Nobody said that using "gay" to mean "stupid" is okay. In fact, it's pretty terrible because it originated as using homosexuality as an accusation to try and belittle someone. And that sort of feeling is still carried along with it when people use it.
Wrong, gay first came to mean being happy, then was used to mean homosexuality, it NEVER meant what you just claim.
Secondly, the word trolling is used to describe a specific phenomenon, which has no other specific word to describe it.
But it DOSE, it has many words, trolling is not the end all be all when it comes to it, baiter, is one such word, yes, you can claim
"it already means something" but at the end of the day trolls try to get a rise\bait someone to emotion\certin goal
thats just one of the MANY things, whats more is trolling will STILL describe that if we use it the way it is now, it just will put a lot more of them together so instead of using flamer I.E guy trying to make pepole mad
nd all the other ones that do the same thing, trying to make pepole do something
we can use one term, trolling, or baiting
What is trolling is used to describe (if yours and moshes are to judge anything by) harmless, mundane or things that are clearly not trolling, then you are pizzaing all over muffins. Having multiple conflicting meanings degrades the actual meaning, and its original meaning takes precedent in that it describes the actual phenomena concerned.
there is no conflict, flaming is tempting to get the same thing as a troll but rather a specific emotion rather then any emotion\rise
why should we have to use a cumbersome and rather obtuse phrase when the word trolling perfectly evokes what's going on through it's source (ie fishing)?
Why should we use 50 words to desire things that in the end have the same goal? I.e getting a rise out of someone>?