What does it mean to be 'trolled'?

Question

When gaming, i often see people calling others trolls. What does this mean?

Answer 1

When someone does something that misleads you into thinking something about something, or plays in a overtly stupid or silly manner to throw a game. A good example is when you look up trailers on Dead Island, and you find one called "Dead Island Ingame Video". The video then has a picture of a zombie and some of Rick Astleys music plays.

Answer 2

IT means that the people playing are living under bridges.  Like real trolls.

Answer 3

Trolling is when you make an obviously wrong statement, or give an obviously incorrect answer, just to get a rise out of people and make them angry. For example, if you did know what a troll was, and asked this question, then continued to ask what a troll was, you could be considered a troll yourself.

For examples, see http://artoftrolling.memebase.com/

Answer 4

Basically a troll is someone who tricks someone else into seeing/doing something

Answer 5

Trolling is the act of intentionally offending and inciting responses from other users. Usually done discretely.

Answer 6

its like if someone plays a joke on you. in gaming it would be if someone set you up in some way, something like that. a prank pretty much.

Answer 7

A troll is someone who deliberately manipulates people into being angry or upset about something. Some trolls are much more subtle than others, and some genuine comments or actions are called out as trolling attempts.

Answer 8

Someone who posts provocative messages to cause a disruption or a debate.

Answer 9

Troll is basically the most anoying person in game,who intentionally tries to disrupt your every trie in playing a good game.

Answer 10

Someone deliberately trying to piss everyone off.

Answer 11

Trolling is when a person does something or says something (most likely incorrect) in order to generate a response.

For example, if a troll knows someone's particularly anal about grammar, the troll might specifically mix up the usage of "they're", "their", and "there" just to annoy that person

Answer 12

check urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trolled

Anyone who fails to recognize a troll and responds to it with anger or annoyance is said to have been "trolled".

Answer 13

When you troll someone you prank or mislead someone