For the years that I was on Reddit and now on Lemmy, I have seen these terms used a lot, but honestly, I’ve never actually knew what it meant. (I’m sorry if this is a really stupid question.)
For the years that I was on Reddit and now on Lemmy, I have seen these terms used a lot, but honestly, I’ve never actually knew what it meant. (I’m sorry if this is a really stupid question.)
The most simple definition of trolling is simply interacting with other people with the objective of making them angry for your own entertainment. On social media it often means bad-faith usage since the platform sort of assumes that people won’t do that sort of thing. For example, Reddit suggests that you don’t want to get low karma, so when some people would make a game out of trying to get as many downvotes as possible, that was a bad-faith usage of the site.
Thanks, I appreciate your explanation. I feel a little dumb, that all these years I never knew what it actually meant.