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It's sad the Troll now means asshole. Ken M [1] style trolling is one of my favorite things on the internet. Even David Thorne's [2] slightly more aggressive Trolling is fantastic. I think we need to separate this from online bullies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_M [2] https://27bslash6.com/missy.html
Oh wow, that's quite a blast from the past - haven't read David Thornes antics in a while.. Also, it reminded me of http://dontevenreply.com/
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Yeah I also think we should disband NASA for their ties to von Braun. Honestly, who gives a fuck. It was funny, and not a racist deed. He fucked with scumbags here. E: been on craigslist lately?
OP is about how trolls seem to be jerks in real life. Then someone says they miss the non-malicious strain of trolling, where the person wasn't a jerk. Then you bring up an example of that, and he happens to be a jerk. Seems relevant to the article. I didn't say anything about disbanding NASA, that came out of nowhere. And I have no idea what the rest of your comment (craigslist?) means.
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Trolling is essentially online pranking. There's good-natured "smile, you're on candid camera" pranks, and then there's just being an asshole.
I wouldn't call it "pranking". I would call it a subversive action from a deep sarcastic view. E.g. I'm pretty sure some people might think that "swatting" is a form of trolling.
That was the OG trolling, you were wasting peoples time for laugh while they were educating you about something.
Term got hijacked and morphed into causing mental trauma to people.
One was harmless prank causing eye rolling, other mental trauma.