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Trollers - what the hell do they get out of it?

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    What did trolls do before teh interwebz?

    Did they randomly walk around pubs, butting into conversations and making strange and bizarre claims... sometimes hurtful and derogatory?


    No they used typewriters to type stupid shit and post it to people....



    Dreamed I was an Eskimo
    Frozen wind began to blow
    Under my boots and around my toes
    The frost that bit the ground below
    It was a hundred degrees below zero...

    And my mama cried
    And my mama cried
    Nanook, a-no-no
    Nanook, a-no-no
    Don't be a naughty Eskimo
    Save your money, don't go to the show

    Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh
    Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh
    Well I turned around and I said "Ho, Ho"
    And the northern lights commenced to glow
    And she said, with a tear in her eye
    "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"
    "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow

    (Well, right about that time people
    A fur-trapper (who was strictly from commercial)
    Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo (peekaboo) )
    And he started into whippin' on my favorite baby seal
    With a lead-filled snowshoe)

    I said, with a
    Lead-
    Filled
    With a lead filled snowshoe
    He said, "Peekaboo"
    I said, with a
    Lead-
    Filled
    With a lead filled snowshoe
    He said, "Peekaboo"
    He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal
    he went "whap" with a lead-filled snowshoe, and
    he hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin, and he
    that got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. So I bent down
    and I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous
    mitten-ful of the deadly YELLOW SNOW

    The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go!

    Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow
    crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous
    circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
    to take the place of the mudshark in your mythology
    here it goes,the circular motion, now Rub It!

    (Here Fido)

    And then
    In a fit of anger
    I pounced

    And I pounced again

    Great Googly Moogly!

    I jumped up and down on the chest of the him

    I injured
    The fur trapper

    Well he was very upset, as you can understand
    And rightly so, because the
    Deadly yellow snow crystals had
    Deprived him of his
    Sight

    And he stood up, and he looked around, and he said

    "I can't see"
    "I can't see"
    "Oh, woe is me"
    "I can't see"

    "Well.....you know
    I can't see
    Nothin'"

    "He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye
    He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye
    And the husky wee-wee
    I mean the doggie wee-wee
    Has blinded me
    And I can't see
    Temporarily"

    Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the
    frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about
    his deflicted eyes. And it was at that precise moment that he remembered
    and ancient Eskimo legend, wherein it is written (on whatever it is that
    they write it on up there) that if anything bad ever happens to your eyes
    as the result of some sort of conflict with anyone named
    Nanook,
    the only way you can get it fixed up is to go

    Trudging across the tundra
    Mile after mile
    Trudging across the tundra

    Right down to the parish of St. Alphonzo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    "WOOOO! YOU CAN'T WALK AWAY FROM A K-22 PAPER JAM, YOU MUST BE OUTTA YOUR MIND, SON!"

    Sorry, wrong window >.>


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    Sherifu wrote: »
    "WOOOO! YOU CAN'T WALK AWAY FROM A K-22 PAPER JAM, YOU MUST BE OUTTA YOUR MIND, SON!"

    Sorry, wrong window >.>

    YOU CAN'T CUT THE CHEESE, WHENEVER YOU PLEASE! WOOOO!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    What do they get out of it? Money of course.

    Boards.ie hires people to troll the forums because they will inevitably drum up traffic from people who don't realise they're just trolling.

    The admins and smods used to do all the trolling personally but the site got so big that they had to outsource it to freelancers.

    FACT. Tip my heel. No back answers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Honey-ec wrote: »
    Am I the only person who really doesn't see the appeal of trolling?

    "Oh look, I've got a mild rise out of some people I don't know with a totally transparent and frankly risible attempt - go me!"

    And, conversely, why do so many people feel compelled to write empassioned responses to what are clearly posts written by trolls? I'm thinking specifically of the five pages of "Ooh, you pig!" that followed the "What did I do wrong?" thread, which should have been locked after Thaedyl's intial reply, which pretty much said all that was required.
    Do you not get fun out of winding up your pet dog? I imagine it holds a similar appeal.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    I think there should be a specially designated trolling forum where these tards can excercise their obvious cases of 'gimp rage'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Honey-ec wrote: »
    "Oh look, I've got a mild rise out of some people I don't know with a totally transparent and frankly risible attempt - go me!"

    I never troll but I occasionally fakepost and it's amazing how seriously people will take a completely absurd statement.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Honey-ec wrote: »
    And, conversely, why do so many people feel compelled to write empassioned responses to what are clearly posts written by trolls? I'm thinking specifically of the five pages of "Ooh, you pig!" that followed the "What did I do wrong?" thread, which should have been locked after Thaedyl's intial reply, which pretty much said all that was required.

