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Proud Pies 
Joined: 22 Feb 2003
Location: Knox-ish
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| Post subject: Internet Trolls - sound familiar? |  |
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| Quote: | Ben (not his real name) first started trolling in 2008 on the online forum 4Chan.
His first act was innocuous enough: he weighed in on a discussion about religion and claimed to have disproved everything people had written.
Since then his trolling has become more vicious and destructive.
"It just makes me happy when I can make someone angry. It sounds weird but I kind of feed off their anger. The angrier I can get them, the better I feel," he told news.com.au. |
| Quote: | Psychologist Karyn Krawford claims that extreme trolling may be a sign of mental ill-health.
Ms Krawford said she had done studies which showed the empathy of mental health sufferers decreased for every hour they spent online.
LACKING EMPATHY
"This lack of empathy caused people to become emotionally immune and desensitised to images they're not seeing in real life," she said. |
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/it-just-makes-me-happy-when-i-can-make-someone-angry-a-special-investigation-into-the-dark-world-of-trolling/story-fn7celvh-1226283886350
| Quote: | | Psychologists have long attributed bad behaviour online to "deindividuation" - the feeling people get when they think they are anonymous. |
Disclaimer: Selective editing my own 
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Nick - Pie Man
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| Ah yes, anything interesting must be a sign of mental illness |
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The Prototype 
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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Gutted that the interview I did for that article didn't make it.
Though News.com.au's facebook page was epically trolled when they were asking for people to participate. Then they deleted it, I guess they learned a lesson, when you seek trolls with an announcement they'll come a calling.
A friend of mine, as well as me, took the time to take the piss, fun night.
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
Location: In flagrante delicto
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| Nick - Pie Man wrote: | | Ah yes, anything interesting must be a sign of mental illness |
All the good stuff is either illegal, immoral, unhealthy or frowned on by the yuppie leftie PC brigade. 
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Nick - Pie Man
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| It's frowned upon by conservative old (mates with)! But correct in every othe respect |
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Pied Piper 
Joined: 20 May 2003
Location: Pig City
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He said a sense of power was important to how people behaved online. "You're far more likely to be a troll if you’re a relative weakling elsewhere," he said.
Hmmm 
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