Popa Critiques Troll Posts

DaasYochid

a singular mind

Too late…

Thank you DY for contributing the first submission.

First I will talk about the positives. When your troll post is a response, it is very beneficial if you are the first response on the thread, since you can then set the route the discussion will take. A good example of this can be found here: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/here-we-go-again-1

Also, I like how you very gently take all the air out of your target’s sails, by just simply and bluntly stating that her object is unattainable.

So all in all, I’d say this is an excellent first attempt; you should be proud of yourself.

Now let’s discuss how to make it even better than it already is.

It isn’t immediately clear what you mean when you say it is “too late.” Perhaps you mean that it is too late for anyone to post any troll posts for them to be critiqued, but you don’t explain why that would be so.

So, this is a good path, and I’d like you to keep on the same idea. See how you can make it clearer what you mean. I look forward to reviewing your edits.

It’s too late for me not to read this thread.

But your taking the wind out of my sails was better than mine out of yours.

Good job.

Ah, this is much better. In this post, you are pretending to not be a troll–but you are cleverly masking it in a compliment, which takes down the target’s guard and they bite the bait.

Well done. Take this one to the big leagues.

Oh my, I’ve been sleeping on this thread. I’ll be back after yontiff.

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.