Being rude; when someone is intentionally rude or curt, hoping they can get target to take the bait & retaliate in kind so that a “flame war” breaks out.
"Nextdoor is no stranger to trolling flame wars, and all such attempts should be reported and subsequently removed."
by BoboBlechBolinkski January 6, 2025
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The act of getting a reaction out of someone for your own amusement. Most commonly to evoke an emotion that resembles anger or frustration. Basically conTROLLING their emotions.
by poolsplit75 February 6, 2026
Get the Trolling mug.A person who consistently fails to recognize trolling and responds with genuine engagement. Trolling-fallers are the internet's most reliable source of entertainment for trolls: they always take the bait, always engage seriously, always provide the reaction that trolls seek. Their inability to recognize performance makes them predictable marks.
"He's a classic trolling-faller—sees obvious satire and posts a furious correction. Every time. Trolling-fallers keep trolls in business: they provide the outrage that provocateurs seek. The only defense is recognition—but trolling-fallers never learn. They're too busy engaging to see they're being played."
by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026
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by koolkidbrey March 5, 2026
Get the trolling mug.That is not what you are doing Anna. You are drawing a box around 'innocent kids and journalists' and pointing at that and shrieking at me like a chimp so you don't have to give me the credit and pay me and, beyond that, you don't have to stop the people who are doing this to me because you had get raped so now I have a mental illness I don't actually have imposed on me and there's just no undoing it BECAUSE I SAID THE THING I SAY ABOUT YOUR THING! Right? This is the most extreme example of media collusion of which I have ever even heard!
Hym "What you are doing is in no way shape or form 'telling the truth' Anna and I'm not exchanging care with you to get you to care about my thing. And you've already made what you're doing explicit. You're rejecting my framing of the issue and just inventing a new reality and you're likely doing it for religiously motivated reasons. I don't have to just live with 'my problem' and I don't have to do what you would like me to have to do for it to be solved."
by Hym Iam July 3, 2025
Get the Telling the truth mug.Hym "Nononononono. Quit telling me to shut up. And 'Will' is a future-tense word. As in, 'You are not actively doing the thing I said.' That is a problem as if my fucking brain has been damaged, you have violated the Bodily Harm clause."
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