Have you ever been a dirty troll?
I don't see how that was trolling. You were just being honest.
I am sure I have had that happen. I posted a question at babycenter asking about why do women gain so much in their first 20 weeks and I have only gained a few and is it because they eat unhealthy or too much junk food or could it be because I eat healthy and I don't eat much. I even posted "trigger" in my title thinking some might be offended with my speculation and instead I get attacked and some think I'm a troll even though they didn't say it but I knew they meant it and they start trolling as well in my thread. Only very few gave me helpful answers while the rest were jerks. And I thought it be a safe place to ask questions but nooo it's not. It was so amazing how they took my post out of context and said I meant this or that when I said X. I hate it when people think I am implying something else when I am saying what I exactly mean. I didn't even bother to correct them because I just didn't care. Also I don't think they read my post all the way through at all. One of them even said I maybe posted it to get them all riled up and the other said I was very insulting with my post.
So I deleted the post and apologized for even asking and left the thread. I even reported my own post to the owner asking them to delete it. The thread did finally get deleted due to it being reported a lot and the violations in it. I felt so happy.
Yeah some people are mean and will not educate and will get mad at you for asking questions and they accuse of of being ignorant and judgmental. Isn't everyone ignorant? We all learn things and when someone asks, I see it as a sign of them wanting to learn. I guess they don't want me to learn. I have been thinking if they were just jealous about my luck so they took it out on me and decided to target me? I have had one other person target me when I posted a thread asking about why diapers have gotten bigger and pull ups, either because kids are being potty trained late or kids being bigger and I asked for opinions and instead someone posts something totally irrelevant to what I said and I didn't see where she got that logic from so I responded but then deleted the response in case she was indeed trolling. I didn't want to feed the troll.
I felt I didn't fit in there anyway because I can't even relate to lot of things there. It's funny because we're all pregnant and I still don't relate to other preggers. A few things I might be able to relate to about such as sore breasts or not gaining much and not starting to buy stuff yet for our baby.
Babycenter also has trolls there too and ignorant people and I am not the only one who has been attacked because I have seen at least three other women posting a thread saying they were attacked about a post they made. I blame it on their raging hormones
Luckily I don't post there a lot. I hardly have anything to say so I mostly lurk and browse clicking on posts I find interesting and I read.
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Deinonychus

Joined: 27 Apr 2010
Age: 37
Gender: Male
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Location: Long Island, NY, USA
Trolling with internet anonymity is great, but I prefer the real thing. I have a rather monotonous voice, meaning it is hard to detect emotion in my voice, especially sarcasm.
I troll my friends when we hang out all the time, often to hilarious results. I do it to strangers too, but I'm a little nicer so it comes off as dark humor.
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