1. I feel like we need (at least) 7 troll subcategories: (1st thread. I follow back).
* Standard Trolls: people who think it's cute to get people worked up w/ inflammatory social posts or comments, and usually trope lame arguments or catchphrases, gobbling up all the
* Standard Trolls: people who think it's cute to get people worked up w/ inflammatory social posts or comments, and usually trope lame arguments or catchphrases, gobbling up all the
2. manufactured crisis troll bait they can, to parrot on their feed. (your cousin or uncle. Sometimes these are of the Libertariatroll variety).
* Trollbots: computer controlled accounts / bots scouring the internet, inserting inflammatory comments, creating artificial tension
* Trollbots: computer controlled accounts / bots scouring the internet, inserting inflammatory comments, creating artificial tension
3. and normalizing the trolls dribble. (Russians).
* Supertrolls: fake accounts (real people or bots) w/ the sole purpose of *over*reacting to a troll, in order to make the actual cause and it's proponents look foolish and overreactionary entirely. (also Russians).
* Supertrolls: fake accounts (real people or bots) w/ the sole purpose of *over*reacting to a troll, in order to make the actual cause and it's proponents look foolish and overreactionary entirely. (also Russians).
4. * Trolligarch: person who profits from hyping and inflating *possibilities* that trolls would like to be true, while maybe using a bit of truth, or twisted truth, but framing the whole as likely true, supposing "WHO KNOW'S ? WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT XYZ, ALL I KNOW IS-> I'M
5. MAD AT <insert person shilling against>", (these issues rarely pan out to be true, of course) ... thereby hypnotizing more new (standard) trolls, and emboldening the originals, which is great for the trollcast and the trollective cause. (angry podcasters).
* Corporatrolls and
* Corporatrolls and
6. Streetrolls: they attempt to manipulate and control stock prices and corporate tax rates by trolling.
Then we have the worst:
* Polititrolls: These trolls actually run for office in easy to win races, acting as though they represent a billion people, and, of course, continue
Then we have the worst:
* Polititrolls: These trolls actually run for office in easy to win races, acting as though they represent a billion people, and, of course, continue
7. to troll online and every time a camera is put on them, and feel they exist for nothing other than feeding trolls above. (You know who).
and, of course, the
* Trollmasters: Usually these trolls stay behind the scenes, but they've got the money to fund all the troll think
and, of course, the
* Trollmasters: Usually these trolls stay behind the scenes, but they've got the money to fund all the troll think
8. tanks, fundraisers, gatherings, lobbyists, and ALL the trolls listed above, and of course benefit most from all this trolling. (You mostly don't know who, by design. You might even call it a Deep Troll State)!
9. ... Or are there already terms for these nuances I haven't heard ?
Retweet if you think the effects of trolling are under estimated and should be better understood.
Retweet if you think the effects of trolling are under estimated and should be better understood.
10. and if you'd like to give proper credit for how we got this level of trolling, and need for a whole thread of new words breaking it down, you can #thankarepublican
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