Bad trollers
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25 Sep 2012, 18:03
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So what's on my mind today I here you cry fellow crossfire comrades. ":D"
Well, recently it has come to my attention that there are a lot of bad trollers around. Now I cannot be too hypocritical as when I began this art of trolling, I too was very rusty around the edges but as I feel that I have paved the way for every troller in eSports, I feel that I have the right to conduct a critical appraisal if you will.
In my opinion, trolling is an art. If u gonna troll, do it properly. You have to deceive everybody into believing that you give a shit i.e. my journal about EC, etc. There are so many people blatantly trolling and they never get a reaction, what's the point?
Second, I don't think trolling is for everybody. I see myself as a laid back individual who hasn't been bothered by anything that has happened online in a good 3-4 years. But there are people attempting to troll out there who do not have the character for it, prime example could be maybe
fanatic. The guy is clearly, trying to put this nicely.. very passionate about the game and his online reputation means a lot for him. So trolling is not for these kind of people in my opinion, because all it takes is a few smart comments and they are mad already.
Another person who is really bad at trolling and hasn't improved at all is
Blindi. He maybe has the potential to be good unlike fanatic, but he's just bad at it and does not listen. His trolling is very blatantly obvious and that's not how it should be. I like to call it "baby trolling", inserting random smilies and holding down the D button. Same applies for miNd, infact most fins are pretty bad at trolling. Maybe it is their bad engrish skills? Or maybe it's only the KFC (Kamz FinnishFan Club) who are bad. I think they try to immitate me in a way, but you need to be unique and have your own style.
There are many others out there such as
saKen. I've never seen somebody make so many "witty" sarcastic comments, with so little response. Nobody laughs at what he writes but he types things trying to be funny. Don't really get it if I am honest.
Please take my advice. When I see the art of trolling being disrespected like this, it's like a dagger in my heart </3
Yours sincerely,
Kamz
Number one source for entertainment on crossfire.nu and life of the community.
Well, recently it has come to my attention that there are a lot of bad trollers around. Now I cannot be too hypocritical as when I began this art of trolling, I too was very rusty around the edges but as I feel that I have paved the way for every troller in eSports, I feel that I have the right to conduct a critical appraisal if you will.
In my opinion, trolling is an art. If u gonna troll, do it properly. You have to deceive everybody into believing that you give a shit i.e. my journal about EC, etc. There are so many people blatantly trolling and they never get a reaction, what's the point?
Second, I don't think trolling is for everybody. I see myself as a laid back individual who hasn't been bothered by anything that has happened online in a good 3-4 years. But there are people attempting to troll out there who do not have the character for it, prime example could be maybe
fanatic. The guy is clearly, trying to put this nicely.. very passionate about the game and his online reputation means a lot for him. So trolling is not for these kind of people in my opinion, because all it takes is a few smart comments and they are mad already.Another person who is really bad at trolling and hasn't improved at all is
Blindi. He maybe has the potential to be good unlike fanatic, but he's just bad at it and does not listen. His trolling is very blatantly obvious and that's not how it should be. I like to call it "baby trolling", inserting random smilies and holding down the D button. Same applies for miNd, infact most fins are pretty bad at trolling. Maybe it is their bad engrish skills? Or maybe it's only the KFC (Kamz FinnishFan Club) who are bad. I think they try to immitate me in a way, but you need to be unique and have your own style.There are many others out there such as
saKen. I've never seen somebody make so many "witty" sarcastic comments, with so little response. Nobody laughs at what he writes but he types things trying to be funny. Don't really get it if I am honest.Please take my advice. When I see the art of trolling being disrespected like this, it's like a dagger in my heart </3
Yours sincerely,
Kamz
Number one source for entertainment on crossfire.nu and life of the community.
gg
2 = boss
3 = mixers fault
If someone who looks like that says to you look in a mirror for good laugh then obv he has some problem?:D
i know what ur thinking, what a gangster, how can somebody that trolls online look so cool
Jacket 2000£
phone 1000£
You made me laugh again :) Thank you clown.
Got more money in my wallet than your dad earns in a year. Mad y/n ?
100% Lether jacket 150£ Iphone4 400£ not much bro. not much at all.
