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[quote=Anonymous]I think often the people who are accused of being trolls are actually posting "real" stories but framing it in a way that feels trollish.

For instance, someone will post a story as a DIL who is annoyed with something their MIL did. Only the MIL will be portrayed as a caricature and the DIL as a totally innocent victim. People will pick up on this and call troll. But they may actually be a DIL with an MIL issue, it's just they aren't being totally honest about the conflict, and are exaggerating the MIL's behavior and omitting anything negative they might have done to get sympathy.

In another scenario, that same person might post the same story, but *as* the MIL. So a DIL might pose as her MIL, describing the situation from the MIL's perspective, but in such a way that it will induce people who jump all over the "OP" who will seem transparently to be in the wrong. That's the whole point. It's actually the DIL working out her anger at her MIL by getting strangers on the internet to yell at her MIL directly.

Another scenario is someone who has longstanding issues with a certain person or type of person might periodically post stories that are invented by based generally on their experiences with that person or type of person. So a man whose wife stopped having sex with him and then got divorced my might post stories about dead bedrooms, but in various personas to work out his anger issues. In one story he might still be married and posting about a dead bedroom in the hopes people will tell him he should cheat (maybe IRL he cheated and he wants that choice validated, maybe IRL he didn't cheat but wishes he had -- it's playacting to work through those issues). Or he might post as his ex-wife or another woman, to get people to yell at a woman who isnt' have sex with her husband. Or maybe he'll post as a wife who loves having sex with her husband and doesn't understand why her "friend" doesn't. I think gender swapping stories to prove points is common on here.

I actually think it's rare for someone to troll with a long story that is just fully invented and not related to some specific situation in their own life. People are working out their issues. Sometimes the stories don't make sense or don't add up because they've bent the truth to make a point or induce a specific response they find satisfying. But it's all related back to some real issue they have.

At least that's my theory.[/quote]

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