You're all so kind!

I'm with Ginx, sycophantic trolling is hilarious.

I thought that I'd successfully 'outed' the sock puppet as Forrest whose florid style would require brevity as camouflage.

BTW
Forrest
I do not always agree with you, in fact I often don't. However, I detect no stink of enmity that I and others attract from a certain clique. I guess it's not so much what you say as how you say it - obtuse, colourful and challenging.

foxey quote<<"The Trolls Among Us."

...The article tell us that,"..is a mass medium for
defining who we are to ourselves and to others ...

As our emotional investment in the Internet has grown,the
stakes for trolling - for provoking strangers online
have risen.">>

this is so true
but not alone strangers
one need not move too far from home for verification of that you quote

a ready egsample is the unbeliever'wolf pack'attacking trav the lone defender left..responding on a topic presumable un-believers couldnt have any worthwhile opinion on, yet clearly they enjoy rebutting a negative..lol..

the topic is no less than the resurection of christ
please observe the last one third of the comments as one believer defends his faith against 4 unbelievers..[who might appear to be winning by weight of numbers alone]

its funny and sad at the same time
so many unbelievers so passionate in spreading their disbelief[,,why?]
well your quote nails it for me

thanks foxey

oh a link to the thread
sure
go feed the trolls
lol
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8830

Dear OUG,

Jonathan Strickland has done an article on
"How Trolls Work,"

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/troll.htm/printable

which may be of further interest to you.

Antonios has complained about the
infringement of "human rights," if trolls were discouraged.
However, I know that Antonios believes that human rights
belong to everyone, not just a select few. I've recently
read about a young man who blew his brains out after being
consistently "trolled," or wound up on the web until he
had a total meltdown. What about his "human rights?"

As the article points out, "trolls are people who take
pleasure in disrupting the conversations and actvities
of others.They find it amusing to wind up another person
until that person cracks up emotionally."

"They lure unsuspecting victims into responding to pointless
or rude questions or statements."

The best reaction towards a troll is to ignore them.
Don't waste time in responding. That is apparently
something that they hate. Of course there are some people
who are simply ill-mannered and aggressive and aren't trolls.
The difficulty lies in being able to tell them apart.

As the article says, "There's no denying that the internet
is an amazing invention. It allows people to communicate
around the world at speeds approaching real time. But this
connection can be a double-edged sword. Not only are you
able to interact with people you like and respect, but you
can also meet people who take pleasure in ..."

You know the rest.

Foxy
We do not have trolls in this forum. All members are nice and polite, on the heat we say few words more but this is not trolling.
About the young man who blew his brains out after being
consistently "trolled" I supposed the trolling was the excuse for his act not the cause(reason).
FOXY WHERE IS YOUR TOLERANCE, YOUR UNDERSTANDING?
Do not you see our brothers, our sisters in the forum how good they are?
Foxy when a person search to buy a gun, this person knows in some degree why he wants to buy the gun and how to use it, in the same way when you opened the thread about the troll you thought that may be there is one or more trolls in this forum and probably you was ready to suggest the punishmend of them.
NO FOXY WE DO NOT HAVE TROLLS IN THIS FORUM! IF YOU WANT TO PUNISH A PERSON, THEN PUNISH ME! I AM THE TROLL!
I thanks you very much for your support so many times in the past.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

its sad how people take words to heart,..but i guess some take things serious others not,i like to quote others thus any attack isnt on me[but upon those i quote]

some interesting versions[ways?]of trolling are occuring of late..[the most repititious one seems to be,..why do you post no one reads [so why post a post responding to nothing..lol

[i guess they need to reply but cant rebut what i wrote..so rebut by claiming not to read my posts]..yet their very desire to reply aomething..[anything betrays their very words]..i make a point to read most of the post

[if i cant reply i dont..[or ignore the person]..why waste a post on nothing...lol

i got another non reply..[something about some clever term,meaning in affect not to argue with a stone..[i didnt[couldnt]click on their link but searched the term,..but as usual[for me]..no rebuttal is taken as no response

of course the most common response..[non response is critiqing my poor use of english,..yet not responding a single point of that they claim to not know of nor comprehend..[or not have read or whatever]

i spent the last 20 years researching 16 hours a day,..to become the nutter many presume me to be..[i hate the personal questioning non-reply],..one form of response occasionally asks for me to prove my statement..[but again its only they cant do their own verifications[or think asking for proof is the best rebuttal they can come up with]

anyhow there is no real'trolling'..i think it boils down to peer based point scoring..[..impresing the mates by lording it over the newbie]..the same self known knowns building the [their]-self up by attempting to destroy'the other',while parroting one and other

this has been a better topic than i thought at first..[i love that grayham hasnt revealed his measure of'troll'ing,sort of keeps us all guessing