[oats]

all I can think of when I see survey-based studies, is when we were given surveys in 12th grade about our substance habits. As it turned out, the majority of our senior class was heavily dependent on hardcore drugs daily.

it is an interesting read, and I'm not even saying the conclusion is incorrect, but I'd like to see a more researched effort: experiments targeted towards people who have existing troll reputations as opposed to identifying themselves as trolls, contrived situations on forums etc. More interesting to me, albeit less feasible, is if there are any neurological patterns shared by trolls such as physiological differences upon engaged trolling behavior (everyone gets a kick out of fucking with people a little bit, but do the ways/magnitudes of enjoyment differ amongst trolls insofar as brain activity?).