(December 7, 2017 at 2:26 pm)LastPoet Wrote:(December 6, 2017 at 7:17 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I used to know this one, back when I was getting my bachelor's. It is the term for a person who will take ANY attention, good or bad, just so long as they are being acknowledged as being alive. Very pathetic, but it does describe trolls effectively.
Dunno, I will ask my sister shrink when I see her on sunday.
I do wonder what motivates them to go on and sockpuppet after, to extremes like filling up the registration form more than once a day.
There was a case study of a young man who spent 90% of his time in jail. When he was released he would immediately do something like running into a bank waving a toy gun. He told his case worker that he was just lonely.