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Topic: forum jargon
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onesoul
Knowflake Posts: 31
From: nomad
Registered: Oct 2011
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posted April 23, 2012 09:30 AM
  
Hi Every One.I am an old timer and not familiar with forum jargon. What does trolling mean? What is a spider? If there is anything else to know, please inform me so I can get with the lingo and not be such a fuddy duddy. Thank you
much love and blessings
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T
Knowflake Posts: 7158
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 23, 2012 01:31 PM
A troll will join a forum just to post random ads, usually about Viagra or soemthing and/or other random nonsense. Kind of like Spam email. Sometimes they are actual people who stick around and try to mess with the members and annoy them, but usually they are spotted for what they are right away and not taken too seriously. A spider is a web bot that crawls (searches) a forum to take all the info and put into into search engines. I think so anyway.. someone will be along shorty to correct me if i'm wrong, i'm sure. lol IP: Logged |
PixieJane
Knowflake Posts: 1069
From: CA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted April 23, 2012 02:03 PM
One who leaves advertisements (these are usually automated programs that pretend to be real people) are called "spammers." Trolls OTOH are attention seekers and people out to be jerks. At their most benign they just want attention and don't care if they upset people (which will get them the most) to get it. At their worst they take pleasure in upsetting people because they take sadistic delight in it (with the added bonus that they can't get punched in the nose over it), some of whom will even post vile messages those those freshly grieving from the suicide of a child, because it's "funny" to be so obnoxious. They'll even say they believe things they don't simply to upset people (for example, a virgin teen might go to a gay board to post that he's a father who threw out his teen gay son and hopes his son dies of AIDS, and the more upset everyone gets the happier he is). Here's a good, fun example of a troll, IMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg And a very important thing to keep in mind is that not everyone called a troll is one. Some people have come to believe that anyone who upsets them is a troll, but that's not the case. The important distinction is that a troll WANTS to upset people. IP: Logged |
juniperb
Moderator Posts: 5150
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 23, 2012 02:16 PM
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And a very important thing to keep in mind is that not everyone called a troll is one. Some people have come to believe that anyone who upsets them is a troll, but that's not the case. The important distinction is that a troll WANTS to upset people.
A good distinction P.J.
Many times they start out friendly then turn sly. Even pitting member one against member.
Usually they are easy to spot but some are really slick and avoid detection for a long time. Unfortunately, there`s no one size fits all in trolling. ------------------
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi~ IP: Logged |
teasel
Knowflake Posts: 4828
From:
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 23, 2012 03:02 PM
I've been on another board, where they have buttons to report posts. I finally started to use the "ignore" function, with certain members, because they were acting like trolls, but I didn't know if I should report them. They would actually join in with the trolls when they got in there and tried to stir things up, but somehow maintain their membership. I'm surprised that one has lasted as long as he has, when he's posting blatantly rude posts, designed to bait - unless others take him about as seriously as I do. I backed off from that place, because I felt like I was going to be rude to someone, and I didn't want to be. They're clueless as to what they're doing, even though they tend to offend a lot of people. There have been people who go on there to post racist things, sexist things, really vile things. One is a former member who was angry that he was banned. IP: Logged |
onesoul
Knowflake Posts: 31
From: nomad
Registered: Oct 2011
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posted April 23, 2012 04:00 PM
Thank you guys,So trolls are self serving, either because they use sites like this for business purposes, or they are just bullies. Yuck, going back to hide in my little corner. Much love and thanks
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Randall
Webmaster Posts: 22232
From: Saturn next to Charmainec
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 23, 2012 06:50 PM
We are pretty much troll-free here. I toss them as soon as they appear.------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
PixieJane
Knowflake Posts: 1069
From: CA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted April 23, 2012 07:43 PM
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Originally posted by onesoul:
because they use sites like this for business purposes
No, these are called "spammers." IP: Logged |
RegardesPlatero
Moderator Posts: 4367
From: Storybrooke, Mr. Gold's Shop
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted April 24, 2012 05:37 AM
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Randall
Webmaster Posts: 22232
From: Saturn next to Charmainec
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 03, 2012 07:03 PM
Well-said, Platero.------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
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