Get Strong At Trolling
Keywords: Humour
Trolling is the act of posting messages on topics in such a manner as to cause controversy, dissention, and conflict. For an excellent example of trolling outside of the Go world, watch the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson. When he offers to allow the British army to leave the field of battle on the condition that their leader present himself before the troops, bend over and kiss his own arse - that's a prime example of trolling....
Some more topical examples of trolling, in the Go world:
- "That's not dead - it's a ko! Black (or white) can use a seki as a ko threat." (in referring to bent-4 in the corner). Guaranteed to generate a 30-minute debate that has already happened 4500 times before.
- Chinese rules are clearly superior to Japanese rules.
- TheCaptain is playing it safe here.
Please feel free to add your own examples. But the point is to say something that some fool will feel compelled to respond to, and some other fool will feel compelled to defend. Thus, the war of the words begins....