[19ylram49]

Those are valid questions when evaluating an unknown technology. How could anyone consider this trolling? Not to digress but have we become too sensitive?

[nimmer]

Sometime people troll by sealioning: http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png

(I'm not accusing the granparent post)

[anchpop]

I've seen that comic before but have no idea what it's trying to express, could you explain? Is it just when you repeatedly pester someone with questions to annoy them?

[simplify]

Unfortunately, asking questions on the internet is often seen as "opposing" or "arguing against" the thing you're asking about. So many qualify their statements to avoid this sort of misreading.

[markdog12]

Which just makes things worse. Having to qualify everything by default is a whole lot of foolishness.

[ptx]

It all depends on the tone of the question, which is hard to discern in writing, so the clarification is helpful.

Edit: Yes, those are very valid and reasonable questions. Clarifying that it's not meant as trolling is also valid and reasonable, because writing is easily misunderstood in exactly that way - which is the reason smileys were invented. (And, to be clear, I'm not accusing anyone of missing smileys or of trolling. I am trying to express my agreement with both parent and grandparent.)

[markdog12]

Asking a question in plain English like this shouldn't require further clarification.

[nfrankel]

Communication by writing is harder because you miss facial expressions. Because of this, a lot of it is subject to interpretation on the part of the reader. The tone can be inferred from a lengthy piece, but not so much from a small paragraph.

So, in order to avoid bias on the reader part, I preferred to explicitly tell it was not trolling.