Peer-reviewed scientific paper: Internet Trolls are Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, and sadistic
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This has gotten fun.
Miker - the reason I'm in and out of here is because I have things to do. I've been a member of this site for many years, and I no longer feel the need to catch every new post as it happens. I catch up when I feel like it.
I feel like it now.
I have two replies for you. This is #1: In the case that you're a real boy, so to speak.
You sound like you're old enough and been around the web enough to grok that a poster diving into a fairly old (in Firefly years) chat site with both feet like you did here is rare. We do not often get new posters who are so bombastic and fearlessly opinionated as have been. Even in the age of internet "FU troll!" rudeness, real humans tend to sniff around a site and get to know its posters for a time before they start swinging 2x4's.
That is, unless the newb already has ideas about the site and the posters and the direction to swing at... Every time I've noticed someone making an entrance like yours, they have turned out to be little wooden boys, not real ones.
Forgive my excessive superiority in assuming I'm in a position to offer advice, but I think it'd help you out: take some time to learn a site's history before you get yourself mixed up in it. Things will go better for you next time, and you won't be confused for something that perhaps you're not.
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What trolls reveal about themselves when they troll:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=57532
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Reply #2: Storytime
Imagine a web site with a long history of a few posters being nuts, such as
"The beauty of all of this is that the River6213 that you are suggesting to take meds today, was the person yesterday you were praising, but under another name. I feel so clever right now.
I am 19 characters on this board and a few of them I made bad characters which you guys hate. The remaining you guys like. I am so good, or crazy...I'm trying to figure out which is it. I must confess though. I love the River6213 character. "
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"I have 19 accounts and some of my characters you people really respect. I felt it was important to have characters that you didn not respect. I needed a balance in this whole mix in order to be here."
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=15&tid=23037&p=2
I can't find the thread where she had a complete breakdown and argued with herself with days. Awesome. Then she disappeared. She'd given herself away, at least on several of those 19 accounts.
Imagine that as the years go on a few posters emerge as masterfully brilliant manipulative trolls, and they are so good at it that they make every damned thread all about themselves. Over and over, threads devolve into a reasonable, smart-seeming poster trying over and over to convince a stubborn, almost comically illogical poster to see the light. Without fail, the other posters fall in line, choose sides, and swing away. Each thread becomes all about that troll. Many reasonable, honest posters are driven away, either by frustration or boredom.
Imagine that another poster looks into the history of RWED and observes the pattern. The poster pokes "Reasonable" for having such a long history with "Troll." After a few pokes, Reasonable and Troll quit dancing. The thrill is gone?
Other things change too. Troll kind of fades, not having a dance partner. Reasonable undergoes a strange personality shift, suddenly much more aggressive towards all posters as well as more strongly opinionated, not open to debate like she used to be, and seeming to take a different political stance on some issues. At least, a much stronger one.
Enter a "New" poster. New takes some time to establish himself as a fan and a nice reasonable guy with views the complete opposite as the old, diminished Troll. New makes friends with others who share his views. Strangely, in a very short time New is drawn into spats with Reasonable that sound strangely like the old Reasonable/Troll spats, but the sides have switched. Those who used to side with Reasonable are now against her, and hence, on the side of "New." Interesting, right? New should be digging right in, getting to know those who used to hate on Troll so much! Except that, oddly, they get strange twinges about the way he handles himself...
OK, storytime is over.
Except to say: Miker, perhaps you are a real boy and the self-reflection and apology in this thread are real. That is a possibility. It's also exactly what a master manipulator would do when they feel their control slipping, and they need to get everyone back on their side.
Will I ever know which of my two replies is best suited to you? Nah. And that's OK. Frankly, nothing you say will ever convince me that you are real, not at this point. Meeting you in real life is all that would do it, and that's not likely.
I will always include reply #1 on the off chance that you are real, because if you are you must be damned confused LOL! But there's just too much walking like a duck and talking like a duck involved here. I don't see a swan.
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What trolls reveal about themselves when they troll:
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Feh, I been known to wind up folks on purpose, or even a bit of trolling, it's actually kind of difficult to make it both really obvious, and such perfect schmuckbait people can't help themselves - it's an art, really.
As for becoming more eloquent when enraged, well, not much I can say to that one save that the tunnelvision and hyperfocus of being rage-engaged is certainly a clarifying experience for some, yanno ?
Of course, those with suspicions have noticed things like timestamps, and alluding to knowledge which existed prior to the account creation date - which might make some a little dubious, yes.
-Frem
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Nancy Boys - seriously?
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And some of you look like real Nancy boys trying to tell him how to post - really? So all those Great Big Ideals about Free Speech that get argued over ad nauseum only mean something outside of here?
I was just giving advice. But if you find that offensive or hypocritical, then I will stop.
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Hey MIKER, I'm from New York! Describe some of it to me & that way I can forever drop any notion of sockpuppetry, okay?
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