prplchknz
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Ahhh..... that's what you meant. Phew I thought I guessed the type wrong.
Hmmmm.... which type of cookie I want? The same type RH has got.
Ahhh..... that's what you meant. Phew I thought I guessed the type wrong.
Hmmmm.... which type of cookie I want? The same type RH has got.
Thought image was a bit big for the size of my reply lol... still love it though
some people are more sensitive than others.
It makes people angry and scared to accept thoughts that implicitly question their understanding of reality.
Butthurt = you are too sensitive, dumbass.
Troll = causing problems on purpose.
Some people troll and others call them out on it. Sometime people incorrectly label trolls.
In the legitimate cases and not the over reactions it's usually because it is a highly controversial statement delivered in a challenging or demeaning way that provokes response.
People especially question this when someone comes up with an opinion, they are nasty about it, and then they refuse to discuss it further.
In some people's minds if someone posts something controversial and inflammatory, and subsequently refuses to enter meaningful dialog, then their purpose must be to be controversial and inflammatory. This excludes random venting and mostly pointed at apparent attempts at discussion and then going on to undermine the discussion.
Edit: or put more simply, things that are vapid or aren't followed by meaningful attempts at dialog, and may be only followed by stronger reiterations of the statement/opinion often get labelled as trolling (sometimes wrongly so) because it doesn't seem to have any value or purpose other than upsetting people.
The thought process behind equating unpopular opinions and trolling is something like, "Surely, this guy can't hold that opinion. He must be trying to bait us."
When, in reality, trolling is all about the nature of the delivery.
yes thank you, but why?
Why do people incorrectly label others as trolls?
People do this because they believe their powers of logic and reasoning are not flawed. With this mindset, they might think someone who repetitively disagrees and refuses to conform to their (perfectly rational) argument no matter how much they repeat it is a troll. Obviously they might vocalize this opinion once they give up on trying to win them over via the debate.
That is going to be the case sometimes. In other situations there is going to be someone who insists upon an opinion, and arguing for an opinion, that is controversial and unpalatable (hence, putting a greater burden of proof on them), while using a lack of intellectual honesty to escape any difficult counter-arguments. I think we all know this happens and can think of people on the forum who tend to do this?
Under a strict definition, the troll has to not believe what they are saying and is only presenting their false opinion to anger and irritate. But Ill still call people from the paragraph above trolls, its a quick way of saying "you do this for attention and are not arguing fairly", in a similar way to a troll.