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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