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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by ForHackernews on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:55AM (#23829548)
Trump isn't a troll, he has no sense of whimsy and he obviously cares way too much. The whole point of old-school trolling is to wind up the rubes over some trivial nonsense for your own amusement.

Incidentally, PHP is a fantastic language and Haskell is hot garbage.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by nix23 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:09AM (#23830191)
If your going really old-school 'trolling' look up Red herring...trump trows allot of them around.

>Incidentally, PHP is a fantastic language and Haskell is hot garbage.

That's NOT Trolling if both of them are fantastic.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by Jonnax on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:07AM (#23829889)
Words change their meaning. Troll has not meant that in more than a decade.
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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by viridian on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:47AM (#23832583)
But the modern meaning is basically either just "someone I disagree with", "someone I don't like", "someone acting in bad faith", or "someone in the out group". It's a word that means practically nothing now.
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