― Tom, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
i'm too intellectually lazy to post on any of the "intelligent" threads anyway.
― N., Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ned, a troll? That explains a lot;>
But seriously, Tom, I can't always post a lot either. And when I do, I occasionally enjoy goofing around (see above comment). But, from what I've seen, ILM/E thrives on the strange questions....as well as the serious ones.
I try to only post when I've got summat to say about a particular subject, but it's not easy to resist the pull when you are "surrounded" by talkers. In fact, that's what makes it fun.
Why not think of it this way: we outnumber the "trolls" 100 to 1.
― Nichole Graham, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/may/31/writer-and-his-troll/
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oo8ilv_sJFg/T-p1lJdNd6I/AAAAAAAAAxs/tlr9_R78aXA/s1600/trollcollection.jpg
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 3 June 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
11 years pass...
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 3 June 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
1 2 3 4 i declare a FLAMEWAR!!!!!!!
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_.._. / _,/ Feed me, good man... \ / o_ ' |__\/ _, / | _,/'/; / /_|`-, /__,/ | `.__`\-' oo \,/ / \ \ (/__/_ | > > ,/.-. `. /_,/_,/ /(( . )) \ `---'--' `-'---'`-' fsc `--'--'
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, . ,~~~~~~~~. /| |\ (Oooooch...) {_;""\} ( *MHMPFF* )O o (* @'-, \|||/ `~~~~~~~~" ,~ \~,"" (o o) ; , (" ,----ooO--(_)-------. | | | | Please | /| | \ | don't feed the | ,(=~~==[]) | TROLL's ! | ( \`-' ;( '--------------Ooo--' ) \ /\ \ |__|__| ( ) ) ) ) || || * /_/ /_/ ooO Ooo |_\ |_\ JW
― sleepingbag, Monday, 3 June 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
idk where else to put this but lol
http://www.fox.com.au/scoopla/trending-now/blog/2014/6/amazing-rainbow-tie-dye-number-surprise-cake/
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
hahahahaha
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
let us marvel at the speed with which comments on a child's birthday cake devolve into total political ragefest shitstorm
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
That was delightful
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
what's a troll?― nathalie, Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:00 PM (12 years ago)
Classic post
― Aimless, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
I love the internet.
― Dreamland, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Obvious Poster I am A professional Baker • 10 hours ago
Uh, I'm pretty sure you can freeze ice cream.
LOL
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
http://onlygags.com/wp-content/uploads/How-to-troll.jpg
― mirostones, Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
adrian chen on anonymous and its mainstream water carriers
http://www.thenation.com/article/190369/truth-about-anonymouss-activism
great stuff; chen has been on fire lately
― goole, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
it's mostly a very harsh review of Gabriella Coleman, who i've heard on the radio at least once explaining the Anons. She also chimes in in the comments, looks like, on something pretty minor.
― goole, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
I thought the thread bump might be for this interview, which belongs in the canon of troll studies:
http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/interview-my-harshest-critic
― forbodingly titled It's True! It's True! (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Coleman is also heavily featured in the terrible hagiographical documentary We Are Legion.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Tony Ortega doesn't think Chen gets the sci-ti stuff right:
http://tonyortega.org/2014/11/18/what-adrian-chen-got-wrong-about-anonymous-and-scientology/
― goole, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
that is fair enough
how did I not know someone was arrested for a hate crime for covering himself in vaseline and pubic hair? what a world
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
two stories about the exposure of trolls:
more adrian chen!
http://www.technologyreview.com/photoessay/533426/the-troll-hunters/
a group of volunteer researchers called Researchgruppen, or Research Group,has pioneered a form of activist journalism based on following the crumbs of data anonymous Internet trolls leave behind and unmasking them. In its largest troll hunt, Research Group scraped the comments section of the right-wing online publication Avpixlat and obtained a huge database of its comments and user information. Starting with this data, members meticulously identified many of Avpixlat’s most prolific commenters and then turned the names over to Expressen, one of Sweden’s two major tabloids. In December 2013, Expressen revealed in a series of front-page stories that dozens of prominent Swedes had posted racist, sexist, and otherwise hateful comments under pseudonyms on Avpixlat, including a number of politicians and officials from the ascendant far-right Sweden Democrats.
(meta commentary here: http://www.technologyreview.com/fromtheeditor/533561/the-cost-of-trolling/ )
...aaaand reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/2cpgy4/update_i_32f_just_discovered_my_husband_34_of_six/
I confronted him about the issue very tamely, over breakfast. I asked him, flat out, if he was harassing and bullying people online. He said yes, and immediately withdrew. After telling him that I needed to know why -- really why, not just "I don't know", he said he needed time to think about it.
When he finally gave me his answer, I was disappointed. He said he trolled/bullied people because it was an outlet for him to relieve stress. He said he didn't view the people as real, or what he was doing as anything other than a joke, and if it hurt feelings, "those people have bigger problems and it's not my fault."
