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There are also [[Internet troll]]s. |
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There are also [[Internet troll]]s. In the case of these trolls, it is still applicable the warning "Don't feed the trolls, that will only encourage them" - ie. do not respond to them, that is the attention they are desiring. |
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Revision as of 06:02, 19 June 2001
A fictitious monster of folk legend, as in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," the well-known folk tale in which a troll living under a bridge torments some billy goats that want to cross.
Another sense of the word trolling (also spelled trawling) is the practice of fishing by drawing a baited line or lure behind a boat.
There are also Internet trolls.