What if you ARE the troll?  |
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We've all run into those nasty trolls here and on other websites. Some of them are merely annoying and others are infuriating and some are actually terrifying and maybe even dangerous. But here's a scenario I just thought of.
You have an online friend who talks about being annoyed by a troll. At least you THINK she's on your friend's list. And then one day you go to her profile and you're not. Not that uncommon on here to interact with somebody a lot and realize, oops I never added the person. So you send a request and it's accepted.
Back and forth, back and forth, you respond to each other's discussions occasionally and then you don't see the person for a while. Hmmm. You go to their profile and you see "add as friend". Now that's interesting. You're pretty sure you didn't delete her. Did she delete you once? Did she delete you twice? No way of knowing without asking publicly in one of her discussion.
So you just figure OK, take the hint. The person doesn't want to be your friend. It's a shame, you liked her, but OK.
Then it occurs to you. What if YOU'RE the troll she's been talking about? Embarrassing. I guess that's when you really decide, OK just leave the person alone. Weird though. Nobody who isn't deliberately causing trouble wants to be a considered a troll. Are you a troll?
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1. jb78000 (1707) | 1 month ago | no
[bounces off to troll]
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | surely wererabbits and trolls are mutually exclusive!
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jb78000 (1707) | 1 month ago | correction
[bounces off to were]
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | is there such a thing as a were trollop?
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | do were rabbits like shish ka bob?
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | perhaps you could just shave naughty patterns into his wool?
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2. cloudwatcher (3418) | 1 month ago | I don't think so, but if you think I am, please tell me.
We are all different personality types and it would be easy to unknowingly offend others. I have read some comments here which seem a bit harsh and even insulting, but the fact is that friends CAN and DO use friendly insults and I know that many I read are just that - a lot of good fun. However, if the same type of chit-chat is employed with friends who are less familiar with the style, they could be offended.
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | bad pun alert...
Are you trolling for compliments?
Of course you are no troll...
but yep, many personality types and some people want to keep their friends lists to people that they've really clicked with and so on...
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cloudwatcher (3418) | 1 month ago | No I mean it. It is so easy to offend unknowingly. If I offend, I want to be told.
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | yes it is and so would I...
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | I suppose possibly you could be a troll in their mind, but the fact that you stepped away and took the high road tells me that you aren't one.
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purplealabaster (822) | 1 month ago | Thanks Dawn. I guess that you are right, what is and is not a troll is at least partly what a person perceives another to be, so we could all be trolls at one point or another without ever knowing or intending to be one.
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | We all troll in a yellow submarine..... Dawn is in silly mode after walk to lake.
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jb78000 (1707) | 1 month ago | ...lived by the lake. and scared off all the trolls in a land called who to shake
eek.
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | are you singing about my purple dragon?
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jb78000 (1707) | 1 month ago | i was but i've now stopped because i was scaring myself
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | a frightened were rabbit is a dangerous were rabbit...
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jb78000 (1707) | 1 month ago | grrr. squeak. tell lamby that.
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | lamby is no match for a were rabbit
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | She ain't heavy, she's just other....
Dawn hums and taps toes...
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5. Hatley (21030) | 1 month ago | oh dawnald I felt so bad about this too, but right at the' same time a mylotter was upset with me over a joking remark that she took seriously, this same lady had somebody minus her from a ten down to a six, and she emailed me and accused me of being the troll. I could not persuade her that I would never do to anyone, I am not a mean person. She was on my friends' list too then she was not,and I had not deleted her. I was not her troll. I was trolled myself and I tried to tell her that in a personal message. The dumb remark was not even about her, it was about something else but I had said if somebody does not quit doing that, you ought to sic your little dog onto them. I was really jo king and it was not about her at all. The person to whom I had responded was talking about her own relative for crying out loud,so my comment had nothing to do with any mylotter,but this person would not ever for give me.
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | I've seen a few situations like that too. Over on Yuwie one friend dropped another friend and wouldn't forgive them. The one over there who got really mad at me over something I was eventually able to patch it up with.
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | I did not guess i did not know I just was bored That's really so...
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7. meluan (900) | 1 month ago | troll is not my language
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | somebody who deliberately annoys people on the internet
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meluan (900) | 1 month ago | if this is the case none of us here is a troll
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | Nobody on this discussion, but there have been trolls on myLot before.
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8. paintswithwords (297) | 1 month ago | Well, I am not sure what you mean by a troll. Are you referring to a troublemaker? I guess I have not been here long enough to encounter trolls yet. Am I a troll? Who knows. My honesty has gotten me in trouble before. I do tend to speak my mind and try to give constructive comments. To some that might make me a troll. As has been stated in previous comments, being a troll is in the eye of the one doing the characterizing. There are a many differing age groups, social status, cultures, etc and not always can these differences be communicated without someone who may be sensitive taking offense. To the one taking offense, the thought offender would be a troll. I know when I was on Yuwie, occasionally someone would have blocked me and I had no idea why. Perhaps they thought me a troll, lol
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | A troublemaker, a stalker, something like that. I wouldn't say that offending somebody when you didn't mean to would make you a troll. But the offended party might say differently. For me personally, I'd consider a troll a person who is deliberately going around aggravating people.
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paintswithwords (297) | 1 month ago | Well, in that case I am not a troll, though I am tempted to bang a few heads now and then...just kidding...lol.
But as you say, to someone who takes offense they may view any of us as a troll.
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9. Irishfrndly65 (7387) | 1 month ago | Now how would that be trollish?;takes Dawn's brownie and sniffs it, takes tentative bite;
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purplealabaster (822) | 1 month ago | Hey, do you have any more of those brownies to share? We can all be trolls together.*skips away singing troll-la-la, troll-la-la*
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | Do trolls like brownies?
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | have some coffee, sit down, you're not annoying me!
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dawnald (9822) | 1 month ago | Oh was that you? I remember somebody telling me that!
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