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Troll organization

A troll organization or troll gang is a group of internet trolls who associate together, share ideas and resources, and may act in a concerted manner. They sometimes adopt a name for their group, and on occasion elements of an organizational structure. This is difficult, as trolls often object ideologically to organized structures and cooperation, and disapprove of agreeing with anyone. The verb to anarchize seems to have been coined to describe the minimal degree to which trolls can manage their joint technological and cultural needs to achieve their goals. Some troll groups refer to themselves as an anarchization, though this term is also used to mean extreme democratization .

A number of different online media have led to the formation of such organizations, some short-lived and others more persistent. In past years, of the other newsgroups and forums.

On the Slashdot website, a subculture with several such organizations has formed (see Slashdot trolling phenomena), some devoted to moderating each others posts upwards and others to propagating new types of posts.

Some troll organizations engage in more serious projects that seem unreasonable or grandiose. The world trolling anarchization for instance claims to be seeking to free the Internet of having any owned domain names, presumably so trolling, alone, defines what words are to mean what, and what is to link where. It is not at all clear how this goal would be achieved, though, according to Larry Sanger in a notable essay on Kuro5hin where he declared that trolls had taken over , wikis such as the Wikipedia had become examples of such a takeover process.

= List of notable troll organizations =

  • Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) (trolls Slashdot, Kuro5hin and other technology communities)
  • The Cabal (sometimes Committee ) of Logged in Trolls was a group of trolls active around 2002 on Slashdot. Their primary objective was to get first posts. The League of Anonymous Cowards was formed in response.
  • Trollkore (trolls Slashdot)