Does Minneapolis have an apathy problem?

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by The Icy River Vagabond

Pirate.

I don't understand why people would come here because of the "generous welfare program" Having spent the majority of my life living in Detroit and Flint, I can tell you that the cost of living is much lower there, and whatever more that your "welfare" program gives to people is easily more than taken away by the housing cost.

Many of the poor fleeing the Rust Belt areas are attracted to the Twin Cities because the welfare benefits are more than what you would find in Michigan or Ohio. It may cost less to live in Flint and Detroit, but if you are unemployed, life will be extremely difficult. I got this information from a radio documentary about Blacks moving to Minneapolis.

[Cruz Azul Guy]

I see the word "troll" mentioned several times in this thread. What exactly is a troll?

[whatever]

Originally Posted by Slig

I see the word "troll" mentioned several times in this thread. What exactly is a troll?

Perhaps the more accurate term is flame-bait, but here's the source;

troll /v.,n./

[From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies" which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling", a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it.

Some people claim that the troll is properly a narrower category than flame bait, that a troll is categorized by containing some assertion that is wrong but not overtly controversial.

The New Hacker's Dictionary - = T = (http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_35.html - broken link)