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What is a troll?

AmandaJR said:
For me it's commenting to be deliberately provocative. Most of the issues on here are down to stubborness, bloody-mindedness, arrogance and an inability to be anything but 100% right, 100% of the time.

Hmmm. I think I prefer trolls :)
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World tour is a pretty good film tbh
 
paddyjk said:
I thought they lived under a bridge and scared people.

It's a term that gets trotted out way to quickly on here, often just because you disagree with someone's opinion.
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Agree with this but there’s quite clearly a very small minority on here who post things purely to get a reaction or to try and wind folk up. For me that is trolling.
 
An “internet” troll is someone who posts with the sole purpose to try and gain a confrontational reaction and is looking to deliberately wind up a poster or a group of posters by posting something they know will get a reaction

Twitter etc is full of them.
 
If just a handful of people go on and on about a thing and no one moves, let it rest. Be it Titleist v. Taylormade, red tees v. Women tees, liv v. PGA , Liverpool v. City, electric car v. diesel, …

If a threat is called ‘everything great about xyz’ and you come in just to say that you don’t like xyz, keep it to yourself.


But everything got a lot better here since the no politics rule came in. Before people started to disagree with others on golf topics just because they disagreed with them on politics.
 
The question posed in the opening post was what is a troll, not who.

I’m more than happy for this thread to remain open so that the original question can be discussed. But if it strays any further from the what to who, expect it to be locked.

Stay on topic please.
 
Crow said:
It's the lack of face to face contact that makes forums the sometimes hostile place they are, if you were sat opposite the person you were "debating" with you'd be much less likely to come out with the snide or insulting comments.

We're all guilty to a greater or lesser degree, many's the time I've posted something and then realised I've behaved like a complete knob.
Even more often I've written what I thought was a clever riposte, only to read it again and have second thoughts and not actually post it.
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…or to post it and then think “oh I can’t be bothered, it’s pointless trying to reason or point out a truth“ and so just immediately delete it.
 
paddyjk said:
I thought they lived under a bridge and scared people.

It's a term that gets trotted out way to quickly on here, often just because you disagree with someone's opinion.
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I use it for people who act like the OPs description consistently to always disagree with me. Some people just need telling to change their attitude though and all if fine.

Also agree they live under bridges too but also the worlds most worst rated film is trolls 2 (1990). I’d recommend watch a clip on IMDb
 
Oddsocks said:
I’ll disagree with that.

Liking a post is nothing more than agreeing with that persons comment without the need to post just to ad fire and stir the pot for no reason.
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I'll disagree with that.

It's all to do with who the comment is against and nothing to do with the contents of the post.
 
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