PS apologies if this isn't well reasoned, I just got off a plane and am a bit jet lagged.
PS apologies if this isn't well reasoned, I just got off a plane and am a bit jet lagged.
Labster himself describes the use of trolling in tricking the reluctant apprentice into learning, or using it to sow strife to further policy making and bring about social change. "Good" is in the eye of the beholder, but I could certainly consider some of those things to be good some of the time.
There is a difference in abusing other people online for entertainment - "common trolling" as labster describes it - and the "sublime trolling" in which he sees art.
Or at least for effect.
IF THERE IS NO ART IN BANKSY, THEN WHY DO PEOPLE PAY MILLIONS FOR HIS ART? HAHAHAHAHAH..........
metatrolling in this comment by dual useage of the word 'art' fully intended.
but what banksy does seriously is not easy. and if you don't believe me, please watch 'exit through the gift shop', a truly sublime documentary, itself fake , but SO TRUE, totally worth watching twice.
He's just playing devil's advocate in a not very convincing way.
almost all of these koans are masters trolling students
> but what trolling is, and how many its species are, and whether there is an excellence of the troll, is unclear.
I happen to agree with Labster's point that trolling, in rare but excellent cases, can be a thing of art, and can be used with purpose.
It was the subject of this very interesting excerpt by Knuth, recently posted by pg.