What is an Internet troll?

Answer 1

In mythological terms, a troll is a monster commonly portrayed as being green in color, wearing gray cloaks, and carrying a wooden club. They live in forests (often under bridges), and commonly guard certain objects.

On the internet, a troll is someone who likes to annoy people, simply to annoy them. They utilize cheap tactics to win, hoping to annoy someone/anyone.

Trolls abound around us in the real world, being persons that seem to enjoy causing enmity and/or strife- often utilizing with "straw man arguments" that have no bearing on the subject at hand, and blatantly ignoring any intelligent discussion thereof.

Answer 2

Trolling is what make someone rage on a game most of the time. When someone does get trolled on a game they sometimes just grab what ever they are using and throw it out of a window or smash it or break it some way. But when someone trolls someone it makes the one person mad and the other one happy that it is happening. When i TROLL people it always makes me laugh because i think it is funny. So that is what i think about trolling

Answer 3

In Scandinavian folklore, a supernatural being, usually ugly and very strong, that lives in remote places, usually not helpful to humans, may be harmful. On internet forums, one who makes a post for no reason other than to stir up troubles, and get a fight started.

Answer 4

An internet troll is someone who goes onto a public forum, website, or MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) game and constantly harasses people. Most often, they will try to pick out sore spots (i.e. politics, religion, or beliefs) and poke fun, trying to rouse the most anger out of the other users.

Answer 5

It's a sad person with nothing better to do than spend their time accessing useful websites (such as this one) - with the sole purpose of disrupting the site, and providing misleading, offensive or obscene data.

Answer 6

Trolls are unnamed people who target usually the same person and keep annoying them online.

Dont get this confused with: Spammers and Scammers.

Answer 7

is a bully in the internet

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