[Agua]

You know, trolling is a subtle art. It is not in the amount insults you can pack into an end game all talk sequence, nor is it yelling so that no one else can be heard. It has cadence and flow with a snippet of irony. If you, the troll, are insulting a player with less points, it just makes you look like the douche that you are. Clearly, why would a superior player need the ego-stroking of putting down an inferior one (unless said former player is actually slightly insecure). Could it be that the superior player only pits themselves against players they know they can beat? Have they reached a point where their peers possess powerful skills and the troll simply can't compete? Or is the next level just buried, slightly latent, and within reach after a sedative?

Maybe it's none of this at all, and in truth, I am trolling all the same with a concurrent level of success; that is to say, none.

Just some food for thought...all you halfwitstupidchickenfuckingassbastardwhoremongers...

Cheers and Jeers.

Edit: Incidentally enough, I am actually referring to the in-game antics of some players. We have some good, fair play trolls, and some atrociously juvenile dunderheads that give trolling a bad name. I wasn't even thinking about forum trolls...that's a whole 'nother ball-game; I'll leave that to you professionals.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

what your speaking of is naught trolling, tis elitism

What you are doing right now isn't trolling, or it was successful.

[getthere1tme]

What's the moral of the story? Omega is right. Trolling's purpose is to be inflammatory and to get a rise out of people. People talk shit for all kinds of different reasons but rarely is it simply for a reaction. A little smack talk can be fun and egg on the spirit of competition, but belittling people on a server open to the public is just retarded. If that's your point then I agree. Also, you're a good writer.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Trolling's purpose is to be inflammatory and to get a rise out of people.

The real purpose of trolling isn't to really to piss people off, although that is usually the case as that is the easiest purpose.

The pure form of trolling is setting a reaction you want to get out of people and then trying to create that reaction on your own terms.

It can be calling medic when you have full health so that the enemy hears it, thinking you are hurt, and rushes you when you have full health.

Or it can be pissing people down until they rage quit a server. People who like to put people down for not getting enough points, or being total dicks to people just for being new at the game.

The first rule of trolling is that if you are successful: the person being trolled won't know they are being trolled.

[insomniaprincess]

Also, you're a good writer.

I agreed.

And I'm the pro. :wink:

[Versed]

And I'm the pro. :wink:

OH YA?!?! WELL I'M JUST PRO!

[Rostov]

I always thought trolling was summed up as follows:

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[N0body]

I couldn't find that penny arcade troll one. Would have been perfect here.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

you are all thinking about Internet Tough Guys, not trolls.