Re: Regarding Trolls - page 3. | Bitcointalksearch.org

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Quote from: BlindMayorBitcorn on April 19, 2015, 08:04:57 PM

What do they want? Are they shorting? Do they want cheap coins?

I mean the really well-spoken ones. Do they want people to dump? Are they really being paid to do this?

Why are they really here??

What if this post is a troll? Is this trollception? A troll post talking about trolls.

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You just lost

Well wikipedia has a good definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[3]

Not to get too conspiratorial but I reckon there are paid shills on this forum. Maybe some from the gov or banks who are employed to spread fud. I believe some governments have paid people to cause problems before. Just google paid internet trolls.

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Quote from: BADecker on April 24, 2015, 04:57:51 AM

The question is, when you get two commenters who have opposite points of view, and who continually stand up for their opinions by posting many times in response to each other, are they trolls? If they are, which one is, or are they both for simply expressing their points of view in a strong way?

There's a difference between having a difference of opinion and straight up trolling, though it is hard to tell the difference sometimes. A troll purposely posts controversial opinions to rile people up and are probably not their own personal beliefs.

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Quote from: 1K on April 24, 2015, 04:02:41 AM

Quote from: BlindMayorBitcorn on April 19, 2015, 08:04:57 PM

What do they want? Are they shorting? Do they want cheap coins?

I mean the really well-spoken ones. Do they want people to dump? Are they really being paid to do this?

Why are they really here??

There are likely many different trolls here for many different reasons. Some financial and some are just sad losers who don't have anything better to do but (try) annoy people on the internet. They then get their kicks when people react.

The question is, when you get two commenters who have opposite points of view, and who continually stand up for their opinions by posting many times in response to each other, are they trolls? If they are, which one is, or are they both for simply expressing their points of view in a strong way?

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Quote from: BlindMayorBitcorn on April 19, 2015, 08:04:57 PM

What do they want? Are they shorting? Do they want cheap coins?

I mean the really well-spoken ones. Do they want people to dump? Are they really being paid to do this?

Why are they really here??

There are likely many different trolls here for many different reasons. Some financial and some are just sad losers who don't have anything better to do but (try) annoy people on the internet. They then get their kicks when people react.

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Some of them are paid trolls, we've had confirmation of this on various threads on the topic.

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howdy

Any bumps to a quality thread is a good thread bump, no matter how dumb the message is.

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Quote from: Enjorlas on April 20, 2015, 08:16:50 PM

What you mean by 'trolls' are actually sane individuals who tell you mean things that you don't want to hear. Namely that those coins you bought for $500 are going lower in price.

Don't they think I know that? Roll Eyes

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What you mean by 'trolls' are actually sane individuals who tell you mean things that you don't want to hear. Namely that those coins you bought for $500 are going lower in price.

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Quote from: BADecker on April 20, 2015, 11:43:00 AM

Come on you guys. Trolls are good for us. They often bring to light points that we wouldn't have thought of otherwise. The biggest point that they bring to light is that they show us how much strength of belief and commitment we have in the things we say. If we don't have the desire to shoot down a troll, why do we even post in the first place? In that case, get a free website and start a blog that nobody will ever look at.

+1

Fighting with trolls will only make the BTC arguments sharper and more watertight. Ready for the general public.

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Nobody ever agrees 100% with anyone else. Part of the reason for this is that nobody can get into the complete thinking of anyone else.

Regular forum members, borderline trolls, and real trolls are all there to discuss. The stupid trolls can be bypassed easily, because they show that don't know anything simply by their language.

The smart trolls bring up good points that need investigation. People can find out if their ideas are right or wrong, simply by listening and examining what a smart troll has to say.

Borderline trolls are standard members who are fighting so hard for points that they believe, that they troll a bit in their fight.

It is a forum.

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It's precisely because you're asking these questions that trolls do what they do Wink

It's purely to get a kick out of screwing with people, even if it's just getting them to question whether they're really trolling or not.

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Trolls are all in fiat Wink

What happened to your corn avatar?

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Come on you guys. Trolls are good for us. They often bring to light points that we wouldn't have thought of otherwise. The biggest point that they bring to light is that they show us how much strength of belief and commitment we have in the things we say. If we don't have the desire to shoot down a troll, why do we even post in the first place? In that case, get a free website and start a blog that nobody will ever look at.

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Quote from: BlindMayorBitcorn on April 19, 2015, 08:04:57 PM

What do they want? Are they shorting? Do they want cheap coins?

I mean the really well-spoken ones. Do they want people to dump? Are they really being paid to do this?

Why are they really here??

To answer your question

1. Because they can?

2. They are off their meds?

3. They think you are evil and must die?

4. They are posting from the day room of the Asylum?

5. Because they have been ripped off and want to save the world?

6. Because they are competing against whatever they are bashing?

Welcome to the internet... its full of geniuses and specialists offering their "opinions" for free!

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Nope..

Level 10 Troll Alert!

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the Dark Tetrad is actually a set of four "noxious" personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. Professors Eric Buckels, Paul Trapnell, and Delroy Paulhus hypothesized that online trolls would rank highly in Dark Tetrad traits, and they set out to test the idea

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