Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.
peculiar_goat@lemm.ee 5 days agoA definition I saw many years ago was something like a troll tricks you into feeling a certain way or doing a specific thing. Could be positive, mostly done for humour, but the ones we hear most about in the media or whatever are the upsetting ones.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 days ago
Yeah the best ones are just taking advantage of our empathetic neurons to initiate a conversation. The terrifying ones then use that opening to inject their own thoughts on others.