Does your life feels so bad you want to inflict harm on random internet denizens? Or were you just born an asshole?
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Anonymous2009-03-29 10:51
Frankly, it's both.
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Anonymous2009-03-29 11:16
I often ask myself this question. I can see why people would want to troll a vBulletin/phpBB-style forum where everyone has a pseudonym and a reputation. On 4chan, people (most do) stay anonymous, and trolls can't do anything to them, unless they post personal info, or post using a tripcode with a username that they use outside of 4chan.
Of course they'll still get a kick out of posting stupid (x) Vs. (y) threads, watching the replies grow and grow, but it's probably more fun to troll (and possibly make more damage to) a regular forum as stated earlier.
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Anonymous2009-03-29 12:21
As an esteemed trool from /prog/gish days of yore, I personally get a kick out of how many people here still quote the most trollish of my posts. It's as if everyone who reads my threads gets raped in the mouth and carries a part of me inside them forever.
There's not enough real discussion here to take this board seriously. So I come here to have a little fun and troll. Programming takes a lot of work (and unlike most people here, I am a comp sci major and I actually DO program IRL) so why not have a little fun with you gullible bastards?
So then I guess the question is, ``Why not present `real discussion' to the table?'' Well, that's because there's too many [coe]troll[/code]s. Why not ignore the trolls? Not everyone will, the trolls will forever be fed - it's inevitable, it's 4chan.
>>6 (and unlike most people here, I am a comp sci major and I actually DO program IRL)
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Anonymous2009-03-29 15:39
/prog/ is like a TROLL playground or perhaps a TROLL laboratory. By studying the work of Expert TROLL Programmers we can be wise to the Microsoft Shills who use Bleeding Edge TROLL Techniques to disturb the good order of the Free Software Foundation mailing lists.
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Actually the quality of "trolls playground" is only where trolls are located. If you have noticed they are not distributed uniformly across 4chan, but gravitate to /prog/,/g/,/v/,/a/ and /r9k/.
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Nah, they use Christianity as 'easy mode' trolling.
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Anonymous2009-03-29 16:16
For me, trolling /prog/ is kind of like smoking a cigarette. Will probably cause long-term damage, but it feels really nice. I'm not really aggressive IRL, so I have to vent somewhere. That somewhere is prog
Personally, I feel like going with the flow while trolling. I'm about 90% sure that whoever I might reply to, chances are he was trolling as well, so it doesn't really matter.
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FrozenVoid2009-03-29 16:26
/prog/ made what i am. Revealing another facet of me?
I'm an incredibly abrasive personality it seems.
If i try to use something in my style. My avatar, signature and tripcodes it all comes to shitstorms and "IHBT".
When i try to argue my points it comes of as unnatural and forced(i read some past posts to analyze this occurring and they all end up in accussations of mental instability/aspergers or plainly label me as troll). This leads to people making insults and threats which drive topics to flame wars, making the reputation of "trolling' somehow justified(and mocking me in the process).
I don't actually want to be a troll,but thats what you want me to be. ;_;
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FV2009-03-29 16:36
For me personally, I find the action of trolling quite exhilarating, probably to the extent that it's quite unhealthy. Nothing gets me off more than being able to excite the neurological chemical reaction of anger in some shmuck's brain across the world, just by simply typing words on a keyboard with my fingertips. It's like I'm mentally controlling you with my mind, you know what I mean?
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Anonymous2009-03-29 16:40
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I would say it resembles programming human minds.