Let’s Get It Straight On Trolling
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 5:23 pm
For quite a while now I have listened to certain posters make accusations of one particular poster being a troll.
Let’s straighten up the record. Recently on a couple of threads I have shown that there are certain posters on this board that fit the bill in regard to being trolls and participating regularly in troll like behavior. Since those posts are likely to be buried in one way or another by those same posters I will repost ‘what a troll is’ and try to put this to rest:
Characteristics and types/kinds of an online troll:
Wikistalking/Cyberstalking
Follow Target Troll
Stalking Troll
From what I've read their goal isn't just to disrupt a thread, it's to discredit or silence a specific individual across multiple discussions.
This last evening ( March 19th) and at other times a particular poster makes a habit of doing just this very thing. It's been ongoing and disrupts the flow of almost any given thread that I make a comment on. Rather tiresome. But predictable.
Targeted harassment involves monitoring posts of one particular individual to "correct" that person, insult that person, or pick a fight wherever that person goes. This description applies mainly to one person on this board and very possibly two or three others.
In my opinion they should be sanctioned/curtailed from being able to disrupt the board in this manner.
Three common tactics (I had to look this up) used by one or more posters:
1.Sealining: Pestering a poster with "innocent" but endless questions to exhaust him or her.
2. Character Assassination: Attempting to turn the rest of the board against a person by bringing up his or her past posts out of context.
Other attributes/characteristics of the type of troll I’ve talked about on the SS Presidency handbook thread are:
Algorithmic Gaming- pushing their comments to the top to bury a post they would rather not have seen.
Psychological Wearing- using words such as “clearly” and “absolutely “ and the like, act as triggers to influence others to your own way of thinking and overwhelm the ‘mark’.
Circle jerking- my guess is that many here know what that is and some have participated in it.
I would encourage the moderators to consider whether certain members of this board have created a pattern of Brigading with the intent of targeting certain posters.
This is trolling behavior by definition.
This is the only time that I have and will put this out there and hopefully to rest.
Truthfully? I expect more of the same behaviors/strategies.
It seems to be compulsive…OCD.
I’ll leave it there.
Regards,
MG
Let’s straighten up the record. Recently on a couple of threads I have shown that there are certain posters on this board that fit the bill in regard to being trolls and participating regularly in troll like behavior. Since those posts are likely to be buried in one way or another by those same posters I will repost ‘what a troll is’ and try to put this to rest:
Characteristics and types/kinds of an online troll:
Wikistalking/Cyberstalking
Follow Target Troll
Stalking Troll
From what I've read their goal isn't just to disrupt a thread, it's to discredit or silence a specific individual across multiple discussions.
This last evening ( March 19th) and at other times a particular poster makes a habit of doing just this very thing. It's been ongoing and disrupts the flow of almost any given thread that I make a comment on. Rather tiresome. But predictable.
Targeted harassment involves monitoring posts of one particular individual to "correct" that person, insult that person, or pick a fight wherever that person goes. This description applies mainly to one person on this board and very possibly two or three others.
In my opinion they should be sanctioned/curtailed from being able to disrupt the board in this manner.
Three common tactics (I had to look this up) used by one or more posters:
1.Sealining: Pestering a poster with "innocent" but endless questions to exhaust him or her.
2. Character Assassination: Attempting to turn the rest of the board against a person by bringing up his or her past posts out of context.
Other attributes/characteristics of the type of troll I’ve talked about on the SS Presidency handbook thread are:
Algorithmic Gaming- pushing their comments to the top to bury a post they would rather not have seen.
Psychological Wearing- using words such as “clearly” and “absolutely “ and the like, act as triggers to influence others to your own way of thinking and overwhelm the ‘mark’.
Circle jerking- my guess is that many here know what that is and some have participated in it.
I would encourage the moderators to consider whether certain members of this board have created a pattern of Brigading with the intent of targeting certain posters.
This is trolling behavior by definition.
This is the only time that I have and will put this out there and hopefully to rest.
Truthfully? I expect more of the same behaviors/strategies.
It seems to be compulsive…OCD.
I’ll leave it there.
Regards,
MG
