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Flaming, also known as roasting, is the act of posting insults, often including profanity or other offensive language, on the internet. [1] Flaming is distinct from trolling, which is the act of someone causing discord online or in person.
Shitposting is a modern form of online provocation. The term itself appeared around the mid-2000s on image boards such as 4chan.Writing for Polygon, Sam Greszes compared shitposting to Dadaism's "confusing, context-free pieces that, specifically because they were so absurd, were seen as revolutionary works both artistically and politically".
Users can create servers for free, manage their public visibility, and create voice channels, text channels, and categories to sort the channels into. [51] Most servers have a limit of 250,000 members, but this limit can be raised if the server owner contacts Discord. [53] Users can also create roles and assign them to server members.
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.
Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / ⓘ) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members.
Troll farms were behind some of the most popular pages and content on Facebook leading up to the 2020 elections.
They hacked the KKK's Twitter account, attacked servers hosting KKK sites, and started to release the personal details of members. [ 167 ] On November 24, 2014, Anonymous shut down the Cleveland city website and posted a video after Tamir Rice , a twelve-year-old boy armed only with a BB gun, was shot to death by a police officer in a Cleveland ...
Admins responded that Reddit is a platform for free speech and discussion, and would continue to allow subreddits that challenge the consensus views on the pandemic. [147] In protest of Reddit's response, the moderators of 135 subreddits (including r/florida, r/futurology, r/pokemongo, r/startrek, and r/tifu) made their subreddits private.