Wednesday, May 18, 2016

troll versus trolling

In a tech sense, troll is a somewhat subjective and ambiguous term for someone who stirs up trouble online by saying something inflammatory or doing some cyberbullying or the like. Trolling, in a tech sense, may mean the act of being a troll, but it could also mean going to look for something and hoarding information. Trolling could be scrounging/crawling for what you want. A recruiter might go trolling through all of the people associated to a company's LinkedIn profile at LinkedIn to mine those folks as contacts, but that doesn't necessarily mean the recruiter herself is a troll. Get it?

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