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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3164197, member: 9853"] Ah yes, " subordinate distributor" that's the term. The word "troll" has become sadly bastardized as it's crept into the popular vernacular. A "troll" isn't someone who is argumentative, provocative, abusive, annoying or gossipy. It's specifically someone who's calculating in winding people up. It's a game. Calling someone a "troll" isn't actually an insult. It's showing a weak hand. Most journalists are trolls, by this definition. They publish stuff they know will push your buttons to draw you in. The Guardian newspaper, for example. Pretty much all trolling, designed to make you unhappy. In this specific case, it looked to me like most of the people "spreading" these rumours, were neither "trolls" nor bad actors. They either (tentatively) believed what they were posting or they were looking for confirmation. It would be extraordinarily difficult for Pies to prove anyone posted the stories as fact, knowing them to be false, unless they're intimate with the parties involved. [/QUOTE]

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