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Something online has been irking me lately, and everyone knows that the best way to get that out of your system is to post on an online forum where you sit safe behind your keyboard and only have to suffer the wroth of other people sitting behind keyboards. So here goes, I'll sum it all up in one sentence and then explain myself.



You may be a troll, but that doesn't stop myself or the majority of people reading your post from thinking you're a complete asshole.

I'll start off by saying that I don't think all troll's are assholes. For example, yaaaaang's recent TA negrep train thread (here if you didn't see it) was a well placed jab at the infamous TA hate train, which is misused by many people to disregard the effectiveness of the now non-existent negative reputation option. Really it was just a generalised term and yaaang's jab hit the mark, 'trolling' well.

So trolling by definition is saying something or doing something which is designed to provoke a response from someone else, or to disrupt the topic and turn attention towards something else, usually themselves.

Using 'I was trolling' as an excuse for every single thing you do or say however, does not stop you from being an asshole. You may in fact be 'trolling' by the definition of the term, but i would hope that the majority of the community would realise how pathetic and small you really are. Unfortunately, quite a few people get away with a huge amount of things, either insulting or making snide comments about other players, disregarding certain rules etc. They seem to get away with it because the community has this big 'oh you' regard for certain people.



The difference between an asshole and a troll is that troll's are intelligent and put effort into their trolls. You're just berating others to make yourself feel bigger and better than you are.

David Thorne from 27bslash6, is a troll. Bloodninja (no link because some of it is exceptionally rude, google him if you want to find it) the infamous internet chat troll who would convince people to cyber and then piss them off over lengths of time by making things get really strange, he was a troll. Being an asshole does not make you a troll, and everyone needs to shatter this image that they have in their heads that every time someone insults another person or makes a joke at their expense it's a troll.



It isn't. That's simply called being a dick.