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Originally Posted by Croco
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You're right. The question is very simple. Why do you get targeted by trolls at a rate far exceeding other people on these forums. Why are the people who very often troll you able to carry on reasonable and civil debates and conversations with other people that do not devolve into trolling and insults.
If you can answer those questions in an honest way I think you'll find all the data you're looking for.
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I cannot mind read other posters. Trolling is their own personal decision. You need to ask them. The trouble with this is you cannot tell when a troll is being sincere, or lying.
There is NO valid reason to troll someone. This means it doesn't actually matter why at the end of the day.
I will take a guess, but I cannot prove it obviously. People bully others, often by grouping up. The commonality across the bloated threads is the same posters doing the trolling. They have banded together and formed a mutual agreement to troll people they disagree with. This makes "winning" debates easier for them, because they can appear to be correct without having to actually do any work to show why they are correct.
Because they have shown themselves to be trolls, people will be less likely to engage with them, for fear of being trolled. A troll can have a civil conversation with someone they agree with. The issue comes in to play when a disagreement occurs. I simply happen to be one of the posters who is not afraid of confronting their potentially faulty ideas. Their trolling tactics do not scare me. Bullies do not like it when people fight back, so they will go to extra lengths to try and attack me at every turn.