Trolls amongst us ...

[stackpole]

I think the problem began right here:

His classmates created a virtual memorial on MySpace and garlanded it with remembrances.

[Troll]

Bag of tulip. Maybe we should 'troll' these tossers. I bet they can't take what they dish out...

Bring it on Porky

[chef]

A summary for those who can't be bothered to read even page 1..

One afternoon in the spring of 2006, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle and shot himself in the head..

His classmates created a virtual memorial on MySpace and garlanded it with remembrances. One wrote that Mitchell was “an hero to take that shot” Someone e-mailed a clipping of Mitchell’s newspaper obituary to MyDeathSpace.com, a Web site that links to the MySpace pages of the dead. From MyDeathSpace, Mitchell’s page came to the attention of an Internet message board known as /b/ and the “trolls,” as they have come to be called, who dwell there…

Something about Mitchell Henderson struck the denizens of /b/ as funny.[. They were especially amused by a reference on his MySpace page to a lost iPod. Mitchell Henderson, /b/ decided, had killed himself over a lost iPod..
Someone hacked Henderson’s MySpace page and gave him the face of a zombie. Someone placed an iPod on Henderson’s grave, took a picture and posted it to /b/. ..

The phone began ringing at Mitchell’s parents’ home. “It sounded like kids,” remembers Mitchell’s father. “They’d say, ‘Hi, this is Mitchell, I’m at the cemetery.’ ‘Hi, I’ve got Mitchell’s iPod.’ ‘Hi, I’m Mitchell’s ghost, the front door is locked. Can you come down and let me in?’ ” He sighed. “It really got to my wife.” The calls continued for a year and a half."


I think that's far beyond anything you'd see here..

[Diver]

Bag of tulip. Maybe we should 'troll' these tossers. I bet they can't take what they dish out...

Summer Holiday

[ThomasSoerensen]

some pseudo journey trying to write history of trolling and making it interesting by using some real people. Most likely 100% inaccurate.

[darmstadt]

Bag of tulip. Maybe we should 'troll' these tossers. I bet they can't take what they dish out...

[Lockhouse]

It's a post-modernistic article. The reporter is himself being trolled by these people who attempt to make themselves seem interesting by trolling others for no other reason than to make up for their own insecurities. But are we being trolled by the article itself.....?

etc....

[NickFitz]

"You must be a registered member of NYTimes.com".

Ho hum

[TimberWolf]

Yeah, can we have a summary - only managed 1 page.

[oracleslave]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/ma...olls-t.html?hp

Interesting article - we think ours are bad, some of these guys take the biscuit.

Only read the first 2 pages of that article. Most of that stuff seems extremely malicious as opposed to a bit of joshing that goes on here most of the time.

[snaw]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/ma...olls-t.html?hp

Interesting article - we think ours are bad, some of these guys take the biscuit.