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Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« on: March 29, 2017, 06:46:48 pm »
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I’m going to confess an occasional habit of mine, which is petty, and which I would still enthusiastically recommend to anyone who frequently encounters trolls, Twitter eggs, or other unpleasant characters online.

Sometimes, instead of just ignoring a mean-spirited comment like I know I should, I type in the most cathartic response I can think of, take a screenshot, and then file that screenshot away in a little folder that I only revisit when I want to make my coworkers laugh....

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/guys-its-time-for-some-troll-theory/521046/



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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2017, 07:08:30 pm »
There are trolls, and then there are trolls.  Back in the day, most of the trolls were just 'acting out' their own inner ahole.  But that was then and this is now.  There is another agenda afoot.

A new breed of propaganda trolls are much more sophisticated than they were back in the early wild wild west days of the internet.  They are very cognizent of manners, civility and politeness.  To the point that they end up preaching to those that they continually incite and anger (ie their job) about that same lack of civility.  It's hilarious to observe.  They provoke, then they chastise.  They actually think that they are undetectable re: their intent.  But... much like everything else the idiot left does and says... they'd be wrong about that too.
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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2017, 07:19:44 pm »
I never respond to them but there are worse things than trolls afoot.

Foreign propagandists who use the stupid to help achieve goals of foreign governments.

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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2017, 07:38:49 pm »
Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say

Why not.... They've already won the White House.  :whistle:

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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2017, 08:19:46 pm »
They're not winning here at TBR.

They're trying, but not winning.  :patriot:
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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2017, 08:20:05 pm »
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Why not.... They've already won the White House.  :whistle:

 :beer:
Character still matters.  It always matters.

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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2017, 10:54:57 pm »
We had one of the better-known forum trolls here, until shortly after the election.

Out of Texas, I think -- name began with an "s" and ended with an "r".

Whatever happened to him? (her?)

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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2017, 11:09:31 pm »
We had one of the better-known forum trolls here, until shortly after the election.

Out of Texas, I think -- name began with an "s" and ended with an "r".

Whatever happened to him? (her?)
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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2017, 11:49:10 pm »
Eaten by the dem plants.

Right.

The most prominent dem plant has been doing a lot of posting lately.  ^-^
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Re: Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2017, 04:15:04 pm »
Little known these days is that the term "troll" comes from the fishing technique of "trolling".  On the old days of USENET, one would "troll" by posting comments designed to get a response from those who would "take the bait". 

Later folks would misunderstand the term as to do with those who live under bridges.
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