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There are many evil things you can do with your life, like lying, cheating, [[premarital wanking]], [[atheism]] or voting Democratic. But by far the worst thing you can possibly do while on this [[Earth]] is take part in the sport of Conservatroll (except in Poland, of course, where it's the national pastime).
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>A [[Twitter]] troll flip flops 180 degrees in 38 minutes after mindlessly trashing [[Republican]]s, February                                        4, 2023.<ref>[https://youtu.be/xV_oB645ySM Twitter Explained In Just One Picture], Romanian TVee, February 5, 2023.</ref>
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The term '''internet troll''' refers to someone who acts in a way to disrupt or disparage others, often to attract attention to the troll. As a verb, it means commenting in an unproductive way to spark a reaction. Trolls are commonplace on any website open for comment by the public, and studies have even been done about how unhappy trolls are themselves. Trolling can also be online bullying or cyberbullying.  
  
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[[Everybody|No one]] should ever play Conservatroll, [[Now|EVER]]! The rules of the game are only presented here so you will be able to spot others playing it and avoid being lured into playing it through deception.
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[[Jesus]] explains the existence of trolls in the [[parable]] of the tares in {{bibleref|Matthew|13|24-30}}, specifically [[Matthew 10-19 (Translated)#13:25|verse 25]]: '''''"But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds in the middle of the wheat, and then left."'''''
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[[Image:Andy.jpg|right|thumb|This man has never played Conservatroll. He has come to Earth to learn how.]]
 
  
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==Origin of the Word==
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Some entire websites such as [[Reddit]] and comment sections on newspapers serve as flypaper for trolls, attracting and keeping them away from littering more productive sites on the internet. Another example is [[Twitter]], which has become an echo chamber for leftists who lack the ability to spend time productively and instead recycle [[agitprop]] over and over.
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The word Conservatroll was created through the fusion of two already existing words:
 
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*[[Conservapedia]] - The only accurate, unbiased, and truthful wiki, reputedly written by [[Jesus]].
 
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*[[Troll]] - The title of someone who uses the internet to be a complete dick.  
 
  
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==So what is Conservatroll?==
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Trolls tend to be deceitful underachievers, who hate people who achieve with integrity.  This is illustrated by trolls posting immature comments against [[Magnus Carlsen]], perhaps the greatest [[chess]] player ever who works to restore integrity to the game. A [[Canadian]] study found that online trolls:
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Conservatroll is a sport in which people score points by placing posts on the wiki site [[Conservapedia]]. The amount of points scored depend on the nature of the post and how long it remains in place, with more shocking quotes scoring more highly.
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{{cquote|reek of what scientists call the Dark Tetrad of noxious personality variables: [[Machiavelli]]anism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others).<ref>https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/02/20/inside-the-minds-of-internet-trolls/</ref>}}
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==Internet trolls==
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''See also:'' [[Atheist trolls]] and [[Atheism and humor#Individuals trolling atheists and atheist trolls|Individuals trolling atheists]]
  
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==Wow! That is Bad!==
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A troll, in [[Internet]] parlance, is an entity or character that purposely disrupts a conversation via discussion [[forum]] or [[email]], a comment thread on a [[blog]], or another sort of website. For example, on [[Wiki]]s, users who purposely make disruptive edits are considered trolls. Many people consider this type of activity to be merely childish, while others consider it symptomatic of deviant minds of opposition whereby infiltration by deceit is normal practice. Trolls pretend to be of common thinking, at the same time plotting anti-social crimes. The troll can otherwise be known as a [[frenemy]] or as a [[hoax plant]] lurking for an opportunity to create trouble.
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Yeah, I know, I told you it was! So don't play it (unless you're Polish, obviously).
 
  
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==What You Need to Play==
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The term originated in the early 1990s, as an abbreviation of the term "trolling for suckers" (trolling being an angling technique to seek fish). An [[Internet]] troll will lock their target, bait the line and spread the net to catch their goal (unwitting victim). Sites such as [[YouTube]], [[Yahoo!]] and the Internet Movie Database (prior to the latter's shutdown of its message boards on February 20, 2017) are known for their lax (laid back) and sometimes negative enforcement of community guidelines on their forums and comment sections. The effects of trolling on children who use the internet have been linked to a number of well-documented suicides among youth in years past.  
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* No conscience.
 
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* 1 person to act as referee.
 
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* 2 hours of spare time.
 
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* Any number of players, although professional games are generally played with four players. More than this requires too much logistics, fewer makes for a dull contest.
 
