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[–] RedditDead2005-2015 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Trolling is relative and based on your own perspective. Redditors think Voater are trolls, and Voaters think SJWs are trolls. If I questioned Donald Trump in the dozens of Donald Trump circlejerk threads on Voat, I'd be considered a troll.

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[–] Reow 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Trolling certainly used to mean something different to what it has come to mean. It didn't even need to be provocative originally, it was more about baiting someone into responding to something absurd as though it was genuine. Those are still the best trolls in my experience, because they take more ingenuity and even the victim can laugh at it afterwards. My friend and I were notorious for trolling our bosses / senior management many years ago - it got to the point that whenever anything slightly awry occurred, we heard our names shouted across the office.

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[–] RedditDead2005-2015 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Okay, then I'll have to consider myself a troll on occasion. I confess to dropping a few zingers just to rattle the cage. ;) I do it for very serious, preachy threads (commonly referred to as circlejerks). Sometimes, when everyone is all serious with mean scowls on their faces, you just have to stand in the middle of the room, let out a big fart,a dn rhetorically say "Who fartd?"