Naaaaah. That's not trolling. Making posts you don't agree with to get a reaction or making statements you do agree with but where you expect the majority to diametrically oppose is what makes trolling, no? My requests for Davey to justify his position, which I find genuinely repugnant, are entirely sincere. So to is my saying his comparison to Hitler is laughable. Had I posted the initial remark expecting loads of people to argue it, that'd be trolling as I think of it - I didn't, I posted it expecting pretty much everyone to agree (and only one cat has disagreed - another misread it) given there's been good wholesome backlashes at people posting stupid "good riddance" rubbish even on places like SevenString, where preferring Bernie Rico Jnr to Ibanez can lead to death threats :lol:
I don't think whether I care about Ed Roman (and I've said I think he's an arse, but am pretty indifferent to him) is at all relevant. It's the principle of being glad a person who's not really done anything particularly grave in the grand scheme of things is dead that was in question.
I've affirmed, not denied, that there's some fun in it. Mostly the hope of getting even more silly answers, but that doesn't mean it's trolling. At all. The root of it is not fun, the root of it is thinking people should defend daft statements.
Perhaps much of it is lost in text, it'd be noted I speak to all my friends EXACTLY how I write on forums (with equal verbosity, to their chagrin, I'm sure) and it's entirely jovial. Including telling them they're stupid and have repugnant ideas. And I'm not doing it to get a laugh then either - it's to try and force people to justify things that they say. It's how we understand other people's opinions, after all.
