Nice to hear from you Sulla ! 

When I was a new arrival here as a recently exed - premie , Gerry accused me of being a Troll ( using colourful language ) when I didn't have the faintest idea what they were.I think I was almost banned from the forum for being one ! I didn't know how to prove that I wasn't one .( especially and I didn't know what they were) The worst crime perhaps was not having the vaguest clue who Gerry was and admitting it ...which became a kind of proof that , indeed I was a Troll.aaaaaargh!

I agree that Gerry is being absolutely charming at the moment

I have just perused the forum guidelines and this is all there is about " Trolls" ( the word " Trolls" isn't mentioned )

Since these forums began there have been posters whose sole purpose is to prevent these forums from fulfilling their purpose. Some of these are obvious, and should be ignored until the moderators remove their posts. For others, if you doubt the sincerity of a poster, then by all means contact the moderators at moderators@elitemail.org, but please leave your suspicions off the forum. It is better for an insincere poster to remain undetected, than for a sincere poster to be wrongfully accused.

As this is minimal information, new posters are left to find out by trial and error ie. by saying the wrong thing, by misunderstanding when premies are banned etc and then getting angry lectures from " old timers" and at worst being told we are "siding with the enemy". When I came here I had no idea this " enemy" existed.

I certainly didn't come here to fight this "enemy" but to discuss Rawat and the effect my involvement with him has had on my life ( or whatever that quote was that Jonti said was the purpose of this forum ).

I'm tired of " Trolls" and of hearing about them. It's not why I am here. I am grateful to the experienced moderators for getting rid of them as soon as pos. so we don't get strung along. I'm sure they do their best ( the Mods). Maybe there should be more info. about them in the guidelines so we don't have to keep talking about them on the forum because a new poster hasn't understood the complicated intricacies involved. 

Nik W. gave some excellent info about them in his post above and so did Babaluji ( with statistics and everything ). This info or something like it could be added to the guidelines or some special " Troll" section so that when a New poster misunderstands something releted to Trolls they could just be linked to the "Troll info." section.

I don't think that this would act as a guide to becoming a good " Troll" because , I truly think that most premies have no desire to be one. Those who are " Trolls" have a natural, perverted talent and need no guidelines.