Why are 'trolls' so successful on the Cellar?
 

Things have been pretty quiet around here lately, and then along comes a little troll doll and everyone's up in arms and posting like mad. This isn't the first time it's happened of course, so I'm just wondering why, when we all know just to ignore trolls (and speaking of which, I think the word is over used and mis-used a fair bit) do people continue to engage in conflict with them? Is it for the love of the sport or what?

coz, actually, it's rather fun.

I was just sitting here thinking how I've got six weeks off for the break and i need a really good diversion. It's cathartic for a lot of us to throw egg on a really ignorant boob. (yes, darling emma, that's a female body part, too! My, you're growing up!)

She is going to fall, though. That'll be fun to watch.

now, go ahead and call me mean. I've earned it. I mean the right to :yawn: when I'm inevitably called so by the more sainted among us. :D

I wasn't thinking of calling you mean. I actually don't think what you said was mean. I was just wondering about it really. We've all been sucked in by them to some extent at different times. I'm just trying to put something else in home base - which is kind of freaky because I think you had the same thought.

;)

She gets what she wants: attention, a chance to be feisty, some upset old folk and a Banned badge. We get a mildly amusing diversion from our ruminations, which then turns into an irritant. From time to time the 'troll' turns out to be quite nice and things settle down accordingly.

name one troll who turned out to be quite nice. No googling.

*shakes fist at emma* Get off my lawn!!!

starts with an F

Oh Draxxie was ok. I know he was a drama queen, but he was kind of fun too. .. Can't think of any more off the top of my head...the point still stands :P

Well some people have called me a troll and I've turned out to be quite nice. :)

*dawns* L I N T !!!!

Oh! *rolls eyes*

I don't recall you ever displaying any troll-like attributes...at all.

Yeah...I always thought that was the one thing I definitely wasn't. Hence my suggestion that the term is mis-used at times. ;)

yeah, I suppose it does get mis-used.

Not this time, though.

I still think Urbane might be liberal hippy in disguise :P

not my idea of fun at all, and my participation will be less, not more, until resolved

I imagine Radar will eventually get around to calling me a troll among all the rest of his attempts to win a pissing contest standing at the bottom of a well -- so far he's definitely working on calling me everything but a precious child of God. And look how I turn out.

But then you do think I'm pulling the connection between gun control and genocide out of my arse. That's not where I'm drawing it from, m'dear.

Why do you keep doing this?
 

Firstly I don't have a problem with you, and don't care what the other guys say cause you haven't given me a reason to lash out at you or whatever.

I just want to know... (And i've asked this question before)

Why do you keep replying to your own replies?
:eyebrow:

In answer to the OP, I think it's because we're basically a bunch of smart-arses.
When someone is so obviously taunting us, we simply can't resist the urge to say something back.

We know the mature thing to do is stay silent, but there are just too many things that pop into our heads and via our fingers onto the internet.
But if some of us weren't like that, the Cellar wouldn't be what it is.

Kudos to those that listen to the mature voice of course.
The silent majority.
Personally I like a bit of drama. And at least when it's from an outsider it means there's no long lasting consequences.
She'll run around showing her knickers for a while, we'll shout and stomp and then when it goes quiet we relax again.

It's just a shame she joined too late for secret santa. I would totally trust her to participate.

I'm not a troll but I own a troll doll. Does that count for anything?

Trolls are so successful because they are better and smarter than you. Occam's Razor.

UG is a precocious child of dog. :rolleyes:

Lol. That was me during the 2004 election.

I loved that election!

http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/a...etchupLies.jpg

And she's back :P

yup.

Didn't take long, did it?

We should impeach Obama and bring back Bush!

*chuckles*

She created the sock puppet before she was banned.

gotta love our mods

I love that cartoon! I've been told to get to bed before. :D

Not 'wrong' Tulip. Intolerably irritating. And spewed hate speech. That enough for you?

Oh, sorry. you're just commenting on the cartoon. my bad! I thought you were commenting on the innocence of Emma.

apologies!

SteveDallas' cartoon hits pretty close to home for me. My wife and I have that conversation every night.

rrrRUFF!:p

The cellar doesn't know successful troll-ism.

They get squashed like a bug.:footpyth:

On the topic of trolls and trolling -
I am fairly new to online communities - but I wonder...
what's the reasoning behind being a troll - it does seem to be a personal choice -if some one is just naive that seems to come across in their posts - but in cases of a true troll... do you think it's simply a case of some freudian "my mother didn't love me enough to breastfeed me" so the whole damn online world will pay for it?
Or do trolls just get off on being assholes and getting sand kicked in their faces?

It's nice to know that at the Cellar, trolls don't last.

Hi, I'm new! this looks like a nice bunch of .....


oh.....

you answered your own question.

To answer Qice: forcing a reaction (e.g. banning) is exerting a kind of power.

Hiya Troll [waves!]
Nip on over to the introduction post and tell us a bit about yourself.

Wait. You look familiar.
Did I....? I mean that time, in Macklesfield...?

Yes, I can see that point... but I still don't get it -
guess I just don't understand the desire to be driven out of town on a rail...:headshake

*smiles* yah. But I recall taking rather a pride, when i was 17 in the fact that I'd been barred from several cafes and pubs :P

Being 'naughty' or 'bad' has a certain cache...especially for the young.

And now yer fuckin' respectable. Bloody shame, that.

They are the sort who get off on being assholes when the consequences of assholity are small. It's a nerdy way of being a bully. If I'm not mistaken, it is mainly practiced by adolescents. (They probably need jobs to occupy their minds.)

Well, now we're up to a coupla Trolls -- the unadorned one (hello!) and Grendel T. etcetera.

A cache is supplies hidden away and sounds like "cash." Just one more letter gives that certain cachet which sounds like how US Army spokesmen kept mispronouncing the other word in the first year of OIF. I don't even think they're related. I kept shaking my head.

Did I have an unfair advantage on the spokesmen, growing up near a river in Colorado named Cache la Poudre? There are French-language placenames all over the northern half of the American West.

Hell.... I'm a troll and nobody ever even noticed. You insensitive bastards!

Well, put your little felt loincloth back on and comb your hair up straight, then.

Trolls

you smurfed me. smurf yeah!



it was smurftastic, too. smurftacular.

You're quite right; I meant cachet lol.

We have a particularly strong equilibrium here, so the effect appears greater when it is upset.

thank you for finally unmoderating my posts, oh great and powerful volpe.

Trolls? OMG a TROLL?

That is the funniest fucking thing I have EVER seen. Your user name is TROLL but you're not really a troll? OMG OMG OMG.
A TROLL poster. :lol2:

/sarcasm