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
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DannyCutts
Hmmm Never heard people get called that before but sooooooo true! Posted September 15, 2008 |
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BusyQueen
Nice lens Posted April 10, 2008 |
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Alanas_Vintage_Collectibles
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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addictionsrecovery
Great and very informative lens, Posted February 13, 2008 |
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thomasz
Nice lens. Great info. Posted February 13, 2008 |
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waystoloseweightfast
Hi, Posted February 12, 2008 |
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NorDac
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). Posted February 11, 2008 |
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flowergardener
John-Lakeshost, you have truly educated me, and I needed it, Thank You. Posted February 11, 2008 |
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mom2amor
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 |
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ThomM
Hi John, Posted February 09, 2008 |
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Oh, my God. I just read the post in warrior forum and was expecting to see an error when I clicked on the link. Posted February 09, 2008 |
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ItsYourturn
Well Done! A plague we all deal with: The Expose by JT! Posted February 09, 2008 |
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MistrTim
Another thing Forum Trolls do is they ALWAYS POST THEIR SUBJECT LINES IN ALL CAPS!! (sorry I didn't mean to "yell") Posted January 18, 2008 |
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LaurieKristensen
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 |
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decologne
according to the graphics these troll come from acient times... Posted June 29, 2007 |
