I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable generating a summary that could enable or encourage harmful behavior.

1. The Art of Trolling Brought to you by: 4b0v3 73n In partnership with @openfly

2. Troll - n. Surfing, or browsing, the Web. - PC Magazine

3. Posting derogatory messages about sensitive subjects on newsgroups and chat rooms to bait users into responding. - PC Magazine

4. Hanging around in a chat room without saying anything, like a "peeping tom." - PC Magazine

5. Being a prick on the internet because you can. Typically unleashing one or more cynical or sarcastic remarks on an innocent by-stander, because it's the internet and, hey, you can. - Urban Dictionary

6. The most essential part of trolling is convincing your victim that either a) truly believe in what you are saying, no matter how outrageous, or b) give your victim malicious instructions, under the guise of help. Trolling requires decieving; any trolling that doesn't involve decieving someone isn't trolling at all; it's just stupid. As such, your victim must not know that you are trolling; if he does, you are an unsuccesful troll.

7. Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better. – Sun Tzu ' The Art of War ' My Definition of Trolling Trolling is fuzzing someone else's mind with the express purpose of laughing so hard you squirt 30 year old single malt through your nose. Is that an Art? It is as long as using Sun Tzu quotes pisses off attrition.org.

8. The History? Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Anansi

9. Loki

10. The Coyote / Fox

11. Prometheus

12. Shakespeare

13. Now the Science Covert Conditioning: Trolling is in effect the practical application of behavior modification techniques

14. However, trolling by it's very nature is an arbitrary and frivolous pursuit

15. Once your troll becomes aligned with some sort of purpose it stops being a troll and becomes a psyop

16. Don't be that guy

17. Other people as black boxes Bots: Unexpected input can cause instability

18. Continual attempts to violate programming can result in error conditions

19. Feedback loops and logical impossibilities can lock them up

20. Exploiting flaws in their programming can allow for elevated privileges Persons: Unexpected input can cause instability

21. Continual attempts to violate programming can result in angry conditions.

22. Feedback loops and logical impossibilities can lock them up

23. Exploiting flaws in their programming can allow for elevated lulz.

24. Human Attack Vectors Assumption

25. Post Hoc Fallacy

26. Vagueness / Generalization

27. Appeal to Authority / Quotes

28. Misquoting on purpose

29. Ad Populum / Historical Context

30. False Dichotomy

31. Assault on Base Ethics

32. Straw Man

33. Mission Accomplished Objectives: Lulz

34. Rofls

35. OMFGWTFBBQ

36. ZOMG

37. Over 9000 penises

38. Now some demos Openfly 1.0 Simple single variable response set

39. Random Interaction Set

40. Targeted harassment

41. Openfly 2.0 – Sprinkle Power Openfly 1 Variant IRC Floodbot

42. Designed to flood using multiple unique Nicks

43. Works of IRC log script

44. What have we learned? Trolls are: Heavy contributors to the cultural and artistic value of the internet

45. On the forefront of modern behavior modification techniques

46. Defining standards in the practical application of cutting edge technology

47. Smarter, faster, stronger, and better than normal people and therefore should be sought after as genetic partners