I told him that it wasn't an acceptable behavior of an adult, and that he needed to stop it and find another way to express his frustrations that didn't involve hurting strangers. He said he would think about it.
Unfortunately, he's still doing it.
― goole, Monday, 22 December 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/transcript
― goole, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
The irony of Ira Glass narrating the segment about vocal fry was almost too much to bear.
― ledge, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
well, at least they point it out
― Nhex, Saturday, 31 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
i guess 4chan, other racists and "redpill" types, have begun to fixate on a nickelodeon show called "bella and bulldogs"
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cancelbella&src=typd
― goole, Monday, 6 July 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
far-right dudes are p well obsessed with cuckoldry in general at the moment
(i first heard about this on Uhh Yeah Dude a couple weeks ago)
― goole, Monday, 6 July 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
googled this to understand what the heck it was, instantly found a super racist site complaining about this, like "jew york times" territory
― Nhex, Monday, 6 July 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
yeah, sorry, should have put some kind of general warning
the nickel version is that there's a nick show featuring a white girl and a black boy as main characters. some enterprising trolls have found that the producer had done some work in cheesecake media. you'll never guess what happens next.
― goole, Monday, 6 July 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rxMMkPJ.jpg
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
Creators of media for kids have been filling it full references to their weird fetishes forever- cf the entire history of comic books
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 6 July 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
i would not suggest taking this seriously
― goole, Monday, 6 July 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
It seems very odd that, in order to be concerned about this, one must believe that all those details, which are so subtle, attenuated, and submerged into the background of the show that they require a lengthy exposition with explanations and enlargements for adults even to see their existence, are simultaneously so powerful and irresistible that children must certainly be corrupted by them.
Exactly what is it we are supposed to think will happen to the kids watching this show? That they'll all grow up to be 'cuckold fetishists'? Seriously?
― Aimless, Monday, 6 July 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/rockosmodernlife/images/d/dc/Chokey_Chicken.png/revision/latest?cb=20120208100034
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
heh, i was thinking that's gotta be Rocko's Modern Life, and of course it is
i would love it if Nickelodeon gave an official "are you fucking kidding me?" response but what are the chances
― Nhex, Monday, 6 July 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
cuckolding! there's a shakespearean reference i didn't think i'd see memed this year!
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
Given what is being said about 'cuckold fetishism' in that graphic, the word is being used all wrong. By rights, a cuckold fetish ought to involve antlers, not bulls, and hasn't the slightest connection to big black men schtupping pretty white women. Especially when they are unmarried.
― Aimless, Monday, 6 July 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
really really whacked out story:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/terrorist-troll-pretended-to-be-isis-white-supremacist-and-jewish-lawyer.html
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150913/23335432247/one-man-troll-army-arrested-supporting-terrorists-wheres-line-between-trolling-terrorism.shtml
― goole, Monday, 14 September 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
bizarre
― Nhex, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 02:52 (eight years ago) link
Seems like a guy who felt like he could say anything to anyone and stir up any kind of turmoil, for any reason or no reason at all, and he would never suffer any consequences. This used to be called a power trip in the 60s and 70s.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 03:26 (eight years ago) link
creepyisis stuff aside, wager this kind of thing (trolling political impersonations, sockpuppetry) not uncommon, in less extreme forms prob rife online
This is some weird shit: it's a conversation between a renowned internet troll and an FBI informant, neither knowing who the other really is and each working angles to try to get the other to do something, without either one ever realizing the other is playing a really different game.
surreal; there’s some black comedy to this also some difficult legal questions obv diff situation but a few strands of analogy to case of gf exhorting bf to suicide via texts
― drash, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
tanya headon one minute, tanya cohen the next
― jordan amavero (imago), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
from past experience in the early internet days with trolling types,
the multi-angle trolling is really an artifact of an inability to socialize with others, on or off the internet. strong "non-partisan" ideology, claiming that "free speech" trumps all and that trolling somehow pushes out the borders of free speech to ensure even the most fringe positions are ok quickly becomes a struggle to circle the drain with all the muck without falling in
there's a complete lack of empathy or understanding of world events. things in the news, like attacks and cultural battles are still seen as important (although probably the troll denies their importance) not because of lives or actual stances but due to attention. through escalation and publicity the troll feels important.
there are definitely some pathological issues to that mindset, but at its base it's a feeling that a diminished feeling of self-worth isn't a problem, it's everyone else's problem. everyone should have a low sense of self-worth, and highlighting how trivially people who are doing things in the real world are manipulated is some sort of proof.
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
short version: this dude didn't circle the drain, he fell in, and someone needs to hit the garbage disposal
i suppose trolls can have all sorts of motives. the ones I've seen lately are just masochistic and I never considered self-worth in that equation
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link