Hear hear, Rob.
There's vast difference between the often gorgeous hypertext
interventions of artists like Alan Sondheim or MeZ, and destructive
acts of targeted, willful harassment and bullying (NN).
>On 08/10/13 10:34 AM, Dorian Batycka wrote:
>>
>> For Cochran of Rustle League, "Trolling is a form of social commentary or
>> satirical performance art for people who take themselves too seriously on
>> the internet." Spot on in my opinion!
>
>Nobody could take themself more seriously than the apologetic troll.
>
>Pace Mez, there's an etymological problem here. The mass media's "troll"
>is not the Usenet troll or the mailing list art troll. Rolling them all
>in together doesn't help.
>
>To the extent that trolling is disruptive (and this is generally its
>intention), that disruption needs a moral or aesthetic justification if
>we are to accept its value.
>
>"For teh lulz" is at least more honest than hiding behind (c|C)oyote.
>
>The problem with seeking to excuse list trolling as art up, to and
>including the point where it destroys the list, with the value of the
>resulting artistic production is that it had better be some pretty
>amazing art.
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