Timeline for What was required to accept "troll"?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 26, 2019 at 5:24 | comment | added | user2752467 | @mckenzm The confusion over troll's etymology is probably as old as the term itself. Anecdotally, I remember seeing internet arguments about it in the early 2000s, long before the concept of trolling was widely discussed in the press. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 4:22 | comment | added | forest | @mckenzm Another term that has come up recently is "shitposting", which is acting generally annoying by pretending to be an extremely low-brow and poor quality troll. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 1:49 | comment | added | mckenzm | Compare with "flaming". Trolling is the use of satire or provocative prose to "catch" a response. It is a fishing term. The press have corrupted the word, just as they have for "drones" (almost always a UAV or AAV), and "high frequency trading" (really low latency trading). It's allowing a dumbing down to catch on. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 23:58 | vote | accept | Jayy | ||
| Mar 25, 2019 at 19:55 | history | answered | user 66974 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |