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"Zaghadka" <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:6sakv2l0jevgq5mhqo06qrgnktemad71pk@4ax.com...
| On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:55:36 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, CoinSpin
| wrote:
|
| >
| >"Quaestor" <no-spam@my.place> wrote in message
| >news:12vj8hhl91nkca9@news.supernews.com...
| >| zircher wrote:
| >|
| >| >pc games wrote:
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >>Developers are even considering abandoning the PC cause of PIRACY!
| >| >>Unbelievable... PIRACY makes developers abandon the PC!
| >| >>Aren't you ashamed of being a PC Gamer?
| >| >>This is truly humiliating! HUMILIATING!
| >| >>
| >| >>SAVE PC GAMES! FIGHT AGAINST PIRACY! and start right NOW!
| >| >>
| >| >>
| >| >
| >| >Ashamed?  Humiliation?  We're talking about games here.  Get a grip.
| >| >
| >| >
| >|
| >| Get a killfile.  This troll will never be anything but a loud and dirty
| >| troll.
| >|
| >|
| >
| >The sad thing is...  I'm not sure he's really a troll...  More like a sad
| >misguided inflexible moron with no common sense...  And waaaaay too much
| >free time on his hands (judging by how many games he says he buys and 
plays,
| >and the mass amounts of postings he does on usenet).
| >
| >Maybe not a troll...  but trollish enough!
| >
| Yeah. I agree. The origins of the term "troll" are not in the Tolkien 
sense,
| but in the fishing sense, as in "trolling for newbies." You'd put out a 
troll
| specifically to see the reaction, to see how many replies you could troll 
up,
| and accomplished trolls are engaging in manipulation, not in being a
| disagreeable monster.
|
| Example: When Ann Coulter called what's-his-name a "faggot," she was 
trolling.
|
| Depends on your definition of troll, of course, but he doesn't meet the 
Usenet
| definition that I grew up with.
|

Yep...  I was using troll in the Usenet sense...  The guy is misguided 
enough to think that he's going to change the world through his inflexible 
one-sided ranting in newsgroups...  I sometimes picture him just sitting and 
staring at the computer screen reading responses to his posts and trying to 
understand why the rest of the world just doesn't get it...

Would that make him an accidental troll?  Or maybe just an oblivious one...

CoinSpin