Re: I'm a troll
Blue Troll - A relatively benign species, interested primarily in the<br />gathering and dissemination of useful and nteresting information -- a<br />"scholar among trolls", if you will.<br /><br />Bee Troll - A species much like the above, butunfortunately, have an<br />irresistable streak inside them that will not let them dly pass up a<br />spelling mistake without correcting it.<br /><br />Grey Troll - Who posts an inflammatory comment, and then claims later<br />that they were asking a legitamate question. These trolls seem to<br />have a problem with math, as they don't make their second post on any<br />given number. Their alignment would probably be more Chaotic than the<br />Bee, or the Blue.<br /><br />Viva-Troll - Who subsists on a diet of straight caffein, and sugar<br />injections. These trolls usually embroil themselves in a flame war,<br />then post a "comeback" after every post by other users, any time of<br />day, or night.<br /><br />Math Troll - These Trolls are strictly lawful, beleiving victory can<br />only be obtained through the sheer number of posts they made. To<br />ensure their victory in a battle, they will post singular sentences<br />over numerous posts, to counter one persons idea. These trolls are<br />extremely annoying, and dangerous, seeing as how they continue to<br />attack at every turn, but say very little at what it is they are<br />attacking.<br /><br />Rip Van Troll - Who wakes up in time to be in the middle of a<br />flamewar, and decides to repost the first message on his/her<br />newsreader with a nasty comment, while the world has already moved<br />beyond the first post (whatever it may be) and delved into the deep<br />psychology of Gary Gygax.<br /><br />High Cleric Troll - These trolls are fully capable of resurrecting old<br />flamewars and starting them fresh, simply by laying on hands, and a<br />few words of wisdom. Unfortunately for us, their following is<br />extremely large.<br /><br />Anti-Troll (AKA Troll Hunter) - A special type of Ranger (read: Ranger<br />kit) that has Trolls as their species enemy and will fixate on flaming<br />a specific Troll and being rude to all other Trolls sometimes<br />aleinating friends and allies in his quest to rid the world of Trolls<br />or die trying.<br /><br />Doppleganger Troll - This troll is really a regular in the newsgroup<br />he's posting in, but in times when he wishes to troll, he forges his<br />headers and assumes another email address and takes upon a separate<br />identity. He sometimes enteres the thread as his old self to try to<br />confuse other posters into not believing it's really him 8)<br /><br />Cowardly Troll - I have encounterd him in my journeys among Usenet.<br />This type of troll is quite obvious, but when a poster calls him a<br />troll and points it out to him, this troll vehemently denies trolling<br />and insists that he's enlightening the masses.<br /><br />Ego Troll - Who seems to reply to his own comments or question under<br />another personality. He starts a flamewar against himself hoping some<br />people will hate and insult one of the two. He also likes waffles.<br /><br />Noble Troll - This troll does his best to make an entire newsgroup<br />into one huge flamewar. But, what separates this troll from the<br />others is that this troll takes pride in being a troll and even starts<br />to brag on a newsgroup that he gets fan mail. These trolls think<br />their actions are works of art much like a Michaelangelo, but they<br />turn out to be anything but.....<br /><br />Impotent Troll - A troll who is genuinely malicious and malevolent,<br />but the newsgroup readers regard him/her/it as comical in his/her/its<br />monotonous rantings. It is usually highly susceptible to<br />counter-trolling.<br /><br />Thoul (Ghoul Troll) - This breed commonly feeds in soc.history.ancient.<br />We could define it as someone who is at first glance seems to be very<br />fearsome. He's ghoulishly attracted to issues long dead and theories<br />long killed. His chief attack is a continuing flamefest, which will<br />ultimately paralyse the victim with boredom.<br /><br />PseudoTroll - That's the type who after getting brutally trolled and <br />caught hook line and sinker, posting response after response to trolling, <br />claims that, in actuality, THEY are the troll, trolling the original troll by <br />pretending to be really worked up and upset at the troll.