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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by Stratoscope on Sunday May 02, 2021 @08:02PM (#27020242)
As lostlogin noted, words have different meaning in different contexts, and the fishing definitions do not apply to online discussions - except perhaps on a fishing forum!

Here's an example:

I went trawling through your HN comments to find something I didn't like so I could downvote it.

Naw, I didn't really do that, I'm just trolling you!

Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by fnord77 on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:15AM (#27023666)
Their used all the time as metaphors outside of fishing.

I've seen "trolling" in the metaphorical fishing sense used in the context of online forums before.