re: The transfer portal/NIL has to be wreaking havoc on recruiting strategies?

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People think a troll is anyone who triggers them. I’d rather be right then get a reaction out of you just because.

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Speaking of "change", most people are totally unaware that the definition of "internet troll" was ORIGINALLY "a person who hijacks a thread to try to change the subject to something unrelated in order to further promote his agenda", like, say, bringing up Biden or Trump in a thread with nothing to do with politics....

But in this era of name-calling and vocabulary-challenged internet users, it just felt so good to call anyone with an opposing viewpoint a "troll", it quickly became popularly misused so often that the original definition is lost, and now it's just a meaningless aphorism to dismiss any opposing viewpoint, and an internet troll is now "anyone in a thread I'm in who doesn't agree with me"....

So a liberal who argues his viewpoint to a group of conservatives will quickly be labelled a troll, but those same ones calling him a troll will themselves be accused of "trolling" if they bring up their Trump-love to a thread full of liberals.... It's lost any objective definition.

See, now I'm an internet troll, not because I've argued or agreed/disagreed with anyone, but I've changed the subject to "linguistics, word origins, and etymology"