{"id":9214,"date":"2006-01-23T08:45:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/23\/how-to-be-a-troll.html"},"modified":"2006-01-23T08:45:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T15:45:42","slug":"how_to_be_a_tro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/how_to_be_a_tro.html","title":{"rendered":"How to be a troll"},"content":{"rendered":"

A “troll” in Internet-speak (for those unfamiliar with the concept) is someone who apparently delights in squirting lighter fluid into online conversations, throwing a match, and then claiming it’s the original writer’s fault (the phrase comes from someone who is “trolling for flames,” i.e., dragging a big, juicy, inflammatory comment through a conversation to see who jumps on it and turns things into a shouting match).<\/p>\n

The NY Times, of all places, offers an interesting guide to being a troll<\/a>, though it should be noted that there is in fact a difference between being a curmudgeon or pill (being contrary in an ill-informed or crotchety fashion) and being a troll (being contrary just to get a rise out of folks), and this piece tends to mix them up. The motivations and styles of both, however, are unsubtly different; the former just being irksome and stupid, the latter being malicious.<\/p>\n

(via Mariann<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A “troll” in Internet-speak (for those unfamiliar with the concept) is someone who apparently delights in squirting lighter fluid into online conversations, throwing a match, and then claiming it’s the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8276,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/30\/pervasive_blogg.html","url_meta":{"origin":9214,"position":0},"title":"Pervasive blogging","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Dec-05 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A flier on the Alaska Air jet that depressurized earlier this week blogs about the experience, complete with cellphone camera pics. 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