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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3921625" data-attributes="member: 40961">Certainly.There are more types of trolling than mere insults.  There is concern trolling, contrarian trolling, and a whole host of others.  Some of them function by carefully not crossing the line in terms of insults, while still mindlessly repeating obnoxious, unthoughtful comments, with the intention of annoying.  The fact that no explicit rules are being violated protects the troll, and the culture of presuming that there are two sides to an issue and that other's opinions must have some merit gives the troll moral high ground to demand equal treatment with other non-trolls, even as the trolls irrational comments, crocodile tears at alleged mistreatment, and astounding stamina in posting the same thing over and over even after it has been more than adequately dismissed, drag the forum into the ditch.<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1032102" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1032102</a>Consider reading that guide to the trolls of the internet.</blockquote>