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* Each person taking part (including the referee) will need a computer with access to the internet (a rarity in Poland).
 
  
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[[Image:Geek.jpg|thumb|Meet [[Willy on Wheels]], the greatest Conservatroll player of all time, a true legend in the sport and national hero in his native Poland.]]
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The reason most trolls act the way they do online is that they either have nothing better to do, suffer from low self-esteem as a result of a number of factors, or are anonymous children who have been or are being [[bullying|bullied]] in real life and turn to the Internet to vent their anger. Many users have been banned from web forums or social networking sites as a result of using foul language or abusive replies to defend themselves against trolls, mostly due to corrupt and one-sided web masters. This is the basis that most trolls operate on. Luring their victims in, getting them stirred up, and then using their reactions against them and pretending that the victim is the bad guy. Anybody who expresses their viewpoints freely and/or touches on divisive and/or sensitive issues is a potential target for trolls.  
  
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==Getting Started==
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Trolling is a common weapon used against conservative speech in feeble attempts at silencing them. Most trolls are kids between the ages of 10 and 16 who have no other agenda than amusing themselves with other people's frustration, who show up to get into mischief and stir up trouble on comment sites and on wikis because they most often are not being supervised online by their parents.<ref>[https://www.csoonline.com/article/2225579/most-parents-allow-unsupervised-internet-access-to-children-at-age-8.html Most parents allow unsupervised internet access to children at age 8]</ref> Such trolls often venture to the comment sections of conservative news sites to [[gloating|gloat]] obnoxiously whenever misfortune or reversals get dealt to conservative individuals or groups in the public eye, delighting in the trouble they cause when they gleefully and immaturely mock and ridicule said entities.  
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Once each player is at their computer, the referee signals (by e-mail or wiki posting if they are not in the same location) for them to begin. The players then have 2 hours to create a new [[Conservapedia]] account and score as many points for their posts as possible.
 
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Once the match begins, a player can edit as many times as he/she likes on [[Conservapedia]]. He/she is not allowed to edit a page another player has already posted on and doing so scores no points.
 
  
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==Scoring==
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Some of the more outrageous trolls who show up on comment sections of websites have been known to use multiple accounts dishonestly to pretend more "support" for their viewpoints than they really have,<ref>[https://blog.f-secure.com/how-to-deal-with-trolling-bots-and-fake-accounts/ How to deal with trolls, bots and fake accounts?]</ref> and they also often tend to show their age, mentality and lack of intelligence by posting comments containing vulgar and foul language, acting contrary to reality and the truth and acting in an immature, childish and narcissistic manner to provoke anger and reactions from the targeted and other commenters; such comments by those trolls, if made against the same people they target face-to-face and not online from behind the safety of their keyboards, would not be tolerated by the troll's victims and would not end well for the troll.
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Points are scored for a post every ten minutes after it was placed. In Conservatroll, a post must be at least one sentence to score. No points are scored for posts on talk pages, though many advanced players deliberately post on the talk page in order to give themselves an air of legitmacy.
 
  
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Scoring is as follows:
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===Do not feed the trolls===
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'''Do Not Feed the Troll''', or '''DNFT''' is a common internet term for ignoring trolls, and allowing them to become bored. The same tactic can be used on liberals and atheists, for different reasons. Generally, it is seen as the best way to deal with trolls. The key motive behind trolling is to cause a reaction. Trolls do not care how well-reasoned your argument is, they simply want you to react. By failing to give them a response, they will get bored, and leave.
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==Biblical advice in dealing with trolls==
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[[Matthew 1-9 (Translated)#7:6|Matthew 7:6]]:
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{{cquote|Stop giving holy things to the dogs, and throwing your pearls in front of pigs, if you don't want them to trample them underfoot, and turn against you and tear you apart.}}
  
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*'''Extra Right Wing Bias''' - 5 points per ten minutes.
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[[Matthew 10-19 (Translated)#15:13|Matthew 15:13-14]]:
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This is the easiest and safest type of post a player can make. It is simply increasing the already high level of right wing bias on the site.
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{{cquote|"Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be torn up by its roots. Let them be. They are the blind leading the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch."}}
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This award covers increasing the right wing bias, increasing the religious bias and increasing the pro American bias of Conservapedia.
 
  
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For example adding the sentence "[[Sarah Palin]] is a proud crusader against the sinister gay agenda that is sweeping America" would score 5 points per ten minutes it remained in place. This is a safe, cautious play, though some would call it cowardly.
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(see also: [[Proverbs]] 1:15-19)
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Note that the addition must be seen to make the page MORE right wing than it was before.
 
