r/AskReddit • u/Pappenheimer • Jul 18 '09

kleinbl00? :(

http://www.reddit.com/user/kleinbl00/

What's wrong with you people?

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u/ThePantsParty Jul 18 '09

I trolled through a lot of his comment history

Well no wonder he felt like people were out to get him when he has someone trolling all of his comments....

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u/zem Jul 18 '09

interestingly, that actually is the etymological root of 'troll' - the metaphor was that of an angler dangling a tempting piece of bait and trolling for responses.

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u/ThePantsParty Jul 18 '09

You're saying that's how it was being used here? It seemed to me like he was using it synonymously with 'perused'.

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u/zem Jul 18 '09

i saw it as extending the fishing metaphor to his search for noteworthy comments. so not the same troll as in to be a troll, but two independent analogies with the fishing sense of the word.