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Not that I'd want to defend anything Kotaku does, but I don't think the concept of accidental trolling is really a problem.
Calling it accidental acknowledges that it wasn't intentional. The audience could feel like they were trolled, even though Shigs didn't intend that.
I'm OK with the turn of phrase. The article itself didn't need to exist, but that's true of mostly everything on the internet.
It is literally a contradiction in terms:
2a : to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content
What you're saying doesn't even make sense the other way. For people to feel trolled they have to believe the person is doing it deliberately.
It's like saying "peaceful massacre" or "sane lunatic" or "joyful depression".
It sounds poetic, I'll give you that...but it doesn't mean anything.
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