Troll



A troll is a random anonymous person who uses a variety of textual tactics to entice other internet users into anger, fear, and circular disagreements. (aka beating a dead horse, fallacious logic, and just being flat wrong.) This can range from casual trolling, or the more serious trolling which causes spam and damage.

= Tactics = -Playing the victim -Attacking Individuals -Professional Hacking (Unfortunately these are usually nothing more than scare tactics designed to put people on edge. Not only does the troll not know how to hack, but he also doesn't succeed in scaring anyone.) -Racism -Professional Lying (rare) -Story-Book Troll (rare)
 * This happens when a forum moderator or someone of power takes away rights, deletes topics, or makes the person look like they are doing something wrong when the majority of the community has no idea what's going on.
 * Anyone who opposes the troll or threatens the troll will be targeted from there out. The troll will go out of his way to make sure that the targeted individual is completely humiliated in their eyes.
 * Tactics include photo shopping personal pictures of the individual, name calling, finding out personal information to hit them where it hurts, etc.
 * The troll is always a professional hacker, cracker, and has the ability to trace IP's, steal passwords, overload sites and just cause general mayhem for internet protocol. Destruction is key here.
 * When the troll is down for the count and doesn't have much more material left to troll over, he'll say random racist remarks followed up with items identified to be racist to certain individuals. Also known as stereotypes.
 * Occasionally the troll will be a professional. He will seem like a normal person until he is caught in a huge lie. The lying is part of a clever device used to anger people. It will typically be hidden deep within a discussion and most moderators will miss that he even is a troll. Only the people who are interested in the topic will notice. However these types of trolls are rare because the average troll is only 12-15 years of age and lacks any sort of patience. So they resort to the other tactics.
 * Another rare type of troll is the story-book troll. His trolling consists of telling a story that is a decoy to his trolling. The story makes little sense, and will always get people worked up over nothing. A most recent S-B troll came in trying to talk about another troll that goes from forum to forum looking for trouble. But upon further inspection, the troll he was pointing at isn't actually a troll. Just a random name. In fact, there are multiple stories similar to the actual troll's story. So similar in fact, it seems the troll is unoriginal, and tends to repeat the same tactics over and over.

= Important Trolls of The Past =
 * Brian
 * ?¿Anonymous?¿
 * Umbrax
 * JOINMYFORUM
 * Haze