Troll
Trolling is posting a message in a newsgroup or email list with the
deliberate intent of starting heated discussion. It is usually done
by a stranger to the group who has no real interest in the group's
topic and is there purely to hurt or disrupt the normal flow of
discussion. A troll feeds on responses, taking any serious attempts
at debate and turning them round to feed the fire - this is one of the
ways in which a real troll can be identified. When it becomes
clear that one of these is at work, the correct response is to post a
short message exposing them as such and thereafter, ignore the
thread.
Don't feed the troll!
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