  
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*'''Bad Grammar''' - 10 points per twenty minutes
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==References==
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Conservapedia users hate bad grammar. Changing grammar/spelling under the pretext of 'correcting' the article earns you a fair amount of points.
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{{Reflist}}
  
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*'''Inaccurate Info''' - 30 points per ten minutes.
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==External links==
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Conservapedia is full of inaccuracy, and if you can add some more, you get 30 points per ten minutes it stays there.
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*[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists], ''Psychology Today''
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Inaccurate information might be something like "[[Ann Coulter]] is a martian" (an insult to our Martian users).
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*[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=troll Troll]—Dictionary definition
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*[http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/troll.htm Beware The Troll]
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*[http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/troll-tactics.html Recognising and Dealing with Trolls]
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*[http://www.alternet.org/media/why-online-comments-are-so-toxic?ak_proof=1&akid=9147.47561.Ez0FIj&rd=1&src=newsletter683851&t=3&paging=off Why Online Comments Are So Toxic]
  
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[[Image:Kerry.jpg|thumb|[[John Kerry]] gives his endorsement for Conservatroll.]]
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[[Category:Mythical Beasts]]
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*'''Nonsense Bonus''' - 50 points per ten minutes
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[[Category:Deceit]]
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One step above inaccurate info, nonsense is completely made up and often makes no sense. Example: "Sarah Palin is a Viking dinosaur from outer space, made of cheese."
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[[Category:Liberals]]
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{{liberalism}}
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*'''Liberal Bias''' - 60 points per ten minutes.
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[[Category:Norse Mythology]]
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A risky, but potentially rewarding move, adding liberal comments to the worlds most wacko right wing site. This is the play for the brave (or the foolish)!
 
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An example could be "Sarah Palin is an inbred, warmongering hillbilly."
 
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*'''Insane [[Finland]] Duck ''' - 3000 points per ten minutes.
 
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If you change the page about [[Finland]] to say the country contains no people and is populated entirely by ducks, you score 3000 points every ten minutes. I don't make the rules, that's just how it works. Sounds easy, but its so specific that the admins are already all over it like a bad rash. But if you can do it....well that my son is the stuff of Conservatroll legend.
 
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One can also score bonuses to increase one's scoring power. Note that to score a bonus, the post must have been able to score anyway. If you only achieve the bonus but no standard points, you get nothing.
 
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*'''Potty Mouth Bonus''' - 100 points bonus per ten minutes.
 
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If your addition includes any swear words, you score an additional 100 points for that post every ten minutes, on top of the points you would normally have scored.
 
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For example "Saran Palin is a drunken cocksucker" would score you 160 points every ten minutes (60 for being liberal, 100 for swearing).
 
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*'''Obvious Target Bonus''' - 500 points bonus per ten minutes.
 
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Going after a page on stamp collecting that has not been updated in seven years is easy, but if you can do the same thing to the George Bush page, then we are talking! Go for a target that everyone likes to attack and you get 500 extra points per ten minutes.
 
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Again, this bonus is on top of any other points scored.
 
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The recognised obvious targets are:
 
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* [[Al Gore]]
 
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* [[Iraq]]
 
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* [[Michael Moore]]
 
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* [[Tony Blair]]
 
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* [[Rush Limbaugh]]
 
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[[Image:Conservlogo.png|right|thumb|After all that Conservapedia has done for you, this is how you repay them? Reading the rules to Conservatroll? I hope you're ashamed!]]
 
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* [[George W. Bush]]
 
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* [[God]]
 
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* [[Evil Jesus|Jesus]]
 
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* [[Religion]]
 
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* [[Christianity]]
 
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* [[Islam]]
 
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* [[Uncyclopedia]]
 
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* [[Intelligent design]]
 
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* [[Evolution]]
 
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* [[Abortion]]
 
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* [[Hillary Clinton]]
 
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* [[Feminism]]
 
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* [[Ronald Reagan]]
 
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* [[Atheism]] and related pages (Atheism and mass murder, Atheism and STD's, Atheism and smoking, Atheist deceit, Atheist hysteria, etc.)
 
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* [[Homosexuality]] and related pages (Homosexuality and mass murder, Homosexuality and STD's, Homosexuality and smoking, Homosexual deceit, Homosexual hysteria, etc.)
 
