This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
An ethnographic study of griefing. Covers pranking in Second Life and MMORPGs, and it’s roots in web communities like Something Awful and 4chan.