Rod said:
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. George (bill clinton) sent me a rather long PM assuring me that he is not a troll. With that said, if someone from CP wants to get in contact with George (Bill) and talk to him over the phone, than go for it. Maybe talking to him over the phone can help get his humidor in proper order.
I can't write this guy off as being a troll without fully investigating. So if someone wants to step up and do the investigative work, go for it.
Rod
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Here ya go. Reference materials taken from
Wikipedia pertinent characteristics in italics.
And this is just from one thread.....I don't have much more patience to go through em all...
What you guys want to do with him is up to you, but in my book, he is a troll: (and yes, I had too much time on my hands this morning)
Disruptive trolls
• Off topic messages: Those that are irrelevant to the focus of the forum.
• Page widening: Filling up fields with large pictures or characters to make previous posts unreadable.
• Offensive media: Annoying sound files or disturbing pictures in a message, or linking to shock sites that contain such media. Often these links are disguised as legitimate links.
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Inflammatory messages,
o Post 74
• Deliberately revealing the ending of a recent popular movie or book.
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Bumping an old discussion, or rehashing a highly controversial past topic, particularly in smaller online communities.
o Post No 1
o Problem solved post 9
o Post no 10
o Post No 19
o Post no 24
o Post 36
o Post 41
o Post 103
o Post 114
o Post 115
o Post 119
o Post 127
o Post 151
• Deliberate and repeated misspelling of other people's nicks in order to disturb or irritate them in a conversation.
Attention-seeking trolls
This class of trolls seeks to obtain as many responses as possible and to absorb a disproportionate amount of the collective attention span.
• Advertising another forum, especially a rival or a hated forum.
• Claiming to be someone they cannot possibly be:
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Messages containing an obvious flaw or error:
o Post 45
o Post 50
o Post 114
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Asking for help with an implausable task or problem:
o Post No 1
o Post No 19
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Intentionally naive questions:
o Post No 1
o Problem Solved Post No 9
o Post No 10
o Post No 19
o Post 24
o Post 36
o Post 41
o Post 114
o Post 119
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Messages containing a self referential appeals to status.
o Post 22
o Post 88
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Intentionally posting an outrageous argument, deliberately constructed around a fundamental but obfuscated flaw or error. Often the poster will become defensive when the argument is refuted, but may instead continue the thread through the use of further flawed arguments; this is referred to as "feeding" the troll.
o Post No 10
o Post No 19
o Post 24
o Post 36
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A subclass of the above is the flawed proof of an important unsolved mathematical problem or impossibility (e.g. 1 = 2); however, these may not always be troll-posts, and are sometimes, at least, mathematically interesting.
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Not to be denied, post 162
• Politically contentious messages:
• Posting politically sensitive images in inappropriate places.
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Pretending to be innocent, after a flamewar ensues.
o Post 45
o Post 52
o Post 65
o Post 68
o Post 72
o Post 74
o Post 84
o Post 88
o Post 94
o Post 95
o Post 140
o Post 142
o Post 151
• Off-topic complaints about personal life, or threats of suicide: sometimes, this is the "cry for help" troll.
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Plural or paranoid answers to personal opinions expressed by individuals:
o Post No 10
o Post No 22
o Post 39
o Post 45
o Post 79
o Post 81
o Post 142
o Post 151
• Paramour trolls get a thrill from establishing serial online affairs with females of a group. This incites public rivalry among the women who once thought the nicknames, poetry, love statements were exclusive to them. Since the online love affair is developed separately in chat programs, it takes a long time for the online cat-fight to be detected.
• Any combination of the above: For example, a troll will combine inflammatory statements with poor grammar and AIM-speak (which is also known as "netspeak" or "chatspeak"). "lmfao u are so weak minded and predictablei thought i wan iggied i play ya like a card"
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