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General Discussion => The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit => Topic started by: Katpappy on January 16, 2014, 08:09:03 PM
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Inside the Mind of a College Football Message Board Troll
Urban Dictionary, your definitive source for all things Internet-related, defines "trolling" as the following:
TROLLING-
Being a prick on the Internet because you can. Typically unleashing one or more cynical or sarcastic remarks on an innocent by-stander, because it's the Internet and, hey, you can.
This is what the word has become, an identity-less buzz term that has lost all meaning. Before, it took intelligence, familiarity with a specific topic and just enough sarcasm to start an Internet fire. After years of misuse and bad habits, however, it has become a parody of itself. Like your mom finding you on Facebook.
Trolling—the authentic variety involving well-supported conviction in an unpopular position, requiring the keyboard navigation skills of a surgeon—was thought to be extinct. It is not, although it's on the endangered list.
Quality trolling still exists, nestled deep in message boards of college football teams around the country. And with recruiting season set to engulf message-board servers everywhere, these trolls will rule the day once more.
That's where Will comes in.
Will, whose last name will remain absent to keep his identity secret, is a"professional" message-board troll. Operating with the message-board name CummingDawg22, Will trolls the way it was meant to be done.
You will disagree with him, perhaps to the point of destroying your keyboard or heaving your computer through your window, but he'll anger you—no, troll you—with just the right amount of football knowledge and sarcasm that you'll be lost in a troll trance.
If he's done that, his job is done. He accomplished this goal recently while starting a thread dedicated to the stupidity of the board he operates on. After all, quality trolling isn't about making friends.
IS goEMAW CRAWING WITH TROLLS?!?! :horrorsurprise:
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:sdeek:
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IS goEMAW CRAWING WITH TROLLS?!?! :horrorsurprise:
Is there a difference between trolls and steve dave socks? Last I knew approximately 67% of the posters on this board are sd socks.
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IS goEMAW CRAWING WITH TROLLS?!?! :horrorsurprise:
Is there a difference between trolls and steve dave socks? Last I knew approximately 67% of the posters on this board are sd socks.
Trolling is so 2009
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IS goEMAW CRAWING WITH TROLLS?!?! :horrorsurprise:
Is there a difference between trolls and steve dave socks? Last I knew approximately 67% of the posters on this board are sd socks.
Trolling is so 2009
True. this article (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0) gives a much better description of message board trolling.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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"Will" is a "professional troll? That implies, of course, that he's paid to troll. What does a pro troll make?
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IS goEMAW CRAWING WITH TROLLS?!?! :horrorsurprise:
Is there a difference between trolls and steve dave socks? Last I knew approximately 67% of the posters on this board are sd socks.
Trolling is so 2009
True. this article (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0) gives a much better description of message board trolling.
:lol: Damn, I'm been super trolled. Started watching and seen the caption, and watched the vid to the end hoping for more captions. :shakesfist:
This comment says it all: "As long as trolls are still trolling, the rick will never stop rolling.". :thumbs:
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God I got chastised so hard for rickrolling a KSU emaw video thread on here.
Was a pretty solid roll job tho