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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.
The use of the word trow in Orkney and Shetland, to mean beings which are very like the Huldrefolk in Norway, may suggest a common origin for the terms. The word troll may have been used by pagan Norse settlers in Orkney and Shetland as a collective term for supernatural beings who should be respected and avoided rather than worshipped.
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.
These include using symbols to separate the characters of a word to avoid detection from manual or automated text pattern scanning and consequential censorship. [59] An outstanding example is the use of the term river crab to denote censorship. River crab (hexie) is pronounced the same as "harmony"—the official term used to justify political ...
Trolling is, as many are aware "a art;" most self-proclaimed trolls are by no means artists. But occasionally (and strangely often in the world of MMOs ), someone will step up and set themselves ...
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Here's how Bethenny Frankel responded to Travis Kelce's dad Ed Kelce calling her a "troll."
It might be tempting to to join forces with the user and take on the troll together, but "troll food" is for trolls, not Wikipedians. The troll might try to eat you if you attempt to eat their meal. Instead, deny recognition and do not insult the vandal ; let them pound sand—an act of futility, with sand being impervious to change. [ 1 ]