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He was doing more than trolling though. That was an experiment to show how low their filters were set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair

Also, a couple of French TV show hosts pulled the same trick with physics instead of postmodernism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair

I'm not sure I'd regard the Sokal affair as trolling. It's hardly being an asshole, unless you consider exposing idiots being an ass, and it's hardly fishing for controversy, unless exposing any kind of potentially controversial stuff is trolling (was Watergate trolling?).

yeah i know. what pg said as well. still reminded me.

No, watergate was not trolling, because it was not a forum game. Watergate was a scam, it was also an accident (getting rather busted).

Trolling is a scam performed for the purposes of a humorous prank on a discussion board.

Watergate was a scam to pervert the course of democratic government.