A person who posts remarks or comments onto
internet forums or message boards in an attempt to get someone to comment negatively to it and to redirect attention onto himself. Usually, these remarks are controversial,
stupid, off-topic, inflaming, illogical, or childish. Sometimes, the comments are enough to enrage the
people in the forum to want to respond back with their own negative remarks which starts a flame
war and changes the topic and attention of the discussion. Since, internet trolls are attention whores, this is exactly what they want since they probably
don't get enough attention in real life and needs someone else to acknowledge their self-worth and existence. Nowadays, they are commonly found infesting
internet forums and websites such as the GameFAQS Message Boards, youtube (most notably in the comments section), moviecodec, rpgcodex and many others. It is best to ignore them unless you want flame wars to engulf the forum.
An
internet troll is an attention whore who posts
stupid comments onto websites in an attempt to get a reaction towards him (usually negative) and in an attempt to get someone else to acknowledge their pathetic, insignificant lives since they don't receive that sort of attention in real life.
