A troll is someone who posts off-topic, extraneous, or inflammatory messages with the intent of provoking an emotional response or disrupting the normal discussion.
– Live Science
Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web from Gawker. I often wonder who these people are in real life, especially the ones who troll on bereavement pages. How do these people exist?
Word Of The Week: Doxing, from Fritinancy. Is doxing okay when it comes to trolls? Sometimes, I think.
Online Anger: Where It Comes From and How to Control It from The Good Men Project. Oh no! Someone on the Internetz is wrong!
Trolls’ Online Comments Skew Perception Of Science from Live Science. Not the news I wanted to hear.
Definition of ‘Concern Trolling’ from Wise Geek
Cyber Bullying Category on Wikipedia, of which Troll is one entry.
THE ART & SCIENCE OF MODERATION – FREE SPEECH VS FREE AUDIENCE from Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog (Part 2), explaining the 1-9-90 rule.
Science Says: Nasty Commenters Can Destroy A Website’s Brand Over Time from Co.Design
How Nasty Comments Can Change The Way We Think from Gawker
How Online Trolling Is The New Punk Rock, from Esquire
Trolls On Twitter Do Not Necessarily Represent America. America will be glad to hear that, from Mother Jones
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
– Kurt Vonnegut
So Necessary When Disagreeing With People Online — some logical fallacies in poster form from Fuck Yeah, Feminists!
What do trolls get out of all this time on the Internet? “When you argue and win, your brain floods with different hormones: adrenaline and dopamine, which makes you feel good, dominant, even invincible. It’s a the feeling any of us would want to replicate. So the next time we’re in a tense situation, we fight again. We get addicted to being right.” from Explore.
For hobby trollers: An Idiot’s Guide To Free Speech from Jezebel
Why do trolls argue so badly? Don’t they get more practice than anyone? How Arguing Can Undermine Rationality from FTB.
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