Study: Internet trolls are drunk with power

They forgot one thing - they should have put the word "Guest" on the guy's shirt. ;-)

Agreed. That's why I logged in to post this. On the topic its not hard to find someone or recall a situation that involved being mocked or ridiculed for little to no reason. Sometimes for as little as question someones advice can result in a vicious bashing, this never ends well. Also there's times you just have to recognize the actions of a troll and drive them into insanity (or so you would hope) by egging them on repeatedly. Fighting a troll by being a troll, its the only way sometimes.

I have always said that the warm snugly anonymity of the internet brings out the best in people. Good to see there are actually people studying this

Trolls can be funny at times, some of their comments can be good for a laugh

Well, this is hardly "new business". The human psyche has been at the mercy of its machines for decades. The most salient example of this type of behaviour, is when people get behind the wheel of a car. A 100 lb woman is now the equal of a 250 pound man, and both are 20 times as big as they were before they slammed the SUV door. Latent aggression becomes salient and can escalate all the way to "road rage. It's like the car is now doing the thinking, and using its reptile brain to do it.

Theories like this have been around for decades, and this is a retread applied to internet behaviour.

What does impress me, is how people can still manage to obtain grant money to facilitate lounging around, puffing weed, and thinking they're onto something.

The way to deal with trolls is to remove their posts.(1*) That squelches their voice. End of influence, end of visibility, end of trolling. If the individual is too profoundly affected by this setback, another outlet could be found. My suggestion would be either masturbating or blowing one's brains out. A truly disturbed troll might try blowing his brains out while masturbating.

I actually do have a question about this, are "internet trolls" more likely to be male or female. Wait! I think I know this one, male! Send me a check.

(*1) You've been doing that for years, you savvy devils.

^^^^ Who do you think you are??? Trolls are people too.

A full on article about forum/internet trolls?
Guess it was going to happen sometime.

Thanks for stopping by to point out the patently obvious. Unless of course, this was posted by a typing chimpanzee.

it's like looking in a mirror

And Narcissus shares his thoughts with us.

+1/thumbs up/agree
Trolls have no sense of social anything, meaning that even trying to end an argument is impossible and Trolls will start an argument over absolutely nothing.
I enjoy the internet except on days I cross paths with Trolls.

Now what do u call a person who logs in to post extreme views instead of doing it anonymously.....

Oh goody, a quiz to go along with the study....:rolleyes:

You call them an extremist... For they wish for everyone to see their name and join some sort of crazy internet clan to be extremists together.

They forgot the mention that most of them are under the age of 16

Now see, this post could have been much improved in impact and credibility by inserting the word, "verily". To wit, "For verily they wish that everyone would seest their name, and wouldst joinest together, to celebrate the coming rapture of the troll mothership.

That's a week from today. Be there or be square!

See, told ya. It's almost biblical, isn't it?

A B**ch. Forum ***** is acceptable also.

The most attitude i see here come from the people with accounts, not the guests.

Five posts already cranky? Damn.