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Re:Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say by nradov on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:11PM (#14008266)
Does Facebook actually have less trolling? I don't know how anyone could quantify it but subjectively there seems to be a lot. It's easy to create fake accounts, and some people just don't care.
Re:Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say by pdelbarba on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:17PM (#14008353)
In an absolute sense I imagine they probably have more, given that they have something like 1.5 billion users. I think the type of trolling might be more mild in general though, back when I used it regularly it was mostly just 20 page political debates hinging on gross misunderstandings by both parties...

Obviously this is just my experience though.

Re:Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say by dredmorbius on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:41PM (#14013761)
Enough so that the retiring US Attorney for Chicago specifically called it out for the city's murder problem.

https://archive.fo/203tP

Re:Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say by nradov on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:11PM (#14014924)
Criminal street gang members threatening and dissing each other doesn't qualify as trolling. If we're calling that trolling now then the term has lost all meaning. And that retiring US Attorney didn't cite any evidence of one social media system being worse than the others.
Re:Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say by dredmorbius on Saturday April 01, 2017 @11:36PM (#14015622)
"Trolling: A person who posts inflammatory or otherwise unwanted material on an electronic forum, especially anonymously."

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trolling

"Troll: One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll&defid=...

Provoking gangland warfare to the tune of http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-open-le...

There's been an absolute epidemic within this thread of people attempting to redefine trolling in such a way as to minimise either the problem or the source article. It's beyond stupid, beyond credible, and beyond sustaining any credibility of those doing it.

Ya trollin' me, bra?

Re:Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say by dredmorbius on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:03AM (#14021082)
For some reason, most of what I'd posted to the above comment (quotes from the letter) don't appear to have made it through. Sigh.