Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny Right, like your friend Phill Kneene, trollmeister. Jerry Sonny Carter wrote: > ----- 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html