Indymedia Newswire peppered with "Troll" comments
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Monday September 01, 2003 00:07
by Phrodo
Contributors and readers of indymedia.ie will all by now be familiar with the infantile interjections of Trolls, such as the one calling himself Seáinín. Posting knee-jerk, argumentative, hateful and offensive comments which at times verge on the racist misogynist and homophobic, the Troll posts his comments in the hope of getting a rise, say his critics. "But" says veteran user Sticktothedebate " the phenomenon will probably never disappear altogether, its the price of having a democratic media without censorship. The only posts and comments removed are factually incorrect ones and race-hate ones"
" It's a form of attention seeking - as simple as that. He has nothing serious to contribute. If he did, no matter his political persuasion, there would be plenty of people prepared to engage in meningful debate with him. As it is he riles people by being offensive. My suggestion is that people just ignore him. Trolls just hate being made invisible"