Now tell us about ur 3000£ camera and so on :) Rich boy? And why you always bring up the money part?:D You always put ur best outwit on when you take pictures :D Mad boy? Who wares leather jackets inside?:o
also writing too much, think goku-homo might be the only one who reads the lot
i do what i want, when i want and u can't do nothing about it, u mad?
As for the first part, says enough about your personality.
you will be known and rich !
I describe you like the last time like this
feed the whore make it fat.
Such an extraordinary game, such an amazing community, such a horrible "art".
btw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLR199q6kmg :D:D
I could do this for hours and hours lol.
Yes, you. Stopped reading there.
Kamz you paki you are the best.
Did I say you r the best?
amazing
While the word troll and its associated verb trolling are associated with Internet discourse, media attention in recent years has made such labels subjective, with trolling describing intentionally provocative actions and harassment outside of an online context. For example, mass media has used troll to describe "a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families."
Early incidents of trolling were considered to be the same as flaming, but this has changed with modern usage by the news media to refer to the creation of any content that targets another person. The Internet dictionary NetLingo suggests there are four grades of trolling: playtime trolling, tactical trolling, strategic trolling, and domination trolling. The relationship between trolling and flaming was observed in open-access forums in California, on a series of modem-linked computers in the 1970s, like CommuniTree which when accessed by high school teenagers became a ground for trashing and abuse. Some psychologists have suggested that flaming would be caused by deindividuation or decreased self-evaluation: the anonymity of online postings would lead to disinhibition amongst individuals Others have suggested that although flaming and trolling is often unpleasant, it may be a form of normative behavior that expresses the social identity of a certain user group. According to Tom Postmes, a professor of social and organisational psychology at the universities of Exeter and Groningen, Netherlands, and the author of Individuality and the Group, who has studied online behavior for 20 years, "Trolls aspire to violence, to the level of trouble they can cause in an environment. They want it to kick off. They want to promote antipathetic emotions of disgust and outrage, which morbidly gives them a sense of pleasure."
In academic literature, the practice of trolling was first documented by Judith Donath (1999). Donath's paper outlines the ambiguity of identity in a disembodied "virtual community" such as Usenet:
In the physical world there is an inherent unity to the self, for the body provides a compelling and convenient definition of identity. The norm is: one body, one identity ... The virtual world is different. It is composed of information rather than matter.
Donath provides a concise overview of identity deception games which trade on the confusion between physical and epistemic community:
Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the newsgroups members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings, and upon judging a poster a troll, make the offending poster leave the group. Their success at the former depends on how well they – and the troll – understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group. Trolls can be costly in several ways. A troll can disrupt the discussion on a newsgroup, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the newsgroup community. Furthermore, in a group that has become sensitized to trolling – where the rate of deception is high – many honestly naïve questions may be quickly rejected as trollings. This can be quite off-putting to the new user who upon venturing a first posting is immediately bombarded with angry accusations. Even if the accusation is unfounded, being branded a troll is quite damaging to one's online reputation.
Susan Herring and colleagues in "Searching for Safety Online: Managing 'Trolling' in a Feminist Forum" point out the difficulty inherent in monitoring trolling and maintaining freedom of speech in online communities: "harassment often arises in spaces known for their freedom, lack of censure, and experimental nature". Free speech may lead to tolerance of trolling behavior, complicating the members' efforts to maintain an open, yet supportive discussion area, especially for sensitive topics such as race, gender, and sexuality.
In an effort to reduce uncivil behavior by increasing accountability, many web sites (e.g. Reuters, Facebook, and Gizmodo) now require commenters to register their names and e-mail addresses.
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I see what you did there.
no trolling
Don't be jelly.
10 % of the comments by his buttbuddies
20 % of the comments being pics / gifs
30 % of the comments by community folks saying he's a retard making posts like this (I believe these are the "idiots buying it")
u have wayyyyy too much time on your hands
all my journals getting 100-200 replies, i am just popular so deal with it and stop hatin cos nobody cares when u make journal ;l
well, I just won the journal so np ;l + uwrong, bad troll owned
because words aren't enough
Kamz has never been the same after he went to lan :(
I agree that trolling has gone downhill, haven't laughed at a single troll-journal in ages, I think the last one that got me honestly smiling was Blindi's statement about MPG last spring.
Pretty much sums up the quality of "trolls" of you're pulling off, hopelessly unfunny.