And here comes the downward financial pressure due to the low barrier of entry.
I suggest someone set up a school/academy/institute of trolling so that qualifications can be earnt.
Perhaps some sort of professional body that can oversee the quality of trolling?
There will be an annual mandatory joining fee.
If that doesn't raise the standard and cost of professional trolling, nothing will.
It's a dying industry - the glory days are behind us.
It is not a dying industry. There will always be people that go fanatical online, endlessly bitching about some wild cause that they take personally as if they were a lone crusader. Crazy people do it to "be right" or to have a high number of posts on a forum, or because they think they will always be anonymous online and can talk all the shit they want. Trolling will never die.
Corporations will always need spam and trolling to create FAKE popularity in a product. Myspace is full of wana-be music now, and they go around "friending" everyone to spam them. Facebook and Myspace and Twitter "friends" and "followers" are nothing more than a score board now. Nobody honestly KNOWS who all those people are even on their own profile. It is just another means of personal trolling by collecting "friends" as if they are just numbers. Faceless people they will never actually talk to or get to know.
As for a quality control for trolls, the paying market will only pay when they can see a resume or example of work.
I have suggested they prank call someone and upload it to youtube for us to see how well they do.
No "trolls" have the balls to step up and prove anything as of yet.
