Internet trolling Internet trolling Adequacy.org was a satirical web site. It featured articles on politics, religion, technology, history, and sociology, as well as the " Linux zealot" cartoon series. The site shut down on September 11, 2002, but has since made its archives available. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adequacy.org"
An AOLamer or AOL Lamer is a person using AOL that posts flamebait or other off-topic messages in a newsgroup in order to disrupt the newsgroup. ...more on Wikipedia about "AOLamer"
On the Internet, baiting is similar to trolling, in that baiters, like trolls, try to elicit a response from other users. The difference is that the response is supposed to be embarrassing to the user in question, and humorous to others. Baiters frequently concentrate on groups they do not like, such as pedophiles, fraudsters (often 419 fraudsters), religious fundamentalists, or homosexuals. What the baiter says does not need to make sense, it is often simply written to baffle the bait, and to produce an interesting result. In that respect, baiting is similar to telephone prank calls, but often much more elaborate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baiting (Internet)"
Crapflooding is the practice of disrupting online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings in order to make it difficult for other users to read other postings. It can also be motivated by a desire to waste the targeted site's bandwidth and storage space with useless text. It is related to trolling. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crapflooding"
Flamebait or trollbait is a message posted to an Internet discussion group, such as a newsgroup or a mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response (a " flame"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Flamebait"
The Gay Nigger Association of America (better known by its four letter abbreviation GNAA) is a self-aggrandizing Internet troll pseudo-organization that primarily targets Internet communities in an effort to cause havoc and disrupt their normal activities. The GNAA designed their name to be offensive and it is generally assumed to have been chosen because of the perceived shock value that is associated with homosexuality and the impact of the racial slur " nigger". Although it is termed "Association of America" the organization also has participants from countries other than the United States of America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gay Nigger Association of America"
An Internet sock puppet is an additional account created by an existing member of an Internet community. This account allows them to pose as a completely different user, sometimes to manufacture the illusion of support in a vote or argument. Other reasons include a desire to support or vote on an issue coupled with a desire to have one's "main" account stay away from the issue. This behaviour is sometimes seen as being dishonest by online communities and as a result these individuals are often labeled as trolls. This is often done on sites like eBay in order to bid on one's own auctions, although eBay forbids the practice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet sock puppet"
In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts rude or offensive messages on the Internet, such as on online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants. "Troll" can also mean the message itself or be a verb meaning to post such messages. "Trolling" is also commonly used to describe the activity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet troll"
Kevin Ealy (more popularly known as Kevin Klerck or simply Klerck) ( December 28, 1982 – March 8, 2005), was an Internet persona who was active as a troll on several popular websites, most notably Slashdot, Shacknews and Squabble.org. Some credit his page widening techniques as the primary reason Slashdot implemented the lameness filter, which checks pending comments for repetitive text or malicious formatting before allowing them to appear on a website. Most notably, his petition to "Rename The Two Towers to Something Less Offensive," regarding Peter Jackson's film The Two Towers, garnered international media attention. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klerck"
The l0de Radio Hour is an Internet radio show broadcasted from New Orleans by a man who was known only to his listeners as "l0de". It ran on an irregular schedule since March 2004; The show frequently takes sides on controversial topics in the interest of amusing and/or offending the listening audience. It has voiced pro- Palestinian sentiments, condoned violence, anti-Semitism, and racism; embraced homosexuality and the spread of AIDS; vocalized both tacit and broad support for terrorism, teenage suicide, Satanism, Nazism, disco, anarchism, Linux, arson, beastiality, Microsoft Windows, and drug use; often promoted conspiracy theories as to Israeli culpability for the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States (often simply summed up as " Jews did WTC!); ridiculed the candidates in the 2004 U.S. presidential election with a digitally edited recording of the first presidential debate, such that the candidates espoused psychotic views (e.g. promoting the murder of children) after being administered with enormous dosages of powerful hallucinogenic drugs; and endorsed " Zombie Hitler" for president. ...more on Wikipedia about "L0de Radio Hour"
The Meow Wars was the largest Usenet flame war of all time. It started on the newsgroup alt.fan.karl-malden.nose and spread throughout the alt.* hierarchy, the so-called " Big 8" groups, and out to the wider Internet, lasting for over one year. The original Meowers were denizens of alt.tv.beavis-n-butthead who responded to the January 9, 1996 "invasion" staged by Harvard students from alt.fan.karl-malden.nose. Once the Harvard students abandoned alt.fan.karl-malden.nose, it became the Meowers' base of operations for what they called their "UseNet Performance Art". ...more on Wikipedia about "Meow Wars"
A web browser normally places as many words in a single line as will fit the width of the browser window. However, there are cases where horizontal scrolling is needed. For a large picture, table or diagram this may be worthwhile, but without special measures the rest of the web page is also affected, with long lines that can only be read by cumbersome horizontal scrolling. ...more on Wikipedia about "Page widening"
The rec.music.white-power newsgroup vote took place in February of 1996. The newsgroup was proposed by Milton Kleim, a person known as one of the most vocal online proponents of the white supremacist movement, and a person who had started a number of vicious flame wars on various newsgroups. His original proposal for the newsgroup stated that it would be a forum for "discussion of White Power music." ...more on Wikipedia about "Rec.music.white-power newsgroup vote"
Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a large subset of the bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular technology website Slashdot. They are a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. Slashdot trolling is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general. Some of these behaviours are usually considered to be more offensive or insightful than others. On Slashdot, many of these phenomena have become the object of parody. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slashdot trolling phenomena"
A troll organization or troll gang is a group of internet trolls who associate together, share ideas and resources, and may act in a concerted manner. They sometimes adopt a name for their group, and on occasion elements of an organizational structure. This is difficult, as trolls often object ideologically to organized structures and cooperation, and disapprove of agreeing with anyone. The verb to anarchize seems to have been coined to describe the minimal degree to which trolls can manage their joint technological and cultural needs to achieve their goals. Some troll groups refer to themselves as an anarchization, though this term is also used to mean "extreme democratization". ...more on Wikipedia about "Troll organization"
Trolltalk (also known as 20721, sid 20721 or sid=20721) is a hidden story ID on the online news discussion forum Slashdot, where Slashdot trollers used to converse amongst themselves, sometimes demonstrating new trolling techniques, bragging about successful trolling and insulting each other. Trolltalk is the oldest active SID on Slashdot, and has received more posts over its lifetime than any other SID, but due to Slashcode's purge feature, only the most recent two weeks of posts remain at any given time. Although the two-week post count is usually in the thousands, at least 95% of the posts are intentionally content-free "crapfloods" generated by automated posting scripts, with the remaining handful being written by the various people who visit the forum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Trolltalk"
Although the boards do not require registration to read, a Yahoo! ID is required in order to post. This is a weak deterrent against trolling, however, as ID's are free and do not require e-mail confirmation. Yahoo! also warns users on every post they submit that "Although your IP address is not displayed on your post, Yahoo! does record your yahoo_id...and your IP address" and "Messages that are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable may be removed and may result in the loss of your Yahoo! ID." These warnings are also weak deterrents, however, as there is no prohibition on a single user owning several Yahoo! ID accounts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yahoo! trolling phenomena"
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