Time for an update of the troll list:
One-ism Troll*
There's a fine line between seeking advice on a certain
type of situation you encountered
as a result of a particular girl, and simply seeking advice for
one particular girl. The former is just part of the process of learning game--a process we all have gone, and continue to go, through--the former is often a One-ism Troll. Not only does this troll start several threads about
the same exact girl, he nick-picks and nay-says all of the responses he gets with "but" and "what-if" statements and other provisos, all with the sole aim of extending the discussion about his fantasy girl--who may or may not even exist. Once some of the guys he's managed to lure into his obsessive vortex call him out on his trolling, he'll often concede that he's
"just being paranoid" or hides behind newbie status, but proceeds as usual. Like other insecurity-based trolling (e.g., race trolls), one-ism trolls are quite plausibly well-intentioned newbies, but given their drain on forum resources and the equally plausible likelihood that they're simply trolling, they need to be dispensed with surgically.
*Sometimes subtle. Not to be confused with simple, permissible newbie-ism.
Fiction-Writer Troll**
A seemingly competent, normal member of the community whose contributions are just a little
too far-fetched. We've all done things and been in situations that stretch the boundaries of plausibility, but Fiction Troll's narratives go just a little further--displaying
odd incongruities or elaborate literary devices that, upon close examination, smell obviously fabricated. What's more, they've often compiled little or no credibility on the board (through rep or a long history of posts) for their stories to be actually believable. The dead-giveaways tend to be bragadocious threads that
trumpet his "alpha" cred or ultra-polished Dear-Journal threads that read like
Skinimax-like voice-overs. The combination of a group of men whose lifestlyes are predicated on continual, impressive conquests--and the ease of stretching the truth behind the anonymity curtain of the Internet--makes small amounts of fish-story trolling almost inevitable. But egregious cases of
outright lying, that take away from the mission of the forum, need to be called out.
**Allege with caution.