What is an 'internet troll'?

[Lyall]

I think we have seen today further proof (sadly now deleted) that a troll is anyone whose views you don't agree with, or who you feel has got the better of a poster who shares your views in a debate.  I have been called a troll for posting my views on this thread, in fact the very first time I ever posted any opinion online (and yes, it was about the treatment of the McCanns by the baying online mob) the very first reply my post received was a one-word response.  It said, simply, "troll".  I had no idea what it even meant at the time so I was a little taken aback.  But there we go - in nearly 9 years I'm still being called a troll, nothing changes much!

You can't make a call for a subject to be discussed seriously while you're discussing aspects of it in the style of K Hopkins and other professional trolls yourself. In this particular instance you're guilty as charged.

[Alfred R Jones]

You can't make a call for a subject to be discussed seriously while you're discussing aspects of it in the style of K Hopkins and other professional trolls yourself. In this particular instance you're guilty as charged.

What insulting clap trap.  Please point to any post that I have made on this thread that puts you in mind of Katie Hopkins. I do believe YOU are trolling ME now!

[Eleanor]

Insulting Posts will be removed.  So have a care.

[faithlilly]

Insulting Posts will be removed.  So have a care.

Perhaps inserting your own approval of Alfie's posts in to the mix  isn't doing all you can to promote harmony eh Eleanor ?

[Eleanor]

Perhaps inserting your own approval of Alfie's posts in to the mix  isn't doing all you can to promote harmony eh Eleanor ?

Alfred simply suggested starting a new thread.  This was good advice.  Whether or not my agreement promotes harmony is of no interest to me.

[faithlilly]

Alfred simply suggested starting a new thread.  This was good advice.  Whether or not my agreement promotes harmony is of no interest to me.

Evidently.

[Eleanor]

You have been asked to stop going off topic and to stop insulting and goading, all of you.  Now please stop.

[misty]

#McCann on Twitter appears to be flooded with (US?) spam.
That's the 3rd McCann-related forum attacked this month.

Anyone??

[Carew]

#McCann on Twitter appears to be flooded with (US?) spam.
That's the 3rd McCann-related forum attacked this month.

Anyone??

Well, it isn`t me.

[sadie]

#McCann on Twitter appears to be flooded with (US?) spam.
That's the 3rd McCann-related forum attacked this month.

Anyone??

TROLLS !!!   All of them

Hope Martin Brunt visits them.

[stephen25000]

TROLLS !!!   All of them

Hope Martin Brunt visits them.

and what is brunt sadie.

If he was stupid enough to do what he did again, not everybody would be a pushover.

Brenda was  an easy target and we know what happened next.

[misty]

Seriously - I don't care which side of the fence anyone here is on - but why on earth is much of McCann discussion being targeted? I watched Birch's forum being derailed by what appeared to be schoolkids from Scotland and now spammers on Twitter are even preventing the sceptics from discussing life in LaLa land.

[sadie]

and what is brunt sadie.

If he was stupid enough to do what he did again, not everybody would be a pushover.

Brenda was  an easy target and we know what happened next.

Brenda was a sad case, but Brunty was not to know that

And she set it all up herself.   She started it, and didn't like it when the anonomity vanished.


I bet all her old friends away from Madeleine-land let her have it.   And maybe even her family.

Sad that she was so ill, that when she couldn't take the flak, she finished it..

[stephen25000]

Brenda was a sad case, but Brunty was not to know that

And she set it all up herself.   She started it, and didn't like it when the anonomity vanished.


I bet all her old friends away from Madeleine-land let her have it.   And maybe even her family.

Sad that she was so ill, that when she couldn't take the flak, she finished it..

Brunt was a liar.

She was not under investigation by the police and had committed no crime.

He and his employers chose what they thought was a soft target,as did the dossier compilers and we know who presented that to the police.

[sadie]

Brunt was a liar.

She was not under investigation by the police and had committed no crime.

He and his employers chose what they thought was a soft target,as did the dossier compilers and we know who presented that to the police.

I did not take part, but I would have been very happy to have helped assemble such dossier.

the sort of behaviour that Brenda exhibited has to be stopped imo.



I will add that had I helped assemble the dossier and then she had killed herself I would have been very distraught.