09 February, 2012

This Is What an Internet Troll Looks Like

A crew from the BBC show Panorama tracks down a troll.



I wonder if they've done a follow-up to find out how the asshole's community reacted to finding out that one of their own goes around leaving comments like "rot in piss you filthy nigger" on Facebook. What does offline opprobrium and shame do to trolls?

2 comments:

nichole said...

Interesting... not to make light of this guy's despicable, antisocial behavior, but maybe there's a correlation between cat ownership and trolling: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/

"Compared with uninfected men, males who had the parasite were more introverted, suspicious, oblivious to other people’s opinions of them, and inclined to disregard rules."

(I don't like that they say "introverted" like it's bad, but oh well.)

Skip said...

I will have to have a discussion about this with our cat.