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HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
Thu May 28, 2015, 10:01 AM May 2015

Is trolling a board/page of a stance you hate generally a conservative phenomenon?

Say a page/board/ has a political, dietary, environmental, academic or cultural stance you are completely against.

Is it really a constructive use of one's time to troll that page? I don't get why someone would care SO MUCH; or worse yet, assume the board's regular participants who WANT to be there care so much.

For example, would any one of US be on sites like The Washington Free Beacon, The Moonie Times, Faux News or Conservative Tribune? Likely not . . . no minds would be changed (or, really, even penetrated), and you'd just get peppered with logical fallacy after ad hominem after stupidity.

I never understood the logic behind insulting people, yet it's the conservative that's on a board pertaining to something they don't like and assume people care about what they have to say. But . . . . we're somehow the assholes here.

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Is trolling a board/page of a stance you hate generally a conservative phenomenon? (Original Post) HughBeaumont May 2015 OP
No. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #1
Almost exclusively. I'm on a lot of tech blogs and forums. onehandle May 2015 #2
No one claims that the sun won't come up tomorrow morning. Fanatics are only outraged FSogol May 2015 #3
I agree we don't do that treestar May 2015 #4
No (nt) bigwillq May 2015 #5

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. No.
Thu May 28, 2015, 10:03 AM
May 2015

Conservative means not wanting change. So it depends on the board or post. If you troll conservatives, for example, you're probably not a conservative. Some people simply like to troll for the sake of trolling. It's not useful, but it amuses them.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
2. Almost exclusively. I'm on a lot of tech blogs and forums.
Thu May 28, 2015, 10:04 AM
May 2015

There are a lot of angry right-wingers who pop up on there, if you even mention anything positive about government or about Obama.

FSogol

(45,363 posts)
3. No one claims that the sun won't come up tomorrow morning. Fanatics are only outraged
Thu May 28, 2015, 11:04 AM
May 2015

and trolling about things they aren't really sure about. Their ferocity in arguing their case, refusal to see other viewpoints, and their childish need for everyone to agree with them, shows that they have doubts.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
4. I agree we don't do that
Thu May 28, 2015, 11:05 AM
May 2015

We'd be too uncomfortable with the stances we would have to take to troll from the right. The Real Right is bad enough. I wouldn't want to take say racist stances even as a fake.

And there is no equivalent to Conservative Cave type boards. We don't make boards to make fun of the freepers, for instance.

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