is back again on the official tori forum. How I missed his super long thread titles and misuse of the word contemporary. <3
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- Trollbeadsgal
- http://bit.ly/hVBJW Check our Forum -you will see a very interesting thing. European collectors are still at it 30 yrs+. Troll is not a fad.
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