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OK PEOPLE STICK TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND :D ROFL! Sheesh, half of AO has HDAD! You start with one topic and before you know it there's 20 other topics coming from all sides.
SEEK HELP!
Anyways LOL...
To answer to the question in the thread's title: They think we're pretty stupid. No one has ever gone bankrupt by underestimating the intelligence of people.
Thanks for the link. But that is not quite what I need. Here is where I am getting help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
Wow, it's actually scientific and stuff.Quote:
On the Internet troll is a slang term used to describe:
A post (on a newsgroup, or other forum) thought to be intended to incite controversy or conflict or cause annoyance or offense.
A person who posts these.
The term has negative connotations, and is often applied as an insult, while simultaneously being claimed as a 'badge of honour' by troll organizations or individuals. Sincere but controversial or naive posters are sometimes mis-labeled as a trolls, but the term is generally considered to be correctly applied only to those looking to provoke outrage or discord.
A troll's reactions to being identified as a troll can vary widely depending on the forum in which the exchange takes place. A person unjustly accused of being a troll may be hurt and express indignation. A troll will sometimes react with verbal abuse, raising the stakes with inflammatory remarks maligning the motivation of the accuser.
Trolling is often described as an online version of the breaching experiment, where social boundaries and rules of etiquette are broken. Self-proclaimed trolls often style themselves as Devil's Advocates or gadflies, challenging the dominant discourse and assumptions of the forum they are "trolling" in an attempt to subvert and introduce different ways of thinking. Detractors who value etiquette claim that true "Devil's Advocates" generally identify themselves as such for the sake of etiquette, whereas trolls often consider etiquette to be something worth trolling.
Trolls are sometimes caricatured as socially-inept. This is often due to fundamental attribution error, as it is difficult to know the real traits of an individual solely from their online discourse. Indeed, since intentional trolls are alleged to knowingly flout social boundaries, it is difficult to typecast them as socially inept since they have arguably proven adept at their goal of inciting conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...g_in_the_1990s
And Troll Organizations? heh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_organization
And quite interestingly,Quote:
Slashdot website, a subculture with several such organizations has formed (see Slashdot trolling phenomena), some devoted to moderating each others' posts upwards and others to propagating new types of posts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nig...ion_of_America
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GNAA first appeared in January 2003, trolling Slashdot using new, complicated ASCII logos representing the organization and press releases pertaining to the contents of Slashdot articles. Trolling activities also include prank calls of registration and technical support phone lines and IRC channel flooding.
Hrmm... so if those are trolls what are the one liners that run around yelling "YOURSE ALL GAFS!!!"?? Mini-trolls? Wannabe Trolls? Elves? Elvis?
Yeah, well relying on a user's stupidity is one thing. A message like that is another. You can't possibly expect to fool someone with a message like that. You also can't expect to many any type of money with a message like that. That person need's to wake up earlier in the morning and go back to scamming school or something.
You'd be amazed Spyd. Greed is a powerful force, especially when partnered with stupidity.Quote:
You can't possibly expect to fool someone with a message like that.
Greed is indeed powerful. Greed is what fuel's people (especially scammers) to do what they do no matter how illegal, heinous, or wrong it is.
And let us NEVER forget:
There's one born EVERY minute.....:eek: