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Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:52:00 +0000 (GMT) |
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"l j" <*****@yahoo.co.uk> Add to Address Book |
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trolling guide |
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Squallandrinoa@sbcglobal.net | |
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Hi read your trolling guide, made me want to troll
again (i kinda gave up. You know when you are done
with a trolling a board and end up moving in? Always
a problem since i only end up trolling in places i'd
usually hang out anyway).
Was thinking tho, your site only deals with board
users and not actual methods of trolling. you should
have a list of ways of trolling, just incase your
method gets stale, have a few tried and tested
techniques to fall back on.
IMO you have to have a gimmick, and stick to it. its
easier to come up with material if ou're playing a character.
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I couldn't agree with you more. And thanks for the idea about the section. I'll definiely do some advanced and intermediate
trolling FAQs in the near future. The part that you said about a troll needing a gimmick is particularly true.
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Hi Eddy,
Heres my review:
'This is magnificent piece of anthropological work by Lionheart, his
time in the field has yielded great insight into the sport and his
enthusiasm for the subject is as impressive as his knowledge.
I'd perhaps disagree with the dismissal of 'the flunky' as tag-team
trolling or a trolling-krew has proven to be an effective strategy in my
extensive experience. I'll be emailing Lionheart with my thoughts on
this at a later stage. Obviously this guide will grow and expand with time
as new forms of trolling emerge. I think this has the scope of Origin
of species.'
From:
http://cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=2&topic=13454636
I'd be honoured if you'd include my comments on the site. I'm
currently about 100 gfaqs accounts in, as is my colleague, trolling-partner and
RL best friend Crunt. I was KoSed about a year ago, but allowed to
have accounts as long as I don't refer to myself as jamesp. I'm surprised
I got it, because I never made death threats, post really offensive
messages or try to hack anyone. Guess I just got under the right skins.
As you've observed, trolling is an art, and when on a roll, the troll
is at the top of the MB foodchain. I've burnt out a bit due to
overtrolling and I'll never regain the flava I had at the peak of my prowess,
but I regret none of it.
I'd be interested in your opinion regarding the motives of a troll.
The whole attention-seeking thing is BS, personally for me it was a form
of intellectual bullying, showing other people how you can take a
completely ludicrous position and argue the case no matter what anyone
throws at you. I once recall sucessfully arguing why sexual abuse is good
for world peace. I never believed it of course, it was all just a game.
My thoughts on troll motive? Its the comedy value of it all, seeing
some jerk suicide their account or smug cunt leave a board they hung on
for years because you toyed with them, is a delight to witness. Its
hard, demanding work and I have the upmost respect for a top-end troll.
The user-type (not catalogued by you) who I regard with the most
disdain? The troll-wannabe. This is a twat who brags about being a troll
but who hasn't earned their stripes, someone who has suicided dozens of
accounts on MBH isn't a troll, they are someone who suicides accounts.
Trolling is about what you can get away with, not about getting banned.
Trolling in groups worked for me, I've always sought out fellow trolls
and you're correct about trolls respecting each other, the most clever
posters I've met have been utter trolls.
Anyway best wishes and all that,
jamesp It's always an honor to get a response from a troll as good as
JamesP. James was right on a number of different levels. Its indeed true that I missed one
of the types of trolls. The troll wannabe. James pretty much summed up the troll wannabe,
so in that section I'll be sure to give him credit. Also, to those of you who
didn't already know, James P and crump are in fact actually different people. Mistake
on my part, and one thats been addressed on the site. Trolling with alternates
is still a very effective way to troll however, and one that should not be ignored. As
for why trolls troll? For me, I troll because I like seeing the way that
people react. I'm a reactions person and I love getting people riled up, or seeing how
they react to controversy. People on the internet are so touchy
that its an ideal place for me to do so. I've heard people say they troll for lots of reasons
though, and thats just one of mine. Anyway, that might make a fun conversation one day. My
aims lionheartindeed. E-mail me about it maybe. |
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Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:47:36 -0700 (PDT) |
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"Kate Faber" <> Add to Address Book |
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Darien, did you get KOSed??!! :( |
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"Rory Trotter" <squallandrinoa@sbcglobal.net> | |
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Dear friend Lionheart,
People on MBH are saying you have been KOSed? Say it isn't so! I've picked up the trolling of the SFA and it
seems to be working. Your guide to trolling is a big help! I'm waiting for your return patiently...
