A troll is someone who cruises a site like this with malicious intent. The troll arrives as a provocateur, instigating negative feedback. Sometimes, their presence can only be felt by sudden anonymous downratings. Some trolls are hackers as well, and can alter the function of a site when aroused. A concerted troll raid can shut down servers, completely rendering a site non-functional. They make the net an unpleasant place. Retaliation, or feeding the troll, will only get you a flame war. Do Not Feed The Trolls. Trolls are vindictive and once you have one attached to you, the troll and his/her troll friends can downrate you to zero shockingly fast, disrupt your time on AB, and make you wonder why you're here in the first place. A truly determined troll will stalk you throughout the net. Your best defense is to ignore them. They know this, and will go to great lengths to involve you in troll drama. COAT: Coalition of Anti-Trolls is a group of ABers who are expert at identifying and reporting trolls to the Community Leaders on AB. The purpose is troll extermination. COAT good. Troll bad. For an excellent reference on net jargon and many Lulz, go to Encyclopedea Dramatica at the link below. Like Wikipedia, there is a search window to the left on the Main Page. Just punch in your subject and search. Welcome to Answerbag, LyBg4n, I'm Friendo. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Main_Page

Troll From Encyclopedia Dramatica (NOT FRIENDO) http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Troll "Successful troll is successful. YHBT" This is the message you get when you feed the trolls, also called "Doing it wrong". The term derives from "trolling", a style of fishing which involves trailing bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. As a verb, "to troll" is probably a corruption of "trawl." Troll is fine as a verb since trawling for comments and flames is innate troll behavior. A "Troll" is a mythical monster that lives under a bridge and surprises people who try and cross the bridge with some bizarre puzzle or challenge that they must complete before crossing. It has been suggested that people who lurk in groups and suddenly enter discussions with unwanted and provocative contributions inspire the same type of fear in law-abiding netizens. More rational people know that Trolls are, in fact, monsters who live under a bridge, probably in Utah, who flocked to the information superhighway after real superhighways were declared obsolete by Al Gore. Bad things happen when trolls meet IRL. Proxies are widely known to make trolls invincible, living forever in a cycle of newborn trolletes. It is a common belief that each ban makes a troll stronger. Novice trolls often experience troll's remorse. Such feelings tend to pass once they realize that people who take the Internets seriously enough to get upset by trolling really ought to get over themselves. Once they reach this point, they are said to suffer from Internet troll personality disorder. After long enough, they may even develop Chronic Troll Syndrome. Note: not to be confused with the gay slang verb "to troll" which means to trawl for sex (they are also the source of all evil.) How to tell a troll Sometimes it's just fucking obvious. Attention whores are not trolls, just irl bimbos. Most trolls believe, honestly, that they are in fact funny, anyone who does not agree with them is obviously either overly sensitive, has no life, no sense of humor, or is a combination of two or all of these. In many instances, one can see where troll has in fact messed up but is too wrapped in his/her own little laugh to notice how much of a douche they have really been. These trolls are the most easy to identify, as they often stop leaving comments when it is obvious even to a monkey with a brain tumour that they have fucked it up, or when you see a comment that begins with telling the owner of the site/picture/story/etc that they suck for no good reason. To be absolutely sure, look for the word "lulz" anywhere in their comments, or YHBT at the end of the comments. Also a dead giveaway is the tl;dnr as the basic method of replying in an intelligent manner requires knowing what you are replying to. History This lady invented trolling at least 100 years ago. Trolling was invented by Socrates and called Socratic Irony. It was performed IRL. Unfortunately, primitive people found irony confusing and scary, so they forced him to drink hemlock and die. Quite possibly one of the lulziest cases of historical trolling occurred in 1857 in the British colony of India. The British included native-born soldiers, both Muslim and