Saw this and thought of this forum www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv- ... 27n3f.html I love psychology and this is fascinating.

Saw this and thought of this forum www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv- ... 27n3f.html I love psychology and this is fascinating.

So basically so long as she considers herself to be "funny" and not malicious, its OK to deliberately upset anybody and everybody she wants? Sounds like a depressing way to get your kicks to me.

She looks like Skeletor from he man

Don't they all?







Don't they all?

There's trolling, and there's trolling.



People like Dally, and er, others, who get a kick out of putting across a point of view that is going to get someone's back up. You say it's white, so they say it's black, kind of thing.



Then there is posting hateful remarks about someone who's ill, dead, of another race etc, which is clearly unacceptable.

Agreed. I'd suggest that what the report talks about is not 'tolling', but bullying/abuse.

People like her in the article having something seriously missing from their lives.



Watched a really good programme on Richard Bacon recently. He tried to track down some trolls and in particular one that was really stalking him. He said he used to laugh it off until the trolls started on his wife and newborn baby and thats when he started to get angry about it. He confronted some other trolls who said they did it for a laugh and didn't expect the recipients to be upset. Yeah right





I've never pretended to be anyone other than me on the internet, most of you know my real name and thats really me next to Danny Houghton in my avatar. Same on FB, I don't see the point in pretending to be someone I'm not.



Most trolls do it for a reaction anyway, so if anyone responds I answer with the usual "Don't feed the troll".



Theres someone on here who we all know who is a totally different person off RL Fans. Its like he has a split personality, one for the Sin Bin one for "real life".

If someone punched her in the face and said it was performance art, would they get away with it?

I'm worse im real life for winding people up than on the internet, i like a little banter but i usually expect a bit back.



Bullying is bullying, no point making up a different name for it.

You're all smelly and you have rubbish names......

I strongly suspect that people who are not regular users of forums such as this don't understand what "trolling" actually is.



This is reinforced by a few high profile incidents in the last year where the meeja have deemed certain people "trolls" when in fact they were not trolling, but being either abusive, bullying, or deliberately offensive. Which is not to say trolling can't also be any of those things, as well as trolling.



It becomes rapidly clear that some people who are not seasoned internet users have picked up on the word and hijacked it to their own meanings. So you get items on main news broadcasts, where as an aside they define "troll" for those who don't understand the term, but are clearly not using the term correctly.



To have a proper debate about communications in electronic media surely we should start with a position where there is a definition of what it is we are supposed to be discussing?

So every one must have the same view on every subject? To comment when you see how misguided and indoctrinated many people are is not trolling.