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how do you define a troll?

23 replies

2shoes · 25/07/2011 17:03

this is a general question and just asking as I have been wondering.
I aways thought a person couldn't be a troll if people had met them in rl.

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HopeEternal · 25/07/2011 20:11

An internet troll may be a real person. I think you are confusing a troll and a sock puppet.

Here are the Wiki explanations:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29

Tee2072 · 25/07/2011 20:34

A troll can certainly be met in real life. People lie in person as much as they do on the internet.

BluddyMoFo · 25/07/2011 20:35

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TheOriginalFAB · 25/07/2011 20:36

2shoes!!!! Where have you been????

2shoes · 25/07/2011 21:20

i have been hereTheOriginalFAB
so if you can meet a troll in rl, how come people always say oh (insert random name) can't be a troll as (insert random name) has met them?

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Tee2072 · 25/07/2011 21:28

Because they think that proves something. But it doesn't.

Hadn't people met Dizzymare or whatever her name was? And she was a huge troll.

2shoes · 25/07/2011 21:30

interesting, I aways thought trolls were made up people iynwim and the others were just liars.

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bellavita · 25/07/2011 21:30

Psycho and Flame met CVQ and she was a huge troll.

Tee2072 · 25/07/2011 21:31

Well, technically, a troll is someone who comes onto a forum and tells lies/stories/what have you to gain attention. They stir things up. And meeting people in real life can continue that.

bellavita · 25/07/2011 21:32

It was confirmed that CVQ appeared under a few other different guises on here too.

bellavita · 25/07/2011 21:33

Exactly what she CVQ did Tee.

Tee2072 · 25/07/2011 21:35

I don't think I was here for that bella. I don't remember the name.

bellavita · 25/07/2011 21:38

Her story was.... She had been raped on her way home from a night out, an oldish couple found her badly beaten. She then found out she was having a baby as a result of the rape. Parents disowned her.

2shoes · 25/07/2011 21:51

yikes, how awful, so a troll can be someone who is enthusiastic with the truth

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nickschick · 25/07/2011 21:54

Generally if they call me nickshyte as per thisthread.

TheOriginalFAB · 25/07/2011 21:58

I haven't seen you for months, 2shoes.

2shoes · 25/07/2011 22:24

i did name change for a while was shoesytwoesy, so not hidden and hellyeah for a day or too, but decided to go back to being me,

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2shoes · 25/07/2011 22:26

nickschick see I would say they were just stupid.
can see I am no good at troll stuff

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NevermindtheNargles · 25/07/2011 22:31

Nickschick- that's hilarious. I love the barmy ones.

NevermindtheNargles · 25/07/2011 22:31

Nickschick- that's hilarious. I love the barmy ones.

nickschick · 25/07/2011 22:37

Grin ....proper upset me that did.

Tee2072 · 26/07/2011 08:03

Nickschick, I don't know how you are managing to go on after that. Would you like to lie down in a darkened room? Perhaps with a cool cloth on your head?

Grin
nickschick · 26/07/2011 21:11

im shocked to the core...my emotions are all over the place Grin.

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