Interesting perspective, MAB, and so humbly presented!
I'm a God-fearing man. If the humility blows your hair right back, wanna be my second wife?
To me, a troll would be someone who misleads others as to his beliefs or purpose in making comments or asking questions or asks them for a purpose other than the obvious. I don't think trolling is necessarily a bad thing. When I was trolling on YA my intention was to make people think, but I would still call it trolling for the aforementioned reasons.
If troll was a neutral term that was descriptively employed instead of pejoratively, I would gladly join you in marching under its banner for a great many of my eruptions, being not fit to print, would fall under its rubric. They are pregnant with mischief. They are subversive of morality. They are disgraceful, utterly and completely. No question. Together my sweet, begetting trolls by the yardful, we should fill the earth with the devils. But of course troll is not so employed is it? It's a term of opprobrium that carries with it a foul odour. No shapely young babe will spread her legs for such a man.
Fact is, a troll is merely a register of personal dislike. It's the refuge of the outwitted, outgunned and outmaneuvered. No girl who wants to put her lips on me should let that word cross her mouth. Got that?