Originally posted by: Anchorhead
"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.
"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.
I believe you're being mostly unfair to Go-Mer. Everything that I have seen him post seems authentic in the sense that he truly loves the prequels as much, if not more than the OUT, and that he truly has a high amount of respect for Lucas. Sure, we believe he's clearly misguided in this opinion, but let's not pretend that it's completely unreasonable. People can believe what he believes and still desire a good OUT release; the prequels and the SEs have redeemable elements (even if we personally find that the bad outweighs the good).
Your last point there, about his one-or-two-phrase replies that work to preserve people's anger, is definitely true though. First, Go-Mer seems to sickly enjoy situations whenever he manages to irritate someone (as if he believes he's above it all). Then, for some reason, he enjoys using the similarly provoking one-liners when he sees someone post an opinion he doesn't like. I would guess that this stems from an inability to express disagreement in measured, healthy ways. I don't believe Go-Mer is purposely looking to waste people's time like a troll would.