Troll: Difference between revisions

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+Theresa Robinson's view
(credible reference on "troll"; refuting lies from career liars (Wikipedians, Meatball Wikicrats) who claim to be qualified psychiatrists)
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of saying it is a troll." - [http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/troll_ignorance.html "troll ignorance", Xah Lee]
of saying it is a troll." - [http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/troll_ignorance.html "troll ignorance", Xah Lee]


Obviously, under this definition, we are all trolls from time to time, that is, we are all likely to be in some [[conflict between users]] and then if there is some [[sysop power structure]], we can be labelled "troll" and so marginalized.  This is a fairly typical process, not different from authorship:
"I find that the term "troll" means pretty
much nothing, or it just means "somebody doing something I don't like." - [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-May/012437.html Theresa Robinson]
 
Obviously, under these definitions, we are all trolls from time to time, that is, we are all likely to be in some [[dispute]] or [[conflict between users]] and then if there is some [[sysop power structure]], we can be labelled "troll" and so marginalized.  This is a fairly typical process, not different from authorship:


"The author does not precede the works;  he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one [[limits, excludes, chooses and impedes]] the [[free circulation of fiction]]." - [[Michel Foucault]]
"The author does not precede the works;  he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one [[limits, excludes, chooses and impedes]] the [[free circulation of fiction]]." - [[Michel Foucault]]
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