“Many of the Slashdot trolling phenomena started out on Segfault.org. During its early days, Segfault would allow anybody to comment upon stories.. as time went on more of the posts were troll posts.. Segfault lacked any mechanism to remove trolls.. Eventually it was forced to disable comments. The troll community which had been well established on Segfault, having “killed their host”, sought out a new host to “infect” - Slashdot.