Daniel D’Addario for Salon:
But for a word that’s tossed around so frequently, its meaning seems to evaporate into air when grasped at. Trolling is bad. Trolling provokes a reaction, usually negative. Trolling is apparently quite easy to do. But, if only to better gird one’s own defenses against it — what is trolling?
We’ve all come across this on the Internet.
Trolls are in a word, evil!
there are a few on this site…-1 now, tho. good riddance
“I think that it started with a pretty clear definition — which is somebody who goes into a place that shares a particular ideology and says something they don’t believe just to get a reaction,” said Sady Doyle.
That’s about right and how I see it.