Look over there! A tro- whap
What? I’m really a nice guy, once you get to know me…
If someone posts that they where fishing in a Loch and a monster hooked onto the line they were dragging behind the boat, could I say they were trolling then?
Only if the motor is running, Biggirl.
Otherwise, it’s bait casting.
Nothing wrong with bait casting when it’s done in the privacy of one’s own home.
Ya might want to find a different poop bombing bird for your own peculiar type of insult since albatross already has a standard, conventional meaning of something that hangs around as a guilt-inducing dead weight.
So, e.g., if you brought a friend into the forum who proceeded to act like an ass and embarrassed you and wouldn’t go away and everyone knew you were the one responsible for this jerk, your friend would be an albatross.
Check out Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for this famous albatross metaphor.
Peace.
“Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.”
Would an albatross taste anything like a Stormy Petrel on a stick?
Only if you eat it when a Noreaster is blowing in from the southwest.
I wrote an article about trolls (definition, and how to deal with them) which has been very well received. You can find the article at http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm
(When I say it has been “well received”, I mean that so many people have linked to it that if you search on Google for Internet Troll it’s the first thing listed.)
Nope.
But you could say you were trawling.
Thanks, Smartyskirts. It only took a month for someone to finally point out the bad pun.
Welcome on board, btw.
Sorry NoClueBoy but you have to be punished.
trolling
1.
a.To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat.
b.To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass.
c.To trail (a baited line) in fishing.
– from dictionary.com
Hey Timothy- nice effort and all, but did you ever consider the possibility that writing a long article speculating on the motives of trolls might be taken as a compliment (and consequently, encouragement) by a lot of them? Just wondering.
I saw an albatross once…just before my dads boat sank. They really are bad luck.
Great article, Timothy Campbell, but one part dredged up an interesting memory.
This has an interesting parallel with a piece of cyberpunk pop culture:
“I’ll be back.” – concrete
That’s very good, Sir or Ma’am.
Thanks for your reminder to everyone.
I have been accused also of trolling when I am just trying to explain myself and my ideas or positions, in the face of an accusation that I am a ‘stinking liar’, at Great Debates, though.
I love you for that reminder.
Susma Rio Sep
To deny one’s trollness is to deny one’s inner jerk.
What would I be without my inner jerk?
What would you be without my inner jerk?
I would be much less.
You would be much less annoyed.
Isn’t the Internet the place where jerks come together to reproduce?
So let’s stop squabbling and get to the reproduction part.
Oops. Checked the Internet Dioctionary. I guess I’m just a lurker.
Nevermind.
There certainly isn’t. And I don’t mean to brag, but I’m quite a master baiter.