<story><title>Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html?postshare=7391437061068212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Does anybody remember when trolling was a term used to describe an activity in which users wielding enough understanding of other&amp;#x27;s perspectives would attempt to give other&amp;#x27;s cognitive dissonance?&lt;p&gt;It seems that one of the most powerful online political classes have lumped hatred and abuse in with disagreement, mockery and satire.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s good for the conversation between the group of user&amp;#x27;s that dislike where Reddit and other big social media sites are headed and the people that are taking them there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lcswi</author><text>It is really easy to define the meaning of terms if you are the easy-to-agree-with side of a conflict. And now you cannot even mention the elephant in the room anymore without being immediately flagged, banned or at least called a women hating privileged white boy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html?postshare=7391437061068212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Does anybody remember when trolling was a term used to describe an activity in which users wielding enough understanding of other&amp;#x27;s perspectives would attempt to give other&amp;#x27;s cognitive dissonance?&lt;p&gt;It seems that one of the most powerful online political classes have lumped hatred and abuse in with disagreement, mockery and satire.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s good for the conversation between the group of user&amp;#x27;s that dislike where Reddit and other big social media sites are headed and the people that are taking them there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewzimm</author><text>I miss those days when I was proud to be a troll, when it meant tricking people into thinking in ways that they normally wouldn&amp;#x27;t. People used to love trolls! Of course, it didn&amp;#x27;t just mean that. There were also troll raids when friends would get together and make silly comments on every thread they could find, crashing the party but having fun with it. The incendiary ones used to be called flamers, but I think that term is too trollish to use against trolls these days.</text></comment>