concern-troll

A form of concern troll — Someone who posts to an Internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage the group's credibility, or alternatively to abandon group projects entirely.

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Meanings

nounconcern-troll (plural concern-trolls)

plural concern-trolls

  1. InternetalternativeAlternative form of concern troll.
verbconcern-troll (third-person singular simple present concern-trolls, present participle concern-trolling, simple past and past participle concern-trolled)

present singular third person concern-trolls · participle present concern-trolling · participle past concern-trolled · past concern-trolled

  1. alternativeambitransitiveAlternative form of concern troll.
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “concern-troll,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concern-troll.

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