'It's gone too far'

[aveatry]

No - the accepted definition of trolling is along the lines of antagonising people online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content, or posting to ‘bait’ people, by deliberately provoking an argument or emotional reaction, in some cases by saying things they don’t even believe, just to cause drama.

What you've described is actually due diligence to ensure that someone's position is fully understood, and provable.




No - the accepted definition of trolling is along the lines of antagonising people online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content, or posting to ‘bait’ people, by deliberately provoking an argument or emotional reaction, in some cases by saying things they don’t even believe, just to cause drama.

What you've described is actually being thorough to ensure that my position is properly elucidated, and that in replies to others to unsure that all of their points are properly addressed.




No - the accepted definition of trolling is along the lines of antagonising people online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content, or posting to ‘bait’ people, by deliberately provoking an argument or emotional reaction, in some cases by saying things they don’t even believe, just to cause drama.

What you've described is, again, actually being thorough.




No - the accepted definition of trolling is along the lines of antagonising people online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content, or posting to ‘bait’ people, by deliberately provoking an argument or emotional reaction, in some cases by saying things they don’t even believe, just to cause drama.

Troll professes his innocence of being a troll ........by trolling

 

[morqthana]

Troll professes his innocence of being a troll ........by trolling

So your definition of "trolling" is now "explaining the truth to you".

Interesting.

 

[Justin Passing]

aveatry said:

trolling behaviour is going on and on about something

No -

YES,
that's just one of the forms. As are repeatedly posting irrelevant twaddle, or the same opinion over and over, nit picking trivial details, and what you do a lot is distorting the meaning of what someone says so you can rail against it.
Tiresome, old chap.


"So your definition of "trolling" is now "explaining the truth to you"."
What you're seeing as explaining the truth, others see as fault-ridden b0l1ocks posted for no reason except to boost your ego, which backfires because you get it wrong....
See?

 

[morqthana]

YES,
that's just one of the forms.

No. You can't just invent a new meaning for a word which already exists and claim that it therefore applies to something when the recognised definition does not support that.

You might as well, with as much validity and sense, claim that a troll is anybody with a space in their user name.

As are repeatedly posting irrelevant twaddle,

I don't post irrelevant twaddle. I can understand your desire to characterise it as such, if it challenges prejudices and erroneous beliefs you have.

or the same opinion over and over,

If there's a limit to how many times people are allowed to post the same opinion, for example Islam is a threat to this country, I'd be interested to see your authoritative source for it.

nit picking trivial details, and what you do a lot is distorting the meaning of what someone says so you can rail against it.

I don't distort the meaning of what people say. But there is a problem, which I do sometimes expose, that people don't always give sufficient thought to what they say, and don't recognise the real implications of it.

"So your definition of "trolling" is now "explaining the truth to you"."
What you're seeing as explaining the truth, others see as fault-ridden b0l1ocks posted for no reason except to boost your ego, which backfires because you get it wrong....
See?

Another problem here is that some people are very hard-of-seeing.