Confessions of an Internet troll
I prefer the term “Internet performance artist.”
Not everything I post is a “troll” post.
I don’t troll just to get attention. My trolling is primarily satire and a form of social commentary. It gets people talking about issues in a way that a straightforward thread would not.
Many of the things I post that some label “elaborate scenarios” have some basis in actual facts. They're embellished versions of things that happened either to me, or to someone I’ve known. Again, they are often posted to provoke serious discussion, and they often do.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 27, 2019 11:42 AM
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Don't worry, we'll always love you and your performative threads, Yvonne.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 27, 2019 2:45 AM
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[quote] I don’t troll just to get attention. My trolling is primarily satire and a form of social commentary.
This is what every mediocre troll says.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 27, 2019 2:50 AM
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Why isn’t your Moniker, Internet Troll?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 27, 2019 2:53 AM
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That’s a really crappy confession, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 27, 2019 3:19 AM
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OMG! You’re the scat troll!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 27, 2019 3:20 AM
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-4/10.
Sincerity does not excuse banality.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 27, 2019 3:25 AM
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Trolling is a manifestation of serious mental health issues. The need for attention which has always existed in a certain portion of the mentally ill now has a forum to express itself. What’s scary is the anonymity that the internet provides. Our way of life - starting with our political system - is disappearing.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 27, 2019 3:32 AM
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Not much serious discussion on The Data Lounge
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 27, 2019 3:34 AM
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OP, as President Lyndon Johnson ("before my time") and my dad often said, "You can't sh*t me because I know better."
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 27, 2019 3:39 AM
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Translation: “I don’t have an internet addiction. I’m an artiste!”
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 27, 2019 3:43 AM
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Take it your priest, man.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 27, 2019 5:57 AM
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Wrong thread - ignore R12. x
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 27, 2019 7:48 AM
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[quote] Trolling is a manifestation of serious mental health issues.
Mary!
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 27, 2019 8:44 AM
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"In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain."
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 27, 2019 11:37 AM
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[quote]I don’t troll just to get attention
*snort*
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 27, 2019 11:42 AM
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