THE ULTIMATE DISCORDIAN TROLL THREAD

[Cramulus]

I don't troll PD directly, I just equip trolls to capitalize on our stuffy and clannish tendencies. 

It's sort of like how the article on pinealism really just outlines exactly how to piss us off. For some, it will be a helpful guide. For others, it will be a path to endless entertainment.


I started to write a Choose Your Own Adventure about trolling PD but totally dropped it when I realized how much work it was going to be. Anybody is free to run with it though.

[Captain Utopia]

I was thinking about doing something like this the other day. But just now, noticing the pink-already-clicked-links, I guess this is where I got the idea from.

I think the approach I had in mind was a bit more meta though - like the way "well I wasn't being serious" usually mutates into "ha - socialological experiment".. I'm sure with enough thought there's a tree-like structure to which makes sense of the mapping. So each set of pages would deal with another categorisation of troll.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That sounds entertaining!

[Captain Utopia]

I hold out hope that while a civilisation may run on opinion, you can aim to increase how much of that opinion is influenced by fact-based data.

Creation science, thinking with your gut, etc, etc.

If the internet makes it easier for a civilisation to recollect its own past stupidity and put that in terms of current events, which I think it does, then I think that path leads closer to the goal.

The ability to share/correlate/advertise facts on the internet hasn't quite reached its full potential, but I think it will.

Twitter.

I see twitter as equivalent to flagpole sitting - a new technology is used as a toy until gradually the novelty diminishes and then people go about their lives. So much of twitter seems to be the "part of the cool crowd", I don't see what other appeal it has which will out-last that.

Technically speaking - the fact that we have the technology to transmit and keep updated with so many small elements of data, is quite a stunning achievement. Sociologically speaking - the fact that its usage spreads virally through human networks is also interesting.

Practically speaking - we haven't found a good use for it yet.

[East Coast Hustle]

bullshit.

there is no better possible use for any technology than being able to keep people updated on a minute-by-minute basis when I'm pooping, and twitter allows for that.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I use Twitter mostly as a marketing tool. I Tweet several times a week about cute jewelry I find on Etsy in order to get the jewelry artists to follow me (hoping I'll Tweet about them next) and then once a month or so I Tweet that I just put up some new beads. The jewelry artists are more likely to check my site because I've been promoting them, and my sales increase.

[East Coast Hustle]

but what color was your morning dump?

[LMNO]

It was blood red.


Is that bad?

[Reginald Ret]

That depends on what you've been eating.
So in your case, it probably isn't bad.
Don't go to a doctor.