Meet an internet troll

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30. I always understood it to have a different meaning

That a "troll" is not "a person trying to stir things up" but rather, in the case of this board 1) somebody who is not really a Democrat, but pretends to be one, while at the same time constantly berates Democrats and argues for conservative, or non-progressive points of view.

But there would be another "type" as well - the Green troll. Which would be a progressive/liberal person who hates the Democratic Party and supports some sort of 3rd party and is here on DU trying to convince other progressives of the futility of voting for Democrats or supporting Democrats.

But each of those trolls has the same goal - to weaken the Democratic Party. One wants to strengthen the left at the expense of the DNC and the other wants to strengthen the right.

At least I think that is how the word troll is being used on this board, as more of a double agent than just a pot-stirrer, although certainly double agents might also have an agenda of stirring the pot as well - as a means to disrupt the site and disarm what might otherwise be an effective weapon against the RWNM.