I completely agree. It's just before, it wasn't always the same effect.
Before, trolling could be playing devil's advocate on a forum or spamming stupid memes/in-jokes on an online game.
Now, it's just making a specific target suffer and only that.
Lolcows, they call them...
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OK - here's the difference. You are in a community of 100 people. If you genuinely upset people everyone knew your name and they weren't talking to you. Being ignored was bad because you would actually have to find somewhere else to go.
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You can be rude to me on twitter, there's no comeback for you -- you'll probably never see me again. In a smaller community if you get a reputation for being the person who upsets everyone that does have comeback for you.
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Talk about community size all you want, 1. Trolling was absolutely tolerated / encouraged in those smaller ones 2. You're missing the larger point of that effect. So good luck with all the pretending you were the hero of this particular story, not the villain. Later gator.
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But I don't think I can ever convinced you there's a genuine difference here -- a small community that changes slowly can behave differently to a large community where everyone is in and out.
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