>> The crucial quality that a troll is best executed with as much subtlety as possible so as not to be detected by the intended target > Yeah.. noo. Who told y

>> The crucial quality that a troll is best executed with as much subtlety as possible so as not to be detected by the intended target > Yeah.. noo. Who told you this? This is wrong on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin. It's literally the classic definition of an internet troll. The whole point was to subtly push other people's buttons to get them to do something interesting. See this semi-famous example: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2001-12-02-treginaldgibbons-isyoursonacomputerhacker.html https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2001-12-02-treginaldgibbons-isyours.... It can and did trigger a lot of geeks' impulse to pedantically correct others, be opinionated (e.g. AOL hate), and defend their hobbies against what they perceived as cultural hostility.