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The modern definition of troll seems to be more closely related to one of the personalities that got its start at a particular notorious imageboard, who constan
by kitsunesoba 5y ago
The modern definition of troll seems to be more closely related to one of the personalities that got its start at a particular notorious imageboard, who constantly posts flamebait and thrives off of pushing the limits of how much they can upset others. I haven’t seen the original more innocuous definition used in a long time.
- Eelongate 5y agoPosting flamebait to troll precedes 4chan by many years. 4chan really isn't that old in the grand scheme of internet things, and isn't truly the originator of very much. Virtually any form of trolling you might find on 4chan was pioneered somewhere else many years before 4chan existed.
- bmarquez 5y agoTrolling existed on Usenet long before 4chan. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-internet-troll-1652485292 https://gizmodo.com/the-first-internet-troll-1652485292
- minitoar 5y agoRight, even something awful predates 4chan.
- kingcharles 5y agoUgh. I was an antisocial jerk trolling IRC in the early 90s. I would use shell accounts to ping flood servers and cause netsplits just so I could take control of a channel and change the topic to something dumb.
- sneedenheimer 5y agoOh, I consider flamebaiting trolling. But flamebaiting isn't cyberbullying or harassment or whatever these people think trolling means.