ext_73077 ([identity profile] hrj.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] hrj 2007-05-20 05:19 pm (UTC)

Re: Interesting...I've given nebulous thought to this topic, myself.

I was thinking in terms of a label for the whole category -- but even so I'd argue against trolls being a subset. It seems to me that an essential part of trolling is receiving feedback that one's postings have had the desired effect. There is, of course, the special sub-category of "drive-by troll", but I consider them to be non-prototypical trolls. To some extent, I'd consider trolls a subset of "entirely social-status negotiation with no significant element of information exchange".

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