Creeping? Trolling??

orapronobis
orapronobis Posts: 460 Member
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What's creeping? What's trolling?
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  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    http://www.urbandictionary.com

    The above can prove to be informative, amusing, and perhaps even shocking. YMMV
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    http://www.urbandictionary.com

    The above can prove to be informative, amusing, and perhaps even shocking. YMMV

    TFCIT
  • sm1zzle
    sm1zzle Posts: 920 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards

    thats not what a troll is.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards

    thats not what a troll is.

    If that is one of the things people think trolling is, no wonder they are so ready to call everyone trolls...LMAO!
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards

    thats not what a troll is.

    If that is one of the things people think trolling is, no wonder they are so ready to call everyone trolls...LMAO!

    i definitely get the vibe from MFP that a lot of people here are new or inexperienced with the internet. its kind of cute. :D
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Here...to help educate the peeps. Per Urban Dictionary:

    Trolling: The art of deliberately, cleverly, and secretly pissing people off, usually via the internet, using dialogue. Trolling does not mean just making rude remarks: Shouting swear words at someone doesn't count as trolling; it's just flaming, and isn't funny. Spam isn't trolling either; it pisses people off, but it's lame.

    The most essential part of trolling is convincing your victim that either a) truly believe in what you are saying, no matter how outrageous, or b) give your victim malicious instructions, under the guise of help.
    Trolling requires decieving; any trolling that doesn't involve decieving someone isn't trolling at all; it's just stupid. As such, your victim must not know that you are trolling; if he does, you are an unsuccesful troll.

    Let me repeat the last line: Trolling requires decieving; any trolling that doesn't involve decieving someone isn't trolling at all; it's just stupid. As such, your victim must not know that you are trolling; if he does, you are an unsuccesful troll.


    So for everyone that gets pissed because someone has a differing opinion or doesn't like "the way" someone conveys their advice - that doesn't make them trolls. Glad we got that sorted now :D
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    Creeping, or creeper, comes from the root "creepy", a word used to describe revulsion, horror, uneasiness, such that it causes the sensation of things 'creeping along the skin.' It is colloquially used to denote someone who is creeping around for photographs, usually of women, which said 'creeper' (noun) finds arousing. Creepers might try to engage someone in conversation to elicit more "*kitten*-fodder", a term for media which inspires the creeper in *kitten*. Creeper is an only-slightly-less threatening relative of Stalker.

    Trolling comes from the root "troll" or "trawling" as a boat in a river will idle and drag bait through the water. Often, an Internet troll will "cast a line", if you will, with a hook baited by offensive material. They don't wish to catch fish, however, the objective of this trolling is to catch people's ire. A classic example might be a post that says "people who have gone bald are proven to be less intelligent and have smaller genitals than people with hair." The claim itself is completely baseless, but may upset people and provoke an argument. Watching this upset behavior entertains the troll. The term could easily have been inspired by a bridge troll as well, the Internet Convocation On Etymology has not produced a satisfactory conclusion.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
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  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards

    thats not what a troll is.

    If that is one of the things people think trolling is, no wonder they are so ready to call everyone trolls...LMAO!

    i definitely get the vibe from MFP that a lot of people here are new or inexperienced with the internet. its kind of cute. :D

    AOL needs to get popular again. They were great as Internet training wheels. :P
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    Creeper. e.g.
    "Joylia, your lips are seriously beautiful. I can see them there in the picture. Plump, very hot, I'll bet those are soft. I'm going to think about those later. Heh heh. Would you talk abusively toward me?"
    Creepy, creeper behavior.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards
    Hmmm then I guess we are all trolls. I thought trolls are those cute dolls that I used to collect when I was a tween.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Creeper. e.g.
    "Joylia, your lips are seriously beautiful. I can see them there in the picture. Plump, very hot, I'll bet those are soft. I'm going to think about those later. Heh heh. Would you talk abusively toward me?"
    Creepy, creeper behavior.

    LMAO! Niceeeeeeee!
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    LMAO! Niceeeeeeee!

    Mmm, my pleasure. Mmyess.


    And on an actual, serious note, I was creeping* your pics - you're making awesome progress, you look fantastic :-D


    *Creeping is not always necessarily pejorative.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    LMAO! Niceeeeeeee!

    Mmm, my pleasure. Mmyess.


