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trolling
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Princeton's WordNet
troll, trollingnoun
angling by drawing a baited line through the water
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trolling
In slang, a troll is a person who posts or makes inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game), or in real life, with the intent of provoking others into displaying emotional responses, or manipulating others' perception. The behavior is typically for the troll's amusement, or to achieve a specific result such as disrupting a rival's online activities or purposefully causing confusion or harm to other people.In this context, both the noun and the verb forms of "troll" are frequently associated with Internet discourse. Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment. The Courier-Mail and The Today Show have used "troll" to mean "a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families". In addition, depictions of trolling have been included in popular fictional works, such as the HBO television program The Newsroom, in which a main character encounters harassing persons online and tries to infiltrate their circles by posting negative sexual comments.
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Trolling is an internet behavior characterized by intentionally posting provocative, offensive, or misleading comments or content on social media, forums, or online platforms, typically with the aim of causing harm, discomfort, stir up arguments, or provoke emotional responses from others.
Webster Dictionary
Trolling
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Dictionary of Nautical Terms
trolling
Drawing the bait along the water to imitate the swimming of a real fish; this is generally done by a long line attached to the stern of a sailing-boat. The word of old signified sauntering or idling about.
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The numerical value of trolling in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of trolling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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Apart from the hideous racial trolling that we’ve seen… I think that’s a minority… I think they’re going to be widely accepted.
It comes in all sorts of flavors : racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia. It comes in all sorts of forms : nasty personal attacks. Trolling on Twitter. Winking at white supremacists. It all adds up to the same thing : the politics of division.
But famously, The Dynamizer never allowed anybody to look inside the box and made a fortune until, sadly, somebody died as a result of a misdiagnosis based on The Dynamizer device. And The Dynamizer was shut down. So that was interesting, did Elizabeth go trolling for prior inventors ? I don't know.
She and other people who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain -- just explain -- why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often -- not to mention sexist -- to repeat.
They’ve never even been to this school, they literally are trolling the Internet looking for things to be offended by. They are on a search and destroy mission for all things Christian.
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- TrollingGerman
- curricánSpanish
- uisteluFinnish
- pêche à la traîneFrench
- trollingHindi
- トローリングJapanese
- trollandoPortuguese
- ட்ரொல்லிங்Tamil
- trollingVietnamese
- 拖釣Chinese
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