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>>sharps+(OP)
Like graffiti, trolling can be impressive when it's done especially well. My favorite troll of all time is the guy from comp.compression last August:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.compression/browse_threa...

followed by the famous "Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?" troll from adequacy.org:

http://adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html

>>dfrank+d
reminds me of the physicist who wrote a fake post-modernist paper and submitted it to a journal and got it published.

>>curi+l
I'm not sure I'd regard the Sokal affair as trolling. It's hardly being an asshole, unless you consider exposing idiots being an ass, and it's hardly fishing for controversy, unless exposing any kind of potentially controversial stuff is trolling (was Watergate trolling?).

>>simen+m1
No, watergate was not trolling, because it was not a forum game. Watergate was a scam, it was also an accident (getting rather busted).

Trolling is a scam performed for the purposes of a humorous prank on a discussion board.

Watergate was a scam to pervert the course of democratic government.