Why do people troll?

Depends on the troll in question. All trolls are not created equal.

there is only one answer to this question... "for teh lulz"

Trolling is a art.

I don't troll here, but I've done my fair share elsewhere. Mostly it's a combination of boredom, attention seeking, and just a desire for a good ol' laugh at someone else's expense.

I've always found it to be somewhat of a fascinating experiment in how people respond over light petty annoyances. Oftentimes I'll troll in a very un-disruptive way and someone will still get up in arms just because they are offended by the mere fact that a troll is present.

We troll because we can.

Its a practical joke.

A troll is the same as someone who puts clingfilms over the toilet seat.

Only we hide in the internet.

Boredom and stonedom.

It'd be weird if a guy brought his daughter into the change room and you were naked and rubbing one out, or squatting and taking a shit in the middle of the floor, about a foot away from the drain so the poo juices begin running across the floor over to it. At that point one of the daughters runs across and slips on the poo juice and hits the wall, at which point the father runs to help, but you pounce on the situation and throw your shit at him, splattering it on his face... Then while he's blinded to kick his kid in the back and smash a chair over his chest... That wouldn't be normal, don't even think of doing that.

Watching people get worked up as they cry tears of feces and mercy, makes me holler!!

A sense of humour maybe.

almost everything i do on this site(except for my profile) is complete bullshit, i just love to fuck with people and i'm apparently very good at it:) anybody else?

I do it for fun and when I'm bored.

Sometimes I troll and I don't even know it.

But guess what? I never troll. Oh no. Trolling is against God's will.

Because it's fun! :D

When I do it, I do it because it is funny to see some people post essays to tell someone off when really, if I'm so unworthy and not worth your time, why are you the one sitting there typing an essay to me? Taking the internet way too fuckin seriously.

When you have such a low ego that you need to empower yourself at someone that you believe is inferior to you, well... trolling is a fine social experiment indeed.

To watch people get way over-excited about a big fat nothing and make fools of themselves. Troll fodder, innit?

I know trolls always get the "you've nothing better to do thing, etc, etc...." but in another way the same thing could be said of ANYONE who spends ages on the net typing answers (even helpful ones) to complete strangers, no?

I watched something where they said trolls may have some kind of mental issue: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLHABlp8Ntg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLHABlp8Ntg</a>

Because they don't take the internet so seriously.

Not because: "Mostly because they're sad and bored and have no other way to feel better about themselves. "

And not because: "Because they are pathetic or insecure and have nothing better to do than to make others feel like shit. "

People troll because they just feel like it.

The incest/bestiality/women farting posts are all for attention. They get off on people telling them they're disgusting and have issues. Just ignore these sickos, or you are just encouraging them to be sickos.

here is what i picked. attention
well if im a troll trolls Believe in long true story's

It's quite entertaining. Not every troll is hateful - though I have been down that path before and I did it because I thought it was hilarious (granted, I was quite young at the time).

Everyone who answered that its because of them being unhappy or lonely or sad and pathetic or whatever other nonsensical bullshit are just people who got trolled at one point or another and are still mad and bitter about it happening to them. Trolling in its purest form is an art, and is completely transcendental in its role as thee social experiment of social experiments and that cant be defined by a generic definition. It takes years of practice and training to master trolling.

Those of us that pray at the alter of Troll will always have a place on the Internet. We are the Yin to your Yang of anti-troll sentiment. We are the equation balancing itself out. We are waiting, always faithful.....

I can understand why people think that it's mean... but if you're good at it then it is addicting.

*sings* ~hum tum~

Because seeing people get genuinly pissed off at nothing can be funny to watch.

they do it for the lulz

me master troll

If a vagina is never used will it heal up and close?

How about all of the above?

Because they are unhappy and unfortunately it is human nature to spread the unhappiness around.