"Hit and run" posters / trolls

[Irulan]

I'm new too... and genuine.

Sometimes in reading other discussion boards I am intimidated to respond or add anything because everyone seems like they know each other and that it is a closed off community (yet public on the internet). Some other blogs/boards (not this one) have a very rude attitude towards "trolls" (those that read or post w/o being a daily contributor) and constantly tell others not to "feed the trolls". Personally I find that offputting. At least you all seem to be welcoming for the most part.

Everyone was new at some point, right?

Hopefully you've figured out that newbies or minimal posters (lurkers) is not the same thing as a troll. A troll is specifically trying to rile up the regulars. It comes from fishing as in casting bait...trolling.

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/war...tm/troller.htm

me? I just ignore the stuff I don't feel like answering. Chances are someone else will, and does, answer.

[Zen]

Hopefully you've figured out that newbies or minimal posters (lurkers) is not the same thing as a troll. A troll is specifically trying to rile up the regulars. It comes from fishing as in casting bait...trolling.

Yes but I also think of a troll as in the character under the bridge in 3 Billy Goats Gruff

[ttaylor508]

Yes but I also think of a troll as in the character under the bridge in 3 Billy Goats Gruff

Here in Seattle we have a real troll that lives under a bridge....check him out
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2236


....sorry, just had to add that picture for fun

[BlueVet11]

Nah, I didn't think I was a troll. Just wanted to make sure you guys knew I was a legit newbie. I found this board from another board I read regularly, and there are definitely trolls there!

[Natural Beauty]

well thank goodness I'm just new and not a troll! LOL. I think about posting a question, but find that it was already asked and answered last year. So, I'm doing more absorbing than anything....still not a troll but maybe a monkey? monkey see monkey go out and buy.

[Blueberry]

...still not a troll but maybe a monkey? monkey see monkey go out and buy.

LOL!! This forum is *really* bad for staying on a budget

[GLC1968]

still not a troll but maybe a monkey? monkey see monkey go out and buy.

Ah yes...you'll fit in fine. I think we all have been monkys at one point or another!

[snapdragen]

There have been times when a new person has been chased off, for lack of a better word. I'd say 99.9% of the spam/trolls don't get through the filters anymore; so I always find it best to give new/low post count folks the benefit of the doubt.

[TxDoc]

Hopefully you've figured out that newbies or minimal posters (lurkers) is not the same thing as a troll. A troll is specifically trying to rile up the regulars. It comes from fishing as in casting bait...trolling.
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/war...tm/troller.htm

Thank you for the link - I was very confused about what a troll was, to the point that I googled it on another window before reading the rest of the posts...
But do trolls keep coming back, or they just give up and move on to create chaos in other online communities???