[FRIAM] So what IS trolling: WAS oxytocin, again

[Gillian Densmore]

Trolling, not that deep. on one end: being smart ass just to be a
smart-------------------unintinally being a
smartass--------------------just being a dick.

For example:Someone on FB said they're having a coke sale to raise money
for their doughters school. It went as well as you'd expect. Many people:
Trolled by saying: How many case, and how much coke per a case,
Well...that's one way to raise money. And went downhill in flames from
there. That's trolling: the smart ass kind
Unintentional trolling:
Misreading a female friends text: What I read: I'm easy. Just fold the
towels right when your done. So I said to her: "Uh...wow..well then! that's
one way to get things off on the right foot" so she asked I what I was
talking about, and I told her..and fortunatly it was taken humorously, and
laughed (lol and smilly emojis).
What she actually texted: "I'm easy, going. A pete peave? To not not just
fold the towels, but fold them right !"

Being a Dick: calling someone names, saying a on computer game Some types
of charectors can do specific kinds of things knowing full well they can't.
(World of Warcraft made that infamous) my put into a global chat channel
long item names. saying you just now got them, how wonderful they are, and
that you defeated chucknoris to do so!. That's just being a dick.

And sometimes you might say: I think something is trolling me by saying
something is possible. When it seems it seems it can't do, or doesn't work
out it says it will. (Trying to open a soup can-- but the lid is just a bit
to short for my can opener to get a grip on it right.)

Google maps: It trolls. all the. time it'll say to go to Achme Road, over
by cerillos make you turn and then my destination is the right...and there
will be no road named Acme Road across from second Street, any where
neer Cerillos, Also, trolling

USPS: I think they might be master trolls: Your item will be on the way
today!--It's expected to be here by (Date Here)...just to not show up till
a week latter.



On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 2:27 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, your "dragging the conversation into your own cave" does qualify.
> Trolling is a spectrum of behavior. But it all goes back to *provoking* a
> reaction. If one's intent is to provoke, then one's trolling.
>
> But trolling isn't bad. I lump it into other provocative roles like
> Devil's Advocate, gadfly, contrarian, etc. At its best, trolling is a kind
> of critique, like irony or sarcasm, where the provoked reaction depends on
> the sophistication of the provoked person. An emotional cripple like Trump
> responds like a child when trolled. The people on FriAM are mostly adults
> who are either immune to trolling, or respond with the layered reactions
> one would expect.
>
> On 3/4/20 1:00 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > I think of trolling as attempting to destroy an internet conversation by
> ad hominems or other forms of harsh dismissive argument.
> >
> > But when I think of trolling as a metaphor developed on the child's
> story of the Three Billy Goat's <
> https://americanliterature.com/childrens-stories/the-three-billy-goats-gruff>
> gruff, then perhaps lurking under interesting arguments in order to provoke
> arguments only of interest to the troll fits the bill.
> >
> > The one is a kind of cruelty; the other is a form of cluelessness.
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
>
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