Mazzon Posted:

Dude, not all trolling is posting goatse or just telling everybody to eat **** and die. One can troll just fine by pretending to post seriously and just make arguments and notions aimed to upset people and derail the conversation, achieving the same results but possibly without people even realizing you’re a troll.

Sure it’s harder since you have to read and think rather than just fire away, but it can be done.

He is right. Real trolling isn’t posting goatse or doing things like that; a troll’s purpose is to upset as many people as possible or destroy a thread. For instance, About a year ago I got bored with a few friends and we found a devout christian forum. The three of us created accounts, and I posted a topic titled ‘What are your views on abortion?’ and the body being ‘I’ve recently gotten pregnant with my boyfriend (I know, we shouldn’t have had sex but…Log in to see images!

That’s real trolling; posting goatse is what the idiots here do because they think we’ve never seen it before Log in to see images!