Types of Forum Trolls posted by dbmas...

I found this kinda funny from elsewhere:

Blue Troll - A relatively benign species, interested primarily in the gathering and dissemination of useful and interesting information -- a "scholar among trolls", if you will.

Bee Troll - A species much like the above, butunfortunately, have an irresistable streak inside them that will not let them dly pass up a spelling mistake without correcting it.

Grey Troll - Who posts an inflammatory comment, and then claims later that they were asking a legitimate question. These trolls seem to have a problem with math, as they don't make their second post on any given number. Their alignment would probably be more Chaotic than the Bee, or the Blue.

Viva-Troll - Who subsists on a diet of straight caffein, and sugar injections. These trolls usually embroil themselves in a flame war, then post a "comeback" after every post by other users, any time of day, or night.

Math Troll - These Trolls are strictly lawful, beleiving victory can only be obtained through the sheer number of posts they made. To ensure their victory in a battle, they will post singular sentences over numerous posts, to counter one persons idea. These trolls are extremely annoying, and dangerous, seeing as how they continue to attack at every turn, but say very little at what it is they are attacking.

Rip Van Troll - Who wakes up in time to be in the middle of a flamewar, and decides to repost the first message on his/her newsreader with a nasty comment, while the world has already moved beyond the first post (whatever it may be) and delved into the deep psychology of Gary Gygax.

High Cleric Troll - These trolls are fully capable of resurrecting old flamewars and starting them fresh, simply by laying on hands, and a few words of wisdom. Unfortunately for us, their following is extremely large.

Anti-Troll (AKA Troll Hunter) - A special type of Ranger (read: Ranger kit) that has Trolls as their species enemy and will fixate on flaming a specific Troll and being rude to all other Trolls sometimes aleinating friends and allies in his quest to rid the world of Trolls or die trying.

Doppleganger Troll - This troll is really a regular in the newsgroup he's posting in, but in times when he wishes to troll, he forges his headers and assumes another email address and takes upon a separate identity. He sometimes enteres the thread as his old self to try to confuse other posters into not believing it's really him 8)

Cowardly Troll - I have encounterd him in my journeys among Usenet. This type of troll is quite obvious, but when a poster calls him a troll and points it out to him, this troll vehemently denies trolling and insists that he's enlightening the masses.

Ego Troll - Who seems to reply to his own comments or question under another personality. He starts a flamewar against himself hoping some people will hate and insult one of the two. He also likes waffles.

Noble Troll - This troll does his best to make an entire newsgroup into one huge flamewar. But, what separates this troll from the others is that this troll takes pride in being a troll and even starts to brag on a newsgroup that he gets fan mail. These trolls think their actions are works of art much like a Michaelangelo, but they turn out to be anything but.....

Impotent Troll - A troll who is genuinely malicious and malevolent, but the newsgroup readers regard him/her/it as comical in his/her/its monotonous rantings. It is usually highly susceptible to counter-trolling.

Thoul (Ghoul Troll) - This breed commonly feeds in soc.history.ancient. We could define it as someone who is at first glance seems to be very fearsome. He's ghoulishly attracted to issues long dead and theories long killed. His chief attack is a continuing flamefest, which will ultimately paralyse the victim with boredom.

PseudoTroll - That's the type who after getting brutally trolled and caught hook line and sinker, posting response after response to trolling, claims that, in actuality, THEY are the troll, trolling the original troll by pretending to be really worked up and upset at the troll.