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Is it me or do alot of the same people continually feed the trolls?

30 replies

FlameproofArmor · 03/09/2008 22:57

Or at least taunt the people they perceive to be trolls?

There seem to be the same names appearing on 'suspected troll' threads time after time as if they do not learn to either answer a question properly or leave the heck alone.

OP posts:
VinegarTits · 03/09/2008 22:58

I fed them if i am bored enough, why does it bother you?

FlameproofArmor · 03/09/2008 23:05

I'm disappointed! Are you the only troll-beater up at this time of night VinegarTits or have I offended everyone?

Is it cos I is not inflammatory enuff?

OP posts:
FabioFlangeCat · 03/09/2008 23:07

I think it's a shame when people cry TROLL! instead of playing along, which can be funnier.

MatNanPlus · 03/09/2008 23:07

i often can't be bothered tbh FlamePA

ScottishMummy · 03/09/2008 23:13

Doh!you rigorously pour over troll threads and you notice names,but righteously don't partake

lol

do you have a list of names or are you just a sticky beak

BillsHut · 04/09/2008 10:08

What do you feed them? quiche?

southeastastra · 04/09/2008 10:09

no billy goats

HIPPYFLIPPY · 04/09/2008 10:18

Englighten this new MN please - what is trolls and trolling?

ScottishMummy · 04/09/2008 10:23

troll - deliberately provocative post just to wind folk up.usually implausible and easily spotted

trolling- deliberate name changing and posting provocative posts to elicit a response

AMumInScotland · 04/09/2008 10:38

If I'm not sure if it's a troll, and I think there is a useful point to be made, I'll reply on the assumption that either they are genuine and could use the advice, or that someone else might go looking on the same subject and benefit from my immense wisdom and empathy .

And if I'm bored, I'll sometimes play along in the hope that it becomes one of the amusing kind, not the usual pointless shit stuff.

Lazarou · 04/09/2008 10:45

Sometimes they can be quite amusing, and they don't offend me.

nickytwotimes · 04/09/2008 10:50

Oh, I love reading some of the trolly threads. They liven things up a bit.

Must admit I rarely feed them, prefer to lurk.

ScottishMummy · 04/09/2008 10:53

like funny trolls.like chucking fish to seals they take the bait.got to be in mood though

VictorianSqualor · 04/09/2008 10:56

Troll threads don't bother me, I normally answer them as if they were real incase someone who isn't a troll needs advice for the same sort of situation and reads it.
I don't like crying 'TROLL!' either, cos I remember one young girl who was asking for help wrt cooking and making up bottles and got called a troll, when in fact she was just a 16yr old who was taking care of her parents and her baby that wanted some advice

AMumInScotland · 04/09/2008 10:59

I'd sooner play with some of the obvious trolls than on some of the threads where people keep dragging their arguments all round the boards!

HIPPYFLIPPY · 04/09/2008 13:41

Hmm interesting . . . shall look out for the trolls with anticipation. New to this site, but liking it so far. Has a cosy feel to it, with a few prickly bits thrown in

HIPPYFLIPPY · 04/09/2008 13:41

Hmm interesting . . . shall look out for the trolls with anticipation. New to this site, but liking it so far. Has a cosy feel to it, with a few prickly bits thrown in

OrmIrian · 04/09/2008 13:43

Do you feed trolls with billy goat?

Iklboo · 04/09/2008 13:44

You gotta troll with it, you gotta take the time, you gotta say what you say.....

DaphneMoon · 04/09/2008 13:53

Some of the trolls end up making quite an interesting discussion in the end without intending to! Some of them are funny. It is simple if you think it is a troll, then don't post. Go to another thread if it bothers you that much.

hecate · 04/09/2008 14:01

sometimes I poke the trolls with a big stick because I want to. Am I very bad?

wehaveallbeenthere · 04/09/2008 14:04

Just think how boring this world would be without the trolls? I'm not argumentative but trolls strike me as children. They get attention any way they can. Naughty trolls getting attention is better than no attention.

solidgoldbrass · 04/09/2008 14:04

Oh, troll baiting is great fun.

Twiglett · 04/09/2008 14:04

troll-de-roll

WickedBitchoftheEast · 04/09/2008 23:00

Hectate ~ I prefer a cattle prod, after all they are asking for it.