Posted by BrendaTx on 6/30/09 10:15am
Msg #294030

Troll among us...good refresher course.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1032102

Reply by MistarellaFL on 6/30/09 10:24am
Msg #294033

The Agenda Troll.

The Agenda Troll. Agenda trolls are those participants who join a forum specifically to pursue an agenda of their own – often a feud or grudge with another member, or perhaps a dispute with some party not participating in that forum. When a flame war erupts on another board, for example, Agenda Trolls will follow their opponents to other forums in order to continue the spat.

– Some Agenda Trolls are subject-matter oriented. An Agenda Troll who thinks Self-Defense Instructor X is a fraud, or who feels he has been ripped off or otherwise dealt with unfairly by Instructor X, will visit forums devoted to self-defense and martial arts in order to spread his or her negative opinion of Instructor X.

– Agenda Trolls may also be of the milder Spam Agenda subspecies; these are Trolls who join a board specifically to advertise some venture of their own. They are not often troublesome, though their shameless plugging is met with varying degrees of irritation.

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/30/09 11:41am
Msg #294047

The Agenda Troll Engaging the PM Methodology

Whenever a troll wants to validate themselves they can pretend to receive a landslide of PMs in agreement with their premise. It's common and typical. We see a lot of that here. If people don't clap and praise them, the troll *publicly* "thanks" the MANY *private* message senders profusely for having the good sense to understand what the known *public* posters do not.

Reply by NC_Closer on 6/30/09 12:15pm
Msg #294054

Brenda. Signing agent, philosopher, author

Why Brenda, aren't you just the troll expert! Perhaps you should write a book on that and sell it on your website! $9.95!!!

Sticks and stones but that seems to be the Standard Operating Procedure when someone actually offers an opposing view and a different insight to the business.

Reply by Charles_Ca on 6/30/09 4:55pm
Msg #294091

I agree, BTW you should buy the book, might learn something! n/m

Reply by MichiganAl on 7/1/09 12:14am
Msg #294146

Known in the notary world as the Flamac Method. n/m

Reply by Cari on 6/30/09 5:49pm
Msg #294106

Not "The Agenda Troll" rather the "Stalker Troll".... n/m

Reply by MistarellaFL on 6/30/09 12:26pm
Msg #294055

The Sophist Troll.

The Sophist Troll. Sophist Trolls, or "philotrolls," fancy themselves Enlightened Philosophers or Learned Experts of the highest order. Often well educated, Philotrolls are capable of speaking intelligently on a number of topics, and when the spirit moves them they can be worthwhile forum participants. Unfortunately, Sophist Trolls are an extremely hostile and intolerant species.

___When confronted by opinions with which they do not agree – particularly when they do not see any means of successfully arguing their contrary views – Sophists resort (repeatedly) to a variety of intellectually dishonest tactics. Most often, this is characterized by an overly snide, condescending, patronizing attitude._____ Philotrolls consider anyone with whom they do not agree to be "immature," and are fond of quoting that old saw that "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

When cornered they are quick to resort to personal attacks. A philotroll's bag of rhetorical tricks includes a variety of transparent ploys, such as willfully misinterpreting the opponent's words, committing Straw Man fallacies, accusing his or her opponents of engaging in the very tactics used by the philotroll, and so forth.

When engaging in their sophistry, philotrolls are among the most hypocritical and aggravating of trollkind.

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/30/09 1:24pm
Msg #294060

Misty - can't forget the "Don King Troll"

The Affected Profundity Troll. A mutant subspecies of Sophist Trolls, Affected Profundity Trolls post endless pages of pretentious drivel that is intended to appear wise, but which generally makes little sense (if any). Affected Profundity Trolls enjoy asking themselves questions, sometimes answering them and sometimes leaving them hanging, for they believe this looks intelligent and lends an aura of mystery to their incoherent ramblings. Affected Profundity Trolls aspire to become Sophist Trolls, but lack the intelligence necessary to make the leap.

The Don King Troll. Related to Affected Profundity Trolls, Don King Trolls spout gibberish in the hope that they'll either bore or confuse to death those with whom they disagree. The average Don King Troll is "a pursuitist who gromulates his adversarial computerists with height defining formulations to the disinterestingest adjunct."

Reply by Pat/IL on 6/30/09 2:01pm
Msg #294067

LMFAO!

This is a funny thread. I am having a hard time figuring out which kind of troll I want to be.

Reply by MW/VA on 6/30/09 2:17pm
Msg #294071

Re: LMFAO!

ROFL! Me too, I didn't know there were so many to choose from.

Reply by Bob_Chicago on 6/30/09 2:18pm
Msg #294072

I happen to live near a bridge. Do I have to actually live..

under it in order to qualify????
IMWTK

Reply by Pat/IL on 6/30/09 2:23pm
Msg #294074

I'll tell you my acronym if you tell me yours

LMFAO = Laughing my fat ass off. What does IMWTK stand for?

Reply by Bob_Chicago on 6/30/09 2:31pm
Msg #294076

IMWTK = Inquiring Minds Want To Know n/m

Reply by trnsa_IL on 6/30/09 2:32pm
Msg #294077

I'm not Bob but I'll try..."Inquiring minds want to know"..? n/m

Reply by Cari on 6/30/09 5:51pm
Msg #294108

Hi my name is Bob, aka "Chicago River Troll" HE HE ...JK n/m

Reply by Becca_FL on 6/30/09 2:41pm
Msg #294078

LMAO! No one but Brenda could offend so eloquently. n/m

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/30/09 2:53pm
Msg #294080

:) thanks but all the text in this thread was "liberated"

from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1032102 .

It was all cut and paste...well most of it, but not the part about the PM Methodology practiced by the Agenda Troll. We've seen that here before...when they suddenly morph into the Sally Field Oscar Troll, hug the microphone and say, "I got your PMs...hundreds of them...wow...'You like me, you really like me.' "

It brings a tear to the eye.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 6/30/09 4:24pm
Msg #294087

Re: Misty - can't forget the "Don King Troll"

LOL I am getting quite the audio + visual here!
I see NC_Closer spouting mountains of BS, however, his/her hair towers above the pile of manure.

Reply by Cari on 6/30/09 5:40pm
Msg #294103

I knew my ex-boss was a troll! n/m

Reply by JanetK_CA on 7/1/09 3:49am
Msg #294151

Great stuff!! Thanks! A good laugh to end my day! n/m