Er, trolls; beg pardon.

The problem with trolls is that, depending on their 'quality', it's hard to tell whether they are trolls. I mean, Kelly the Roman Warrior was a fairly obvious troll - but what about Thorin's Little Princess? It had the 'random things just sort of happen', and the 'most of the story is just the script', and several people thought it might be a troll. But is it? Or is it just a badly-done story?

Then there's... well, it's not quite Poe's Law, but it comes close: there's never been a troll so outrageous that it wasn't matched by at least one real badfic.

Finally, there's the fact that 'troll' is an accusation against the author. Even if only actually said of the fic, you're still attributing intent to the author. Which isn't what we do around here.

Extra-finally, really outrageous trolls tend to be... kind of boring to mission. If a story consists of:

So Legolas and Harry Potter met Edward Cullen and then Queen Amidala went to the Ringworld and fought Captain Kirk's baby and Pikachu slept with Jack Sparrow and-

... all badly-spelled and with every character a mini, what story are you going to tell with the agents? They'd just stand around looking baffled. And I have a feeling that 'not definitely a troll' and 'incoherent' overlap, so there's few-to-no clear trolls worth a mission.

That said, we do have a Troll Division, as others have said. No idea how they operate, though apparently Bad Parody seeks out, uh, the spirit of the author and kills it? I don't think that'd fly any more... though NytBloomer is noted for her dodgy terminology. It may be that Bad Parody and Trollfics alike have a troll 'puppetmaster' sitting around somewhere manipulating the characters; or maybe it just possesses them. It's likely to be up to the first person to actually write a mission of that kind; did you say there were some?

hS

As doctorlit said, the Department of Bad Parody would handle trollfics, but it's a tad lacking in actual missions. We HAVE actually tackled trollfics before, though. The first such mission I remember reading would have to be that Twilight one by Evie and the Fisherman, and there's also the one I myself tackled on my second mission as well. Both are from Floaters, though I suspect the All-Purpose Department may have also tackled some from their specific fandoms as well.

The Department of Bad Parody has a Troll Division that, well, yeah. The title gives it away.

Unfortunately, no missions from within the division itself have been published yet. All we have is an interlude and a character journal.

Soooo . . . it would totally be super-cool to see this old department/division see some modern-day love!