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Snaggy
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posted December 06, 2000 23:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Snaggy   Click Here to Email Snaggy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Trolls can be horrible things, but every now and then, a troll with a sense of humour will post something that is just so dum I have to laugh.

So go ahead, try to post a stupid troll saying of your own....you know, a collection of words that sounds funny, or makes you laugh, or turns your hair blue.

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Buffy
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posted December 07, 2000 00:17     Click Here to See the Profile for Buffy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My friend was in a punk band called Rubber Uncle.

That name always made me LOL!!!

Rubber Uncle!

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kimagure
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posted December 07, 2000 02:21     Click Here to See the Profile for kimagure   Click Here to Email kimagure     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My trademark:

HUH?


@.@

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Nitrozac
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posted December 07, 2000 09:11     Click Here to See the Profile for Nitrozac   Click Here to Email Nitrozac     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This one is X-Files influenced:

Bat spit, it's like no other.

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Beenay
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posted December 07, 2000 09:49     Click Here to See the Profile for Beenay   Click Here to Email Beenay     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cook for me!!!

(Actually, it's a song name)

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CyberGoddess
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posted December 07, 2000 10:24     Click Here to See the Profile for CyberGoddess   Click Here to Email CyberGoddess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Brendan Frasier and naked jello wrestling!!!!

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zorgon
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posted December 07, 2000 13:36     Click Here to See the Profile for zorgon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm wondering... is this article itself a really elaborate troll? Her definition of Munchausen syndrome doesn't seem to match with other definitions I've seen (IANAP however) and that bit about the first verse of "I Am The Walrus" strains credibility.

I pulled off one of these in high school, where I put forth a really convincing (well) case that Macbeth acted the way he did becuase of his unresolved Oedipus complex. I got an A on the report but it was liberally decorated with 24-point livid green stamps reading "BULLSHIT" meaning I didn't succeed in trolling my prof but it was fun while it lasted. . .

Oh almost forgot, my favorite troll (edited for nitrovision):

"Bambi, naked and pet... I mean pleased."

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Nitrozac
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posted December 07, 2000 14:12     Click Here to See the Profile for Nitrozac   Click Here to Email Nitrozac     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
LOL, jello!

It occurred to me that it was an elaborate troll paper. I suspected it at the part that says 2 trolls that go by the name Rob M. and Jeff B were taking poppers and the link led to some news site. Then it occurred to me that most people who comment on Slashdot are newbies, so in fact Slashdot itself is all troll, the stories are posted to incite posts. Jon Katz's stuff, you really have to wonder, it's very trolly.

I think it's a hoax, but it is a good topic for an anthropologic paper. :P

Here goes a another try;
First Hoax!

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Mr Bill
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posted December 07, 2000 15:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Mr Bill   Click Here to Email Mr Bill     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We used to play pictionary using words and phrases that we made up. One that came up in every game was:

Panda Pooh on a Stick

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posted December 07, 2000 17:57           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Yes, this is a put-on; no doubt about it.  First, there is no “Amy Dhala” enrolled as a student, or on faculty or staff at the University of Texas at Austin.  Second, consider the name itself—if it’s not a riff on “amygdala,” a part of the limbic brain having to do with cognitive function, I’m a Dutchman.  Third, consider section 6.3, where the author abruptly breaks character for several paragraphs and imitates a trollish hacking of hir own paper.  Fourth, a careful reading reveals a high factor of “buzzwording,” with the writer stringing together sociological terms to form polysyllabic gibberish.  IOW:  this, ladles and jellyspoons, is a complete shuck.


Sam

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Tau Zero
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posted December 07, 2000 19:48     Click Here to See the Profile for Tau Zero     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Did some relevant post or link get deleted, or is the previous mis-posted to the wrong thread?  I seem to be missing a reference.

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geekchiq
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posted December 07, 2000 21:00           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nah, Amy Dhala is, of course, a play on the character name of every troll's favorite actress. Amy Dhala... Amidala... natalie portman... hot grits... etc. Nice subtle troll reference there.

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supaboy
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posted December 07, 2000 22:32     Click Here to See the Profile for supaboy   Click Here to Email supaboy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ooh. I completely missed that clue!

I started thinking the document was a troll in the first couple minutes of reading. But to have missed the giveaway at the top of the page... Oi!

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Tau Zero
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posted December 08, 2000 11:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Tau Zero     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Again, what is "this document"?  I don't see a link.

