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Re: trollings people on the internet...
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2012, 11:40:59 pm »
so you are saying having a referee at a ball game is pointless?
Since you haven't quoted the context to which you're referring, it's unknown how you came to ask that question.  Are you implying that FC forum debates have referees or, should?

have you ever been to a debate when you do not know enough of either side to actually have an opinion?

No.  If I attend a debate, I make myself as aware of both teh proponent and opponent stands as thouroughly as possible before arriving at the event.

All im saying is when I read a dictionary I cannot feel appalled when something stikes me as out of the ordinary. The variance of language from generation to generation is sometimes a parallel to occurring events. how many words for one meaning do we have over the course of time?

Although I've read many more dictionaries, bibles, reference and other books than I can count, (in youth, I trained as an apprentice, journeyman and finally junior master bookbinder under a master craftsman).  Yes, there is a certain amount of 'usage-drift' which applies to changes in meanings and several different words which nominally mean roughly the same thing,(ask an Inuit how many words they have to describe "snow").

You question whether there can be an unbiased fact so I question whether "trolling" in the form of words is even a possibility.

Okay, I may see where you're headed there now ... "trolling", (in the sense of internet usuage), is a fairly recent and somewhat nebulous term.  In many debates/discussions/outright arguments, that term is sometimes bandied-about loosely, (quite often, one or more persons flinging insults will just spit out "troll" without knowing even the nebulous definitions of that term).

So, in order to respond to your question, we'd need some consensus on the term's definition.  If there isn't one, then anything can be 'called' "trolling", (under any individual preferential definitions).  If there is a consensus meaning to the term, we'd theoretically be able to test a post to see if those definitions apply closely enough to classify it a a "trolling".
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