Trolling over

Hello, everyone. Could you please help me understand the highlighted sentence?

Why write again? When I know that I must exercise caution. When I know that to commit my desires to paper is madness. When I know that those screaming b***ch types who insist on trolling all over town spoil it for the rest of us.

I don't understand how this sentence coheres with the preceding text. What is the meaning "troll all over town" in this context?

Thanks in advance.

Please tell us where you saw this, and in what context. Who is speaking? About what?

heypresto said:

Please tell us where you saw this, and in what context. Who is speaking? About what?

This is from a book by Bethan Roberts called "My policeman". Here is the link. It is at the very beginning of the chapter.

It could be a British slang term that I haven't heard for some time. When I used to hear it, it meant to walk around like a trollop.

The other possibility for the verb "to troll" comes from confusion with "to trawl". This word has accumulated many meanings over time, including the internet sense. Internet trolls put out verbal lures in the form of controversial statements, fishing for people that can easily be wound up.

These women may have been going around town 'fishing' for men and spoiling the chances of other women.

EDIT see my following answer

Revised answer

I found this

troll (v.)
... "fish with a moving line"...
... Meaning "to cruise in search of sexual encounters" is recorded from 1967, originally in homosexual slang.

This explains both meanings in my original answer.

Chasint said:

Revised answer

I found this


This explains both meanings in my original answer.

Thank you for your answers!