| Acronyms and Abbreviations
As opposed to typing out a long character string of multiple words, a simple 3 or 4 letter acronym can be used to express your point. A good example of this is "lol", which is used to replace "laughing out loud" or "laugh out loud", to express laughter, or "rofl" (Rolling on floor laughing) to express a lot of laughter, along with "lmao" (Laughing my ass off).
Users of this forum use lots of different acronyms and abbreviations, if you can't figure one out just ask and we'd be more than happy to tell you.
Troll
In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who enters an established community such as an online discussion forum and intentionally tries to cause disruption, often in the form of posting messages that are inflammatory, insulting, incorrect, inaccurate, absurd, or off-topic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others. Trolls can also be existing members of such a community that rarely post and often contribute no useful information to the thread, but instead make argumentative posts in an attempt to discredit another person, more often than not based on what they thought was said rather than what was actually said by the other person, concentrating almost exclusively on facts irrelevant to the point of the conversation, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others.
The key element under attack by a troll is the forum or groups hegemony. |
