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  • Get a life...

    Oh, seriously. Who's the bigger loser? The person who does this, or the person who prepares a how-to manual? Some people seriously need to get a life!

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    How to Become an Internet Troll

    Contributor By eHow

    You're sitting at your computer, completely bored and looking for something to amuse yourself with. Sure, you can check out porn sites (again), or you can have a little harmless fun by trolling message boards, chat rooms and online forums. What's a troll you ask?

    In technical terms, an internet troll is someone who aims to cause emotional abuse to the participants of an online. In layman terms, a troll is someone who wants to ruffle feathers and stir the pot for their own amusement. They do this by planting inflammatory messages against a sensitive topic, disrupting and discrediting members who support the topic.

    Step 1 Secure your internet privacy. Hide your identity from the websites that you visit. One way to achieve privacy is by using an anonymous proxy server as a mediator between you and the websites you visit. Another way to do this is by downloading and installing a free software called "tor."

    Step 2 Find an unmoderated online community that is established around a cultural, political or religious theme. Make sure that the topics offered are ones you will enjoy abusing. If you really want to be a jerk, go to one of the more popular portals like AOL and post messages in topics that cover disasters and controversial events.

    Step 3 Contribute nothing of value to the discussion forum. As a good troll, your goal is to abuse the members psychologically and provoke negative reactions out of them. Go big or don't go in at all. Have fun with it, when someone counter-attacks, get playful with them--nothing pisses off someone in a rage than when you joke around with them.

    Step 4 Make personal attacks repeatedly toward those who support the ethos of the group. Get as nasty as you want, after all, it's the internet--who's going to find you? Keep it fun though, don't threaten to do any bodily harm to anyone, no one wants to get in a physical altercation.

    Step 5 Argue repeatedly, using irrelevant facts, so that you disrupt the flow of the thread.

    Step 6 Expose the stupidity of new, unsuspecting members by trying to engage them in an argument when it is very well-known that you yourself do not believe your position.

    Step 7 Plague that newsgroup for years. View your troll activity as a form of art. Add sophistication and complexity as you progress.

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    the person who does it...

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    • #3
      Yeah, I'm going to say the person who does the trolling is worse.

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      • #4
        OMG It sounds like half of us old-timers! LOL

        Kris
        ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
        ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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        • #5
          Originally posted by i.am.Bama View Post
          the person who does it...
          My thought exactly. Trolls remind me of those guys in high school who stayed home every Saturday night playing Dungeons & Dragons. A pathetic expression of living vicariously for the socially inept.

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          • #6
            Watch it GMW. That was me...and my brothers and my college friends and my DH. Don't be dissing the D and D. "Pathetic" is a tough and judgmental word to throw at someone's interests.
            Angie
            Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
            Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

            "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Sheherezade View Post
              Watch it GMW. That was me...and my brothers and my college friends and my DH. Don't be dissing the D and D. "Pathetic" is a tough and judgmental word to throw at someone's interests.
              Well, while we're all entitled to our opinions , my take on D&D is not a universally held opinion, I concede, and one probably prejudiced by negative personal experience. So I'll retract that analogy...I've got a better, far-more-apt one anyway:

              Change "playing D&D" to "smoking pot." I had pothead acquaintances in high school who spent every waking moment stoned, and sounding off endlessly about life and their pseudo-profound insights concocted in a haze of smoke. That's what a troll reminds me of...someone who needs a crutch to get anyone to listen to him.

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              • #8
                Oh I don't know, I was stoned for most of my senior year of college. It was pretty fun as I recall. (haven't touched the stuff since then, either)

                Jenn

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                • #9
                  What is dungeon and dragons? Sorry I just had no clue what it was....
                  Brandi
                  Wife to PGY3 Rads also proud mother of three spoiled dogs!! Some days it is hectic, but I wouldn't trade this for anything.




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                  • #10
                    Seriously?

                    You'll have to google it because it sounds worse than it is.

                    Jenn

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by DCJenn View Post
                      Seriously?

                      You'll have to google it because it sounds worse than it is.

                      Jenn
                      Yea I don't get out much. LOL

                      I am off to Google right now!
                      Brandi
                      Wife to PGY3 Rads also proud mother of three spoiled dogs!! Some days it is hectic, but I wouldn't trade this for anything.




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                      • #12
                        This decade's version of D&D is WOW. Agreed?
                        Married to a peds surgeon attending

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                        • #13
                          Hehe probably... DH and I are some of the geekiest people we know, and I don't think he's played D&D since high school. I've never actually played it. But we are big WoW players...
                          Laurie
                          My team: DH (anesthesiologist), DS (9), DD (8)

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                          • #14
                            When DH started med school he suggested that I take up WoW...I declined, I've watched it suck the life out of too many of my friends.
                            Wife to PGY4 & Mother of 3.

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                            • #15
                              I'm a huge geek too (see my posting on FB last weekend about loving the GPS unit my DH bought me for my birthday, instead of jewelry or some other girly stuff ). If I didn't have children to take care of and clients to see, I'm sure I'd be playing WoW every second of every day. I love computer gaming, always have.
                              Married to a peds surgeon attending

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