Quote: (10-23-2011 11:58 AM)Caligula Wrote:
We need a new sub-type of Game Denier Troll. The Looks/money trumps game troll.
Ok, I've given this some thought and got to the heart of what I believe to be a new type of (subtle) troll. I think it's helpful, though challenging, to identify some of the more common subtle-troll types--with the caveat that not everything that resembles them is necessarily trolling. It takes some judgment.
That said, this one definitely is:
Junk-Thread Starter Troll / Played-Out Thread Troll (Subtle Troll)
Repeatedly starts new threads--invariably of the lowest order--about well-worn and obnoxious, or simply irrelevant and so-the-fuck-what, topics. The forum's two (very) effective search functions are meaningless to this guy, because the urgency of assuring us, for the 2,000th time, that money or looks trump game simply renders them irrelevant. This is a difficult troll to smoke out, since he often cloaks himself behind the plausible excuse of being a newb--and because just starting a thread on an old, or simply uninteresting, topic doesn't necessarily rise to the level of trolling. But, some combination of: poor grammar, a strain of game-denial, a ridiculously low post-count, or excessively personal revelations without a request for advice (especially when no one knows or cares about them yet), is often a tell-tale symptom.