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I fairly new at all this online jargonism, would some one explain what a troll means in computerese.?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion

    Taken from wiki's definition.

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