Yeloson's Law of Internet Trolls and Self Fulfilling Prophecies

[yeloson]

When a troll feels wronged by a statement of behavior*, they will then go on to act in a fashion that completely verifies the statement they are objecting to.

*Whether the statement was actually about them or they magically MADE it about them in troll-think.

Examples:

"I'm not stalking you! I'm going to look up your posts on another site and read them all!"
"I'm totally not racist! I'll silence any person of color who says otherwise!"
"Gamers never act brain damaged! I'll randomly spam a forum with non-sequitur statements that look like someone posting while high!"

Go on, I'm sure you can play along as well!

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

BWAHAHAHA. So true.

On a happier note, dunno if you saw?

[yeloson]

I didn't even see that. Thanks.

[spiralsheep]

That meme's being hosted in bizzarro world. I tried to comment there anon, which would initially be screened anyway, and was given the bizarre captcha "which situreft" (WTF?!) which was correct but the system insisted demanded a second captcha = "rgation according" (WTF??!!) and then posted my comment logged in anyway. Why would anyone host an anon meme if they don't actually want or allow anon comments?! Bizarre.

Anyway, yeloson, you are a true warrior with your piercing intelligence tempered by encompassing compassion (and I don't need to be anonymous to say so).

[littlebutfierce]

The captcha is apparently set to not appear for anon comments (& there have been lots of anon comments posted, at least some of which didn't get a captcha: most of mine), but it's working wonkily: if you try to post more than once in quick succession it will trigger the captcha (presumably as an anti-spam measure), same if you post a link (which may include DW usernames). & possibly also sometimes randomly anyway. It's not meloukhia's fault.

[stewardess]

*snert* "You people are so mean! And you're ugly and were born in barns!"

[aquaeri]

Yes! I use that rule to determine whether I need to pay any attention to someone I disagree with.