It's 2015, here's to the trolls!

[ellenrr]

Internet is Heaven to trolls.
Trolls are cowardly, angry, lonely, and have small amount of intellectual ability. Which is why they troll.

a. Where else can they say something, which would in real life, get them popped in the nose?
cowardly.

b. They are angry at themselves, at the world, at their mate (if they have one), at their neighbor, at the mail-deliverer. You name it.
They feel resentful.
Their "comic" efforts are not rewarded in real life; they just get weird looks, so they bring them to the Internet, where no one can look at them weirdly.

c. They are losers in real life, they have no friends, no one cares about them bec. they are so bitter and resentful. On the Internet they can find a whole bunch of like-minded morons.

d. They lack intelligence. Which is another reason they can't succeed in life. Here they try to hide their lack of intelligence in sarcasm and attacks, which seem incredibly clever to them, not so much to anyone else.

Happy New Year all the trolls. in 2015 May you find another universe to inhabit.

[corkhead]

1. f. and they are known to paint with a broad brush

[Demeter]

2. I was going to say....

...not that I'd support trolls, per se....

[Android3.14]

3. Oh, the irony

[dissentient]

4. Nowadays, I have noticed that very often a troll label is applied when it means

that someone simply disagrees with someone else's strongly held opinion.

Honestly the term is stale by now, is used all the time, and needs to be retired like many other lame internet fad words.

[ellenrr]

5. I don't know why the word should be retired, it has meaning...

anyway, the word can be retired, unfortunately, trolls cannot.