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Originally Posted by Mazryonh
But what exactly would Russian users get out of trolling this site in particular, then? And compensating for their poor knowledge of English via yelling? That's not going to make your vocabulary/grammar/diction any more correct.
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They're NOT trolls. They're over enthusiastic kids with CRAP english skills who bombard sites with often wrong, poorly done, bad English, pages or edits and the Admins have to spend all their time fixing the pages and warning/banning the new users.
I'm a veteran contributor on IMDB and their Admin/Mod boards are constantly complaining about the RUSSIANS (usually teens) who come in, make erroneous changes and fight the Mods about it.
Sure there are some examples of other countries, but they are actually quite rare. There are Tons of real 'hackers' in China for example, but Chinese users don't bombard English speaking sites, trying to fix or create bad pages as a rule. That's not a troll or hacker, but some kid trying to force his way onto an established information site, but his poor English is getting in the way. When he's called out on it, he either gets hostile or he tries to do better.
To me the worst, unfortunately, is the NICE GUY who is relentless in creating and editing crap pages. He tries really hard and is very prolific, but he's not a bad guy. You can't hate on a guy who has good intentions, but is incompetent. That's always the tough one.