Best trolling

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What is the best trolling you've ever seen or done?

I remember one guy who went by the name Corp900 who would make up a bunch of threads in General Autism to get a rise out of everyone. Those threads were more entertaining than my Austin Powers movies.

I remember him well. I banned him.

The sickest troll I've seen on WP was a young woman who got established for a few weeks then claimed she'd been brutally raped by someone. One of the members did some background checking and it turns out she was an infamous internet troll who went around different internet forums and made up the same story. She had even got a website bragging about how to troll and how to wind people up by pretending she'd been brutally raped. Apparently she aimed to get lots of sympathy then stir up hatred towards the guy who she claimed had raped her. The guy (purely her creation) was a Jew and she then steers the threads into an anti Semitic rant and tries to stir up hatred against Jews. She was one sick bit*h and I banned her ass as soon as she came out with the rape stuff. She tried to sneak back again some months later under a new name but I banned her again. She was one seriously sick-in-the-head attention seeker.

I never notice the trolls.

Best trolls as in funny ones or as in sick ones?

Won't we get in trouble if we nominate someone for the Golden Troll Award?

Never seen a troll I was impressed with. Trolls are pretty pathetic in my opinion. But at the same time I don't understand why people hate them so much. Trolls can be useful. I remember the days of Most Discussed videos on YouTube. Seeing teenage girls doing typical lame two minute vlogs talking about their personal problems with school, BFs, etc. Suddenly troll's would find the video and would start SPAMing thousands of comments telling the girl to go kill herself. Mean? Yes, but useful too. The trolls would push the girl's video to the top of the Most Discussed list. Then it would start getting literally hundreds of thousands of views and soon it would be at the top of the Most Viewed list. Today with Google's lame anti-troll comment system, the same girl's vlog will get like three views and zero comments, and few people will ever even know she made the video.

^ Not particularly useful if the girl had been really upset or had actually gone off and harmed herself as a result of the trolling, though...
It seems a high price to pay to have a video that was likely destined to go nowhere pushed up the popularity chart.

The ones we get here tend to be very sick (I have a similar story to TallyMan's) or just lame - and both types tend to be removed as soon as they're spotted.

But some of those girls are now YouTube partners making money off their video. If it wasn't for the trolls, no one would have ever heard of them, and they wouldn't be making money on YouTube videos.

That guy that stalked an old female regular here (she was from Scotland, won't mention her name).

I think it was the same guy who made millions of sockpuppets. Banning them was almost a full time moderator job in itself, I think Alex ended up appointing another mod just to dedicate to the issue.

this is akin to saying bank robbers do good for society because they create a market for safes and security people - I think we would be better off without trolls and thieves

I don't read every post & have a hard time reading through pages of replies & keeping up with the conversation so I've been lucky to not notice much trolling here thou I have noticed some in the L&D section at various times. I never been a fan of trolls(I wish the bridge they're hiding under would collapse on their heads) but trolling apparently has various definitions & what something looks like or comes out as can be different than what poster was intending. I've been accused of trolling on various forums(but not here) for various reasons but I was never posting $h!t for the sake of getting a rise out of anyone, to put people against each other or cause problems on the forum. I wasn't afraid to speak my mind & said some very controversial stuff & I have derailed post but my intent was never to cause a problem. I can get why my Aspergers & other issues that showed in my posts or were mentioned in them caused me problems on forums thou & also why certain forums were just wrong for me. I've been a victim of trolling. One tactic trolls like to do is put other members against someone & my issues made me a target for that especially on one forum I had used for a long time but had gradually changed direction & had cliques. I became sort of the scapegoat for the problems between members sense I wasn't connected to any clique & my posting had gradually gotten worse due to depression & other issues. I was an obvious target for someone trying to start a clash between few of cliques while having the trollers appropriated for for appearing to other members as trying to keep the peace & being supportive when that really wasn't the case. I eventually left after some of members petitioned to have me banned that was ignored by the site owner & every post I made started getting attacked by different members; even replies I made offering advice or ideas to other members

Don't really catch onto trolls, unless they are extremely lame ones from like 10 year olds.
I hope they never ask me to be a mod on the teen forum, because am going have to say 'thanks, but no way'.
Too much stuff would slip past me.

The only one I remember, was some was some kid saying he was in the shower and happened to notice for the first time, something dangling from between his legs and wondered what it was (minimum age for the forum is 13).
I still laugh at that one because of how it was worded. Thread immediately locked, OP banned.

Sounds like a question on Yahoo answers

It reminds me of one question sent to a teen magazine Bravo published in Poland; one from the 90's: "I'm 10 and I noticed that when I wake up in the morning, there's some liquid on the sheet but this is not urine. What is it and what should I do, is it an illness?" Staś, 10.

All of those letters were made up, I bet. Anyway, with all respect for all Polish guys whose name is Staś... well, to have this name one needs to be below 15 or older than 50, that was not a name from my generation, that's for sure.

There only lacked this one question: "I'm 15 and I'm still a virgin, does it mean my dad is gay?" Lol.

I remember a troll on wp named Female she would make personal attacks out of nowhere to everyone at times she didnt last long though.