    Link me to this thread you have a problem with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    Link me to this thread you have a problem with.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055384727


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,296 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I wish I was that genius!

    Lol trust me you don't wish you were bubbles...

    Anyways let's not bring him into it. I'm sure he's off busy rating a scumbag DOT com... or something.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Silenceisbliss


    oh sh1t.....return of the strawberry flavoured robot ninjas!

    there are three in this post....




    .....................................................................ninja



    ............................................................................................................... ninja


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    I have been trolled a few times on boards. Not a nice experience. :(

    Can the Administrators not ban their IP addresses or something?


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have been trolled a few times on boards. Not a nice experience. :(

    Can the Administrators not ban their IP addresses or something?


    Not really, it might be a shared network and the troller can just move to another IP address.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    What's a troll? :confused:







    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    I think they get cheap kicks out of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    Not really, it might be a shared network and the troller can just move to another IP address.

    Sneaky bast3rds!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    I know a couple of guys who like to troll because they get a strange intellectual kick out of it. I'm sure there must an attention-seeking/anger element in there too, but they seem mostly to be interested in how people will react. Mind you, their efforts are a bit more clever and a bit more subtle than the usual "your favourite band sucks" kinda thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,102 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    *trolls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭brendansmith


    What i dont understand is the people who get worked up because some one writes something "off-topic'.

    Trolls are Ay-O.K in my books. Its the fools who get upset about trolls i hate.
    "DONT FEED THE TROLL" and you can imagine their little red face with viens bulging in their temples. Muppets!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    An Fhile wrote: »
    What's a troll? :confused:
    :D

    There's a pretty interesting news piece documenting the emergence of the internet sub-culture (O RLY owls, lolcats, trolling etc.) here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Trolls are Ay-O.K in my books. Its the fools who get upset about trolls i hate.
    That's kinda trollish...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Dudess wrote: »
    That's kinda trollish...

    It is, but I kinda like it!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭hopalong85


    What i dont understand is the people who get worked up because some one writes something "off-topic'.

    Trolls are Ay-O.K in my books. Its the fools who get upset about trolls i hate.
    "DONT FEED THE TROLL" and you can imagine their little red face with viens bulging in their temples. Muppets!

    thanks for the lol man!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    The odd troll can be genuinely hilarious, when it's done really well it can be like watching a fisherman hook and reel in a salmon ...

    Most trolls suck at it though, they just think they're funny.

    And going off-topic doesn't necessarily constitute trolling ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭brendansmith


    Dudess wrote: »
    That's kinda trollish...
    Dont feed him!!!

    Its after midnight!! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO ITS TOO LATE!

    He is no longer a troll, he is now a gremlin!


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    If it's totally transparent, you're doing it wrong.

    Exactly.

    I used to post on F365 years ago and there was one guy whose trolling was world class.

    One of his alters is infamous over there because the entire population of the forum still thinks to this day that he was just some idiot who got 'pwned', when actually it was an incredibly elaborate hoax set up by this one reg. The original thread ran to about 50 pages in the space of a couple of days iirc... the admins even got involved.

    Was gonna explain what happened but it's actually too elaborate to go into here and I'm coming down with 'flu.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭brendansmith


    Phlann wrote: »
    Exactly.

    I used to post on F365 years ago and there was one guy whose trolling was world class.

    One of his alters is infamous over there because the entire population of the forum still thinks to this day that he was just some idiot who got 'pwned', when actually it was an incredibly elaborate hoax set up by this one reg. The original thread ran to about 50 pages in the space of a couple of days iirc... the admins even got involved.

    Was gonna explain what happened but it's actually too elaborate to go into here and I'm coming down with 'flu.

    Any links?


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    Nope. They're too cheap to buy a new server over there so they cull the forum (or they did back in my day) several times a year. Thread is long gone.

    It's a shame because it really was a work of genius. The guy who did it is like a bored, directionless version of Chris Morris.

    Sorry for lack of details, head is spinning here from this flu or whatever so i can't be bothered going into the whole thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    There's a pretty interesting news piece documenting the emergence of the internet sub-culture (O RLY owls, lolcats, trolling etc.) here.

    Watched the video, but honestly, it's ridiculous. Half of it was the reporter trying to explain terminology to people who've never been on the internet before. I know what lol stands for, so I can't watch something like that without feeling talked down to. The rest of it is wildly innaccurate at best.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    And what the **** was up with her accent?


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