Wild A** Guess
That reminds me of the time that a chat-roomer told me the he would pray for me no matter what, even if I begged him not to,i said that the voices in my head,believed that satan was the true master, the good christian boy then told me to F**k off.
I personally think that Cecil is true master, 4 out of 5 demonic voices aggree.
AHunter3
Wonderful taxonomic system.
But I feel you’ve left out
Oraclus Errata These people have some revelation that they feel they must share. Sometimes it is economic or political, but the overwhelming majority concern themselves with science-new quantum physics, a new sociological theory explaining all human interaction, free energy etc.
Some of these folks explain the world by a bizarre and alien logic and accept that they can perceive what the rest of the world cannot, due to mental illness. I still can’t figure out why and how sane people sometimes become Oraclus Errata. I’m also unable to compose a decent post at the moment. Been trying to find the proper words for this paragraph for thirty minutes or so now. Will finish post later.
I’ve trolled in response to another person’s trolling. Emotions ran high, things were said, people got upset, more emotions ran high, etc. In hindsight it was incredibly stupid. It’s just words on a screen.
The best piece of advice I was ever given is this - Don’t put logic on illogical people.
It helps me out when I can’t figure the motivations for a person’s stupidity. I just back off and realize that I don’t necessarily know the laws of physics on their world and probably never will.
Unless I go as cuckoo as they are.
I have counter-trolled as well. The biggest thing is that they like to visit a themed board and then oppose that theme. For example, I have visited a lot of Christian boards. In my younger days, I would have thought ALL Atheists were mean-spirited, hateful people who like to yell. But in reality, only those kinds of Atheists visit Christian boards. Then you find a board on Atheism, and there are the Christian equivalent. It gets really ridiculous when you visit a board about video games or TV shows.
Why do people troll?
Answer:
Simple minds, simple pleasures.
What thread, man?
I gotta know.
Tris
This one.
I think part of the reason is that when they come to such a large place like this, they seem to think that they could never be popular or that if they posted normally nobody would respond to their threads or posts (part of the whole insecurity thing). So they try to get a rise out of people for any kinds of attention, whether it’s bad or good. “I may not be popular here, but at least I’m getting people’s attention and the popular ones are responding to ME!” To some, everything is a popularity contest, whether it is in real life or not.
In some cases, they might have posted a really stupid post and meant it. Other posters laugh at them, so they get angry and decide to start their career as a troll.