Is it normal to be called a troll when your not?

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Sometimes I make a legit call and get called a troll. Sometimes I call troll and then after further posts are made feel the OP or commenter may just have a view that upsets me. Normal?

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago | pl

    Troll.

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  • ebulliance
    11 years ago | pl

    I just forget them, because they dont matter.

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  • ebulliance
    11 years ago | pl

    I've been called a troll before, even though I'm nmot!

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  • GuessWho
    11 years ago | pl

    Sometimes trolls are really obvious.

    Otherwise...
    If you got called a troll on a legitimate post, take it as a sign that IT'S NOT NORMAL. It is in fact so strange that we believe "NO SANE PERSON WOULD EVER DO THAT" and hence believe the post to be fake.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago | pl

    I got called it all the time and didn't agree with it. The problem for me is that it doesn't have a singular definition and what others may think of as trolling is not what I think.

    I always thought trolling was having a private joke that the victim then becomes aware of and realises their stupidity. I just wanted to make a joke that everyone else was part of from the start.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago | pl

      Interesting, I like your first definition. I always though it was posting BS to incite people silly enough to bite.
      My sense of humor is often too dry and people just think im an idiot.

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      • dappled
        11 years ago | pl

        Yeah, that's kind of it. And humour is tricky online. I dial the sarcasm and irony dial down to about 1 here (it's up to 11 in everyday life) because people don't get it and take comments at face value. If I say, "I'd better go. I've got an appointment to shoot some puppies in the face", patently I don't mean it. You'd be surprised how many take it literally, though. Someone once told me they hated me for what I do. I thought *they* were being sarcastic. But nope, turns out a bunch of people thought I shot puppies as a pastime.

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