# If you accuse yourself of trolling, is that 2 violations? Or just 1?

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**Created:** [January 21, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-accuse-yourself-of-trolling-is-that-2-violations-or-just-1/647925 "2013-01-21T18:09:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-accuse-yourself-of-trolling-is-that-2-violations-or-just-1/647925/37 "2013-03-19T11:09:10Z")

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> [@Fenris](#):
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> What about a user who posts repeatedly that he goes out of his way to be as annoying as possible to teach others ‘a lesson’? Isn’t that pretty much a standard definition of trolling? [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15893860&postcount=103).

Sorry to bump this again, but BigT is still bragging about trolling.

> [@Caesin is not dairy free, you fuckers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caesin-is-not-dairy-free-you-fuckers/653119/113):
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> The worst thing I’ve done is deliberately being annoying to some people in a very specific way:

So…he’s deliberately being annoying to posters. This _is_ the definition of trolling.\*

\*No…seriously.

> [@](#):
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> [to post deliberately inflammatory articles on an internet discussion board](http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/troll)

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