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Troll depiction.
Troll depiction.
A common reaction to trolling.
A common reaction to trolling.
Well fed trolls will destroy us all, even this column
Well fed trolls will destroy us all, even this column

Different kinds of internet trolls

  1. A person who brings life to a tired, dull internet message board by purposeful attempts to start flame wars or Internet drama by posting comments that are patently Fucktarded, yet still inflammatory enough to enrage the stupid, irrational and humorless. The moment someone points out that the troll in question was just gunning for a reaction usually results in a fire drill.
  2. A person that throws around the troll insult to: anyone who defeats them in an argument, anyone who points out facts the real troll doesn't want people to know, or someone the real troll picks at random to stick falsely with a troll label for sheer lulz. This second type of troll is 98.9999999% of all trolls now and is often called an Anti-troll.
  3. A person affiliated with the group Bantown, commonly known for their lulz. GNAA IS DEAD, JEWS KILLED GNAA. Penis Pump are the trolls of the future. A member of /i/,TA, PN, the Marcab Confederacy and other various trolling organizations.
  4. A Fat middle aged man or Russian Woman who lives under a bridge
  5. A Concerned Mother who does not appreciate how other trolls are treating their little kids who don't belong on the interwebz in the first place.
  6. People who edit Encyclopedia Dramatica.
  7. Anyone who disagrees with a Wikipedia administrator.
  8. Tele-marketer, also known as phone troll, bred to destroy your dinner time for lulz. See Tele-marketers/Phone Trollers
  9. The terrible movie that had a sequal (see:Troll 2) that was so bad it was good.

The term derives from "trolling", a style of fishing which involves trailing bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. As a verb, "to troll" is probably a corruption of "trawl." Troll is fine as a verb since trawling for comments and flames is innate troll behavior. A "Troll" is a mythical monster that lives under a bridge and surprises people who try and cross the bridge with some bizarre puzzle or challenge that they must complete before crossing. It has been suggested that people who lurk in groups and suddenly enter discussions with unwanted and provocative contributions inspire the same type of fear in law-abiding netizens. More rational people know that Trolls are, in fact, monsters who live under a bridge, probably in Utah, who flocked to the information superhighway after real superhighways were declared obsolete by Al Gore. Bad things happen when trolls meet IRL.

Novice trolls often experience troll's remorse. Such feelings tend to pass once they realize that people who take the Internets seriously enough to get upset by trolling really ought to get over themselves. Once they reach this point, they are said to suffer from Internet troll personality disorder. After long enough, they may even develop Chronic Troll Syndrome.

The best place for a novice to develop trolling skills and get a few easy lulz is Not4chan.

(Note: not to be confused with the gay slang verb "to troll" which means to trawl for sex.)

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[edit] How to tell a troll

Based on the common usage of the word troll, all furries, otherkin, Grammar Nazis, Bitches, Fucktards, Fuckwits, Noobs, Racists, Peaceniks, Pants nazi, Lol-cows, Retards, AOL users, You and Twits are trolls. I mean, no real person would actually think like that, right?

Attention whores are not trolls, just irl bimboes. Most trolls believe, honestly, that they are in fact funny, anyone who does not agree with them is obviously either overly sensitive, has no life, no sense of humour, or is a combination of two or all of these. In many instances, one can see where troll has in fact messed up but is too wrapped in his/her own little laugh to notice how much of a douche they have really been. These trolls are the most easy to identify, as they often stop leaving comments when it is obvious even to a monkey with a brain tumour that they have fucked it up, or when you see a comment that begins with telling the owner of the site/picture/story/ect that they suck for no good reason. To be absolutely sure, look for the word "lulz" anywhere in their comments, or YHBT at the end of the comments.

If you see a lebanese person they are a troll.

[edit] Dungeons & Dragons

In Dungeons & Dragons, trolls take full damage from acid and fire. Because trolls have green rubbery flesh and naturally enhanced regeneration, damage caused by slashing, piercing or bludgeoning is halved.

Some DMs were cool and let PCs be trolls, but others were like "no they're too powerful, they are NPC only" and then I was like "eff that Erik, stop being a dick" and fed his dice to his cat.

In World of Warcraft, Trolls are a powerful race of giant green bean people that live in towering can cities. They worship the allmighty Jolly Green Giant.

All this RPG troll stuff came from trolls in Norse mythology. Lolki, god of mischief(among other things), invented trolling and shitty tribal art tattoos.

However, none of this is important, because everyone knows D&D is for gays.

[edit] Techniques

There's even tools to troll the blind.
There's even tools to troll the blind.

Ironically enough, many members of LJDrama are the biggest and most prolific trolls around (See futhman). Therefore, we feel qualified to give you some super examples:

Whenever you are done trolling, make sure to say "YHBT".

[edit] Places to Troll

Poor grammar will raise the hairs on the back of Blargh's neck in a New York sec.
Poor grammar will raise the hairs on the back of Blargh's neck in a New York sec.

"Trolling Encyclopedia Dramatica is like throwing shit at monkeys. And by monkeys, I mean niggers." - Bzuber

[edit] Troll for a Day (TFAD)

Found on those rare well-heeled (adults with no lives) boards such as Yahoo's SCO board. A board may suffer from group think and stagnate. One poster will create a new psuedonym and log in to tweak the other posters into a flame war. The Troll for a Day will announce they are a TFAD (TFADing) and everyone will congratulate the regular after getting over their murderous impulses. Posters on message boards who have experienced this behavior will immediately try to label all newbies as "TFADs". These trolls are often pussies.

