A troll is a person who introduces what he/she (usually he, in my experience) KNOWS is going to be controversial, not for any purpose of examining the truth or for actual discussion, but to start arguments and bad feeling. Quite often the troll just drops his/her nasty little package, whatever it is, and then just steps back and enjoys seeing other people's anger and indignation.

There's a lot of these on the web, and Mudcat is not immune. Especially because it's mainly unmonitored, uncensored.

Dave Oesterreich