What is a Troll?

Reilln95 | Report of a Troll | September 19, 2016

What is a Troll?

KINGDOM OF HABBO

September 19th, 2016 (Monday) – The topic of this week is about the trolls. Don’t know what a troll is? Here is what I know: a troll is a person who likes to make or create trouble with other people, generally out of amusement, boredom or anger. Also, the act of trolling is part of cyberbullying via internet community and in this case, it also happens often in Habbo. As we all know, Habbo does not tolerate any act of trolling, scamming or bullying, because it’s an online community site that ensures safety to its members: but we can’t avoid it if a troll suddenly shows up and disturbs us along the way. So, let’s find out what trolls really are and how we can avoid them.

Trolls often work to make people dislike them by their rude and disrespectful manners and words. Their goals are to provoke readers into an emotional response, or otherwise disrupting normal on-off topic discussion, which is often for their own amusement. There are a few types of troll that I find generally. Below are the details.

The insult troll:

The insult troll is a pure hater, plain and simple. They don't even really have to have a reason to hate or insult someone. These types of trolls will often pick on everyone and anyone by calling them names, accusing them of certain things, doing anything they can to get a negative emotional response from them and just because they can. In many cases, this type of trolling can become so severe that it can lead to or be considered a serious form of cyberbullying, especially in Habbo.

The persistent debate troll:

This type of troll loves a good argument. They can take a great, thoroughly researched and fact-based piece of content, and come at it from all opposing discussion angles to challenge its message. They believe they're right, and everyone else is wrong. You'll often also find them leaving long threads or arguments with other commenters in community comment sections, and they're always determined to have the last word and continuing to comment until that other user gives up.

The grammar and spellcheck troll:

You know this type of troll. They're the people who always have to tell other users that they have misspelled words and grammar mistakes. Even when they do it by simply commenting with the corrected word behind an asterisk symbol (*), it''s pretty much never a welcomed comment to any discussion. Some of them even use a commenter's spelling and grammar mistakes as an excuse to insult them.

The forever offended troll:

When controversial topics are discussed online, they're bound to offend someone. That's normal. But then there are the types of trolls who can take a piece of content that often times it's a joke, a parody or something sarcastic and turn on the sensitive topics. They're experts at taking humorous pieces of content and turning them into an argument by playing the victim. People really do get upset by some of the strangest things said and done online.

The show-off, know-it-all or blabbermouth troll:

A close relative to the persistent debate troll, the show-off or blabbermouth troll is a person who doesn't necessarily like to participate in arguments but does love to share his opinion in extreme detail, even spreading rumors and secrets in some cases. Think of that one family member or friend you know who just loves to hear his own voice. That's the Internet equivalent of the show-off, know-it-all or blabbermouth troll. They love to have long discussions and write lots of paragraphs about whatever they know, whether anyone reads it or not.

The profanity and all-caps troll:

Unlike some of the more intelligent trolls like the debate troll, the grammar troll and the blabbermouth troll, the abusive, vulgar language also known as a swear word and all-caps troll is the guy who has nothing of value to add to the discussion, spewing only F-bombs and other curse words with his caps lock button left on. In many cases, these types of trolls are just bored kids looking for something to do without needing to put too much thought or effort into anything. On the other side of the screen, they're often harmless.

The one word only troll:

There's always that one contributor to a Facebook status update, a forum thread, and Instagram photo, a Tumblr post, a Habbo chat or any other form of social posting who just says "lol" or "what" or "k" or "yes" or "no". They're certainly far from the worst type of troll you meet online, but when a serious or detailed topic is being discussed, their one-word replies are just a nuisance to all who are trying add value and follow the discussion.

The exaggeration troll:

Exaggeration trolls can sometimes be a combination of know-it- alls, the offended and even debate trolls. They know how to take any topic or problem and completely blow it out of proportion. Some of them actually try to do it to be funny, and sometimes they succeed, while others do it just to be annoying. They rarely ever contribute any real value to a discussion and often bring up problems and issues that may arguably be unrelated to what's being discussed.

The off topic troll:

It's pretty hard not to hate that guy who posts something completely off topic in any type of social community discussion. It can be even worse when that person succeeds in shifting the topic and everyone ends up talking about whatever irrelevant thing that he posted. You see it all the time online even in Habbo chat or forum, in the comments of Facebook posts, in threaded YouTube comments, on Twitter and literally anywhere when there're active discussions happening.

The greedy spammer troll:

Last but not least, there's the dreaded spammer troll. This is the troll who truly could not care less about your post or discussion and is only posting to benefit himself. He wants you to check out his page, buy from his link, use his coupon code or download his free e-book or anything beneficial only for himself. These trolls also include all those users you see littering discussions on Twitter, Instagram or even Habbo and every other social network with "follow me" posts or threads.

For the members of Habbo, or KoH especially, we can always ignore having any conversation with the troll by ignoring them or simply click the button ‘Ignore’ on their avatar. We can also report or ban them using the Habbo tools or settings, or even calling a Room Rights to mute, kick or ban them permanently if we are in the agency room. Just a simple ignore can save much of our

time and emotional responses in ourselves. Continue to focus on working and calling for help is an easier method to avoid any troll from abusing your personal feelings and life in KoH or even in other online community site.

Mafias are a newer term in Habbo as they may be related to the gangster or bullies in real life. In this term also, the Mafias may be some of the trolls that exist in Habbo. There is a badge of Mafias that were found in a few members who had transfer to KoH. At one point, they don’t seem to cause any harm to KoH but we also do not know what their goals are yet, so for safety precaution, our Founders ask us to beware of the Mafia members in KoH unless they leave the Mafia badge. Basically, the badge can be recognized if the name of the group badge would be in Italian and have a bunch of weird symbols in it (Source by –Kaylalicious).

Overall, trolls are not our main concern, as long as we do not act like them too. We have many Room Rights in KoH to help us get rid of trolls. Always feel free to ask for their help or report it to Habbo if the RR are not available at the time. So, stay safe, and ignore trolls by any means would be the best advice.

Prepared by,

Reilln95

(Reporter of The Kingdom’s Chronicles)

The Kingdom of Habbo

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