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by Svartalf » Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:52 pm
FBM wrote:JacksSmirkingRevenge wrote:Ian wrote:I've always found it no coincidence that the few real clear-cut trolls are very secretive about giving out personal information, like where they're from or what they look like.
This.
They hide for a reason. I don't hide.
But, of course, I don't troll, either.
You just dwell under bridges and collect toll then?
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by Tyrannical » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:28 pm
Yeah they tried that stunt with me
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by FBM » Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:50 am
Svartalf wrote:FBM wrote:JacksSmirkingRevenge wrote:Ian wrote:I've always found it no coincidence that the few real clear-cut trolls are very secretive about giving out personal information, like where they're from or what they look like.
This.
They hide for a reason. I don't hide.
But, of course, I don't troll, either.
You just dwell under bridges and collect toll then?
Meh. It's a job.
Anyway, if the guy was out walking in public, the reporter wasn't invading his privacy.
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by amused » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:01 am
From what I've observed, internet trolls are probably mentally ill and almost certainly sociopaths. Bad sport to antagonize the mentally ill, and unsafe to provoke a sociopath.
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by apophenia » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:02 am
Can't say I've ever thought about it. On IRC, we don't tend to differentiate between trolls and tards — we're not particularly welcoming of either. But I think there are different types. Some are just young, and being anti-social in the way young people often like to be. Some are channeling their energies because they're not liked socially. Some are apparently mature people, attempting to relieve boredom and get a fix of feeling superior to the common folk. Others clearly are simply socially isolated and lonely, and troll as a way of connecting strongly, where they wouldn't be able to otherwise. A few might be borderline sociopathic, but those kinds stick out even among a rather varied field.
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by Pappa » Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:16 pm
amused wrote:From what I've observed, internet trolls are probably mentally ill and almost certainly sociopaths.
Really? That seems quite an extreme assumption to make based on (what I'm assuming is) quite limited evidence.
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by Robert_S » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:58 pm
Pappa wrote:amused wrote:From what I've observed, internet trolls are probably mentally ill and almost certainly sociopaths.
Really? That seems quite an extreme assumption to make based on (what I'm assuming is) quite limited evidence.
Provocative even!
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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