" Is Dying" :*

The unauthorized, incomplete, unabridged guide

to the "* Is Dying" troll template.

trolls are either posts on message boards like Slashdot, which are either brilliantly witty or annoying as hell. A troll template is a generic troll that has parameters that you fill in as suits your context. These are printed without permission of the posters; most of them are Anonymous. In the future, we may examine these trolls for signs of who wrote them and their pedigrees (*BSD is dying started the who thing, but then what?)

Here are some examples of applications of * Is Dying :

*BSD Is Dying (slashdot.org) this started the whole thing. This is the forge from which came so many others..
Mozilla is dying (slashdot.org)
Netcraft is dying (slashdot.org)
OpenProjects is dying (slashdot.org) OpenProjects is an IRC network for chatting about free/opensource software.
Netware is dying (trollaxor.com)
BSD Is Dying Is Dying (slashdot.org) : Thanks to 'Tom's Viao' for the link!
Taco-Snotting is Dying (slashdot.org)
Capitalism is dying (slashdot.org) This troll dares to venture beyond the confines of technology into a commentary on the global reality...
Earth is Dying (slashdot.org) My own contribution
BSD Is Growing (slashdot.org) A clever reversal on the original
Star Trek is Dying (alt.startrek) Thanks to Hypatia Kosh

Discussion of origins of "* Is Dying" on trollaxor.com. No substantial information as to origins seems to have come out of this discussion though..

If you know of other "* Is Dying" trolls, or if you have your own, please send them to me; I will post them and give you credit if you wish.

Eugene Koontz

Last modified: Mon Oct 30 14:11:45 PST 2006

"* Is Dying" :

The unauthorized, incomplete, unabridged guide

to the "* Is Dying" troll template.

" Is Dying" :*