I completely agree, as trolling can take little to no effort, whereas the consequences of trolling can be impactful and long lasting. People who are trolling to punish/stop wouldn’t stop just because they are ignored.

I don’t think leaving parade reviews should be considered a form of trolling. Whilst they are posting inauthentically, it barely disrupts the function of review. Furthermore, something that is too obviously a joke even to the average user, should not be considered as trolling.

I think it’s worth mentioning that on anonymous sites like 4chan, anonymity both encourages and discourages 4chan. Many people strongly associate 4chan with trolling culture and therefore inauthentic, but another large part of 4chan is sharing stories(green text), which in the majority of cases have some underlying truth to them.

This sentence is incorrectly worded, Ea-nasir was the copper merchant, the customer was named Nanni. Nanni wrote the complaint tablet, which was found in Ea-nasir’s home.

The examples used here undersell 4Chan’s influence on contemporary meme culture and internet trends. Other notable examples include: pepe the frog, wojacks, “Chad”, “NPC”.

It’s worth remembering that a simple choice as a list of country names may seem straightforward for a coder to add, but has a lot of ramifications for the website. Whether or not a country is or isn’t a country is a hot topic for debate and both the inclusion and exclusion of a country is a political stance.

Not just name lengths, some people have multiple word first names, no middle name, and multiple word last names. This becomes especially relevant in the context of people who are from non-English speaking nations, as many people are “forced/coherced” by systems to anglicize their names.