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The cannabis-using community is being demonised by hate-filled anti-psychotic bigots. The lynch mobs are after us. The Sun, Michael Howard and sinister conspiracies of internet-users are encouraging the ignorant mobs' murderous activities.
[Lights large spliff, looks over shoulder and ponders whether it is Special Branch or MI5 that's bugging the phone]
If they were trolling, it would likley be BNP's seeing if anyone here will support them in the next election. And they'd go for it in a much larger way.
Edity: Just remembered though, ATS did get get attacked by a bunch of Facists a while ago... perhpas they want to take over the net?
oh and how welcome you make us feel..... :chin:
Yes. A large minority of the left do - but not in the way you mean I suspect. The left should be putting a class analysis first and foremost before race, looking at what unites people rather than divides, while still acknowledging differences in culture. http://www.iwca.info/manifest/policy.htm#race
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll&r=f
Learn to google .......
Your nanny isn't posting on these boards yet.
I can assure you I'm no troll!
Aah well, if you say you're not, then it must be true.
I hope not... do you live under a bridge at all, though?
Its good to be able to bounce yourb arguements off people who do not agree, its like tempering your steel in the fire and very much needed.
Cause as far as I understand a troll is someone whose views oppose yours.
Yes, they might not beleive what they are saying, but say it to provoke a reaction. Like walking into a gay bar wearing a cross, holding a bible and proclaiming homosexuality a sin.
Exactly.
Again, you don't see what gets deleted most of the time. It is a term used wrongly and regularly, often by to make an unfait point and often unfairly against new users but it is valid and correct in some circumstances.
Of course you can troll a P+P board.
Pretty much by posting politically contentious posts designed to cause a strong reaction ..... kind of like you describe the purpose of a political board.
Wikipedia
So, one of the signs may well be someone who arrives at thesite and starts complaining about the "lefties" here - a forum with a large proportion of right-wingers, where bannings most often happen because of racism in posts - which are most likely to come from people on the right ...............
Another sign might well be someone who arrives with very contentious and inconsistent views which become apparent because of a high volume of posts - in a very short space of time.
The term originates from usenet - and in particular from politics threads on usenet.
Heres another definition:
Curezone
Do you think all of this is bad? I'm guessing from I know of your politics that you would like to challenge the dominant discourse and assumptions of the forum. I know at times I like to challenge the majority view and I suspect others do as well.
Actually I'm far more interested in thinking issues through, and in finding ways of articulating my views. I'm not particularly interested in getting involved in flame fests - they don't really achieve anything.
But, as in other aspects of my life, what you get is what is real for me when I make the post - and I can only think of one thread where I was the only voice expressing a particular viewpoint - that being the thread about the woman pilot who wanted to work 50% and went to tribunal when she was refused that request. I still, to this day stand by what I wrote on that thread - and I wasn't motivated by a desire to cause controversy .
An occassional attempt to generate heat rather than express your own views is not the same as continuous attempts to generate controversy by "breaching"
Flamings different - whilst I suspect most of us do it at some time or another I try to step back when I feel the need to lay into someone personally (responses to the Fur Hers post being an exception).