Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: <Afterswift@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital - Clucking home > In a message dated 9/25/03 11:17:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > > Anyone who says that film will rebound and digital will fade is > > either smoking crack, or being a troll. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The classic definition of a troll is the little guy under the bridge who > warns you the bridge is about to collapse. If you define a troll as someone who > meanders about in a boat trying to fish, you got the wrong landlubber. Wrong again, After: The Jargon Dictionary - http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/t/troll.html troll troll v.,n. 1. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies" which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling", a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT. 2. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that the have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll." - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html