Encyclopedia Dramatica
December 17th 2006 21:54
I'm sure all of you are familiar with wikipedia. If you don't know what that is, you are either a newbie on the interwebs or a total loser with 28.8 modem dial-up connection. This post if for those who know wikipedia.
Isn't wikipedia great? So clean, so precise, so factual, SO BORING. I bring to you an alternative in the form of Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's like wikipedia but with pizzaz. The contributors, I am one of them, are made up of basement dwellers who have nothing better to do while waiting for their porn downloads to finish. Let me quote you one the entry regarding wikipedia.
Wikipedia was created by a pornographer who stole the idea from Encyclopedia Dramatica to create a wannabe-encyclopedia which caters to terminally boring entries on useless topics like higher mathematics, social psychology and international politics that really have no relevence to the internets and internet culture. All Wikipedia content could easily be found through Google and other mundane forms of reference material, with the exception of their A Lame Edit Wars, which contain a level of pathetic dedication to the insignificant only possible on the Internets.
Hehe. Wait! There's more. Here's a quote from the Troll page.
An internet troll is an insult used by hypocrites who can be either:
1. A person who brings life to a tired, dull internet message board by purposeful attempts to start flame wars or Internet drama by posting comments that are patently absurd, yet still inflammatory enough to enrage the stupid, irrational and humorless. The moment someone points out that the troll in question was just gunning for a reaction usually results in a fire drill.
2. A person that throws around the troll insult to: anyone who defeats them in an argument, anyone points out facts the real troll doesn't want people to know, or someone the real troll picks at random to stick falsely with a troll label for sheer lulz. This second type of troll is 99.999% of all trolls now and is often called an Anti-troll.
3. A person affiliated with the group Bantown, commonly known for their lulz. GNAA IS DEAD, JEWS KILLED GNAA.
4. A Fat middle aged man or Russian Woman who lives under a bridge
As a verb, "to troll" is probably a corruption of "trawl." Troll is fine as a verb since trawling for comments and flames is innate troll behavior. A "Troll" is a mythical monster that lives under a bridge and surprises people who try and cross the bridge with some bizarre puzzle or challenge that they must complete before crossing. It has been suggested that people who lurk in groups and suddenly enter discussions with unwanted and provocative contributions inspire the same type of fear in law-abiding netizens. More rational people know that Trolls are, in fact, monsters who live under a bridge, probably in Utah, who flocked to the information superhighway after real superhighways were declared obsolete by Al Gore.
Novice trolls often experience troll's remorse. Such feelings tend to pass once they realize that people who take the Internets seriously enough to get upset by trolling really ought to get over themselves. Once they reach this point, they are said to suffer from Internet troll personality disorder. After long enough, they may even develop Chronic Troll Syndrome.
The best place for a novice to develop trolling skills and get a few easy lulz is Not4chan.
I enjoy Encyclopedia Dramatica immensely. If you have the same type of humor as I have, I'm sure you will spend months reading everything in the site. I still haven't checked out everything there. And I think they are experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment. If you still want to check it out sans the funny photos, visit EncyclopediaDramatica.com.
Isn't wikipedia great? So clean, so precise, so factual, SO BORING. I bring to you an alternative in the form of Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's like wikipedia but with pizzaz. The contributors, I am one of them, are made up of basement dwellers who have nothing better to do while waiting for their porn downloads to finish. Let me quote you one the entry regarding wikipedia.
Wikipedia was created by a pornographer who stole the idea from Encyclopedia Dramatica to create a wannabe-encyclopedia which caters to terminally boring entries on useless topics like higher mathematics, social psychology and international politics that really have no relevence to the internets and internet culture. All Wikipedia content could easily be found through Google and other mundane forms of reference material, with the exception of their A Lame Edit Wars, which contain a level of pathetic dedication to the insignificant only possible on the Internets.
Hehe. Wait! There's more. Here's a quote from the Troll page.
An internet troll is an insult used by hypocrites who can be either:
1. A person who brings life to a tired, dull internet message board by purposeful attempts to start flame wars or Internet drama by posting comments that are patently absurd, yet still inflammatory enough to enrage the stupid, irrational and humorless. The moment someone points out that the troll in question was just gunning for a reaction usually results in a fire drill.
3. A person affiliated with the group Bantown, commonly known for their lulz. GNAA IS DEAD, JEWS KILLED GNAA.
4. A Fat middle aged man or Russian Woman who lives under a bridge
As a verb, "to troll" is probably a corruption of "trawl." Troll is fine as a verb since trawling for comments and flames is innate troll behavior. A "Troll" is a mythical monster that lives under a bridge and surprises people who try and cross the bridge with some bizarre puzzle or challenge that they must complete before crossing. It has been suggested that people who lurk in groups and suddenly enter discussions with unwanted and provocative contributions inspire the same type of fear in law-abiding netizens. More rational people know that Trolls are, in fact, monsters who live under a bridge, probably in Utah, who flocked to the information superhighway after real superhighways were declared obsolete by Al Gore.
Novice trolls often experience troll's remorse. Such feelings tend to pass once they realize that people who take the Internets seriously enough to get upset by trolling really ought to get over themselves. Once they reach this point, they are said to suffer from Internet troll personality disorder. After long enough, they may even develop Chronic Troll Syndrome.
The best place for a novice to develop trolling skills and get a few easy lulz is Not4chan.
I enjoy Encyclopedia Dramatica immensely. If you have the same type of humor as I have, I'm sure you will spend months reading everything in the site. I still haven't checked out everything there. And I think they are experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment. If you still want to check it out sans the funny photos, visit EncyclopediaDramatica.com.
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