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What should trolls do and not do on Consumerium? How does one recognize but | What should trolls do and not do on Consumerium? How does one recognize but | ||
not be too trusting of a [[friendly troll]]? Enter your beliefs here: | not be too trusting of a [[friendly troll]]? Enter your beliefs here: | ||
'''Some [[criticism]] of [[trolling tactics]] in the Consumerium context:''' | |||
*Trolls wish to remain anonymous and thus hard to communicate with in a reliable manner ie. [[email]] or [[IM]] such as [[IRC]] or [[jabber.org]] | |||
*:Defense: The anonymity allows them greater [[freedom of expression]]. Trolls may also do intricate politics if they play a double role that they have an user account that is kept distinct from, unassociated with, [[trollish]] edits. | |||
*:Trolls encourage [[faction]]s to form, and will usually respond to comments directed towards a faction, rather than towards them personally - though it's hard to know who is responding, that's what they don't want to focus on. | |||
*Trolls sometimes apply grammar so [[ambiguous]] that it is indecypherable what is actually being said - [[troll poetry]] for instance is a deliberate attempt to break up and apply [[cognitive dissonance]] to some terms, such as claiming to be "a propriate" as a response to someone else thinking they are [[inappropriate]]. Trolls literally enforce [[General Semantics]] sometimes. | |||
*:Defense: This makes the [[Lowest Troll]] or some other user think very hard before having a crack at making the article sensible to the layperson - if you really don't understand it, you probably won't bother, and that's the point too | |||
*Trolls sometimes seem to have typos on articles that contain very inflammatory material - some will claim that a vast change is a [[minor edit]]. | |||
*:Rationale: Correcting the typo by some other user also implicates that they have read through the material and silently approval it's contents if no major editing occours. | |||
*:Deliberate inclusion of typos or attempts to do [[crazymaking]] are reactive trolling tactics that simply don't happen on [[troll-friendly]] [[large public wiki]]s where no [[sysop vandalism]] is allowed. | |||