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compromise viewcompromise viewPosted May 31, 2007 0:26 UTC (Thu) by amikins (guest, #451)In reply to: compromise view by flewellyn Parent article: What Microsoft and Novell agreed to
"So you trolled her site..." I'm really quite puzzled. What is "trolling"? I'd always heard it defined as a personal attack, or a statement set up to get one in return (flamebait, and the like). When did the definition expand to include dissenting opinions and a different viewpoint?
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compromise view Posted May 31, 2007 22:36 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Trolling is posting with the goal of getting not just a response, but a flood of them. Some people enjoy that kind of power. An easy way to troll is to post a dissenting viewpoint to a non-objective forum. It's impossible to tell from the content of a post whether it is a troll or not, but of course if a reader is so biased that he can't possibly believe the poster really believes what he said, that reader would have to assume it is a troll.I guess some people have confused the wrongness of trolling with the idea that it's impolite to interrupt a group's festival of agreement with an opposing argument. My guess is that the latter is the reason your post, and participation in the forum, was inappropriate and calling it trolling was just an error.
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