Troll

Trolls are, for the most part, pointless and annoying, and the PPC has (thankfully) not run into too many of them, considering its anti-Suvian stance. There are two basic types of trolls:

Badfic Troll
A person who writes deliberate badfic and posts it online is a badfic troll. Most often, the person just wants to amuse him/herself by seeing how many negative reviews and indignation the fic can inspire as they laugh at the whole mess. One such monstrosity was encountered and mocked on the Pirates of the Caribbean Sue Report.

Johnnydepp Orlandobloom rock!

Now, who would take the time to copy that phrase 229 times and post the thing online? Obviously, someone with very little else to say. Badfic trolls fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Bad Parody, although Department of Technical Errors agents have been known to handle them when there is no other agent on call.

The notorious badfic author Squirrelking revealed himself as a troll in September 2009, illustrating the difficulty involved in telling the difference between a very clever troll and an incredibly bad author.

Message Board Troll
This is a message board user who decides to spam the forum with witless, offensive, or otherwise annoying posts, threats, or multiple topics in a row for the purpose of irritating the board's members. The PPC has had a few trolls in its time, but not nearly as many as other similar forums, such as GAFF. (The latter has had to relocate three times due to trolling.) This kind of troll should not be confused with a spambot, which is a program designed to generate spam posts, linking advertisements in its e-mail or message. One such PPC troll was Red Wolf the Weird. Another appears in this Analysis of a PPC Troll, by Tungsten Monk. Mostly, message board trolls should be ignored, although the PPC has a very hard time doing this and many Boarders seem to think that feeding the trolls (i.e. replying with witty repartee to troll posts) is entertaining.