[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To kind of go along with this idea a bit, minus the faith aspect (I greatly respect yours, just wanted to come with a non-faith-based approach myself), what I wanted to mention that sort of muddies the waters a little bit is how widely-used the term "troll" is for online behavior

It's really impossible to attempt to generalize a "troll" because the term encompasses such a wide range of actions

When I was mentioning the "worst of the worst" trolls before, maybe someone was picturing the meanest poster here, or something. But one example I was thinking of was....there was a teenage girl who died in a car accident, and somehow photos of her horribly mangled body got leaked to the internet. And somehow some complete and utter degenerates had tracked down who her parents were, and sent texts and emails saying things like "Dad, it's [her_name]", which when they opened was the pic of her body. I remember hearing about that in a documentary

The type of person to do something like that, versus someone who says sassy things on a P99 forum, are night and day different in my opinion. But yet, in both cases these people are called "online trolls". Same as the people who use VoIP (which seems to be one of the scourges of the modern age) to SWAT people or harass them or their families

So anyway, I wanted to mention that because the same term applies to such a widely different spectrum of behavior, that's probably why some people have very different opinions of it than others. And my last point is that I do agree that psych in general has far too much pathologizing of human behavior

ya good point