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a troll is someone who lives on message boards, has opinions on everything, knows it all, and personalizes, threads. Also the most important thing to a troll is having the last word, and usually a troll in real life is a loser...
Originally posted by vkey08
Originally posted by cyoshi
Sometimes, these strategies are used by AVERAGE people with serious personality issues.
If you see someone using these tactics often, or using many of them at the same time, you may be dealing with a paid internet troll.
So let me get this straight, if you disagree with YOUR opinions then you are being paid to troll OR you have serious personality issues. Forget the fact that people with different experiences and educations may disagree based solely on the fact that you could possibly be wrong.. or are you never wrong and everyone is a troll?
Hmmm.....
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
trolls must be ignored, it's the only way to defeat them
paid trolls don't exist imho
Originally posted by clairvoyantrose
One of the biggest things I've noticed about Chemtrail Troll's or "Dis-Informants" Is they will ALWAYS try to push their knowledge or their job knowledge on you.
"I'm a pilot for 'Merica we ain't sprayin' no damn chaff ya hear?"
"I am fluent in aviation, trust me."
"I specialize in the formation of clouds. I'm a cloud scientist. Believe me ok?"
Originally posted by dirtybird
debunk the truth
Originally posted by flexy123
Originally posted by MarkJS
Whether one is a paid troll or not, in my two-tiered thread proposal, if they disagree with the OP, their post would essentially be flagged. That will give advance warning to the reader of the nature of their post. The 'flagged' post would be easy to detect... Maybe the background color might be different, maybe the font style is different. It would be easy to distinguish apart from the posts that are actually trying to build on the OPs idea. This will serve as a way to skip over contrary posts (which I post at times as well).
The better alternative would be you simply unplug from the internet. This keeps the danger of encountering "dangerous" opposing view rather low, you will be surprised.edit on 9-3-2013 by flexy123 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Originally posted by MarkJS
Whether one is a paid troll or not, in my two-tiered thread proposal, if they disagree with the OP, their post would essentially be flagged. That will give advance warning to the reader of the nature of their post. The 'flagged' post would be easy to detect... Maybe the background color might be different, maybe the font style is different. It would be easy to distinguish apart from the posts that are actually trying to build on the OPs idea. This will serve as a way to skip over contrary posts (which I post at times as well). It's not severe as an ignore button... It's a more civilized approach I believe.
This has to be the worst ideas i have heard yet in this thread. Quite simply if you want to preach something without anyone disagreeing with you then go and write a blog and then disable the comments
edit on 9-3-2013 by PhoenixOD because: (no reason given)
It gives one more way for people to gang up on others. Drawing attention to any one person, via a special tag, or color, will automatically subconsciously make people not pay attention to a post that my or may not be very well written, thought out, and have good info, simply because of the label. It's like labeling people's opinions based upon their jobs, certain members, myself included, have run afoul of others simply because we happen to work at such and such a place, and automatically our opinions, thoughts and ideas are labeled invalid, even if one of us has a lot of information, sourced out and researched, because of that subliminal label.