Hindu, into their army, and then royally pwned their asses by putting pig grease on the bullet cartridges for the Muslim soldiers, and cow grease on the bullet cartridges for the Hindu soldiers. These are paper cartridges, mind you, and every soldier was trained to bite open the wrapping in order to pour the gunpowder down the barrel. It was later recorded in the respective holy books of the two religions that every one of these soldiers burned for eternity in hell. Much lulz ensued until the Hindus and the Muslims found out and staged a revolt. Then the British killed them all, and even more lulz were had by all. Trolling was later taught as a college-level course by Professor Tim Pierce, resulting in Wikicide. U.S. courts have found that trolling is a Constitutionally-protected right [1] Different kinds of internet trolls Ironically, the owner of Encyclopedea Dramatica is most likely a person you should troll. A person who brings life to a tired, dull internet message board by purposeful attempts to start flame wars or Internet drama by posting comments that are patently Fucktarded, yet still inflammatory enough to enrage the stupid, irrational and humorless. The moment someone points out that the troll in question was just gunning for a reaction usually results in a fire drill. A person that throws around the troll insult to: anyone who defeats them in an argument, anyone who points out facts the real troll doesn't want people to know, or someone the real troll picks at random to stick falsely with a troll label for sheer lulz. This second type of troll is 98.9999999% of all trolls now and is often called an Anti-troll. A person affiliated with the group Bantown, commonly known for their lulz. GNAA IS DEAD, JEWS KILLED GNAA. Penis Pump are the trolls of the future. A member of /i/,TA, PN, the Marcab Confederacy and other various trolling organizations. A Fat middle aged man or Russian Woman who lives under a bridge . A Concerned Mother who does not appreciate how other trolls are treating their little kids who don't belong on the interwebz in the first place. People who edit Encyclopedia Dramatica. Anyone who disagrees with a Wikipedia administrator. Telemarketer, also known as phone troll, bred to destroy your dinner time for lulz. See Telemarketers/Phone Trollers The terrible movie that had a sequal (see: Troll 2) that was so bad it was good. Hater Also, he trolled the world. Hater is YouTube for troll. Being a bunch of illiterate trailer trash, your average YouTube blogger is unaware that internets exist outside of YouTube. Quite possibly because most of those internets require better than a third grade reading level to successfully navigate. Trolling YouTube is deceptively simple. Just wait for some schmuck to post a video whining and crying over something nobody cares about (9/11) and post a response video calling them a drama whore. YouTubers are still naively sheltered from the realities of the internet making their reactions even more lulzy. It's kind of cute. Griefer A video game species of troll. Griefers are unable to resort to the time-honored techniques of text-driven drama and, as such, have concentrated on ruining the game experience for others. This takes many forms, from breaching the fourth wall on roleplaying servers, to filling in-game chat windows with commentary about monkey fucking. Then, of course, are the spawn campers, the lag-fags, and lets not forget the cheaters and the glitchers. Griefers can often be ingenious in finding ways to annoy people, but more often than not they're just fuckwits. Smart Troll Smart trolls go to troll school to hone their skills. Smart Troll is a very rare species of Troll, The result of breeding a Griefer with a Geek/Nerd, They will often join some website, almost always a video game forum and will pretend to be a normal member for awhile. They may even help out a bit for awhile but they will then make an alt with some retarded name, like "ZELDAH4XL33T", "Jesus", "GIMMETEHMONEY", "Ajjeko", or "TheTeej" and will make a fake website that "cannot be found by Google" and that is total bullshit off the bat there. They will cause chaos like a normal troll on the normal members of teh site but will be moar clever with the admins, if they succeed the website will close down and die, if they fail they will be hit by the banhammerorz and the forums will be replaced instead of brought back up due to teh admins being smart-asses. They are very rare but very deadly, they often name themselves after a movie nobody gives a shit about. (Like Pokemon 2000, 007, Spiderman or even Bloodmoon.) Most of the time a Smart Troll is a basement dweller or a Internet Tough Guy but they seem to fit right in with the title of Internet asshole. NOTE: The Smart Troll may seem like a Dumbass but they can h4x your account and make your post count go down to zero!