(02-05-2021 08:08 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(02-05-2021 07:34 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(02-04-2021 11:44 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I'd pop some more popcorn, but I'm ready to head to bed.

You have been a very successful internet troll. Just think of all the other offensive things you can say on this forum!

But I wasn't trolling. I meant what I said, and stand by it. Trolls hit and run. I've hung around longer than trolls do. But this has gotten way past the limits of absurdity.

That's what internet trolls (and you) do. You say something offensive and then you hang around to take enjoyment over the resultant "fun". Your popcorn comments are spot-on. I agree it has gotten absurd.

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from wikipedia:

Quote:In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts flame wars or intentionally upsets people on the Internet. Typically they do this by posting inflammatory and digressive,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog), with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses[2] and normalizing tangential discussion.[3] This is typically for the troll's amusement, or to achieve a specific result such as disrupting a rival's online activities or manipulating a political process.

from Urban Dictionary:

Quote:A person who posts remarks or comments onto internet forums or message boards in an attempt to get someone to comment negatively to it and to redirect attention onto himself. Usually, these remarks are controversial, stupid, off-topic, inflaming, illogical, or childish. Sometimes, the comments are enough to enrage the people in the forum to want to respond back with their own negative remarks which starts a flame war and changes the topic and attention of the discussion. Since, internet trolls are attention whores, this is exactly what they want since they probably don't get enough attention in real life and needs someone else to acknowledge their self-worth and existence. Nowadays, they are commonly found infesting internet forums and websites such as the GameFAQS Message Boards, youtube (most notably in the comments section), moviecodec, rpgcodex and many others. It is best to ignore them unless you want flame wars to engulf the forum.