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ARJ
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posted December 08, 2000 13:22     Click Here to See the Profile for ARJ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Tau--

It was under the comic. But here it is again for you and anyone else curious to read it:

http://www.io.com/%7Ezikzak/troll_thesis.html

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pawn
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posted December 08, 2000 23:34     Click Here to See the Profile for pawn   Click Here to Email pawn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The question that comes to my mind is, why?

Why would some troll go through all the trouble of creating this document? It seems that someone has way toooooo much time on their hands.

One other way of looking at it, is that it could have been created to ellict(?) responses so the author could use them in a real paper, or research study of some kind. Maybe one about how people react to being tricked by a troll. The author left several clues that this paper was fake, enough to trip the warning bells in the mind, as it were.

BTW, Nitrozac where did you find this, was it posted somewhere? I would be curious to see any responses to it.

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Nitrozac
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posted December 09, 2000 12:16     Click Here to See the Profile for Nitrozac   Click Here to Email Nitrozac     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Snaggy found the link, I think he searched for trolls/trolls/ on google. I looked on everything2.com or org I forget.

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The Chump
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posted December 09, 2000 17:09     Click Here to See the Profile for The Chump   Click Here to Email The Chump     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A friend of mine thought the funniest thing to do would be to start a (gag) country band that he would name Gape Horn, just to hear all of the mindless rednecks chant "Gay Porn, Gay Porn, Gay Porn..."

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CakerX
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posted December 10, 2000 01:18           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My favorite troll saying I will have to be "PENIS!" my freind Commander Khaine uses it all the time on the 3d realms message board. But he also posts the best ROTT levels ever made!

Me, I LOVE the Natalie Portman trolls... every time of slashdot I see a natalie portman troll I stop and read it. damn it, it always brightens my day. I wanna see a joy of tech about a petrifed naked undistributable open source Natalie Portman!!


-CakerX(Ben Dover)

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Nitrozac
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posted December 10, 2000 12:13     Click Here to See the Profile for Nitrozac   Click Here to Email Nitrozac     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
well cakerx, you won't be seeing anything about the naked and petrified stuff around here! I guess you'll just have to stick to your low threshold slashdot surfing.

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spiralx
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posted December 11, 2000 07:01     Click Here to See the Profile for spiralx   Click Here to Email spiralx     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Nitrozac:
well cakerx, you won't be seeing anything about the naked and petrified stuff around here! I guess you'll just have to stick to your low threshold slashdot surfing.

Oh really? Strange, considering you have a copy of every single naked and petrified post from /. and a discussion thereof here on this very website...

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ARJ
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posted December 11, 2000 18:16     Click Here to See the Profile for ARJ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I like how some people are taking this question so seriously they are even acting like genuine trolls in their posts! Really clever.

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Veldrane
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posted December 15, 2000 09:56     Click Here to See the Profile for Veldrane   Click Here to Email Veldrane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The troll that comes to my mind? (Please don't shoot the messenger here... )

"Nitrozac, are you really a man?"


It may not be all that funny but it qualifies under the "really dumb troll" category.

-Vel

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posted December 15, 2000 10:06     Click Here to See the Profile for Swiss Mercenary   Click Here to Email Swiss Mercenary     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Really dumb troll? Hmmmmm.

'Europe is better that the US.'
'Canada is better than the US.'
'Anything is better than the US.'

'The <enter nationality here> suck.'

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Nitrozac
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posted December 17, 2000 01:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Nitrozac   Click Here to Email Nitrozac     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Spiralx, I haven't had time to read that thread, but it looks like it was back in the "Astrid" days. That wonderful, delicate, and sensitive old lady sure generated alot posts! How ever did "she" do that?

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spiralx
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posted December 21, 2000 10:42     Click Here to See the Profile for spiralx   Click Here to Email spiralx     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Nitrozac:
Spiralx, I haven't had time to read that thread, but it looks like it was back in the "Astrid" days. That wonderful, delicate, and sensitive old lady sure generated alot posts! How ever did "she" do that?

For those of you who are devoted Slashdot readers, the clue is in the name "Astrid Leuer"... it kind of sounds like something else, especially without the initial A.

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posted December 21, 2000 11:19     Click Here to See the Profile for Snaggy   Click Here to Email Snaggy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
spiralx... a Troll Tells All!

