Define "troll."

[Downey]

I have heard many variations of the word troll used in so many different contexts.
What do the wonderful posters of CC have to say about trolling?

[hecter]

It's a wonderful thing...

[wcaclimbing]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

[Restricted]

Troll: See: Restricted

[jonesthecurl]

It's actually the Welsh word Llort, spelt backwards.
The backward spelling is for magical effect, and is a time-binder.
For instance, all the time you spent reading this you were under a Llort spell, and should have been doing something more useful.

[Nikolai]

Define "troll."

Downey.

[Caleb the Cruel]

Norse???

[Iliad]

CC mod: You! Stop spamming
CC poster: What is spam? Can you define it?
CC mod: Just use your common sense, spamming is trolling.
CC poster: Can you define trolling then?
CC mod: Simple! Trolling is what trolls do!
CC poster: And can you actually answer the question and define trolls then?
CC mod: Trolls are people who spam. I've told you the answer *leaves*
CC poster: ???

[MeDeFe]

CC mod: You! Stop spamming
CC poster: What is spam? Can you define it?
CC mod: Just use your common sense, spamming is trolling.
CC poster: Can you define trolling then?
CC mod: Simple! Trolling is what trolls do!
CC poster: And can you actually answer the question and define trolls then?
CC mod: Trolls are people who spam. I've told you the answer *leaves*
CC poster: ???

Trolls are people who use circular reasoning to promote their own ends on the internet?

[mpjh]

Trolls use circular logic in a square conversation, square logic in a circular conversation, and pentagonal logic when confusion is the goal.

[MeDeFe]

Trolls use circular logic in a square conversation, square logic in a circular conversation, and pentagonal logic when confusion is the goal.

What does that make someone who uses hexagonal logic?

[yeti_c]

Have you lot not seen Lord of the Rings?!

C.

[mpjh]

Trolls use circular logic in a square conversation, square logic in a circular conversation, and pentagonal logic when confusion is the goal.

What does that make someone who uses hexagonal logic?

A confused troll. Six is a very bad number for trolls. It reminds them of diamonds and their days working the diamond mines in Canada.

[MeDeFe]

Trolls use circular logic in a square conversation, square logic in a circular conversation, and pentagonal logic when confusion is the goal.

What does that make someone who uses hexagonal logic?

A confused troll. Six is a very bad number for trolls. It reminds them of diamonds and their days working the diamond mines in Canada.

I see, but wouldn't a confused troll be all the more confusing for everyone else and thereby be capable of causing even more mayhem than a normal troll?

[mpjh]

certainly, nnhaa nhaa nhaa

[Minister Masket]

You used to be able to find one under a bridge if you were lucky.
Unfortunatly, not many survived The Great Purge of '53.

[mpjh]

[Kaplowitz]

We ate her, and then we ate him! oh my God!