What's your understanding of what a "troll" is (in the Yahoo! Answers context)?

Question

In my use of Yahoo! Answers it has come to my attention that people seem to be using the term "troll" to describe users that exhibit two different kinds of behavior. That is, I think that people use the word "troll" to talk about two different things. What would be your definition of "troll", in the Yahoo! Answers context? I'd like to see if two different definitions indeed come up.

Answer 1

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, or off-topic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others.

Answer 2

A troll is anyone who asks questions or answers them in a way that is intentionally inflammatory. For example: Why don't we just kill all the _______s? You could add just about anything in the blank there, right? Or, when someone asks a serious question like, Why does ______ happen? they might answer "Because you're a moron..."
Get the general idea? It happens on any message board, though Yahoo has the nice option of letting you report this kind of behavior.
I'm curious as to the second definition, though.

Answer 3

I in basic terms won yet another one immediately, and it sounds stupid, yet it hurts and that i'm getting mad. i choose for to look at contacts and consistent with danger erase some, who, i do no longer understand, and it probably isn't a sprint. i choose for to end Y/A. Then after calming down and understanding that that's the two my fault by using fact of regulations and regulations I in some way inadvertently broke, then Que Sara, Sara, however would be,would be, Que Sara.

Answer 4

A troll is someone who states something or asks a question on the internet just to get a rise out of others.