User blog comment:ForestFairy/How to Take the Fun Out of Trolling/@comment-8117023-20150605161014/@comment-452-20150624145153

I agree, the term "annoy" may have been better than "provoke".

Speaking of which, I occasionally propose articles for deletion, despite not actually wanting the article deleted, in order to provoke a discussion/improvements to the article - which is basically trolling with a positive goal.