# What is trolling?

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**Created:** [June 24, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trolling/544298 "2010-06-24T01:25:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trolling/544298/32 "2010-06-24T02:28:29Z")

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> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> Well, that’s the point there bub. I think that the definition of trolling is loaded against people with a viewpoint that is different than the majority on this forum. If that’s who you guys want to be, then you go right ahead, just recognize that that’s what you are doing.

Nobody wants that. Well, OK, maybe a _few_ people do. But this board would dry up and blow away without differing viewpoints and the debates and discussions they create.

But seriously–even in the Pit–is

> [@$700 Health Insurance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-health-insurance/543986/20):
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> So? So the fuck what?

even worth the keystrokes?

A few posts later, you had some great points to make, and they helped to start off more discussion. But that initial “So the fuck what?”, with no other… anything… how could that be anything but trollery?

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