[edit] Trolling techniques

Wild Faggot Appears

[edit] Griefer

A video game species of troll. Griefers are unable to resort to the time-honoured techniques of text-driven drama and, as such, have concentrated on ruining the game experience for others. This takes many forms, from breaching the fourth wall on roleplaying servers, to filling in-game chat windows with commentary about monkey fucking.

Then, of course, are the spawn campers, the lag-fags, and lets not forget the cheaters and the glitchers.

Griefers can often be ingenious in finding ways to annoy people, but more often than not they're just fuckwits.

[edit] Hater

Hater is YouTube for troll. Being a bunch of illiterate trailer trash, your average YouTube blogger is unaware that internets exist outside of YouTube. Quite possibly because most of those internets require better than a third grade reading level to successfully navigate.

Trolling YouTube is deceptively simple. Just wait for some schmuck to post a video whining and crying over something nobody cares about (9/11) and post a response video calling them a drama whore. YouTubers are still naively sheltered from the realities of the internet making their reactions even more lulzy. It's kind of cute.

[edit] Smart Troll

Smart trolls go to troll school to hone their skills
Smart trolls go to troll school to hone their skills

Smart Troll is a very rare species of Troll, The result of breeding a Griefer with a Geek/Nerd, They will often join some website, almost always a video game forum and will pretend to be a normal member for awhile, They may even help out a bit for awhile but they will then make an alt with some retarded name, like "ZELDAH4XL33T", "Jesus", "GIMMETEHMONEY", "Ajjeko", or "TheTeej" and will make a fake website that "cannot be found by google" and that is total bullshit off the bat there, They will cause chaos like a normal troll on the normal members of teh site but will be moar clever with the admins, if they succeed the website will close down and die, if they fail they will be hit by the banhammerorz and the forums will be replaced instead of brought back up due to teh admins being smart-asses, they are very rare but very deadly, they often name themselves after a movie nobody gives a shit about. (Like Pokemon2000, 007, Spiderman or even Bloodmoon.) Most of the time a Smart Troll is a basement dweller or a Internet Tough Guy but they seem to fit right in with the title of Internet asshole. NOTE:The Smart Troll may seem like a Dumbass but they can h4x your account and make your post count go down to zero!<-Jesus man, what the fuck just happened here!

[edit] Unsuccessful Troll

Any troll who succumbs to troll's remorse, apologizes, or otherwise fails to deliver the lulz. A troll must never admit that they are a troll (especially whilst trolling), otherwise they have failed. An unsuccessful troll ends his career with a slow, sad retreat back to the Fail cave. For example: The Happy Negro who trolls watermelon and chicken across the globe. Tehnet's happiest unsuccessful troll. See also Mirson, who despite efforts provides no lulz, and The Judge who spends more time saying "I'm a troll" than doing anything else.

[edit] Notable Unsuccessful Trolls

[edit] History

Trolling was invented by Prof. Arnold Socrates and called Socratic Irony. It was performed IRL. Unfortunately, primitive people found irony confusing and scary, so they forced him to drink hemlock and die.

Quite possibly one of the lulziest cases of historical trolling occurred in 1857 in the British colony of India. The British included native born soldiers, both Muslim and Hindu, into their army, and then royally pwned their asses by putting pig grease on the bullet cartridges for the Muslim soldiers, and cow grease on the bullet cartridges for the Hindu soldiers. These are paper cartridges, mind you, and every soldier was trained to bite open the wrapping in order to pour the gunpowder down the barrel. It was later recorded in the respective holy books of the two religions that every one of these soldiers burned for eternity in sand nigger hell.

Much lulz ensued until the Hindus and the Muslims found out and staged a revolt. Then the British killed them all, and even more lulz were had by all.

Trolling was later taught as a college-level course by Professor Tim Pierce, resulting in Wikicide.

U.S. courts have found that trolling is a Constitutionally-protected right [3]

[edit] You can't troll a troll?

The old saying is wrong. You can troll a troll. This furfag troll couldn't take being made fun of on ED (Apparently he doesn't think it's very funny), so he vandalized his own article. He changed it to a version saying "I'm so cool, blah blah..." Even back when the article was new, he went around blanking the insulting content using a later confessed sockpuppet.

[edit] Pissing in an ocean of piss

A simple tutorial on how to troll /b/

Step 1, a trap is set in a successful thread

Step 2, fags show up, be sure to talk as much shit as possible to get more information out of them, then let them know who you are after youve gotten some personal info (in this case a picture of the retards girlfriend)

Step 3, use your SECRET TROLL DATAMINING TOOL to cross check info like usernames and picture names.

Step 4, find an exploitable link to said target, in this case a photobucket on a naruto forum.

Step 5, if your target is stupid, he hasnt covered his tracks, and wont have prived his info, meaning you can take as much of it as you want.

Step 6, find something you know will upset the target, in this case a bra pic of his ex gf in his animu filled pron folder.

Step 7, ?????

Step 8, PROFIT, link the target the new thread and drink in the lulz.

[edit] List of Trolls

Please see Trolls. Also, please see here for examples of legendary ruination done by the most experienced of trolls.

An extensive list of IRL Trolls can be found here.

[edit] Gallery

Also, he trolled the world.

Apple fails at trolling.

Trolls NEVAR forget.

They never travel alone.

OH NOES!!! A nigga's right behind u!

Fail-Troll fails.

Successful troll is still successful.

Do it 4 teh lulz.

Trolling pedos never gets old.

A typical troll day.

Posting this guy's picture over and over causes shitstorms on /b/ and gaiaonline.

Obvious Troll is Obvious.

[edit] External Links



Image:Little Troll.gif Troll is part of a series on Trolls.

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