    And on an actual, serious note, I was creeping* your pics - you're making awesome progress, you look fantastic :-D


    *Creeping is not always necessarily pejorative.

    Awwww, thank you! And great example of a positive creep :D
  • sm1zzle
    sm1zzle Posts: 920 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards

    thats not what a troll is.

    Sure it is. Spending lots of time on boards usually screwing with people.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards

    thats not what a troll is.

    Sure it is. Spending lots of time on boards usually screwing with people.

    See, when you add the screwing with people part to define trolling -then it's okay. But just saying spending hours on message boards isn't.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    Creeping ex.- Sneaking on someone's Facebook.

    Trolling ex. - Spending hours on message boards

    thats not what a troll is.

    Sure it is. Spending lots of time on boards usually screwing with people.

    spending lots of time on boards has nothing to do with it. you can be a troll with just a few seconds or minutes of internet use a day.

    reread this thread(all the messages people have posted here) and you will see the definition.
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
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  • MemphisKitten
    MemphisKitten Posts: 878 Member
    Here...to help educate the peeps. Per Urban Dictionary:

    Trolling: The art of deliberately, cleverly, and secretly pissing people off, usually via the internet, using dialogue. Trolling does not mean just making rude remarks: Shouting swear words at someone doesn't count as trolling; it's just flaming, and isn't funny. Spam isn't trolling either; it pisses people off, but it's lame.

    The most essential part of trolling is convincing your victim that either a) truly believe in what you are saying, no matter how outrageous, or b) give your victim malicious instructions, under the guise of help.
    Trolling requires decieving; any trolling that doesn't involve decieving someone isn't trolling at all; it's just stupid. As such, your victim must not know that you are trolling; if he does, you are an unsuccesful troll.

    Let me repeat the last line: Trolling requires decieving; any trolling that doesn't involve decieving someone isn't trolling at all; it's just stupid. As such, your victim must not know that you are trolling; if he does, you are an unsuccesful troll.


    So for everyone that gets pissed because someone has a differing opinion or doesn't like "the way" someone conveys their advice - that doesn't make them trolls. Glad we got that sorted now :D


    :drinker:
  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
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  • orapronobis
    orapronobis Posts: 460 Member
    Thanks, everyone. Creeping is what I thought. Trolling...I was clueless. Now it makes sense, like the woman who posted a question about starting her 9-month-old baby on shakeology. Just looking to stir people up and sit back and watch the fight begin. :smile:
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    Crap. Lets not post about trolling.....The more people that know about trolling the more difficult it becomes.
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    Thanks, everyone. Creeping is what I thought. Trolling...I was clueless. Now it makes sense, like the woman who posted a question about starting her 9-month-old baby on shakeology. Just looking to stir people up and sit back and watch the fight begin. :smile:

    I would say the shakeology baby thing was not so much a troll, but a very silly joke. It does not pass the Troll standard of a rational person thinking it was a plausible, if deplorable, position.
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,716 Member
    Thanks, everyone. Creeping is what I thought. Trolling...I was clueless. Now it makes sense, like the woman who posted a question about starting her 9-month-old baby on shakeology. Just looking to stir people up and sit back and watch the fight begin. :smile:

    That's what is known as funny.

    Some people yell troll like chicken little around here.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    Thanks, everyone. Creeping is what I thought. Trolling...I was clueless. Now it makes sense, like the woman who posted a question about starting her 9-month-old baby on shakeology. Just looking to stir people up and sit back and watch the fight begin. :smile:

    I would say the shakeology baby thing was not so much a troll, but a very silly joke. It does not pass the Troll standard of a rational person thinking it was a plausible, if deplorable, position.

    There is no discriminating against irrational people in dealing with troll behavior. If there was trolling would be nearly impossible.
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    Its getting pissed off when peoples profiles are set to "private unless friend". Freaking lame
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    That's relevant to the conversation. So thank you for that.
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    Thanks, everyone. Creeping is what I thought. Trolling...I was clueless. Now it makes sense, like the woman who posted a question about starting her 9-month-old baby on shakeology. Just looking to stir people up and sit back and watch the fight begin. :smile:

    Isn't that what the internet was designed for?
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    Its getting pissed off when peoples profiles are set to "private unless friend". Freaking lame

    Hey FitBeto.

    I don't want to freak you out, so don't make any sudden movements.

    But . . . you GOT SOMETHING ON YOUR BACK!!! You got FEET coming out of your NECK! WTF?!?

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