Troll

[geardaddy]

What is trolling?

[aargh57]

This article (http://www.walleyehunter.com/articles/riege13.html) will tell you all you need to know about it. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[aargh57]

Or maybe you mean this trolling:

The act of posting a message in a newsgroup that is obviously exaggerating something on a particular topic, hoping to trick a newbie into posting a follow-up article that points out the mistake.

see also: flame bait , lurk.