Talk:Internet troll

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 Definition:  A person who, often anonymously, takes pleasure in sowing discord on the internet. [d] [e]
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Should live at Internet troll. -- One of my favorite subjects.  :-) --Larry Sanger 21:54, 8 October 2007 (CDT)

Now thats cool. The metadata template name got changed as part of the move along with the talk page! How long has it been that way? Can we get it to do the approval and unused subpages as well? Chris Day (talk) 22:02, 8 October 2007 (CDT)
OK false alarm, i see Stephen Ewen was responsible. Can we get it programed in to the media wiki move function? Alonf with all known subpages? Maybe that is a bit too much to ask? Chris Day (talk) 22:05, 8 October 2007 (CDT)
I'm no mediwiki guru, but if talk pages can be made to cascade with articles, then it seem it would not be too much trouble to make any number of pages cascade.  —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 22:08, 8 October 2007 (CDT)
I would guess, however, that the syntax would have to change, e.g., Bibliography:Internet troll.  —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 22:20, 8 October 2007 (CDT)
That would require that each subpage has its own namespace? Is that even on the table? Chris Day (talk) 22:30, 8 October 2007 (CDT)

Psychology of

I understand (I think) that Citizendium tries not to fetishize footnotes, since "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose," [1] and we don't have a "Citation Needed" template, etc. But I wondered whether I could possibly request some citations for the sections of this article that create a category of people and then proceed to make psychological generalizations about them. Those sections contain passages inside quotation marks, and apparently they were created by an author-constable with very serious academic credentials, so would it be possible to supply a source for those assertions? Just another newbie author poking fingers at the perimeters (not parameters!) of Citizendium's policies. Thanks. Bruce M.Tindall 18:52, 28 November 2007 (CST)

Done. It's in French, though, never could find anything in English! Stephen Ewen 23:19, 9 January 2008 (CST)

Examples

Hi, could anyone please add some well-known (notorious) exaples of Internet trolls? There should be quite a many identified trolls. I remember I once read an article in Wikipedia about a guy (troll) who shot himself. Now couldn't find the article, though. Erik Jesse 10:59, 29 February 2008 (CST)

References

  1. ↑ Antonio, in The Merchant of Venice, Act I, scene 3 [oops, sorry, pardon my footnote...]
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