I'm old enough to remember the early days of USENET and even Slashdot, where trolling was a specific thing. The idea was to cause as much chaos as possible with as few words as possible.
I remember this awesome troll where a guy just wrote "What did Michael Stipe mean when he said Mr Charles Darwin had the balls to ask" and cross-posted it to rec.music.rem, alt.atheism, alt.christianity, and rec.music.metallica. The Metallica cross-post was the true stroke of genius. That thread turned into a screaming food-fight that lasted two months. And the OP was never heard from again. It was a glorious, perfectly-executed troll.
It's kinda shitty what's become of that word. Now it's just "Troll. See: faggot." And also "Faggot. See: I don't like you."
Oh well. Like I said, I'm just here saying what I think. If you don't want to read it, fucking block me already.
A "troll," huh.
I'm old enough to remember the early days of USENET and even Slashdot, where trolling was a specific thing. The idea was to cause as much chaos as possible with as few words as possible.
I remember this awesome troll where a guy just wrote "What did Michael Stipe mean when he said Mr Charles Darwin had the balls to ask" and cross-posted it to rec.music.rem, alt.atheism, alt.christianity, and rec.music.metallica. The Metallica cross-post was the true stroke of genius. That thread turned into a screaming food-fight that lasted two months. And the OP was never heard from again. It was a glorious, perfectly-executed troll.
It's kinda shitty what's become of that word. Now it's just "Troll. See: faggot." And also "Faggot. See: I don't like you."
Oh well. Like I said, I'm just here saying what I think. If you don't want to read it, fucking block me already.
tl;dr