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* [[Liberal]] and related pages (Liberalism and mass murder, Liberalism and STD's, Liberalism and smoking, Liberal deceit, Liberal hysteria, etc.)
 
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So in the above example, "Sarah Palin is a drunken cocksucker" now scores an awesome 660 points per ten minutes (60 for liberal, 100 for swearing, 500 for going after an obvious target).
 
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Conservapedia hates fancy foreign spelling, so if you use any British spellings in your post, you get a bonus 2 points per ten minutes, on top of what ever else you would have scored. Using the metric system also counts.
 
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So if you said "This conservative man lacks honour" you would score 62 points per ten minutes. (60 for being liberal, 2 for spelling honour the British way.)
 
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*'''Uncyclopedia Bonus''' - 10000 points per minute
 
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If you manage to copy and paste an ''entire Uncyclopedia page'' (which includes uploading/titling pictures) into a pre-existing page, you earn 10000 points a minute! This tricky and risky maneuver is a gamble, but it can be very rewarding for the experienced Conservatroll player.
 
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If Andy (blessed be his holy name) responds to your post personally, all points scored and all bonuses scored for that post are doubled and any further points scored on that post will also be doubled. You get an extra 500 points if Andy concludes his post with 'Godspeed'.
 
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A post continues to score as long as it is in place. If the page is changed but retains your edits, it still scores.
 
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If your posting identity is blocked by Conservapedia Admins during the game you are out of the match and can no longer edit. You can, however, still score points for your remaining edits, until they have all been removed (as they inevitably will be!).
 
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Obviously, one can be blocked and still end with the highest score and win the game, but an early block can be disastrous.
 
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==Replacing and Reediting==
 
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Players can replace and reedit pages they have already edited (restoring their own versions etc). Obviously, this is a foolhardy strategy that attracts attention that can lead to a blocking.
 
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Editing the same page repeatedly does not score more points unless the edits are in different categories of scoring.
 
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For example, if I said "this man is a right wing fool" and "this man was wrong to want support invading Iraq" on the same page, I would score only 60 points every ten minutes, because they are both liberal statements.
 
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However, if I put "This man is a right wing ****er" and "this man is made of cheese and can fly up a goats ass" I would score 190 points per ten minutes (100 for swearing, 30 for nonsense, 60 for being liberal. Note that the swearing bonus counts only once).
 
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The game ends when all players are Blocked or the two hours expires.
 
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At this time the games master looks over the history for the pages the players has posted on and totals up the scores and declares the winner. (Though most decent people would argue that being a winner and being a Conservatroll player are incompatible.) The referee can disallow any posts that do not meet the criteria for scoring (less than a sentence, trying to claim right wing bonus for a neutral statement etc).
 
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There are several ways to cheat at Conservatroll. Having accomplices who will remove opponents posts or report them to admins is a common one. But cheating is rare, as it is a grave dishono'''u'''r to cheat in a game of Conservatroll.  In fact, the only greater dishono'''u'''r is playing the damn game in the first place.
 
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As well as professional and competitive play, one can play Casual Conservatroll. Here a person just makes a post on Conservapedia and looks to see what they would have scored, had they been playing for real. This is fun and a good way to hone your Conservatroll skills, but it can be frustrating! If you score too highly in casual play you will regret not having played that move in a real game!
 
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==Epicest Game==
 
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The most epic game of Conservatroll ever played has been in progress since August 7, [[2008]]. It features a Finland duck with the article subsequently being locked for editing, the Finland duck still visible. The Conservatroll, Qprime, has 407899100 points as of October 3rd. Way to go, mods.
 
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It's 28th November 2008 and the Finland Duck is gone. This is a sad day for evil Conservatroll supporters the world over.
 
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3rd of January 2009, and the ducks have not survived the harsh winter. However, they shall return, and probably invade other Scandinavian countries.
 
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14th July 2009, the ducks are back for Summer! Unfortunately, they died out within three minutes.
 
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[http://img193.imageshack.us/f/concervatroll.jpg/] (can someone smarter put that in a proper box? thanks - lordsvulcan. No copyright, I print-screened it myself.)
 
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Now that you know how to play Conservatroll.....Don't do it.  It's very naughty.
 

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A Twitter troll flip flops 180 degrees in 38 minutes after mindlessly trashing Republicans, February 4, 2023.[1]

The term internet troll refers to someone who acts in a way to disrupt or disparage others, often to attract attention to the troll. As a verb, it means commenting in an unproductive way to spark a reaction. Trolls are commonplace on any website open for comment by the public, and studies have even been done about how unhappy trolls are themselves. Trolling can also be online bullying or cyberbullying.

