A white Christmas?

[helios]

If you hit them hard and fast they will spot you early and ignore you.

That's only true if you try to bait about a given topic in a relevant community. For example, if you went to fanfiction.net and said that anyone who writes fanfiction is a loser.
Now, if you went basically anywhere and, say, told an anecdote that included the word "nigger" in the last sentence... Well, you have a much higher chance of success.
Context is everything, when it comes to trolling.

[chrisname]

nigger

I love your bluntness...

[jRaskell]

told an anecdote that included the word "nigger" in the last sentence...

I contemplated writing a facetious response expressing abject disgust at your gall in using such an inappropriate racial epithet, but instead I just chose to throw a couple fancy words around.

[helios]

It's not like I called anyone a nigger, I just used the word.
I would have hoped people reading a programming forum would be smart enough to tell language and metalanguage apart.
I was also under the impression that the banning of words themselves was something typical of the first millennium BC, not the third AD.

I'd like to think I wasn't wrong about either.

[jRaskell]

Perhaps I should have stressed the word facetious.

[helios]

Perhaps I should have looked it up.

[chrisname]

Trolled!