Citations:trollery

Noun: "behavior considered to be deliberately provocative or disruptive"

 * 2000 — "LH", "Gilbert & Sullivan Online", October 2000:
 * The comments that I vomit forth, disguised as jest and drollery,
 * Are really just an exercise in unremitting trollery.
 * 2009 — Josh Fruhlinger, "More tea leaf reading: The iPhone patent, loose Davos talk", IT World, 2 February 2009:
 * Folks have been poring over the Apple multitouch patent since it was released, last week; since it was 358 dense pages, the opening salvos were high-level, focused on whether it did or didn't represent the sort of innovation-squelching patent trollery that most tech folks have grown to hate.
 * 2009 — Clive Thomspon, "Clive Thompson on the Taming of Comment Trolls", Wired, 23 March 2009:
 * Readers can set their filters so they see only comments with high ratings—and trollery effectively vanishes.
 * 2010 — "Brilliant inventor or patent troll?", The Economist, 24 February 2010:
 * So Mr Myhrvold may find that the suspicions against him of patent-trollery have a long half-life.
 * 2010 — Don Scansen, "IEDM: A perspective from afar", EE Times, 12 October 2010:
 * Pure Internet trollery aside, the most a writer can really aspire to is for his or her work to generate discussion.
 * 2011 — Nate Anderson, "Righthaven reeling: secret doc could doom a copyright troll", Ars Technica, 18 April 2011:
 * The company's epic run of copyright trollery has produced some preposterous cases—suing an Ars Technica writer, suing a paper's own sources for an article, suing nonprofits without warning or takedown requests—and judges have ruled against Righthaven several times on fair use grounds.
 * 2011 — Rebecca Greenfield, "What It's Really Like to Be a Poor Black Kid", The Atlantic Wire, 14 December 2011:
 * He also penned a blog titled "Steve Jobs Was A Jerk. Good For Him," immediately following the icon's death. His most recent piece of trollery hit Forbes Tuesday morning and now has over 237,000 page views and 42 pages of comments.
 * 2011 — Rebecca Greenfield, "RIP Trolling as Social Critique", The Atlantic Wire, 15 December 2011:
 * Let's see what kind of social critiquing these trolls are doing. Here are a few examples from the Facebook memorial page of Georgia Varley, who passed away last October. Media noticed after trolls littered her Facebook with nasty comments. The page has been cleaned up since the incident. But the following trollery remained.
 * 2011 — Rebecca Greenfield, "What It's Really Like to Be a Poor Black Kid", The Atlantic Wire, 14 December 2011:
 * He also penned a blog titled "Steve Jobs Was A Jerk. Good For Him," immediately following the icon's death. His most recent piece of trollery hit Forbes Tuesday morning and now has over 237,000 page views and 42 pages of comments.
 * 2011 — Rebecca Greenfield, "RIP Trolling as Social Critique", The Atlantic Wire, 15 December 2011:
 * Let's see what kind of social critiquing these trolls are doing. Here are a few examples from the Facebook memorial page of Georgia Varley, who passed away last October. Media noticed after trolls littered her Facebook with nasty comments. The page has been cleaned up since the incident. But the following trollery remained.