Your conception of trolling is totally inadequate. What you want to do is state something obvious (inflammatory or not) and see who is self-righteous enough to

Your conception of trolling is totally inadequate. What you want to do is state something obvious (inflammatory or not) and see who is self-righteous enough to correct you on it. Sure, it's easier to troll with inflammatory material, but it's more fun with the banal. This sort of thing even has a little merit. Given people's propensity to pick on the first, most obvious point in any given article, you just throw them a bone up front, put in something about how "Windows Sux" or whatever, and let that be a lightning rod for the Instantly Hostile Crowd. You can just delete or ignore their comments. Anyone who passes up the lightning rod probably has something thoughtful to say. Or at the very least can keep their temper.