<3 Kate
To clear that one up, yeah I'm KOS'ed, but I'll be back so ^_^ |
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Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:15:03 -0700 (PDT) |
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"Kate Faber" Add to Address Book |
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Re: It's Kate Faber from Gamefaqs ^_^ |
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"Rory Trotter" <squallandrinoa@sbcglobal.net> | |
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I got banned again @_@ I'll make a new account soon, and since I know where you post I'll come and find you :)
I'm confused, is your real name Darien Wilde or Rory Trotter, or all those just fake names?. My real first name is Kate,
but not Kate Faber. She's just the stupid ho that got felt up by Kobe Bryant LOL. Neways, talk to you soon!
<3
Kate
I've gotten several e -mails about this, so I'll explain. squallandrinoa@sbcglobal.net is my friend Rory Trotter's e mail address. However, he gave it to me, and then my sister started using it so now its hers
I guess. I'll still get e mail you send there, but it will take a while since she'll have to foward the e mails to me or I'll
have to check them. Instead, send all e mails to darien_wilde@sbcglobal.net
I'm updating the site with the updated email address when I'm done with this, but just clearing up any confusion.
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"Derek Swingley" <fluffmasterflex@hotmail.com> Add to Address Book |
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Squallandrinoa@sbcglobal.net |
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your trolling guide: there and their - know the difference? |
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Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:42:36 -0300 | |
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You really need to learn how to
use
there and their. You're an idiot... I would ordinarily do something
incredibly immature like send this guy w32/sober.f@MM or some random ass Trojan virus just for fun, but he makes
a valid point. I do continuously misuse "there" and "their"
throughout this site, and my other site. In fact, in addition
to that you'll find numerous other spelling and grammar errors throughout my site. Guess what: Don't give a fuck. ^_^ If you are this guy, or someone else who has sent me one of the
50 or so emails regarding grammar mistakes on my site, chances
are you spend too much time talking about Zelda and Dungeons
and dragons. That's okay though, someone will help you soon.
^_^ |
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Check out my expert trolling! |
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Mon, 12 Apr 2004 03:45:51 +0000 | |
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http://cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=2000243&topic=13100337
I made this topic a while ago and totally forgot about it. BTW, I am
the troll who emailed you and you put my email up on your site. I wrote
the longer one that you posted. I change my email addresses almost
weekly in case you don't recognize the address.
Anyway, your guide does really work! And I even included a link to it
for everyone to see in that topic I wrote. How stupid are people,
really? It is up to 70+ posts already and they could have realized I was a
troll from post 1. I don't think anyone got moderated, but I managed to
dodge the TOS and waste a lot of people's time during the process. That
account I used is suspended now for flaming someone 23 times in my
signature as well as trolling, invading, and disrupting in a few other
misc. posts. I even got moderated for OTHER one time! And I am still not
banned! I FUCKING ROCK! And its all thanx to your wonderful guide!
Keep updating the site because it gets more fucking hilarious every
single time I read it! I even got my friend to do it. He is trolling a
board filled with people who think they are cat woman and live in a
garden...
I told everyone that your guide was my bible and that trolling was an
underrated art form. Those fags didn't get it, but fuck them! Who cares
about those queers? They are the losers talking about video games,
martial arts, anime, wrestling, TV, and music on message boards! That is so
lame! I bet they don't even spend time actually doing those things
since they waste their lives all day trying to brag to others about how
cool they think they are. What a bunch of nerds.
