Support Your Local Troll

When the Internet was first opened to the pub­lic in 1992, some per­sons con­cluded that this amaz­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work may actu­ally start the process of end­ing the rule of tech­nocrats. Some used to think that it would even sup­plant the Pyramids as humanity’s great­est Wonder of the World, by allow­ing any­one, any­where, access to a cheap, easy global com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work. The idea was that any­one could hon­estly dis­cuss any issue with peo­ple on the other side of the wall, with­out any fil­ter­ing by profit-driven cor­po­ra­tions or power-driven states.

Fortunately for Our Way of Life™, these nerds and their distopian dreams of world peace and global intel­lec­tual advance­ment have proven as NULL as their point­ers, due in large part to the tire­less efforts of the trolling com­mu­nity. These heroic adven­tur­ers of the world have taken hor­rif­i­cally destruc­tive juve­nile prankster­ism into the post­mod­ern world, and thus freed it from it’s ulti­mately nihilis­tic end, towards one which truly approaches the purity of con­flict for conflict’s sake.

Unfortunately, much trolling is a thank­less activ­ity, with very lit­tle in the way of pos­i­tive rein­force­ment. For that rea­son, we’re proud to give a lit­tle some­thing back to the com­mu­nity which has taken so much.

From the folks who brought you The Spaminator™ 6000, now comes troll​.icio​.us. Using our patented BorkBork® tech­nol­ogy, troll​.icio​.us allows any­one the recog­ni­tion they deserve for destroy­ing intel­le­gent debate and pro­duc­tive com­men­tary twenty-four hours a day. Simply cre­ate a new login and asso­ciate it with your pref­ered psue­donyms, and troll​.icio​.us will auto­mat­i­cally rank your inflam­a­tory com­ments and the result­ing flame­war. A vari­ety of feeds are also avail­able to show you which blis­ter­ing jack­ass is doing the most damage.

Do your part to destroy pro­duc­tive con­ver­sa­tion by forc­ing every­one to re-hash the same tired argu­ments they’ve had a thou­sand times before, and share it with the world, via troll​.icio​.us.

3 Responses

  1. James Cape says:

    Freeing (ulti­mately harm­less) juve­nille prankster­ism so it can con­cen­trate on (the vastly more nihilis­tic) con­flict for conflict’s sake — in the name of stop­ping nihilism?

    Yes, it’s bull­shit for bullshit’s sake — though there’s some sur­re­al­ist social-commentary in there some­where, I’m sure. :-)

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