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|colspan="3"|<hr/>A [[Twitter]] troll flip flops 180 degrees in 38 minutes after mindlessly trashing [[Republican]]s, February 4, 2023.<ref>[https://youtu.be/xV_oB645ySM Twitter Explained In Just One Picture], Romanian TVee, February 5, 2023.</ref>
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The term '''internet troll''' refers to someone who acts in a way to disrupt or disparage others, often to attract attention to the troll. As a verb, it means commenting in an unproductive way to spark a reaction. Trolls are commonplace on any website open for comment by the public, and studies have even been done about how unhappy trolls are themselves. Trolling can also be online bullying, or cyberbullying.
Some entire websites such as [[Reddit]] and comment sections on newspapers serve as flypaper for trolls, attracting and keeping them away from littering more productive sites on the internet. Another example is [[Twitter]], which has become an echo chamber for leftists who lack the ability to spend time productively and instead recycle agitprop over and over.
Trolls tend to be deceitful underachievers, who hate people who achieve with integrity. This is illustrated by trolls posting immature comments against [[Magnus Carlsen]], perhaps the greatest [[chess]] player ever who works to restore integrity to the game.
==Internet trolls==
''See also:'' [[Atheist trolls]] and [[Atheism and humor#Individuals trolling atheists and atheist trolls|Individuals trolling atheists]]
As can be seen in the graphic above from SimilarWeb.com, the 5th most similar website audience in terms of RationalWiki.org is Kiwifarms.net.
At the [[Kiwi Farms ]] website, there is currently 136 pages of discussion pages at the Kiwi Farms website dealing with RationalWiki and much of it is of a disparaging nature.<ref>[https://kiwifarms.net/threads/rationalwiki.14720/page-136 Kiwi Farms - RationalWiki discussion pages]</ref> A discussion thread about RationalWiki at the Kiwi Farms website describes RationalWiki as a "Whiny hugbox for spergs and a cluster**** of neverending drama on a rapidly declining website."<ref>[https://kiwifarms.net/threads/rationalwiki.14720/page-136 Kiwi Farms - RationalWiki discussion pages]</ref> Atheists have a reputation for having poor social skills (see: [[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence]]). In recent years, the website RationalWiki has seen an enormous loss of web traffic (see: [[RationalWiki and web traffic]]). Apparently, the web visitors of Kiwi Farms consider RationalWikians to be gullible "lolcows" who are easily upset (see also: [[Atheism and gullibility]]).
The website Kiwi Farms has antipathy towards [[Social justice warrior|social justice warriors]]. RationalWiki.org is largely a pro-[[SJW atheists]] website.
RationalWiki has created an entire article devoted to concern trolling.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Concern_troll RationalWiki - Concern Troll]</ref>
=== RationalWiki, its Discord discussion servers and its fear of transparency/trolls ===
RationalWiki has two Discord discussion servers which are given below:
* [https://discord.gg/5jqQTKdkX8 RationalWiki Support Chat] — Support server, it's focused on wiki-related issues and moderation issues
* [https://discord.com/invite/qUj5SsmxYX RationalWiki unofficial Discord server]
RationalWiki.org puts requirements on its Discord servers in terms of joining in terms of a certain amount of edits to RationalWiki.org due to its fear of trolls and transparency.
=== SimilarWeb data for RationalWiki as of January 9, 2021: On January 9, 2022, SimilarWeb indicated that RataionalWiki.org was losing its ranking relative to other websites when it comes to web traffic. ===