Trolling on USMB Does it exist and why?

[deannalw]

Haven't seen Opus in many years. It came to me in a flash that it was Bill the Cat and not Bill's -- Thanks.

My favorite cartoon!

 

[BULLDOG]

 

[BULLDOG]

I believe we can all agree that trolling exists on usmb. I have to wonder how many people here in this "Community" would support efforts to mitigate trolling?

I haven't decided how I feel about trolling, but I wouldn't mind a quick blowjob.

 

[Yarddog]

"What makes a troll is a combination of a bad mood and the bad example of other trolls." - This is what I found in a search.

It's an academic article on it all. It's quite a good look at it all.

To tease out possible causes of trolling, the researchers set up an online experiment. Through the Amazon Mechanical Turk service, where people can be hired to perform online tasks for a small hourly payment, they recruited people to participate in a discussion group about current events.

Participants were first given a quiz consisting of logic, math and word problems, then shown a news item and invited to comment. To compare the effects of positive and negative mood, some participants were given harder questions or were told afterward that they had performed poorly on the quiz. To compare the effects of exposure to other trolls, some were led into discussions already seeded with real troll posts copied from comments on CNN.com. The experiment showed that negative mood and bad example could lead to offensive posting.

Internet trolls are made, not born, CIS researchers say | Cornell Computing and Information Science

You, too, could become a troll. Not a mythological creature that hides under bridges, but one of those annoying people who post disruptive messages in internet discussion groups – “trolling” for attention - and off-topic posters who throw out racist, sexist or politically controversial rants...

cis.cornell.edu

btw, I believing trolling is prohibited on this General Discussion Message Board

From whatever the name of the bridge you just hobbled out from under..... please find a still pool of water and stare at the reflection.

 

[Dante]

I haven't decided how I feel about trolling, but I wouldn't mind a quick blowjob.

Where's Liability and Ropey when ya need them?

 

[Road Runner]

I believing trolling is prohibited on this General Discussion Message Board

Then why post this thread to begin with?

USMB turned me into a troll.

I was perfect till I came here.

Now Ima troll.

Thanks USMB

I love trolling the trolls. Even the mods a lot of the time applaud me for it.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Then why post this thread to begin with?



I love trolling the trolls. Even the mods a lot of the time applaud me for it.

 

[Dante]

Then why post this thread to begin with?



I love trolling the trolls. Even the mods a lot of the time applaud me for it.

your delusional

 

[Road Runner]

Two things:

1. The first one is better.
2. WTF is going on at the end with the sticks and stuff? That's the only truly hilarious part as what the heck are they even doing!?

 

[egp320i]

trolls are bored people who enjoy trying to create chaos on a forum for their own pleasure, many are probably in their basement and have no life but need interaction

 

[Moonglow]

"What makes a troll is a combination of a bad mood and the bad example of other trolls." - This is what I found in a search.

It's an academic article on it all. It's quite a good look at it all.

To tease out possible causes of trolling, the researchers set up an online experiment. Through the Amazon Mechanical Turk service, where people can be hired to perform online tasks for a small hourly payment, they recruited people to participate in a discussion group about current events.

Participants were first given a quiz consisting of logic, math and word problems, then shown a news item and invited to comment. To compare the effects of positive and negative mood, some participants were given harder questions or were told afterward that they had performed poorly on the quiz. To compare the effects of exposure to other trolls, some were led into discussions already seeded with real troll posts copied from comments on CNN.com. The experiment showed that negative mood and bad example could lead to offensive posting.

Internet trolls are made, not born, CIS researchers say | Cornell Computing and Information Science

You, too, could become a troll. Not a mythological creature that hides under bridges, but one of those annoying people who post disruptive messages in internet discussion groups – “trolling” for attention - and off-topic posters who throw out racist, sexist or politically controversial rants...

cis.cornell.edu

btw, I believing trolling is prohibited on this General Discussion Message Board

I have never seen any trolling on USMB...

 

[Moonglow]

trolls are bored people who enjoy trying to create chaos on a forum for their own pleasure, many are probably in their basement and have no life but need interaction

Yer shoes untied...

 

[Road Runner]

I have never seen any trolling on USMB...

You mean you've never seen anybody else on here trolling.

 

[Moonglow]

Then why post this thread to begin with?



I love trolling the trolls. Even the mods a lot of the time applaud me for it.

pfft...

 

[Moonglow]

You mean you've never seen anybody else on here trolling.

Who is else?

 

[Moonglow]

Where's Liability and Ropey when ya need them?

Stuck on redundant.

 

[Road Runner]

Who is else?

You don't realize that ninety percent of the time you're a troll? The other ten percent you've actually got a nice side of you but it's that ninety percent that is a problem.

 

[Yarddog]

I have never seen any trolling on USMB...

Geeze man, thats like you saying you never see any speeders on the highway as your doing 185

 

[Arlette]

"What makes a troll is a combination of a bad mood and the bad example of other trolls." - This is what I found in a search.

It's an academic article on it all. It's quite a good look at it all.

To tease out possible causes of trolling, the researchers set up an online experiment. Through the Amazon Mechanical Turk service, where people can be hired to perform online tasks for a small hourly payment, they recruited people to participate in a discussion group about current events.

Participants were first given a quiz consisting of logic, math and word problems, then shown a news item and invited to comment. To compare the effects of positive and negative mood, some participants were given harder questions or were told afterward that they had performed poorly on the quiz. To compare the effects of exposure to other trolls, some were led into discussions already seeded with real troll posts copied from comments on CNN.com. The experiment showed that negative mood and bad example could lead to offensive posting.

Internet trolls are made, not born, CIS researchers say | Cornell Computing and Information Science

You, too, could become a troll. Not a mythological creature that hides under bridges, but one of those annoying people who post disruptive messages in internet discussion groups – “trolling” for attention - and off-topic posters who throw out racist, sexist or politically controversial rants...

cis.cornell.edu

btw, I believing trolling is prohibited on this General Discussion Message Board

Lots of trolls here. This place needs to be swept with an iron broom.

 

[Road Runner]

Lots of trolls here. This place needs to be swept with an iron broom.