Sunday, July 26, 2009

The care and feeding of trolls

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or collaborative content community with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.

--taken from Wikipedia

A troll has crawled out from under a bridge and has provoked a response from me. The response is to not care about what the troll is doing, except to send good thoughts to any individuals affected by said creature. Trolls do what they do so they can be fed. Do not feed the trolls. I'm not going to identify either side of this exchange so that the troll does not get one little crumb.

If you've been annoyed by a troll, take a deep breath and repeat after me:

Do Not Feed The Trolls


Thank you. Go back to your spinning now.

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