concern troll

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who posts to an Internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage the group's credibility, or alternatively to abandon group projects entirely.
verb
  1. To troll as a concern troll would.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

concern troll concern trolls concern-troll concern trolling concern trolled
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