It may consist of an apparently foolish contradiction of common knowledge, a deliberately offensive insult to the readers of a newsgroup, or a broad request for trivial follow-up postings. The result of such postings is frequently a flood of angry responses. In some cases, the follow-up messages posted in response to a troll can constitute a large fraction of a newsgroup's contents for as long as several weeks. These messages are transmitted around the world to thousands of computers, wasting network resources and costing money for people who pay to receive Usenet news. Troll threads also frustrate people who are trying to carry on substantive discussions in a newsgroup.
People post such messages to get attention, to disrupt newsgroups, and to make trouble.
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