{"id":638,"date":"2002-10-01T19:36:18","date_gmt":"2002-10-02T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/10\/01\/638.html"},"modified":"2002-10-01T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2002-10-02T02:36:18","slug":"trolls-and-other-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/10\/01\/trolls-and-other-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolls and other monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just posted this to the Rumor Mill, but I'd meant to post it here a couple days ago:<\/p>\n<p>To \"troll,\" in an online discussion forum, is to post something that's not meant seriously, but is intended to provoke outraged response from regulars. Canonical example: posting to a Star Trek discussion forum stating firmly that the \"T.\" in \"James T. Kirk\" stands for \"Tigger\" (\"I heard it from Jean Roddinbury herself!\") when you know it's not true&#8212;you're doing it just to be amused at people's \"How could anyone be so stupid\/clueless!?\" responses.<\/p>\n<p>A message that doesn't have the intent to provoke outraged response isn't, technically speaking, trolling.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the term comes from fishing, not from fantasy novels. The person who's trolling&#8212;the \"troll,\" in net parlance, though not in fishing parlance&#8212;is fishing for a certain kind of response.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted this to the Rumor Mill, but I&#8217;d meant to post it here a couple days ago: To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}