Friday, April 22, 2005

Donath on trolls

I still think this is the best trolling definition I've come across. Donath on trolls:

"Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the... members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings and, upon judging a poster a troll, make the offending poster leave the group. Their success at the former depends on how well they—and the troll—understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.

"Trolls can be costly in several ways. A troll can disrupt the discussion on a newsgroup, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the newsgroup community."

How might a troll troll a site that counts blogs? And should they be asked to leave.

(I never considered Iraq Blog Count a cocktail party, but hey, if praktike, richsanter et all think they are getting free canapes here - what the heck).

2 Comments

#4/22/2005 11:30:00 am Assalam Aleikom Blogger cile

some of the www.streamtime.org people have worked before in EX YUgoslavia. here's a comment from Jo, considering web-communication then and there:

http://balkansnet.org/internet.html

this link offers some articles of useful history on internet and communication in EX YUgoslavia,
still quite relevant for Iraq I would say

blogs did not exist in the 90's, but newsgroups were also spoiled by hatemail and stupidity

sometimes it is just to easy to speak...

jo

 
#4/22/2005 07:48:00 pm Assalam Aleikom Anonymous Anonymous

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=jargon&Query=troll is a more orignal definition of the word "troll". As you can see, it doesn't always indicate malicious intent. "Flame" is a more appropriate word in that case, but I suppose what's happening here is really a combination of the two.

 

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