The act of a person that has hate in their heart and not just mischief on their mind.

Every few months there is a new video posted online or a blog written about a daring reporter that pushes away from their computer or puts down their phone and ventures out into the real world to find some online troll.

Here’s the scenarios I’ve seen played out when an internet troll is confronted in real life: The troll proclaims that they are just testing the limits of free speech, insist they’ve done nothing illegal, and their trolling does not express their real sentiment — it’s just social media and they want to shatter the illusion that social media reflects real life. Or the person is truly remorseful and the victim and troll come to an understanding. Or the person is such a horrible, miserable person in real life that they can almost muster sympathy despite their horrid belief system.

That’s not such a horrible ratio.