Quote Originally Posted by gezegond View Post
I never had any experience with trolls, because I had the perfect counter-measure: I never conversed with anyone on the internet. You see, I've gotten my broadband recently (about 3 years) and before that I had dial-up for a long time. The thing with dial up was that instead of charging you for bandwidth, they would charge you for the time you used the internet. This meant activities that would take time and not much download (Such as chatting, posting on forums, etc.) was a no-no for me. Instead I used my dial up to download game demos (because I wasn't l337 hax0r enough back then to pirate) getting some pr0nz, and occasionally if I found an interesting article, I would download it to my hard disk and read it later when my internet had run out.

Anyways, by the time I had gotten my broadband and started properly conversing with people on the internet, I had a pretty good understanding of the art of trolling and how to counter it. (kinda) therefore I am pretty sure that I haven't been trolled that much...
never heard of dial-up working like that o.O and i'm on it now.

as for language butchering, i get enough of that in-game chat on many games (so many flipping abreviations >.<) and in chatrooms on some websites but i think its more when little kids sneak in for the latter, darn kids (they like to bypass the sites, the flash game site kongregate in this case, minimum age requirement of 13+ sometimes) and they're failure to comprehend proper speech/spelling