What is your definition of ”Intellectual Trolling”?

Being a grammar Nazi.

Trolling with impeccable wording standards.

The juxtaposition of flawless execution combined with an absurd trolling message makes the Internet a more interesting and humorous place.

Obviously, I would never engage in such an activity myself.

I don’t have one, but this question is getting me to invent one. I feel like I might be being intellectually trolling. Seems like intellectual trolling would hopefully mean trolling in a supposedly intellectual way, whatever that means.

Or for a different example, the computer programs which makes submissions to academic journals, which have no actual content but were generated by a computer program to have words that seem like academic journal submissions.

One can add to the humorous trolling effect by appearing naive or sincere.

I trademarked this so please get it right. It’s constructive trolling
Constructive trolling is common here on fluther. It’s when the asker has an opinion and asks “questions” that don’t exactly reveal said opinion but invoke a conversation on the topic so the asker can inject said opinion or use the answers to adjust/refine said opinion. Sometimes it is used as a tool to educate others on certain topics which are usually somewhat incendiary. Regardless the use of this trolling is not intended to incite general destruction on a forum but to keep conversation lively. Regular trolls wish to belittle and tear down, constructive trolls wish to learn, build or teach. Sometimes in this process the C-Troll will end up being the pupil.

Answering a specific question with a denial claim that the op is wrong about a belief. Instead of actually answering the question. I get that a lot when I talk about esoteric questions, like psychic powers and religion. I flag the quip and think “what a smug asshole ”.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Constructive trolling is common here on fluther.
My bad, to gist of it to me is the same, one cannot have ”Constructive Trolling” if it does not have an intellectual lean to it, it would just be regular nasty, baiting trolling.

It’s when the asker has an opinion and asks “questions” that don’t exactly reveal said opinion but invoke a conversation on the topic so the asker can inject said opinion or use the answers to adjust/refine said opinion.
If one asks a question with an expressed definite opinion imbedded in it might influence the answers given on it? Sometimes where to go with a question would not be valid until others place more input into it.

Just ask a very controversial question then disagree with everyone in sight, then there you go. We’ve got some trolls like that here on Fluther.

^ Just ask a very controversial question then disagree with everyone in sight, then there you go.
So……by that standard if there was a site on the Web and someone there said women stand 15 times the pain men could, but someone else there said they were wrong and it that fact was BS, and most others agreed that he was right and women equal in tolerance to pain as men, if not less, if the OP did not get on board with that line of thinking, he/she would be an intellectual troll, correct? If not, how do you define that differently; based off the standard you set?

Stephen Hawking
He’s actually perfectly fine, runs marathons & climbs mountains apparently
He’s such a jolly prankster