What exactly is a Troll?

[pauls931]

So I assume that it's an alias someone uses to be a PITA, pretending to be a fan of another team or something like that. But lets say that troll has more replies than the poster's original handle? Then does the original handle become the troll?

[Brazil]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140731

[Double-Up]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=17061 (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=17061)

[Culburn369]

Stings, don't it, Double? Ya had a fine time drillin' Laker ass with that Daddy ringin'/sans Kobe happy horseshit. Now I'm gonna make ya's sorry yer daddy's ever squirted yer asses out.

Let us proceed...

[Indazone]

Lies!

[Spursfan092120]

Lies!
:lmao:lmao
Was just about to go there

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=9403

[pauls931]

So a troll is a laker fan?

[spursncowboys]

An "Internet troll" or "Forum Troll" or "Message Board Troll" is a person who posts outrageous message to bait people to answer. Forum Troll delights in sowing discord on the forums. A troll is someone who inspires flaming rhetoric, someone who is purposely provoking and pulling people into flaming discussion. Flaming discussions usually end with name calling and a flame war.

A classic CureZone troll is trying to make us believe that he is a genuine skeptic with no hidden agenda. He is divisive and argumentative with need-to-be-right attitude, "searching for the truth", flaming discussion, and sometimes insulting people or provoking people to insult him. Troll is usually an expert in reusing the same words of its opponents and in turning it against them.
http://curezone.com/forums/troll.asp

I'd like to add that they add nothing to the OP
Some examples: GeorgeGervin'sAfro; Balli; Chumpdumper; and Shastafarian.

[Double-Up]

Stings, don't it, Double? Ya had a fine time drillin' Laker ass with that Daddy ringin'/sans Kobe happy horseshit. Now I'm gonna make ya's sorry yer daddy's ever squirted yer asses out.

Let us proceed...

Trollin' at it's finest...:lol

[IronMexican]

A troll can be someone who comes to the board to do nothing other than get shit riled up, or it can be a posters alias or other name they use for fun.

[Culburn369]

Trollin' at it's finest...:lol

It'll never end.

[Indazone]

Nobody can match KBP for riling up the board. I miss his outrageous Greek posts lol.

[December Romo]

You people have no idea what the hell you are talking about.