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A troll is someone who posts intentionally shocking, offensive or belligerent messages on message boards, with the intent of getting people riled up rather than starting a real conversation.
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Trolling is engaging in the above-mentioned practice. Troll-calling is accusing someone of trolling. Until recently, troll-calling was prohibited on the SDMB, and still is, everywhere except the Pit.
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Nope.
- A troll is someone who routinely makes false and/or deliberately inflammatory posts with the goal of pissing people off and/or getting attention. The most common examples are the new poster who does nothing but spam threads with content-free insults or provocation, or a poster who claims to have tricked others into responding heatedly by posting something they don’t actually believe as an experiment/moral lesson/joke.
- In order to minimize the attention given to trolls, it used to be against the rules to accuse other posters of trolling. We have recently retracted that rule in the Pit, so you can now call people trolls here.
- No.
I’m going to unstick this thread and let it sink into the muck. Anyone who hasn’t read it by now probably isn’t going to.
What a trollish thing to do. 
Would it be wrong of me to pretend we never rescinded the trolling rule and warn John for this? It would? Nuts.
In other news, at the good suggestion of a poster, I just updated the Forum Rules sticky to note that calling people trolls in the Pit used to be against the rules but wasn’t any more. Also, I added a rule that if your username rhymes with “lawn race” I get to warn you whenever I want, for whatever I want.
What a trollish thing to do. 
Of course, unless you’re from Bahston or Pittsburgh, “John” does not actually rhyme with “lawn” so the poster with whom you have been sparring is still safe.
<Bambi-eyed innocence>
John? Who said anything about John?
</Bambi-eyed innocence>
bump
Damnit! Just when I was this close to convincing my buddy Sean Grace to sign up. Oh well…
He can still sign up. He simply has to explain that his name is pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.
[Claudius]
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.
[/Claudius]
When–and if–it does sink into the muck, is anyone going to change the “look up here” to “look down here”?
Good point. Bump (to allow the mods time to fix this problem and avoid an embarrassing inaccuracy.)
Yeah, but sooner or later it slides to the 2nd page, where it starts again at the top. So obviously what they have to do is create a vB hack that lets them insert a code that reconciles to “LOOK UP HERE” if the position of the thread on the page is less than halfway down the page, but “LOOK DOWN HERE” if the position is greater than or equal to halfway.
Of course when you get right down (or up) to it, the Teeming Millions won’t read the words “LOOK UP HERE” or “LOOK DOWN HERE” until they are already looking where the instruction says to look, at which point the instructions will not only be redundant but incorrect, insofar as the direction to look will no longer be either “UP” or “DOWN” in relation to the gaze-direction of the current instance.
Which makes it a rather silly phrase to go to all that trouble to rectify, if you see what I mean.
So, how’s that working out for ya, bunkie?
But there is no second page of the Pit.
…or is there?
Turn in your hymnals…
I’ll report your posts to Moderators beyond the stroke of one;
You jerks have yanked my chain and that’s unfair.
So when your day is over, and your nitpicking is done,
And the troll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.
When the troll is called up yon-der,
When the troll is called up yon-der,
When the troll is called up yon-der,
When the troll is called up yon-der I’ll be there.
Second verse? ETF?
(With apologies to James M. Black who is undoubtedly up yon-der anyway.)
I checked the Monster Manual–an **ogre ** is not a troll.