I love your new poem jack.
Well, maybe a narcissist. Not necessarily a troll.
Trolling is a narcissistic activity… There is apparently no benefit in trolling if you are not narcissistic, so non narcissistic people do not engage in the activity.
Ergo, all trolls are narcissists.
when people get mad, they calm down by shopping and buying from the advertisers, which results in the forum continuing to sell ads to sellers. So trolling is good for the forum in general.
Best comment yet. Or you’re just trolling. I don’t know.
Uh oh, sounds like a secret was let out… Lol that was a good chuckle, thanks Tarver!
I think in order to honestly call someone an internet troll you have to consider their intent. Someone who causes problems solely with the intent of bothering others or inciting malcontent is a troll. Someone who just has poor social skills and/or engages in narcissistic behavior isn’t really a troll, per se, and could even be suffering from real mental issues as noted above. They’re just not a very nice person.
In practice, however, the distinction probably doesn’t matter very much except that the second category of individual can be helpful/useful on occasion if the rest of us can stand to deal with them.
Perhaps it’s escaped your detection
That my logic is simply perfection
Your ideas are wrong
And it takes you too long
To get over your frequent rejection
Please be silent and let others speak
For the chance you’ll make sense is quite bleak
What someone should do
Is knock sense into you
And contain all the havoc you wreak
I can’t see why you must always share
Your opinions are mostly hot air
I’m afraid , Buttercup
That if your brain blew up
It would not even mess up your hair
I think in order to honestly call someone an internet troll you have to consider their intent. Someone who causes problems solely with the intent of bothering others or inciting malcontent is a troll. Someone who just has poor social skills and/or engages in narcissistic behavior isn’t really a troll, per se, and could even be suffering from real mental issues as noted above. They’re just not a very nice person.
In practice, however, the distinction probably doesn’t matter very much except that the second category of individual can be helpful/useful on occasion if the rest of us can stand to deal with them.
This is the slippery slope of tolerance toward others all the while, hoping for a reward. Some people are truly socially deficit, as in having a disorder such as aspergers or other such real issues.
Others are just passive aggressive asses, who like to stir the pot.
I can deal with the first, as I have tolerance for things outside of their control.
I will not deal with the second, as they know better, but choose to participate while stirring the pot. We tend to try and tolerate the second kind in hope of some reward in the form of knowledge or insight, but to me the price of tolerating that personality type is not worth it.
Basically the premise for allowing seemingly smart people to “soft” troll the forum is that there are no nice smart people that will treat us with respect. They are smart enough to not overtly troll, or they would be gone ASAP. Soft trolling is the nice/mean/forget-what-I-said/you -misunderstand-me game that they play…
Toykeeper, TomE and several others blow that premise out of the water for me…
Ditch the disrespectful ones, no matter how smart they may sound…. True smarts have some social ability to get along with others…
I’m not disagreeing with you RemanG. In fact I said much the same thing, with less detail, when I said that the distinction probably didn’t matter. I was just trying to answer the question Can asked a few comments earlier, because the label “Internet troll” is a real thing with a real definition that often gets used inappropriately. A troublemaker who’s just in it for mischief is a troll - an asshole is just an asshole (simplifying things, of course, and not printing fingers…)
Again, probably doesn’t matter, but it’s a true distinction.
Ditch the disrespectful ones, no matter how smart they may sound…. True smarts have some social ability to get along with others…
I somewhat disagree.
There are some people, who are complete a-holes, but still have useful information and are worth reading for that. There’s one on the CPF forum (okay, there may be more than one a-hole there), which is a total jerk to everyone, but he’s also very smart and posts a lot of useful information (in a very rude and condescending way).
He’s difficult to read, because it’s so easy to hate him, but if you can ignore the crap he spews, you can actually learn a lot. Sure, it’s maddening, and I’m sure he’s been blocked a lot, but tolerance does have its rewards.
So, I wouldn’t call him a troll, but I’m sure many others would classify him as one. To me, a troll never posts useful information, and usually just posts useless or misleading info.
I sense a lot of unnecessary rudeness and trollish behavior lately, specially with some of the “new” members.
Please PM me with the details, I do take rudeness very seriously here whenever I am aware of it.
I just love to inflict verbal trauma
And just kick back and bask in the drama
I’ll make a big scene
Then I’ll say something mean
Like ” Why don’t you go cry to your momma !”I mistreat all my internet friends
Only weaklings try to make amends
’Cause when I make you sad
It won’t make ME feel bad
I am paid well in dark dividendsI may seem like I really don’t care
As I post with a nonchalant air
I’m a sociopath
and I love to feel wrath
Every thread I’m in reeks of despairSo when you see me enter a thread
Does it instantly fill you with dread ?
You can’t stop me , you know
On and on I will go
I’ll be flaming you on your deathbed
Hahaha Jack! I love your poems! But please…. I don’t like feeling people up
I’ve said it before , but I’m fairly certain that my limericks do not translate well .
In English , they ( sort of ) rhyme and flow .
Translated into other languages , well , I can’t imagine what they read like .
Probably weird .
My apologies to non-English speakers .
And for that matter , to everyone else .
:face_with_monocle:
I’ve said it before , but I’m fairly certain that my limericks do not translate well .
In English , they ( sort of ) rhyme and flow .
Translated into other languages , well , I can’t imagine what they read like .
Probably weird .
My apologies to non-English speakers .
And for that matter , to everyone else .
:face_with_monocle:
Jack, I am a writer, a poet , and a writing critic. You are a jaw dropping genius.
I SAID GENIUS !!!
ordinary trolls are everywhere. Somewhere on the vast Internet, under a bridge,
is THE KING OF ALL THE TROLLS !!! and he scoffs at you all .