The Troll

Here is Wikipedia's definition of an internet troll:  someone who posts inflammatory,^[3] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response^[4] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

Here is a picture of a troll:

His name is Michael Brutsch.  He is a man with seemingly no sense of "write and wrong".  On a reddit.com website and over the course of several years he posted pictures of underage girls in their underwear, pregnant women, jokes about rape and kinds of other inappropriate material.

Not until he was outed on Gawker.com did he admit to any wrongdoing and even then his remorse was over losing his job, benefits and house, not over anything he did.

One thing that gets me, however, is that at one point Reddit conferred on Mr. Brutsch a trophy for his contribution to the site, most likely because these types of posts - admittedly directed to college students - were creating good traffic for them.  Shame on them. 

The good news to me is that the same media that is capable of enabling such trolls is also capable of outing them.  I will ALWAYS cheer for successful self-policing of any organization.