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What is a 10/10 Troll Thread Example?
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Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#41 - 2011-11-28 02:04:01 UTC
So even my thread is a troll thread?

This introduces a new layer of WTF for me. Suggestion threads, rage threads, call-out threads, rabble threads, and question threads are all troll threads. Even this thread. Whether you mean it as a troll or not, it's a troll. If you ask a good question about something controversial, it's a troll. If you answer that question, you're a troll too. If you read the answer to your question, you're being trolled and are also a troll in denial.

If you attack the trolls, you're trolling. If you troll the trolls, you may or may not be trolling. If you geniunely try to troll, you're just an idiot, of course. the only time it's not a troll thread is when it's the best possible troll ever, a 10/10, because nobody sees it as a troll, thus, it is no longer a troll.

Is every thread a troll thread?

Katrina Oniseki
Krios Ahzek
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#42 - 2011-11-28 02:10:05 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
I see a lot of threads earn 1/10 on the troll scale, and most other threads land somewhere between 4-6. So I'm curious... what sort of trolling constitutes a ten out of ten? What do you fine connoisseurs of trolly trolling consider to be a masterful artpiece of troll? Can you provide any links, or examples to particularly well done ingame or forum trolls (the trolling actions themselves, not the people)?

Scams are alright, but I figure they fall into a different category unless the point of the scam was to enrage the person instead of make money or some other economic thing.

Generally, from what I know of the enigmatic concept, trolling must be believable to those unaware, hilarious to those aware, and generally result in some sort of mayhem and/or tears. Lately it seems causing some effective rabble-rousing seems to be a requirement. Stirring up the revolutionary pot, as it were.

So let's see it. What is a 'good troll'?


A 9/10 makes it to 20 pages with nobody but the most hardcore tinfoil enthusiasts calling it a troll thread.
A 10/10 is perfection or a 9/10 with a bonus, such as a cleverly designed gimmick that makes it obvious in hindsight that it was a troll thread. A particularly simple example would be to write a 9/10 thread, then make the first letters of each sentence spell out YOU ARE BEING TROLLED. If the thread makes it to 20 pages without it being pointed out, you won.

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#43 - 2011-11-28 02:22:28 UTC
Trainwreck McGee
Doomheim
#44 - 2011-11-28 02:49:54 UTC
The first "monocle guy i'm better then you" troll thread got ALOT of people angry so i consider that 10/10 troll.

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Toshiroma McDiesel
Lupus Draconis
The Lost Drone Society
#45 - 2011-11-28 03:50:59 UTC
There was a thread on the old forums (I had it BM'ed, but lost it to a hardware failure) where the OP was trying to compare the NEX store to his roommate coming on to him, with a very erotic story as his main argument ,

If not a 10, that was at least a 9 Pirate

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saltrock0000
State War Academy
Caldari State
#46 - 2011-11-28 06:54:36 UTC
Anything CCP puts on the forums is a obvious trololTwisted

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Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#47 - 2011-11-28 06:55:50 UTC
Trainwreck McGee wrote:
The first "monocle guy i'm better then you" troll thread got ALOT of people angry so i consider that 10/10 troll.


Agreed. That was well timed.

Katrina Oniseki
Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#48 - 2011-11-28 08:25:01 UTC
Grideris wrote:
[quote=Leemi Sobo]
To the OP, if you want a perfect troll, go look up some of Tarminic's work on the old forums. It go so bad that they had to bring in CCP Prism X to nerf him.


If you want a perfect 10/10 troll, look up 'My Immortal' on Google. Go ahead, do it. Oh, and bring a lot T3s and Ibuprofen, you'll need them.

It still inspires debate over whether or not it's a troll, years after it reached the Internet.

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T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#49 - 2011-11-28 09:09:33 UTC  |  Edited by: T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
THIS LOOKS LIKE A TROLL, I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE PIXELS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEW TROLLS IN MY TIME.

ill see if i can find one

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Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#50 - 2011-11-28 09:29:05 UTC
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