TrollFrom WhatPort80"Trolling" is a term possibly derived from "Trawling", a style of fishing which involves trailing bait through waters populated with fish in the hopes that one of them will bite. "Troll" can be used as a verb, eg: "To troll someone," or "To troll for a response." It may also be derived from the form of the word used to refer to the mythical monster that lives under bridges and surprises people who try and cross the bridge with a bizarre puzzle or challenge that they must complete before crossing. Although Internet Trolls may inspire the same fear amongst law-abiding netizens, more rational people know that Trolls are, in fact, monsters that live under a bridge, probably in Utah, who flocked to the information superhighway after real superhighways were declared obsolete by Al Gore. Bad things happen when trolls meet IRL. Trolling manifests itself on many Internet communities when people contribute to discussions with the intention to provoke a response amongst the other participants. Such responses include getting offended and engaging in emotional outbursts, much to the glee or satisfaction of trolls. Novice trolls, upon tasting the forbidden fruit of joy at another's expense may experience Troll's Remorse, but such feelings tend to pass once they realize that people who take the Internets seriously enough to get upset by trolling really ought to get over themselves. A person who makes this realization often contracts Internet Troll Personality Disorder, with more advanced cases developing into Chronic Troll Syndrome. How to tell a troll Attention seekers are not trolls, just IRL bimbos. Most trolls believe, honestly, that they are in fact funny, anyone who does not agree with them is obviously either overly sensitive, has no life, no sense of humour, or is a combination of two or all of these. In many instances, one can see where troll has in fact messed up but is too wrapped in his/her own little laugh to notice how much of a jerk they have really been. These trolls are the most easy to identify, as they often stop leaving comments when it is obvious even to a monkey with a brain tumor that they have messed it up, or when you see a comment that begins with telling the owner of the site/picture/story/ect that they suck for no good reason. To be absolutely sure, look for the word "lulz" anywhere in their comments, or YHBT at the end of the comments. Also a dead giveaway is the tl;dr as the basic method of replying in an intelligent manner requires knowing what you are replying to
Different kinds of internet trolls
Hater Hater is YouTube for troll. Being a bunch of illiterate trailer trash, your average YouTube blogger is unaware that internets exist outside of YouTube. Quite possibly because most of those internets require better than a third grade reading level to successfully navigate. Trolling YouTube is deceptively simple. Just wait for some schmuck to post a video whining and crying over something nobody cares about (How they can't find new clothes at Hot Topic, for instance) and post a response video calling them a drama queen. YouTubers are still naively sheltered from the realities of the internet making their reactions even more lulzy. It's kind of cute. GrieferA video game species of troll. Griefers are unable to resort to the time-honoured techniques of text-driven drama and, as such, have concentrated on ruining the game experience for others. This takes many forms, from breaching the fourth wall on roleplaying servers, to filling in-game chat windows with commentary about nothing. Then, of course, are the spawn campers, the lag-fags, and lets not forget the cheaters and the glitchers. Griefers can often be ingenious in finding ways to annoy people, but more often than not they're just idiots. Smart Troll Smart Troll is a very rare species of Troll, The result of breeding a Griefer with a Geek/Nerd, They will often join some website, almost always a video game forum and will pretend to be a normal member for awhile, They may even help out a bit for awhile but they will then make an alt with some nonsensical name, like "ZELDAH4XL33T", "Jesus", "GIMMETEHMONEY", "Ajjeko", or "TheTeej" and will make a fake website that "cannot be found by google". They will cause chaos like a normal troll on the normal members of teh site but will be moar clever with the admins, if they succeed the website will close down and die, if they fail they will be hit by the banhammerorz and the forums will be replaced instead of brought back up due to teh admins being smart-asses, they are very rare but very deadly, they often name themselves after a movie nobody cares about]]. (Like Pokemon2000, 007, Spiderman or even Bloodmoon.) Most of the time a Smart Troll is a basement dweller or a Internet Tough Guy. Unsuccessful TrollAny troll who succumbs to troll's remorse, apologizes, or otherwise fails to deliver the lulz. A troll must never admit that they are a troll (especially whilst trolling), otherwise they have failed. An unsuccessful troll ends his career with a slow, sad retreat back to the Fail cave. Tehnet's happiest unsuccessful troll. See also Mirson, who despite efforts provides no lulz, and The Judge who spends more time saying "I'm a troll" than doing anything else. Troll for a Day (TFAD)Found on those rare well-heeled (adults with no lives) boards such as Yahoo's SCO board. A board may suffer from group think and stagnate. One poster will create a new psuedonym and log in to tweak the other posters into a flame war. The Troll for a Day will announce they are a TFAD (TFADing) and everyone will congratulate the regular after getting over their murderous impulses. Posters on message boards who have experienced this behavior will immediately try to label all newbies as "TFADs". These trolls often suck. Dungeons & DragonsIn Dungeons & Dragons, trolls take full damage from acid and fire. Because trolls have green rubbery flesh and naturally enhanced regeneration, damage caused by slashing, piercing or bludgeoning is halved. In World of Warcraft, Trolls are a powerful race of giant green bean people that live in towering can cities. They worship the allmighty Jolly Green Giant. All this RPG troll stuff came from trolls in Norse mythology. Loki, god of mischief (among other things), invented trolling and tribal art tattoos. Techniques  Ironically enough, many members of LJDrama are the biggest and most prolific trolls around (See futhman). Therefore, we feel qualified to give you some super examples:
Whenever you are done trolling, make sure to say "YHBT".
A simple tutorial on how to troll /b/:
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