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Is this considered trolling?

You know how some people post up those, "How attractive am I" questions? I tried posting one of those, with the phrase, "Am I pretty?" Then I included a picture of the kuchisake-onna (slit-mouthed woman).

For those of you who don't know who the kuchisake-onna is, here's the myth: http://www.scaryforkids.com/kuchisake-onna/

I wanted to see if anyone would understand the story and give the right answer. (Another source said that another way to escape the kuchisake onna is to throw candy to distract her, so that would have counted too). Some of the answers were along the lines of "You're hot." So if no one got the right answer, I would have chosen one of those as best and said, "How would you like to look like me? *slices your face*" or something.

The question was deleted in only a few minutes.

Could this have counted as an unintentional troll?

P.S. I tried posting this question in the category I thought suited it best, but got no answers.

Update:

Some of the other answers were pretty funny, like "OMG you're horrifying!" and "WTF!"

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  • 10 years ago
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    ha! good one, yes it does count. :)

  • Mike
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    review the terms of use again

    this type of question could be considered an abuse of the question answer system

    You presented yourself as a person that actually wanted other to judge her appearance, but instead brought us to an old myth. Someone reported you because your question was a troll to waste people's time.

    You should have asked something like, what would you say to this woman? and then showed the picture

  • 10 years ago

    well, in a way, yeah. Not everyone knows the story, and you KNOW the answer.

    The concept of the Answers is you are asking questions the YOU do NOT know the answer to. You know? Like a question? A REAL question.

    Not like a fcukng lawyer in court.Where you are only asking the question to TROLL people.

    . . . you get it? Or would scissors help?

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Wooow

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  • 10 years ago

    Yes that's trolling

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I think mostly those people are trying to collect flickr views.

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