They are smarter, better looking and yet somehow don’t get sore necks from straining to look down on you from their pedestals.

We, in their eyes, are worthless children playing around where we don’t belong.

So, adding their SO smart little talking points, insults and other trollish nonsense is perfectly okay.

I have been here would reveal very little consistent application of any principles when the comments of the blammed and reasons given for said blamming are compared with those that regularly post here and aren’t blammed.

imho

One can always choose to ignore them.

My method is to make the substantive case against their allegations so as to educate lurkers and then to ignore if they persist with asking the same question over and over.

at Netlingo. It might help you to understand what a troll is.

That’s actually a difficult question, Kelly – and there really isn’t one single reason for them.

As others have noted, some just have too much time on their hands and come over to just show off their self-perceived intellectual superiority. (Never underestimate the amount of chaos that can be caused by stupid people who fancy themselves smart.)

But the main theme is probably disruption – since that’s a specialty of the other side. It’s the same kind of crud you see with creeps who stand up during speeches and just shout and yell – it doesn’t serve any other purpose than to be disruptive (and display “genuine anger” which to that lot actually means something).

And from what’s sometimes happened with the comments in some of my pieces, they seem to send people in to deposit stuff in the comments mainly to try to interfere with the author’s narrative. This seems to be defensive in nature; they’re worried that some of their less-solid folks – who may be “questioning” :O – might wander in and get a good education which will “convert” them; thus, they drop in their propaganda b.s. to try to keep those folks in line and on the(ir) reservation.

Just my experienced $0.02 worth….

Thanks for what you wrote. I wasn’t talking about Redstate comments really. I was talking about the comment section on an article about the NRCC.

Disruption makes the most sense. I just wonder why. And who would waste their time like that? I enjoy reading all views. I often wonder what makes people reach the decisions that they do. I realize that I have a completely different worldview than people who are on the “other side.” But to go to a comments section on an article about the NRCC targeting 70 democratic seats and finding all kinds of vitriol and name-calling….just WOW.

Wouldn’t gambling on ESPN.com be more fun?

have all the time in the world to spend daddy’s money. It’s funny how many of them appear to have no job, no life and no clue.