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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs 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.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)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)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
(45,525 posts)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)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.