You are god. Well thanks. I'm glad to know that my site is helping people
get better at trolling. I posted this e mail because this guy is indeed a damn good troll, and provided
its not gone by the time you read this, anyone reading this should indeed check out this awesome
display of trolling. |
jokeaccounts@comcast.net wrote: I have e-mailed you almost countless times already. But, I am either going to have to improve my own
skills dramatically or retire from the business for good. I was so close to destroying the PS2 general board. My brother
and I started a fad there. People started posting their "favorite" games. They knew that these games were almost universally
hated, but they posted them anyway just to piss people off. We did this for like a week straight and then it caught
on with the other users. They defended their opinion about the games, but not as hilariously as we did. But the board
vets knew that our style was catching on and they HATED it. This fad almost killed off all board morale and tainted everyone's
relationships with each other. Anyway, my accounts "Doomed in Space", "Emperor Won Qu", and "I see fragged people"
were all banned overnight. Me and my brother shared these accounts and we used the same computer and ISP. My writing
style consisted of near perfect spelling and grammar. He mispelled almost every word he wrote and made grammar mistakes
almost constantly during his sentences. But it wasn't our writing styles that got us banned. It was our opinions about
stuff in general that were too similar, so we got caught in the act! I also think we may have joked around about sharing
our multiple accounts in a few posts of ours. DO NOT DO THIS EVER. Even if you are joking around, doing this will definitely
get you banned no matter what if there is someone taking their time to prove it to the moderators. I thought that
since our grammar style was so different from each other that people would think we were different people. I believe
your guide already covered this, but I guess we had to think AND act differently as well. We thought that if we were fast,
furious, and relentless with our attacks that we would be too much for the moderators and (L)users to keep up with.
Appare! ntly, we were wrong. Some loser, most likely eternalflames, stayed up all night tracking down all of our
old messages from really old topics trying to get us banned. Now he is posting "I'm leaving" like messages all over the
boards to try to prove to everyone just how mature he is for ignoring us now and moving on with his life even though he
claims he was off to go read some gay RPG novel! WHAT A LOSER! Well, we have learned our lessons well. Me and my bro
should either pretend to think differently than each other, or work out on different boards than each other. We should
also delete our old messages so losers like eternalflames don't hunt them down and mark them once the point is sent across
to them. We have learned many things this week. Never announce a board war/invasion! Gamefaqs takes that much more
seriously than flaming, trolling, and offensive posting. If you are going to invade a board, just do it subtly. Announcing
a board war sent me straight to "purgatory" (WTF!?) overnight. Also, flaming people in your sig is far less harshly moderated
than flaming someone in your posted messages. My sig flamed someone in like 20 different posts one night and it never
lost me a point of karma. Eternalflames merely told us to grow up during a discussion and he lost 10 karma and was
WARNED. I had my signature a little something like this... "What happens when fat American kids who think they are Japanese
play with magic markers?" with a link to eternalflames gay looking FFX tattoo... http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A30629/high/finalntasy10logo.jpgI think this speaks for itself. Although I would like to point out the hair he shaved off of his arm (wow that
is so gay) so that he could show off the tattoo completely, the video game character posters on his wall (they are
gay FYI) that he probably doesn't even know a damn thing about, and some of his video game collection that he is probably
just showing off to impress people (this is moderately gay). Did I mention that this fag, eternalflames, admitted
on the boards that he masturbates to video game characters and weeps at emotional cinematics during his gaming sessions?
THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD IS COMING TO PEOPLE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Fun stuff. Well anyway, trying to destroy a board like the Playstation 2 board is hard as all hell, since there are
a constant influx of new users coming in who have just bough ps2's (or are having problems with it). However, it is easier
to get away with stuff there, so its a good place to troll. Just letting you know it could be pretty hard to kill such a big
board. As for the signature thing, if its actually in your profile you might be looking at a suspension depending on the moderator,
but of you are just writing it in then that is indeed a very smart tactic. Props to you. As for the FFX guy, I've gotten your
other e mails as well, and I have to say that you are doing a better job trolling this guy than I've seen some of the best
trolls do. He's angry, desperate and annoyed. You're already one of my favorite trolls to watch, as you seem to think of
alot of original and creative ways to troll. Look foward to seeing some more of your stuff. Peace.
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darien_wilde@sbcglobal.net |
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I am trolling the martial arts and heavy metal boards |
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Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:17:28 +0000 | |
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I made up an art style called FRAG FU! HOW FUCKING FUNNY IS THAT? Some
people took it seriously and some people ignored it. The point is, I
didn't get moderated for making up a martial arts style. I also issued a
challenge to people, a FRAGFEST! I said the government allowed me to
blow up people with my bare hands as long as they signed a form.
I made a topic called Korn's One is better than Metallica's One on the
heavy metal board. This doesn't even need an explanation, although I
will tell you that people flipped out AND the topic never got moderated. |
This is a perfect example of use of intermediate level trolling tactics to annoy a good deal of users. I'm going to try
and put up a few topics made by this guy, because he does a great job.
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