Re: Rin Stowleigh has many lesions in his mouth from stage 2 syphilis

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 09:28:38 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 07/04/2025 23:11, Justisaur wrote:

Oh we still have trolls?  How quaint

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My guess is it's the same person who used to post the same type of
obvious troll comments I think mainly directed at PW? What happened to
the art of trolling.

As some other wag once postulated: All the good ones got hired by Fox
News ;-)

More to the point, a good troll requires patience and understanding
(and a little bit of intelligence). Modern society expects
instantaneous results with the least bit of effort. Why take the
effort to earn the trust of other posters before suddenly spinning
around and leading them down a dark rabbit hole of fictional claims
when you can just type out the equivalent of 'you momma so fat!' and
calling it a day.

For years I thought "trolling" was more similar in use to the word
"trawling" because the two methods were so similar; you dragged a lure
in the water and waited for fish to bite.

(trolling actually is a valid term for that method of fishing). It was
only later that I was made aware of the 'creep under the bridge'*
definition. But that's because in the 80s and 90s, troll-posts were so
similar to the fishing method.

Nowadays, trolls seem to be more like fishing with dynamite... except
most of their explosive retorts are damp squibs which are so obvious
that nobody falls prey to them (although it does result in the
inevitable conversation about how the art has been so degraded over
the years. See this conversation as proof ;-)

 


* The creep-under-the-bridge was never my definitive vision of a troll
anyway. While I was made aware of the trope at a young age, whenever I
think of the mythical troll, it's the critter from D&D that first
springs to mind; long rubbery arms, regenerating health, and an
unmistakable nose. I always had a hard time seeing any equivalence
with those ravaging, immortal beasts and the thin-skinned
troublemakers on usenet. That's why I latched onto the fishing
metaphor first.