None of the above.
A true troll, one with complete malice in their black, flabby heart, would gun for the most vulnerable and easiest targets. Obvious, OPer has never spent any time on /b/ in 4chan.
I get called a troll all the time here. You mean there are even worse trolls than I am? That there are places even more dark and tortured than civil discussion land, I mean, agnostic dot com?
@MarkiusMahamius - Indeed there are. The occasional inflammatory remark does not a troll make.
I am actually surprised how well-behaved most people are on this board.
@LatentumCattus the mock indignation is epic tho. I think some pepples brains just need whiny drama
@MarkiusMahamius - Oh, absolutely. Sometimes it is tempting to rile someone up just for the lulz.
Generally, I try to be a good, polite netizen. I also tend to just ignore the purposefully flame poster. But some people simply can't resist and take the bait.
I've been on these here interwebz long enough to be troll-savvy.