Jesus explains the existence of trolls in the parable of the tares in Matthew 13:24-30 , specifically verse 25: "But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds in the middle of the wheat, and then left."

Some entire websites such as Reddit and comment sections on newspapers serve as flypaper for trolls, attracting and keeping them away from littering more productive sites on the internet. Another example is Twitter, which has become an echo chamber for leftists who lack the ability to spend time productively and instead recycle agitprop over and over.

Trolls tend to be deceitful underachievers, who hate people who achieve with integrity. This is illustrated by trolls posting immature comments against Magnus Carlsen, perhaps the greatest chess player ever who works to restore integrity to the game. A Canadian study found that online trolls:

“ reek of what scientists call the Dark Tetrad of noxious personality variables: Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others).[2] ”

Internet trolls

See also: Atheist trolls and Individuals trolling atheists

A troll, in Internet parlance, is an entity or character that purposely disrupts a conversation via discussion forum or email, a comment thread on a blog, or another sort of website. For example, on Wikis, users who purposely make disruptive edits are considered trolls. Many people consider this type of activity to be merely childish, while others consider it symptomatic of deviant minds of opposition whereby infiltration by deceit is normal practice. Trolls pretend to be of common thinking, at the same time plotting anti-social crimes. The troll can otherwise be known as a frenemy or as a hoax plant lurking for an opportunity to create trouble.

The term originated in the early 1990s, as an abbreviation of the term "trolling for suckers" (trolling being an angling technique to seek fish). An Internet troll will lock their target, bait the line and spread the net to catch their goal (unwitting victim). Sites such as YouTube, Yahoo! and the Internet Movie Database (prior to the latter's shutdown of its message boards on February 20, 2017) are known for their lax (laid back) and sometimes negative enforcement of community guidelines on their forums and comment sections. The effects of trolling on children who use the internet have been linked to a number of well-documented suicides among youth in years past.

The reason most trolls act the way they do online is that they either have nothing better to do, suffer from low self-esteem as a result of a number of factors, or are anonymous children who have been or are being bullied in real life and turn to the Internet to vent their anger. Many users have been banned from web forums or social networking sites as a result of using foul language or abusive replies to defend themselves against trolls, mostly due to corrupt and one-sided web masters. This is the basis that most trolls operate on. Luring their victims in, getting them stirred up, and then using their reactions against them and pretending that the victim is the bad guy. Anybody who expresses their viewpoints freely and/or touches on divisive and/or sensitive issues is a potential target for trolls.

Trolling is a common weapon used against conservative speech in feeble attempts at silencing them. Most trolls are kids between the ages of 10 and 16 who have no other agenda than amusing themselves with other people's frustration, who show up to get into mischief and stir up trouble on comment sites and on wikis because they most often are not being supervised online by their parents.[3] Such trolls often venture to the comment sections of conservative news sites to gloat obnoxiously whenever misfortune or reversals get dealt to conservative individuals or groups in the public eye, delighting in the trouble they cause when they gleefully and immaturely mock and ridicule said entities.

Some of the more outrageous trolls who show up on comment sections of websites have been known to use multiple accounts dishonestly to pretend more "support" for their viewpoints than they really have,[4] and they also often tend to show their age, mentality and lack of intelligence by posting comments containing vulgar and foul language, acting contrary to reality and the truth and acting in an immature, childish and narcissistic manner to provoke anger and reactions from the targeted and other commenters; such comments by those trolls, if made against the same people they target face-to-face and not online from behind the safety of their keyboards, would not be tolerated by the troll's victims and would not end well for the troll.

Do not feed the trolls

Do Not Feed the Troll, or DNFT is a common internet term for ignoring trolls, and allowing them to become bored. The same tactic can be used on liberals and atheists, for different reasons. Generally, it is seen as the best way to deal with trolls. The key motive behind trolling is to cause a reaction. Trolls do not care how well-reasoned your argument is, they simply want you to react. By failing to give them a response, they will get bored, and leave.

Biblical advice in dealing with trolls

Matthew 7:6:

“ Stop giving holy things to the dogs, and throwing your pearls in front of pigs, if you don't want them to trample them underfoot, and turn against you and tear you apart. ”

Matthew 15:13-14:

“ "Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be torn up by its roots. Let them be. They are the blind leading the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch." ”

(see also: Proverbs 1:15-19)

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