Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Why? What do you get out of it? Does it make you feel big? Does it bring you great joy? What is it that makes you do it?

Here's a lengthy explanation on internet trolls.

Troll article

Gomie is all but mentioned by name. There are several reasons why people do it but his seems to be a need for an identity - all attention (good or bad) is good attention. Control is another motivation. He steers the conversations - controls them - by inciting anger with his passive \ aggressive posts. He's also controlling the people that respond to him as well, by getting them so upset that they spend time trying to stop him. It's the only reason someone would join a board and constantly go against it's main theme. In fact, that behavior is mentioned specifically.

"The so-called concern troll works to disrupt a forum by claiming to support its common cause but posting messages that promote the interests of the opposing cause.”

He certainly falls into this category as well;

“Wasting others' time: One of the greatest themes in trolling is the idea that a troll can spend one minute of time posting a troll, causing multiple other people to waste several minutes of their time, catalytically affecting others. Most trolls enjoy the idea that they can waste others' time at comparatively little effort on their behalf.”

He's put up plenty of one and two word answers just to keep someone angry - just to keep the thread going.

Until he's banned, we'll have to suffer his presence. It's one of the drawbacks to internet discussions - the anonymity of the internet - "the safety of being out of range" as Roger Waters put it.

Gomie doesn't have to be concerned with being held accountable for his behavior. Online forums are just another form of entertainment for him, not unlike internet gaming. He just assumes a character identity and plays a part. If he were to behave in person the way he does here, angering and annoying people at the level he does, he'd get his teeth knocked out. On the internet, he's safe behind his keyboard.