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I couldn't repeat more a thing that you should have read while browsing thread: It's a very peculiar kind of vandalism: sneaky, personally unrewarding and affec
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
I couldn't repeat more a thing that you should have read while browsing thread:
It's a very peculiar kind of vandalism: sneaky, personally unrewarding and affecting a niche service. Trolls like to do bold, rewarding and big moves.
- eli 15y agoI don't think it's terribly peculiar. Spend some time on 4chan (or better yet, don't). Perhaps you only notice the trolls who did big, bold moves?
- gcb 15y ago4chan (or more accurately, /b/) is irrelevant. it's just a forum for pre-teens and teens to shout obscenities at each other. rarely a good pun emerges. usually surrounded by porn and gore. anonymous and other small groups do troll, real trolling, occasionally... and attributing it to 4chan's /b/ is just the cherry on top of the cake for said trolling.
- DanBC 15y agoNO. The trolls that you notice do big bold things; the bad trolls are the ones you notice. Good trolling is a dead art; the single post that started a 400 message flame filled cross-posted thread that caused everyone to kill-file everyone else? You just don't get that anymore. It is very easy to run into forum and post guro and yell obscenities. Making long lasting subtle changes is hard. But that is why it's fun, for a small number of trolls. (I should state that I don't think this is the case with the contractor; I think they're just stupid and misguided, and that Google needs to start thinking about how they provide oversight for this kind of stuff.)
- powertower 15y ago"Good Trolling" example here: www.promotinglinux.com Someone went through the trouble of creating an entire website for this. There's even trolling in the HTML code of the pages. That's dedication to the art of trolling!
- flomo 15y agoReminiscent of adequacy.org