I don’t think what you’re doing is trolling, but I have a fairly tight definition for trolling—I think of it as posting driven by abstract malice, a desire to cause pain which is divorced from the topic at hand. That clearly isn’t you.
On the other hand, I think you’re engaged in a bad emotional habit—attributing a negative motivation to someone else on very little evidence, and getting stuck on the idea of that motivation.
I don’t think what you’re doing is trolling, but I have a fairly tight definition for trolling—I think of it as posting driven by abstract malice, a desire to cause pain which is divorced from the topic at hand. That clearly isn’t you.
On the other hand, I think you’re engaged in a bad emotional habit—attributing a negative motivation to someone else on very little evidence, and getting stuck on the idea of that motivation.