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From: purplekloudz@webtv.net (Anna S)
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Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF TROLLS PART 2
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:34:06 -0500 (CDT)
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The secret is in identifying the personality type. I might be able to
help on this one.
The personality type attracted to the roles of troll and netnanny is
extremely well described in the professional literature to the extent
that even the untrained observer after a first reading is able make
recognition without much effort. 

Using this information will make you better able not only to spot this
condition, but also to understand it. You will then be more adequately
prepared to both evaluate the advice and also deal with the provocation
emanating from this source.
It is better described than any other aberrant personality type.

According to the literature they tend to be emotionally and sexually
immature. Quite unstable. Personal relations are a nightmare for them,
more so for the object of their attention. They just cannot cope with
other people especially those of their preferred sex.

They are described as being highly authoritarian and very seriously
pedantic.
Taking the highly authoritarian aspect first, they defer to and are weak
with the strong (others who have some sort of control or hold on them).
They make ideal followers, or apostles. (Sometimes described as an
arsehole looking for a body to attatch itself to!) 

On the other hand they "kick the shit" out of those they regard as
weaker or inferior to them. They are the sort of people who when asked
to kill people only ask how many and how often. 

Pedantry, in this type of personality, is a consuming and all pervading
passion. In newsgroups they tend to examine messages for spelling,
punctuation, grammar, query syntax, whether the message is on topic, and
general netiquet before getting down to the message contained in the
posting. If they get down to the message they have nothing to contribute
and bizarrely may even congratulate you for being on topic etc. 

A word to the wise. They are very easily offended because of their basic
underlying pathology. Being rigid and unable to make concessions or to
admit they may be "mistaken" every disagreement is taken as personal
slight. Coupled with their inability to correct misinformed notions and
their lack of adaptability they tend to have ill balanced aims way out
of proportion to any perceived slight. 
Responses to perceived slights are always over the top. War can break
out over the miss-spelling of a word, a miss-placed punctuation mark, or
minor difference of opinion. Cause indeed to have you banned from the
Net. They fall out at the drop of comma!

Newsgroups, are ideal for them partly because face to face relationships
are not just a nightmare for them, but anyone within 50 mile radius and
partly because each group has a "charter" which they can refer to. A
weapon with which to keep us all in line. A number of news groups are so
badly infested that they either become deserted or the domain of one
small "clique", ruined for everyone else.

It is best to remember that interpersonal relations of any kind always
become a veritable nightmare for them. There is also a large degree of
sexual inadaquacy and deviancy present usually of a sado-masochistic
nature. Meet them in an ally way with a cleaver in one hand and a hard
in the other and you would have something to fear from both. But the
damage would mutual.

This is not an exhaustive description but I hope it helps. From what I
have said I am sure that you will have gained the (correct) impression
that advice given by such individuals, or, collectives stands a good
chance of being pure shite. Maybe even malicious. I hope this helps