Working as a Professional Troll

Generali

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Their final manifesto is being written right now....

Get real. An innocent child couldn't hold all that hate inside him.

danothy

Generali wrote: »

Get real. An innocent child couldn't hold all that hate inside him.

To be fair, UKIP can't generally seem to hold it inside them either ...

Generali

danothy wrote: »

To be fair, UKIP can't generally seem to hold it inside them either ...

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Post of the Week and it's only Monday!

Cornucopia

Professional Trolling is just one of the several errant memes of the Internet there to catch the unwary.

The truth is that real people, more or less genuinely stating their personal views are behind the vast majority of forum posts.

It's a fascinating aspect of human nature/Internet etiquette that we prefer to suggest that someone with an opposing view (or a dumb view) is a paid troll, rather than calling it for what it is: they are simply an idiot, or they lack compassion, or whatever...

Professional Reputation Management is something rather different to trolling. Not that I am convinced that in the majority of cases it actually works, anyway.

I see your dessicated water company, and raise you McDonalds. One of the biggest companies in the World, hugely popular and yet they cannot stamp out the misinformation (or is it?) amongst keyboard warriors and green campaigners. Not that it is ultimately that damaging to them commercially, anyway.

Let's hope Grant Imohara (ex-Mythbuster) can save the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6Hh6tQj2w

danothy

Generali wrote: »

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Bit early to call it if you ask me, someone might say something intelligent on Wednesday.

Generali

danothy wrote: »

Bit early to call it if you ask me, someone might say something intelligent on Wednesday.

Form is against you being right. One lives in hope however.

kabayiri

I think the professional Troll would be there to stop a particular line of argument developing if it acts against their interests.

This isn't the same as presenting their view.

Professional trolling is cheap and it may just be effective. It's worth a go in my view. Just look at how much the political parties spend on voter analysis and targetting.

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To help out this targetting, for the record I am an ardent
- Labour Voter
- Conservative Voter
- Lib Dem fan
- SNP fanatic
- UKIP baron
- Green Tree Hugger

... that should mostly cover it !
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Loughton_Monkey

kabayiri wrote: »

.....To help out this targetting, for the record I am an ardent
- Labour Voter
- Conservative Voter
- Lib Dem fan
- SNP fanatic
- UKIP baron
- Green Tree Hugger

... that should mostly cover it !....

Damn!

I had you down as an ardent Looney.

kabayiri

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Damn!

I had you down as an ardent Looney.

Even Looneys might stumble across a valid point now and then.

..it works for the Nationalists. If you blame every other group in society for your problems, you might stumble on a valid complaint now and then.

Loughton_Monkey

kabayiri wrote: »

Even Looneys might stumble across a valid point now and then.....

They do. I particularly like:

• Nectar points on Income Tax payments.
• Compulsory recycling of election leaflets as toilet paper distributed to food banks.
• Relocate Parliament to Wormwood Scrubs to reduce travelling costs.