melthebell   865 #37 Posted January 3, 2011 Some of the 'male' trolls may actually be screen names for women writers and vice versa. indeed i actually got a come on from some "new female" user wanting to meet me, it turned out pretty fast it was a well known and reasonably popular but controversial "male" poster that took offence to something i said and wanted to meet for a bout of fisticuffs  thats where idiots start to disolve the boundry between the forum and real life Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
wednesday1   10 #38 Posted January 3, 2011 indeed i actually got a come on from some "new female" user wanting to meet me, it turned out pretty fast it was a well known and reasonably popular but controversial "male" poster that took offence to something i said and wanted to meet for a bout of fisticuffs  thats where idiots start to disolve the boundry between the forum and real life   Hmmm where's Phil these day's? Could Phil really stand for Phillipa and not Phil Anthrop? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
melthebell   865 #39 Posted January 3, 2011 Hmmm where's Phil these day's? Could Phil really stand for Phillipa and not Phil Anthrop? it wasnt him / her  sure i saw him the other day actually, under yet another assumed name Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
RootsBooster   24 #40 Posted January 3, 2011 Bickering with your siblings isn't really the same as arguing with random strangers on t'internet just for the hell of it ... is it? *argues with a random stranger on t'internet just for the hell of it ... am I a man, then?*  You didn't mention the internet or strangers, and they aren't my siblings, they in-laws (cringes)  We can all be 'trollish' with certain users, some people just ask for it. I've been accused of it myself on occasion, but I'm definitely not!  I have a feeling that on SF the term 'troll' gets used as a shorthand accusation to someone who is merely being annoying, or outspoken or holds opinions that we don't agree with. The true 'troll' deliberately posts inflammatory topics solely to provoke either a flame war or to enrage other users. That rarely happens on SF and when it does, the posts (and the (new) user) get removed pdq!  So I don't agree that on SF 'trolling' is a male preserve. Although arguing for the sake of it is more of a male type of behaviour generally, I suppose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
melthebell   865 #41 Posted January 3, 2011 The most perceptive of the species contend that trolls only exist in the mind of the bigoted and dogmatic. and right on cue  it uses too many big words to be phil tho Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
rubydazzler   11 #42 Posted January 3, 2011 You didn't mention the internet or strangers, and they aren't my siblings, they in-laws (cringes)I see what you did there ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
