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Originally Posted by Cheyenne
Far worse than you have tried.
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* gasp * no way. Of couse I havn't seen him post in a year.
About trolls. I don't think maggie is trolling. She is just wenching.
Many (perhaps most) people, labelled "trolls", are simply being called thus by someone else in the course of a religious, political or other ordinary type of dispute; in other words, they are labelled as one for acting as a
dissident or
heretic.
ok I looked up the definition. This is interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
Vicious circles
For many people, the characterising feature of trolling is the perception of intent to disrupt a community in some way. Inflammatory, sarcastic, disruptive or humorous content is posted, meant to draw other users into engaging the troll in a fruitless confrontation. The greater the reaction from the community the more likely the user is to troll again, as the person develops beliefs that certain actions achieve his/her goal to cause chaos. This gives rise to the often repeated protocol in Internet culture: "Do not feed the trolls."
Often, a person will post a sincere message about which he is emotionally sensitive. Skillful trolls know that an easy way to upset him is to falsely claim that he is a "troll." In forums where most users are similar to each other, outsiders may be perceived as trolls simply because they do not fit into the
social norms of that group. It can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between a user who merely has different values, views, or ideas, and a user who is intentionally trolling. This can lead to genuinely hostile behavior, including
flame wars.
According to this definition calling someone a troll especially an established member of a group is called trolling as well.
So again I say. She is not being a troll. Steve is a grown up he can deal with her annoyance.