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"by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 20, @02:51PM (#4490617)
According to your name, you're a stinking towelhead. You are not welcome in America and should be shot on the spot."

Heh. I made a friend. I know there are some original trolls out there, but this is pathetic. Where'd all the good trolls go?

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  • All we have left is PhysicsGenius. The demise of goatpigsheep, sllort, sdem, etcetera over recent months have left the troll ranks quite depleted. It is saying something when the best troll remaining is a crapflooder (klerck). Sad, considering how easy it is to get bites nowadays. I got 17 on an obviously trollish comment about how Counterstrike is dying, and not only did it get bites, it got modded up to +5 several times. That tells you something about the crackpot moderators here.
    • yeah, there used to be some gems out there....I see no difference between being logged in and posting and being ac. (For trolling I mean) Just post a common sig or whatever, and that way you avoid the two-post ban.

      I haven't seen a good troll in a long time.
    • It is official - gnillort has confirmed: Trolling is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered troll community when Slashdot confirmed that troll post percentage has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all posts. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashdot discussion [slashdot.org] which plainly states that the troll ranks are depleted, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The troll community is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by an Anonymous Pancake post [slashdot.org] in a recent Slashdot discussion.

      You don't need to be a commienst [slashdot.org] to predict trolling's future. The hand writing is on the wall: trolling faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for trolling because trolling is dying. Things are looking very bad for trolling. As many of us are already aware, the troll ranks are depleting rapidly. Negative moderations flow like a river of blood.

      Crapflooding is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core trolls. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time crapflooders DonkeyHote [slashdot.org] and The WIPO Troll [slashdot.org] only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: crapflooding is dying.

      All major surveys show that the troll ranks are depleted. Trolling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If trolling is to survive at all it will be among Usenet dilettante dabblers. Trolling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, trolling is dead.

      Fact: trolling is dying

  • I haven't seen ShoeBoy [slashdot.org] in ages. He was *very* good at what he did. It's a shame he's gone (or at least rarely posts anymore).

    On a side note, subtle trolls always interested me, because more often than not, parts of their posts touched on important issues which needed discussion. Nowadays trolls just stick to goatse.cx and buzz words and phrases like "cock" and "slashdot sucks". What a waste of rage.

    In other words, if you're going to be a troll, be original. And I think there's actually a place for a few trolls: trolls cause people to solidify their arguments, trolls make people defend their arguments -- both very good things in an open forum.

    On the other hand, there are way too many pathetic trolls out there who should just shut up and find something constructive to do.

  • I prefer trolls that can spell and use proper grammar. That's just me, though.
  • well, he did cause you to write a je. but there just isn't the craftsmanship you used to see. people used to put effort into trolls. a really good troll should look like a normal comment. if it can't do that, it should be funny. (funny does not mean simply racist or offensive.) a masterpiece is a joke troll that is taken seriously. intentionally bad grammar/spelling doesn't count if all it makes is an argument over language.

    i think it is everyone's duty at least to try a little devil's advocate type trolling. it gets conversations going, and can lead to interesting ideas that are totally on topic. i haven't tried much in a while myself, though. i spend a lot more time in journals now, and i don't troll journals intentionally.
    • It was sooooo easy when the HP compaq thing was going on...

      all you had to do was say something positive about how Carly Fiorina is a great role model for Italian women and BLAMMO there'd be 12 replies from HP employees about "The HP way" and you'd get modded up and down and threatened and...

      actually it was so easy, it doesn't even count.
      It was a fun diversion from my karma whoring.

  • Making Enemies (Score:3, Interesting)

    by mekkab ( 133181 ) on Wednesday October 23, 2002 @11:23AM (#4512910) Homepage Journal
    of late I seem to be doing a smash up job of making enemies- actually I think 2 are unique, unrelated enemies, and the rest (4 others?) are a clique (good for them! geeks need friends!)

    And given my penchant for low-brow humor (involving off color commentary, profanity, bad puns, 'rm -rf', and /dev/null jokes) I'm an exceptionally easy target. And I'm not a ball hog- I frequently (both inadvertently and on purpose) leave great set-ups in my posts for another astute reader to slam-dunk a funny.

    if you say something funny, even if your are insulting me, I laugh.

    But if you only say something stupid... why bother? if you are gonna take the time an actually reply to one of my (many) posts, can you at least make it quality?

    I specifically remember one where I mentioned that my wife was a lawyer in training and the response was "Oh, I was going to say something about getting to screw a laywer back but then I re-read your post and realized you were married..."

    FUNNY! That's funny! That has more wit than "Yuo=fag0t, c0xx0r r0xx0r"- actually, come to think of it, "Yuo=fag0t" would be a lot funnier than the crappy replies I'm getting.

    I guess I just can't attract the good talent.

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