Reply To: Popa Critiques Troll Posts

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/learning#post-345786

pba – The poster is less than an hour old.

Yes, but this is a personal question and a regular poster might want to separate it from her regular screen name.

Now, had the poster asked, “I’ve always wanted to marry a learning boy, and I am going out with someone who seems to be a baal midos, I hear he’s a big masmid, and he has a wonderful personality, but someone told me that when he was learning in E.Y. he didn’t ibber meiser and took a cigarette once a month. Should I marry him?”, I would say (s)he’s definitely a troll.

Ok, so first, I don’t know what ibber meiser means, so I don’t know if that should bother someone. I know an ibber yur is a pregnant year, so maybe ibber meiser is a pregnant meiser. But what is a meiser. I thought it might be tithe, but I would spell that maiser and also I don’t know what a pregnant tithe is. So maybe it is a miser, and the guy was not a pregnant miser. Which makes sense since it was a guy so how could be be pregnant. But at the same time, if he was really interested in having kids and a family, you would think he would figure it out anyway.

But that aside, I’ll discuss your post.

It appears your intention was to troll the OP by making fun of his/her troll thread, and saying that you could have trolled on the same topic more efficiently. This is a good mode of trolling, and I have used it successfully many times, including with this very thread.

In this particular case, it is tricky though. The actual OP’s troll actually did fool some of us. But, that is because it wasn’t actually very trolly; it was a good question. Your alternative trolling would have been legitimate trolling, so it was qualitatively better and your trolling point was therefore successful.

As to how successful, that depends on the quality of the alternative trolling you put forth. I think it was pretty good; I particularly liked the part about the pregnant miser.