Dogger Dan wrote:Craig,
What does "Trolls these boards" mean and why is it bad, ie, is it bad like someone can get hurt or just bad annoying? Really, I am as innocent as newborn when it comes to this stuff.
Dogger
troll
An electronic mail message, Usenet posting or other
(electronic) communication which is intentionally incorrect,
but not overtly controversial (compare flame bait), or the
act of sending such a message. Trolling aims to elicit an
emotional reaction from those with a hair-trigger on the reply
key.
Its an adaptation of
troll
1. To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat.
Where you are fishing for a heated response, rather than a fish.
On forums trolling generally leads to lots of angry people, lots of closed threads and a necessary increase in moderator presence and activity. It can also eventually lead to much stricter rules and regulations on a forum, or even its closure. Not particularly fun for anyone really.