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  <title>Nicolae Sfetcu</title>
  <subtitle>My virtual house and friends</subtitle>
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    <title>The trolling phenomena </title>
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    <category term="A HUGE DEFEAT" />
    <category term="Al Gore invented" />
    <category term="Assraping the corpse" />
    <category term="BOARD FLOODING" />
    <category term="Guides" />
    <category term="I&#039;m shaking in anger" />
    <category term="Phenomena" />
    <category term="Roger Moore is dead" />
    <category term="Trolling" />
    <category term="Yahoo" />
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<p>Finally, there are inside jokes unique to Yahoo! that do not fit into any of  the above categories, yet are commonly employed by trolls enough to merit  inclusion:</p>
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<p>Finally, there are inside jokes unique to Yahoo! that do not fit into any of  the above categories, yet are commonly employed by trolls enough to merit  inclusion:</p>
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<li>&quot;Al Gore invented...&quot;</li>
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<p>Whatever the subject of a news story might be, a common spoof post is &quot;Al  Gore invented (the item in question)&quot;. Examples: &quot;AL GORE INVENTED WINDOWS XP&quot;,  &quot;AL GORE INVENTED BLACK BOXES&quot;, &quot;AL GORE INVENTED GAY SEX&quot;. Oftentimes they  become more abstract to deal with the news topic at hand: &quot;AL GORE INVENTED THE  OBESITY EPIDEMIC&quot;, &quot;AL GORE INVENTED GEORGE W. BUSH&quot;. This practice peaked in  the early 2000s, but has fallen out of favor in recent years as Al Gore's  national prominence has receded. This practice derives from the misquoted  version of Al Gore's famous televised misstatement of &quot;I took the initaitive in  creating the Internet&quot; as &quot;I invented the Internet&quot; while explaining his  ground-breaking promotion of Internet legislation. As with other Yahoo! trolling  idiosyncracies, this practice has also been widely parodied on the message  boards. After George W. Bush referred to &quot;the internets&quot; in a 2004 electoral  debate, a celebrated post was &quot;GEORGE W. BUSH INVENTED THE INTERNETS&quot;.</p>
<ul>
<li>&quot;Roger Moore is dead&quot;</li>
</ul>
<p>Another common post refers to the fictional death of a celebrity, most  frequently Roger Moore. The subject line is occasionally along the lines of &quot;CNN  JUST REPORTED THIS&quot;, and the message often contains a short, sometimes humorous  vignette on Moore's untimely demise. This is especially common for news stories  of widescale humanitarian disasters: Sir Roger was one of the victims. Other  news stories which report great advances in human civilization often prompt  posts which take his death for granted: &quot;Too bad Roger Moore died before this  happened.&quot; The classic closing of any Roger Moore post is &quot;RIP Roger Moore, you  were the best 007 ever. You will be missed.&quot; Although this practice has also  fallen out of favor in recent years, reporting fake celebrity deaths or other  fake news, especially under the rubric of &quot;I JUST SAW THIS ON CNN&quot;, remains a  widespread practice.</p>
<p>A similar phenomenon exists among Slashdot trolls, except their &quot;casualty&quot; of  choice is Stephen King. As Slashdot news is generally tech-oriented, most of  these posts are extremely off-topic. Yahoo trolls, on the other hand, can work  Roger Moore into the article at hand.</p>
<ul>
<li>&quot;I'm shaking in anger&quot;</li>
</ul>
<p>The expression &quot;I'm shaking my (something) in anger&quot;, or &quot;I'm shaking with  anger&quot;, was especially prominent on the Yahoo! boards from around 2003 to 2004.  It is still often parodied today; an article on testicular cancer might prompt  such posts as &quot;I'M SHAKING MY BALLS IN ANGER&quot;. Humorous trolls would post &quot;I'M  SHAKING MY TECTONIC PLATES IN ANGER&quot; on an article about earthquakes.</p>
<ul>
<li>&quot;Assraping the corpse&quot;</li>
</ul>
<p>News stories involving the death of an individual often prompt posts along  the lines of &quot;I ASSRAPED THE CORPSE&quot;, &quot;CAN I ASSRAPE THE CORPSE?&quot;, &quot;LET'S  ASSRAPE THE CORPSE&quot;, or some other variant. Originally this was the preserve of  &quot;sick post&quot; trolls, but gained so much prominence that it has become a  fully-fledged Yahoo trolling phenomenon in its own right. As with other forms of  profane trolling, often &quot;assrape&quot; is intentionally misspelled- usually as  &quot;azzrape&quot;.</p>
<ul>
<li>&quot;A HUGE DEFEAT FOR LIBERALS/DEMOCRATS or CONSERVATIVES/REPUBLICANS&quot;</li>
</ul>
<p>News that reports something that one of the groups stands against, prompts  the post with the above stated headline, for example: If a story reporting  something positive happening on Iraq is stated as a defeat for liberals, and  likewise, for example a story involving a breakthrough in science is defined as  a huge defeat for conservatives.</p>
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<li>BOARD FLOODING</li>
</ul>
<p>At least one poster employs a technique of somehow circumventing Yahoo's 10  posts/20 minutes/ID limit and floods the board with dozens to hundreds of nearly  identical posts in the span of a minute or two, apparently by employing  thousands of exclamation points - usually at the end ROTFLMFAO! - and deleting  one with each post, thus evading Yahoo's ban on identical posts within a short  time span. This technique also causes the page to scroll way over to the right,  confusing some would-be respondents.</p>
<p>This guide is licensed under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License</a>.  It uses material from the <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>.</p>
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