In this post you made a statement. I am asking you for a clarification on your intent.
re my statement to Finnagain: “So you ask why I post? I like pissing you off because I don’t like you”, you posted:
So now I have a couple of questions:
First, it this meant to be a statement that it is improper to have making people angry as a motive for posting in the Pit?
After all, as noted in this scholarly article:
“Troll,” in the context of message boards and the like, describes somebody who is posting just to be confrontational or to raise hackles. One example might be a teenager who finds a Jewish message board and posts, “The Holocaust never happened.” The teen may not know or care one way or the other–he just wants a reaction.
The key part of this definition appears to be the inclusion of the word “just”. That would indicate to me that a troll has the sole motive of causing an uproar. While posting to piss others off might be uncouth, it seems to be normal operating procedure in the pit – an insult that adds nothing to the discussion is arguably trolling.
Second: are you actually concerned about people calling me a troll, or because you think that I might not actually believe what I am posting? If the former, I can assure you it doesn’t bother me, if the latter, you might be confusing “abrasive” with “troll”.
Third: what sort of behavior are you concerned with, here? The forum rules provide as little guidance as they ever do, it’s in the pit where discourtesy is allowed, and without further guidance, your mod-hat post has a chilling effect – it’s just that i have no idea what you’re trying to chill.
(the other half of the sentence, BTW, is provided here for context: “and because maybe there are some people out there that agree and don’t want to say it for fear you’ll come along and spout your useless blathering at them.”)