Zot! What is a Troll?

Thoughts From a Patriot | 02/19/04 | Omnix

[omnix]

What is a Troll???? I was taught as a young child that a troll is a hideous creature that live under a bridge that wants to harm children.

Apparently, there are a few subscribers to Free Republic that consider themselves the Troll Patrol.

Some authors of Posts to the Free Republic website are accused of being "Trolls". These people, whom call themselves the Troll Patrol, are trying to intimidate Americans who are wanting to express their thoughts and concerns to keep their thoughts to themsleves. This is an attempt to enforce censorship or pressure someone not to express themselves.

I would like to say to the Troll Patrol that this in not the old USSR or Nazi Germany in the 40's. This is the United States of America and we do have freedom of speech in this country.

If you want to find trolls, I suggest that you visit Sherwood Forrest there are probaly a few lurking around.

God Bless the United States and Protect Us From the Troll Patrol.

[Triple Word Score]

I'm just sad it's too late for me to have Thomas Sowell's baby. :-)

/sorta kidding

[international american]

:)

[hole_n_one]

That's twice in one night.......

Shatner in the Twilight Zone......circa 1963:)

[GeronL]

We are gonna have to agree to disagree

lol. especially since I don't know what we are agreeing to disagree about....

[BJungNan]

I'd like to know just who these people are.

Not sure who they are but I think we found our troll...

[international american]

Buy it.....rent it....GET it!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Not too late for me! ;D

[mr.sarcastic]

Who said that I dont accept the standards of this site?

You CLEARLY have no clue about the "standards of this site." Do you think we're all here to listen to you put up vanity post after vanity post?

Conservative or not, you're in over your head here and won't last long if you keep thinking that you own the place.

[Sabertooth]

Yeah, there is a HONey of a new poster here who has bad taste in eyeware.

Dig it...

http://www.freerepublic.com/~mojo/

http://www.freerepublic.com/~aligyrl/

http://www.freerepublic.com/~lindam/

http://www.freerepublic.com/~NBAustin/

[NYC GOP Chick]

Rent a book???

[meema]

That's when I learned what is a troll, too, Saber! (It was a long time ago.)
But what WE call a troll here, is only slightly different...

[BJungNan]

You can't post a pic like that without telling us where it happened. What an explosion!

[Dan from Michigan]

Trolling is a fishing term, and that's what "internet trolls" are a reference to.

Fisherman when trolling are traveling on a boat with a line in the water with bait looking for big fish(oftentimes Walleye)

Leftist trolls here are trolling to cause mischief. They have their bait and look for others to jump on it and to cause a scene. Now as to the rest of your posts.

These people, whom call themselves the Troll Patrol, are trying to intimidate Americans who are wanting to express their thoughts and concerns to keep their thoughts to themsleves.

WTF? Look, FR is private property. I can go get a tripod site or a geocities site up with my political speech if I want and no damn thing can stop me. Period.

This is an attempt to enforce censorship or pressure someone not to express themselves.

You or I both have no RIGHT to post here. I don't own this site. I am a guest here, must like a customer. If they don't want me here, I go elsewhere, much like as I take my business elsewhere. It's not hard.

I would like to say to the Troll Patrol that this in not the old USSR or Nazi Germany in the 40's. This is the United States of America and we do have freedom of speech in this country.

That's a stupid ass analogy. Read the first amendment. CONGRESS shall make no law. This isn't a government run board. This isn't government property. This is PRIVATE property. This country's founding is based on the rights of life, liberty, and PROPERTY(read John Locke).

you want to find trolls, I suggest that you visit Sherwood Forrest there are probaly a few lurking around.

And I see your boat trolling here.

[Congressman Billybob]

Okay, in case you're still here, let's go over the basics. When you have opinions to offer, you have two choices. Go before an audience whene your ideas might be welcome, and expect a warm welcome. Or, go before an audience where your ideas might be unwelcome, and expect to defend with logic and facts and patience.

Either you are incredibly dumb, in not knowing what your audience was, or you are simply incapable of using logic and facts. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I will assume the latter.

Either way you are wasting your time, which may be of no value, and our time, which definitely has value. So, go away, grow up, and check back in once you've accomplished that task, if you can.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Don't delay. Do it now.

[international american]

Actually, I was thinking of Shatner when he was a CPA looking for a promotion, and kept putting pennies into a devil-like machine in a small cafe, but thanks for the memories my friend!

[cyborg]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046508995X/qid=1077250956/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-6225341-3519825?v=glance&s=books

[Judith Anne]

I have a question for you. You have a particular syntax--one that I recognize from a certain person who used to post as Erika...Erika was not born in this country, and used to be deliberately male/female. Posted under many names after being thrown off several forums. English was not it's first language...and it thought that partial birth abortion could be a GOOD thing sometimes...

So, just answer one question, it will ease my mind...what country were you born in? Obviously it was not the continental US.

[international american]

NYC public library?

[Sabertooth]

"Intellectual honesty" says it all.

And then there are those who let the converse do the talking for them.

[NYC GOP Chick]

No nearby branches. :(