Inquisitor Alex
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A troll is deliberately trying to *provoke* people ... anger them, upset them. They have no other motive ... it is purely attention-getting. And they may or may not actually believe the things they are saying (as that is irrelevant to the provocation).
A Poe is not trying to provoke or upset people (although that may happen as a side-effect). They are not primarily just after attention ... they are trying to test how far they can go into fundamentalist waters or simple mock the creationists. A poe may even try to gain agreement, praise, assent. E.g. on YA, a poe scores a victory by answering a Creationist question with something absolutely absurd, but it gets picked as Best Answer anyway because all the Creationist wanted was somebody who agreed with them (no matter how absurd the supporting point). A poe never believes the things he or she is saying.
So in a way a poe's motives are *opposite* to that of a troll. A troll tries to get people to hate them.
Poe's law: No matter how bizzare, outrageous,or just plain idiotic a parody of a Fundamentalist may seem,there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody,having seen similar REAL ideas from real religious/political Fundamentalists.
@Scuzzy: what makes you think these are rules, I just said my opinion
A Poe is not trying to provoke or upset people (although that may happen as a side-effect). They are not primarily just after attention ... they are trying to test how far they can go into fundamentalist waters or simple mock the creationists. A poe may even try to gain agreement, praise, assent. E.g. on YA, a poe scores a victory by answering a Creationist question with something absolutely absurd, but it gets picked as Best Answer anyway because all the Creationist wanted was somebody who agreed with them (no matter how absurd the supporting point). A poe never believes the things he or she is saying.
So in a way a poe's motives are *opposite* to that of a troll. A troll tries to get people to hate them.
Poe's law: No matter how bizzare, outrageous,or just plain idiotic a parody of a Fundamentalist may seem,there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody,having seen similar REAL ideas from real religious/political Fundamentalists.
@Scuzzy: what makes you think these are rules, I just said my opinion