What does 'troll' or 'trollin' mean?
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someone who is only there for attention or to start trouble0
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I'm just looking for my watch.0
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Read the I HATE FAT PEOPLE RANT thread for examples0
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And what is "Bumping" on these treads?0
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HOLY CRAP!! I almost peed all over my office! That's the funniest thing I've seen all day.0 -
And what is "Bumping" on these treads?
it's a drug thing. shame on you.0 -
hookers and blow...
and this...
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And what is "Bumping" on these treads?
so.............no one knows about Google except me, apparently.......
To bump a thread on an internet forum is to post a reply to it purely in order to raise the thread's profile. This will typically return it to the top of the list of active threads. It has been suggested that "bump" is an acronym of "bring up my post";[1] however, this is almost certainly a backronym and the usage is entirely consistent with the verb "bump" which means "to knock to a new position".[2] It can also be used in personal messages (PMs) or instant messages (IMs) on the Web, to return an older message to the top of the list.
uh. Wiki/Google.0 -
I was completely wrong I thought trolls lived under bridges, and were grumpy... Good to know0
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And what is "Bumping" on these treads?
it's a drug thing. shame on you.
and also a 1970s dance move.0 -
I thought they were a collectors item from the 1990 era??0
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I was completely wrong I thought trolls lived under bridges, and were grumpy... Good to know
Only the one. In Fremont under the bridge in Seattle. . . That's a full-size VW Beetle, BTW.
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And what is "Bumping" on these treads?
it's a drug thing. shame on you.
and also a 1970s dance move.
...make sure you grind a little too whenever you bump...0 -
Hey guise, if you don't eat every 2-3 hrs, your body will go into starvation mode.
What a troll!
Love it. By the way a troll is someone that stalkes and uses the forums to make inappropriate sergestions0 -
They are those wittle doll thingys with the rhinestone belly buttons and funky @ss hair.0
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Cmriverside posted the correct definition, but unfortunately, sometimes it also means, "Let's attack the newbie for asking a Noob question."
Sort of!. It means what Cmriverside posted, but people often accuse people incorrectly of being a troll when they disagree with them. Its very over-used and really depends on the context and the way the post is made.
(and please don't accuse me of being a troll as I am disagreeing )0 -
Cmriverside posted the correct definition, but unfortunately, sometimes it also means, "Let's attack the newbie for asking a Noob question."
But to answer the original question, that's what a troll does; they say inflammatory things that they know will agitate people and start a sh!tstorm.
And someone else asked what "bumping" was. In pretty much every other forum I've ever seen, "bump" is an acronym for "Bring Up My Post." When a thread is ignored, putting a new post in it will shoot it back up to the top. Most of the time, this is seen as bad manners (and may even get someone banned on some sites). On MFP however, people will use "bump" as a way to bookmark a post. This is because unlike many boards, MFP has no subscribe function; if you want to save a thread to look at later, you have to make a post in it and let it show up in "My Topics."0 -
See http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Robin_Bin/view/mfp-terms-introductory-274185 for a collection of terms used on MFP (MyFitnessPal).0
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