articles on trolling, definition, tactics, and how to avoid them.
first two articles give a good overview
Internet Trolls - A Practical Guide
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/troll.htm
Recognising and Dealing with Trolls
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/troll-tactics.html
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two links below, Wired Safety and the Internet Crime Complaint Center are groups that address aspects of internet safety....
Wired Safety - the world's largest Internet safety, help and education resource
http://www.wiredsafety.org/
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for criminal behavior (United States):
Internet Crime Complaint Center
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
http://www.ic3.gov/
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Internet Trolls:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
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Sock Puppets
(multiple identities)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet
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flame baiting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamebait
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Trolling on MySpace:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080630/tc_pcworld/147730
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NY Times Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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the devotion of you guys to being rude and obnoxious is beyond description.
when will you people ever grow up?
and as far as me being a troll?
Well, that is a favorite tactic of you guys, right? Reporting on the people who report on you.
Difference is, I am willing to give the site administrators my real world contact information...and even direct access to my computer to review anything I could possibly have done.
If the same is done for you, are you sure you will not expose yourself to some criminal prosecution?
The site administrators are free to review my games. If a chess computer plays that poorly, I feel bad for the programmers. At best, I am playing maybe 1600 USCF chess.
When does this end for you?
Do you not stop until someone has to take you to court and put you in jail?
Let it go already, you are not infinite geniuses that people can't figure out the games you play...
Originally posted by r99pawn77
the devotion of you guys to being rude and obnoxious is beyond description.
when will you people ever grow up?
and as far as me being a troll?
Well, that is a favorite tactic of you guys, right? Reporting on the people who report on you.
Difference is, I am willing to give the site administrators my real world contact information...and even d ...[text shortened]... it go already, you are not infinite geniuses that people can't figure out the games you play...
You are a poor imitation of a troll, I will give you that.
Originally posted by r99pawn77Dear r99pawn77,
the devotion of you guys to being rude and obnoxious is beyond description.
when will you people ever grow up?
and as far as me being a troll?
Well, that is a favorite tactic of you guys, right? Reporting on the people who report on you.
Difference is, I am willing to give the site administrators my real world contact information...and even d ...[text shortened]... it go already, you are not infinite geniuses that people can't figure out the games you play...
so you tried to make a constructive, helpful post to improve the community here. A laudable endeavour.
However (and there had to come something) the post was without any explanation on why you did post it, thus baiting the trolls. (I am not saying that people posting in this threat should be called trolls summarily). You got a reply, which could be understood as a comic remark (there was even an icon signifying irony, a quite difficult concept). And what happened was that your behaviour was, according to the same sources you quoted indistinguishible from the behaviour of a real troll.
If you want advice on this please state so, thank you.
regards
Pon
Wonder who the 2 giving recommendations are. (I write recommendations because this user is new and probably has NO IDEA what 'recs' are.)
Anyway, it's helpful info for sure.
I would like to know if this user has compiled a list of people they believe to be 'trolls' here in our forums.
It's a big mystery.
P-
Originally posted by Daemon SinWhat the....!~
Don't you mean edits?
Have you been suckered in by Russ' sneaky little updates over the past couple of days - changing fonts, colours, icons and post layouts!
Edit: Apparently, edits are more important than recommendations!
Yes, yes I was.
Why up there?
That's LaMe!~
Who gave me 4 recs?
Originally posted by PonderableOnly meeeee! You don't wanna do it like that. You wanna do it like this! 😀
who could give that permission?
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WTF?
Quote: "the devotion of you guys to being rude and obnoxious is beyond description.
when will you people ever grow up?"
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Which exact ex-user are you? You dare to come here and tell us, after only 467 moves, that we are rude and obnoxious, and that we aren't frowned up?
Take my advice. Go do one! Before you get snotted to death!
You troll killer you! If you don't like what you read here, bog off! We are all children here. We are all under 13 years old. That is a site rule.
If you are 14 or over then you ARE A COMPLETE troll!
Now go to Daddy, ask him for your inheritance and go find a game that you are good at, that has untrolled thread posting.
Nitey Nitey - and don't forget to wear your pyjamas on the way to bed, like we obnoxious and trolling lot do.
Kiss good night - on the jacksey esp 4 u......
-m. 😏
Originally posted by trev33He's making room for rating display, I'm sure! 😉
edit your post to see where the edit goes now...
Then again, he may be making room for: Troll professional, qualified troll, semi-troll, low-ranking troll, and waster! The poster of this thread just qualified for the first test! 😉
Originally posted by mikelomMaybe also an overdue functional ying yang... prominently positioning 'edit volume'
He's making room for rating display, I'm sure! 😉
Then again, he may be making room for: Troll professional, qualified troll, semi-troll, low-ranking troll, and waster! The poster of this thread just qualified for the first test! 😉
(which I'm guessing contributes to systemic inefficiency) along with desirable rec's.
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