<-Jesus man, what the fuck just happened here! Unsuccessful Troll Fail. Any troll who succumbs to troll's remorse, apologizes, or otherwise fails to deliver the lulz. A troll must never admit that they are a troll (especially whilst trolling), otherwise they have failed. An unsuccessful troll ends his career with a slow, sad retreat back to the Fail cave. For example: The Happy Negro who trolls watermelon and chicken across the globe. Tehnet's happiest unsuccessful troll. See also Mirson, who despite efforts provides no lulz, and The Judge who spends more time saying "I'm a troll" than doing anything else. Troll for a Day (TFAD) Found on those rare well-heeled (adults with no lives) boards such as Yahoo's SCO board. A board may suffer from group think and stagnate. One poster will create a new pseudonym and log in to tweak the other posters into a flame war. The Troll for a Day will announce they are a TFAD (TFADing) and everyone will congratulate the regular after getting over their murderous impulses. Posters on message boards who have experienced this behavior will immediately try to label all newbies as "TFADs". These trolls are often pussies. Techniques The 50 Hitler Post is a classic trolling technique, known both for it's versatility and widespread appeal. There's even tools to troll the blind. Ironically enough, many members of LJDrama are the biggest and most prolific trolls around (See futhman). Therefore, we feel qualified to give you some super examples: Always use proper grammar. If you cast the illusion of literacy, your bullshit will be taken seriously for that much longer. Choose an insane idea and STICK WITH IT. Ignore all other arguments and any other form of logic or common sense. Kidnapping Jew soldiers. Classic Hezbollah troll for inciting Holy War and for Ninja Evangelist Christians trying to jump-start The Rapture.[2] Use many sock puppets to try to convince everyone that someone at random is a troll. Fifty Hitler Post Fake journals HAGGER????????????????? Crapflooding Posting offensive links or images and claiming they are work safe. Using the word abortion in a sentence. Making a conservatism post in liberal comm or vice versa. Suing someone in Internet court. Hacker Inane flame Mail lists Sprinkle "citation needed" tags into user comments on Wikipedia talk pages. Google Drop their name all over the Internets. Posting an offensive image as the userpage for a new user via administrative means on AE and then locking the page so it cannot be edited. Even making the suggestion that racist stereotypes are, in fact, with merit. Whenever you are done trolling, make sure to say "YHBT". More great ideas at www.tubgirl.com Pissing in an ocean of piss A simple tutorial on how to troll /b/: Step 1, a trap is set in a successful thread Step 2, fags show up, be sure to talk as much shit as possible to get more information out of them, then let them know who you are after you've gotten some personal info (in this case a picture of the retards girlfriend) Step 3, use your SECRET TROLL DATAMINING TOOL to cross check info like usernames and picture names. Step 4, find an exploitable link to said target, in this case a photobucket on a Naruto forum. Step 5, if your target is stupid, he hasn't covered his tracks, and wont have prived his info, meaning you can take as much of it as you want. Step 6, find something you know will upset the target, in this case a bra pic of his ex gf in his animu filled pron folder. Step 7, ????? Step 8, PROFIT, link the target to the new thread and drink in the lulz. People Who Need To Be Trolled Everyone. You don't troll them because they deserve it, you troll them because you fucking can. -- Encyclopedea Dramatica, NOT FRIENDO.

What if Jesus was a troll?

A COAT is a club on AB that tries to give positive points to people who are getting hit with a lot of downrates. Troll is an internet term. It's a person who posts deliberately inflammatory messages on an internet discussion board in order to cause emotional responses from users. You see them all over AB asking such questions as "Why do Americans hate black people?" or "Why are Muslims evil?" These type of questions are designed to upset people and to cause bad feelings. The "troll" then gets a little chuckle at all the turmoil that he/she/it causes. It's a way for them to get their jollies at our expense.

GEEZ... I ask an honest question and I get downrated.. wow.. crazy ppl!