butre
Well-Known Member
Good explanation Frank.
Years ago I was on a 4x4 off-road forum (newslist I think it was back then) where we had a troll named "Muskie". He would make one comment and a flamewar would erupt behind it. He only ever made one comment, and it was usually well written and thought out. I tracked him down and was able to talk to him and found out who he was and what he was doing. He was a documentary movie writer/director/producer who was exploring controversial ideas as "hooks" for his writing and movies. He was working here in Nova Scotia at the time and while we never met, we talked about many interesting things and places to see here. His views opened up my rather conservative mind at the time. Unlike most trolls, he was brilliant and had a productive point to what he was doing (although he was flattered by the sometimes more than 100 posts following his one-liner).
we had a really s**tty troll on an old graphics design forum I used to frequent that's long since dead. don't remember the guy's name, but we all referred to him as "tama" because that was the first half of the name of his first account (he was banned many times and kept registering new accounts). he would constantly make terrible posts about how haram your pork chop dinner was, how badly he wanted sharia law in the US, and so on. lots of anti-white drivel and conspiracy theory bulls**t, interspersed with irrelevant comments about how his wife is from south america. I remember one time in particular, some 14 year old kid had joined the forum, made some vaguely anti-muslim remarks and the guy threatened to murder the poor kid and started posting the kid's face all over the forum
come to think of it, he might have been a paranoid schitzo.