trolling

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Myspace has the potential to hold a lot of personal content, making you vulnerable to the worst kind of trolling -- the kind that attacks YOU directly, not just your video.

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  1. In fishing:
  2. The method of dragging or trailing a fishing-line and hook behind a boat, at or near the surface of the water; trawling. The tackle consists of a strong hand-line from 25 to 75 yards long, and a spoon-hook, or one of the many kinds of spinning-baits, trolling-spoons, propellers, etc. Trolling is also sometimes practised from the shore with a rod. The hook may be baited, as with a minnow, but artificial lures are most used.
  3. In Great Britain, a mode of fishing for pike with a rod and line, and with a dead bait, used chiefly when the water is full of weeds, rushes, etc. A gudgeon is the best bait, and is used by running longitudinally through it a piece of twisted brass wire, weighted with a long piece of lead, and having two hooks attached. The bait is dropped into holes, and is worked up and down by the lifting and falling of the rod-point. Compare trawling.

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Examples (17)

  • Myspace has the potential to hold a lot of personal content, making you vulnerable to the worst kind of trolling -- the kind that attacks YOU directly, not just your video. —  Progressive U - The new media voice for students
  • Drive a 5 / 0 to 7 / 0 hookpoint up through the lips of a mullet for drifting or slow-trolling, and you're in business.
  • Please no Spam, flaming (attacking others), trolling, and posting off-topic. —  p2pnet news
  • Flaming, trolling, and ass-kissing comments are discouraged and may be deleted. —  IA? EH.
  • Virtually any time I've been accused by Lindens of "trolling," for example, as Ace pointed out about this latest round on the issue of the blessing of Imprudence on the SL Dev list, it is preposterous. —  World of SL
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