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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks

One of them called me a troll this morning. What’s the internet slang term for someone who appears early on a thread attempting to “steer” it elsewhere?


8 posted on 09/21/2014 1:23:10 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I don’t know what the term is but that’s what the Putin trolls have been doing for a long time now all over the net.


10 posted on 09/21/2014 1:33:54 PM PDT by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: 1rudeboy
What’s the internet slang term for someone who appears early on a thread attempting to “steer” it elsewhere?

Threadjacker.

12 posted on 09/21/2014 2:14:17 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: 1rudeboy
What’s the internet slang term for someone who appears early on a thread attempting to “steer” it elsewhere?

Russian!

22 posted on 09/24/2014 10:15:19 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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