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A revision of a Wikipedia article shows a troll vandalizing an article on Wikipedia by replacing content with an insult.. In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.
Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.
Bad behavior is controlled through bots, editor patrols, and administrative action, all under the rubric of "denying recognition" – but is that truly the case? Perhaps in that renunciation of acknowledging the newcomer lies the problem. Vandalism and trolling can be construed as a mournful plea, a shy knock on the door, a whisper for admittance.
The most well-known bot that fights vandalism is ClueBot NG. The bot was created by Wikipedia users Christopher Breneman and Naomi Amethyst in 2010 (succeeding the original ClueBot created in 2007; NG stands for Next Generation) [9] and uses machine learning and Bayesian statistics to determine if an edit is vandalism.
Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of JFK, trolling political enemies in unhinged rants on social media to back progressive causes. ... You can’t just hammer people with how bad stuff is. You ...
This might not be an act of outright trolling, but it still bears mentioning here. Most parents cut their kids off when they're playing too many video games. They take away their consoles, remove ...
The Old Norse nouns troll and trǫll (variously meaning "fiend, demon, werewolf, jötunn") and Middle High German troll, trolle "fiend" (according to philologist Vladimir Orel, the word is likely borrowed from Old Norse), possibly developed from Proto-Germanic neuter noun *trullan, meaning "to tread, step on".
The NYT makes no mention of Indian in its latest health article. And readers are burning the publication for the oversight.