Internet Bestiary: Who are the trolls?

Modern dictionaries treat the troll (from the English. Trolling) as "a posting on the Internet (forums, discussions, newsgroups Usenet, the wiki, etc.) provocative messages in order to produce flame, the conflicts between the parties, abuse, war update etc., that is committing acts which take away the attention of members or readers. 

Troll, respectively, - a person engaged in this affair gadostnym.

So who are these trolls ?  In this article it makes sense to divide all the trolls into two categories: proactive trolls and troll on the payroll.

Troll initiative

In fact, this is a simple internet bully, chasing some of his immediate goals.  Struggle with boredom, try self , lowering someone's post or article for the purpose of attracting attention to himself, and so on.

Motivations can be set, but as a rule, the most common algorithm for their actions - it is "throwing shit at the fan."  This is the most harmless and easily calculated form the trolls.  It is also easily localizable.  Much more dangerous than the following:

Troll on the payroll

This is one of the tools currently ongoing information war .  Do not know what it is?  Well, you know.  Military operations are conducted everywhere, and the Internet can be considered a central line of the front.  Key Players - supranational education, government, the various ruling elites and others who oppose one another as well as "partisans," fighting with them all.

The purpose of this war - to win over as many people as they are or will be later  and so on.  That is the foundation of one's being.

Media is simple - control through licensing tools, censorship, human resources and administrative resources.  With the Internet, all in the same difficult times: You can not put pressure on the host that is outside the Russian Federation, you can not quickly arrest the server in the same place, you can not select a domain name outside the zones. ru,. su and. rf, it is impossible to intimidate or to arrest people on trumped-up charges , whose whereabouts are a set is problematic, not a virtual no man with a rubber baton to disperse the 500 illegally gathered to discuss a topical theme at some forum.

And in the end the old argument "to win someone's struggle, it must be lead" has not been canceled.  Here the relevant security services and structures are floating their secret weapon - the troll.

This troll - not just an initiative, "handsome," it's a monster that puts in front of certain goals and getting paid for it.  It will not be to get personal, do not allow phrases like "I hear dude," would not poke my IMHO no matter where you getting.

It will be very carefully and consistently engaged in another: clog and sidetrack the discussion of the original meaning of the article or blog.

The tools used by an intelligent troll: The prosecution of the author of the article or post in the lies.  For example, you write about the crisis and discontent in Belarus.  Troll of the KGB in the first person to write: "... I live in Minsk and I can say that everything described here - a lie ..." Well, and so on.The requirement of proof of the obvious. Questioning the personal experience or qualifications of the author.  For example: "... And it says a lawyer?  Yes, even a freshman any collective faculty of law knows that .... "Still, the topic went to the side.  Instead of communicating on the merits, the author will have to prove their expertise in a certain issue, or its capabilities. With the help of a bot or bots organization of several parallel discussions that leads readers away from the original idea zabaltyvanie.  (This is, in theory, it would be necessary to place on a separate page online bestiary. In this context, the bot - to create a fictional person has one or more accounts at a particular site in order to participate in the discussion of anything under the guise of a few people one person. The most effective tool for creating online extras. Extensive use of dogmas.  For example, you write an objective article about religion.  Troll, most likely, will give something from the series "... Man - a being divine, is constantly attacked by demons and the devil!  Your lips say, will not you, because blaming the ROC (the Vatican, the Dalai Lama and so on.) Of double-dealing may be the devil and his servants! Go to the individual.  But not as primitive as that of a troll-active - all accurate and refined.  For example: "... And where did you get the idea that you can competently and have the right to speak on these topics? ..." Or: "... in which high school you attended?  In the RSU?  I know it, there is trash, not the teaching session and bought a bottle ... "

Constant nit-picking to the statement.

Constant demand for evidence of each argument of the article or post.  For example: "... And why you think that it was dispossessed in 1937, over 1,000,000 people? Wikipedia ?  He's lying, just know.  And why take that died in the same period, 390 000?  These OGPU?  Juggling ... "

Snatching a phrase out of context and build on it through a separate branch of the discussion . 

In his arsenal of instruments there are more, but to understand who he is and what it is, enough of the above.  Then calculate the troll is easy enough.  At least, even for me personally SHZH found several.

For this very helpful to go to a personal page (account) suspected of trolling and see what he wrote and published.  If nothing else - this is an alarming bell, but by itself insufficient.

It is necessary to carefully review his comments in the project in general, and is on this basis to draw conclusions.  And in any case not go to anybody about it!