# Troll

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troll/8427
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 11, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troll/8427 "2000-03-11T17:06:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Robbespiere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/47e85d/32.png) [@Robbespiere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robbespiere)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troll/8427/1 "2000-03-11T17:06:00Z")

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What is a “troll”, as used in the SDMB?

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### Author: ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troll/8427/2 "2000-03-11T17:13:00Z")

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There is an extensive discussion of this issue in the forum About This Message Board. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000797.html) is a link.

I’m going to move this thread over there, too.

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