A troll organization or troll gang is a group of internet trolls who associate together, share ideas and resources, and may act in a concerted manner. They sometimes adopt a name for their group, and on occasion elements of an organizational structure. This is difficult, as trolls often object ideologically to organized structures and cooperation, and disapprove of agreeing with anyone. The verb to anarchize seems to have been coined to describe the minimal degree to which trolls can manage their joint technological and cultural needs to achieve their goals. Some troll groups refer to themselves as an anarchization, though this term is also used to mean "extreme democratization".
A number of different online media have led to the formation of such organizations, some short-lived and others more persistent. In past years, Usenet had a set of troll news groups, usually taken over from unused newsgroups ostensibly devoted to other topics, such as alt.syntax.tactical [1] (sometimes called trollgnaws) where members would discuss trolling techniques and organize raids of other newsgroups. Similar organized raids on internet forums are known as forum invasions (see Meow Wars), the purpose being to offend a particular group, to simply enjoy the reaction such invasions provoke, or to attack the signal-to-noise ratio of the other newsgroups and forums.
On the Slashdot website, a subculture with several such organizations has formed (see Slashdot trolling phenomena), some devoted to moderating each others' posts upwards and others to propagating new types of posts.
Some troll organizations engage in more serious projects that seem unreasonable or grandiose. The world trolling anarchization for instance claims to be seeking to free the Internet of having any "owned" domain names, presumably so trolling, alone, defines what words are to mean what, and what is to link where. It is not at all clear how this goal would be achieved, though, according to Larry Sanger in a notable essay on Kuro5hin where he declared that "trolls" had "taken over", wikis such as the Wikipedia had become examples of such a takeover process.
