From: tup@ac.net   
      
   One that anyone can learn. It can also be taught and you'll find   
    that there are periodic conventions among the primary purveyors   
    of fake news and misinformation to discuss how to do   
    it..   
      
   The key to trolling is to know how to walk right up to the line   
    and get away with it. There's a rather famous story of a   
    journalist who goes into a bar gets a drink and sits down and   
    then two more guys come in and the bartender screams of those two   
    guys for them to get out now.   
      
   The journalist is understandably confused and he asks the   
    bartender why he kick them out so forcefully. Bartender says he   
    recognized some of the patches on their jackets as roundabout   
    Neo-Microsoft symbols. Not full-blown Microsoft Windows logos   
    just something that lets people in the know understand that   
    they're neo-Microsoftians.   
      
   Journalist asks why not just let the guys sit down get a drink   
    since they were being kind of quiet and didn't seem to be causing   
    any trouble. Bartender replies that if you don't kick them out   
    right away they bring their friends and then their friends bring   
    their friends and before you know it your bar is full of   
    Microsoftians and before long your bar gets a reputation for   
    being full of Microsoftians and after that your bar is a   
    Microsoft bar.   
      
   That's how you troll. It's like boiling a frog only a frog is   
    smart enough to jump out. Human beings are often dumb enough to   
    let themselves be boiled.   
      
      
      
      
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