President Barack Obama

[Kyuuketsuki]

How is it related? I'm interested to know.

From deep in my reservoir of saved postings this (from The Official Trolling FAQ):

...a posting or newsgroup message designed to attract predictable responses or flames and a well designed troll will induce newbies and flamers alike to make themselves look even more clueless than normal whilst managing to convey to other, more savvy, members that it is in fact a deliberate troll. I have trolled and I have done so in this forum, I am not alone in this respect.

A troll will typically consist of an apparently foolish contradiction, a deliberately offensive insult to the readers of a board or newsgroup, or a broad request for trivial follow-up postings and such postings are usually intended to get attention, disrupt newsgroups or simply make trouble.

Good trolls are intended to incite a reaction so to deliver an anti-religious message on a board such as this would not be considered a troll characteristic but posting religious oriented flames might be. Trollers also "lurk" to see the effect of their troll and will occasionally post a response of his or her own designed to "inflame" the respondees even more so.

The art of trolling appears to be mostly a post and sit back & watch the fires burn type concept and a true troller will post something that has no specific relevance to his or her own views.

I couldn't find many references to link trolling to trolls beneath bridges (except of course the obvious parallel that both types of troll are effectively surprise attacks where one leaps upon the unwary) so maybe I was wrong ... oh well

Kyu