Film at 11

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Nitrozac
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posted December 21, 2000 13:07     Click Here to See the Profile for Nitrozac   Click Here to Email Nitrozac     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey everybody! Spiralx is a troll! He's Astrid Leur! He was trolling us all along!

So, tell us, why do you troll? How long does it take to write a troll post? How old are you? Still at school? Girl problems? Do you hate women? What's the scoop? Come on, you've got an audience now, I'd like to know the reasoning.

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posted December 21, 2000 22:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Mr Bill   Click Here to Email Mr Bill     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Astrid Leur = SpiralX ???
Astrid Leur without the "A"...

hmm...
streudel?
stridler?
St. Riddler?

nope, still don't make sense.


damn, now I'm hungry...

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posted December 22, 2000 06:52     Click Here to See the Profile for spiralx   Click Here to Email spiralx     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Nitrozac:
Hey everybody! Spiralx is a troll! He's Astrid Leur! He was trolling us all along!

No, I'm not Astrid Leuer, my knowledge of artificial intelligence and philosophy isn't up to that kind of level at all... I've only got this account here, I've not posted that many times and I haven't trolled anyone.

But seeing as you didn't pick up on the clues, here's another one.

quote:
So, tell us, why do you troll? How long does it take to write a troll post? How old are you? Still at school? Girl problems? Do you hate women? What's the scoop? Come on, you've got an audience now, I'd like to know the reasoning.

Yes, I troll on slashdot. That's hardly a secret to anyone who reads it regularly. Why? Because I was very bored at work, starting reading the stuff posted by other trolls on trolltalk and enjoyed it. And it's a challenge.

As for the other questions, well it should take about two or three minutes to bash out a few paragraphs to get in the top twenty comments (see my /. troll HOWTO for more tips). I'm not at school, I don't have any girl problems and I have a busy social life

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Astrid Leuer
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posted December 22, 2000 08:52     Click Here to See the Profile for Astrid Leuer   Click Here to Email Astrid Leuer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hullo, one and all, back for the attack and all that. John Montoya speaking, alias streetlawyer, alias jsm2, alias LWM, alias a fat bloke.

In answer to the various questions, no I don't hate women. If you're looking for people who do have a fairly serious problem with women, you might want to take a closer gander at your regular posters; I'd single out Tau Zero as someone who really doesn't seem to like anyone who isn't exactly like himself.

If you look back at the posts, you'll see that I'm actually pushing a fairly strong feminist line. I'm a lurker on the Colorado University Marxism & Feminism mailing list and almost all of the feminist theory posted was genuine -- some of the sexual politics on this site really pissed me off, so I went in hard. The soft-porn antics of the early Astrid character were perhaps less forgivable, but I had to establish the statue fetish theme in order to achieve the goal of working in the words "naked and petrified" in a context where nobody would object to them. Which, I hope you'll admit, was a quite nice Situationist prank.

The Artificial Intelligence thread was basically started in order to redress the balance with the soft porn thing. I was taken to task, quite correctly, by a couple of people on the troll mailing list, for putting over a pretty silly and offensive female characterisation, so I thought I'd give her some intellectual firepower. All of Astrid's arguments on that thread, by the way, are correct and come directly from the mouth of John Searle.

The reason I stayed on after the initial prank was partly inertia, partly for the AI discussion, but mainly because I couldn't believe some of the opinions being regularly expressed here. At times, it felt like a trip through Alice in Wonderland as rewritten by John Katz.

The Joy of Tech reviews were basically satire. I dash these posts off pretty quickly, as they're usually stream of consciousness stuff, and I type fast (I used to be a freelance journalist, so I'm used to thinking in readable copy). The JoT reviews were the hardest ones to do; they tended to involve about a morning's background thinking time, then anything up forty minutes to write.

Anyway, happy holidays, and sorry to anyone who was fooled. Anyone who got annoyed by anything Astrid posted; I'm afraid it was probably your own fault. All of my genuine troll posts were received pretty easily. If I told you that you had questionable sexual politics, then it was because you did. And I'm not exactly sorry for raising the blood pressure of a couple of racists either.

bye!

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Nitrozac
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posted December 23, 2000 18:23     Click Here to See the Profile for Nitrozac   Click Here to Email Nitrozac     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Trolls are kinda like the Mathmoss(sp?) in Barbarella.

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posted December 27, 2000 14:33     Click Here to See the Profile for kimbrosan   Click Here to Email kimbrosan     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Swiffer. Lovely!

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