Re: Old Games For The Win

On 29/03/2025 14:44, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Trolling in old Usenet was a real art. These days many people will
just burst into a forum (on Usenet or off), say somethign wildly
inappropriate, and call it a day. But the Trolls of Usenet often put
effort into their art, saying/just/ enough to make you think they
were seriously wishing a discussion while still managing to aggravate
nearly everyone in the newsgroup.

Very much so, trolling in general now is very much low grade and often gets no more creative than, no that's your mum that is. The art of trolling is to slowly reel people in and the don't realise it's happened until to late.
The meaning of troll has also change so now people will call someone a troll when they aren't but instead just obnoxious. Another one that wasn't uncommon on the World of Tanks forum, merely disagreeing with someone could get you labelled a troll. The worst thing was there was a moderator who basically went along with that and seemed to think that it was disruptive (their words not mine) if you wouldn't allow people to state their opinions, however ridiculous, unchallenged. They seem to not understand what a forum was. Then again they also believed they had a spirit guide called Jesus of Nazareth.