
Are you a troll? Ever been trolled? Ever pwn3d a troll with your 1337 intarnet sk1llz? Or do you live under a bridge and eat goats? Tell us your trolly stories, both from the web and from real life
Thanks to The Hedgehog From Hell for the suggestion
( , Thu 19 May 2011, 11:49)
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So this Christian turned up on a messageboard I used. Even by normal Christian standards he was a monomaniacal bore. It was apparent his religion - or as he had it his personal relationship with the actual living Jesus Christ - was a crutch to compensate for some crisis or twelve in his earlier life, including but not limited to alcoholism and having beaten and been unfaithful to his wife (this info from him, not a guess). He offended a lot of people with his bluntly homophobic, racist, sexist and generally misanthropic attitude, but was so linguistically dull with it he barely seemed human.
So I started another account on the same messageboard. I went round apologising on his behalf. I explained that he was not, in fact, a human, and that I was a programmer who'd written a self-running chatbot. Like Kenneth Colby with Parry, I'd decided I couldn't simulate a normal human being's conversation, and instead of choosing a paranoid schizophrenic I'd chosen a Fundamentalist Christian, on the basis people don't expect them to be intelligent and are therefore more likely to be fooled.
Plenty of people on the messageboard believed it. The MODERATORS believed it, at first, including my lame excuses as to why I didn't know the username and password "he" had signed up under.
It was quite a chuckle over the next few days watching people try to "break" him by asking him weird questions. It was even more of a chuckle watching the dumb f.ck respond in exactly the same way he responded to everything else, which was to say pretty much as you'd expect an amateurish chatbot to respond.
( , Tue 24 May 2011, 8:10, 22 replies)

Can you elaborate on that? What makes you believe chuckle dum f.ck?
( , Tue 24 May 2011, 8:25, closed)

I do hope it's OK to smile inwardly at a post that you don't feel warents it.
( , Tue 24 May 2011, 8:45, closed)

What is it about belittling the nutter that you like?
( , Tue 24 May 2011, 8:49, closed)

( , Tue 24 May 2011, 8:58, closed)

I genuinely can't tell if you're pretending not to get the joke or not.
I hate you, you horrible heeb. You win.
( , Tue 24 May 2011, 17:13, closed)

Do you like that's a creative approach?
( , Tue 24 May 2011, 8:49, closed)

SORB - you really come across as an arsehole of the highest order. I was tempted to say 'cunt', but as a relative noob, I felt this may be a bit strong, rightly or wrongly. I think I've made my position clear. Cheers!
( , Wed 25 May 2011, 2:11, closed)
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