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Oct. 14th, 2014 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniI finally managed to draw something: A thought on trolling
ETA: experimenting with embedding the picture here:
Description: a squat, shaggy purple troll, in a small boat trailing a fishing line. The hook is a question mark, the fish are exclamation marks, and the bait is a valentine heart.
I'm experimenting with expressing the idea of "pro-fun trolling" outside the old context of rec.arts.drwho. How's this for a start?
"Troll (verb): to fish by trailing bait slowly through the water, to attract bites.
The thing is: when trolling is done on the Internet, so many people have gone for the cheap and easy bait, that most of us don't even believe that hiqh quality, good spirited trolling is even possible. So we give up, and cede our space to the nasties. And it becomes a self-creating proposition."
ETA: experimenting with embedding the picture here:
Description: a squat, shaggy purple troll, in a small boat trailing a fishing line. The hook is a question mark, the fish are exclamation marks, and the bait is a valentine heart.
I'm experimenting with expressing the idea of "pro-fun trolling" outside the old context of rec.arts.drwho. How's this for a start?
"Troll (verb): to fish by trailing bait slowly through the water, to attract bites.
The thing is: when trolling is done on the Internet, so many people have gone for the cheap and easy bait, that most of us don't even believe that hiqh quality, good spirited trolling is even possible. So we give up, and cede our space to the nasties. And it becomes a self-creating proposition."
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:39 pm (UTC)When I was a kid, I'd of bristled at that. But now, in middle age, "freaking cute" might be my battle cry.
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