The question of the 21 that were asked in the OP of this thread that chaps my hide the most has got to be question # 20
Apparently not, or else you would have joined the discussion.
Is this trolling? I’m quite sure that it’s at least a drive-by, or hit and run, or whatever the kids are calling it these days. Is there a trolling scale, so we can have an idea what level offense has been committed? If so, I’d give this one about a 63, out of 100 - bothersome, but not the worst that there’s been.
Still, (insert bird waving smiley here).
To be fair, he did reply a few times, but by then we were pouncing on him so hard for just dumping a bunch of Glenn Beck crazysauce on us that he probably got scairt and scampered off.
Clothahump has a long-time habit of posting political sloganeering, then walking away from the thread. At best you may see him follow up with one or two one-line posts sneering at one poster or another, but that’s pretty much all you’re likely to get.
The whole point of that thread seems to have nothing to do with the questions supposedly asked, all of which apparently were verbatim quotes from Glenn Beck, but simply to taunt other posters in advance for dismissing any of them because they were first posed by…Glenn Beck. Apparently Clothahump assumes that all of them were factual statements simply because of the source, and didn’t do even the most rudimentary fact-checking prior to posting them.
I would like to commend Clothahump for remembering to credit his source this time. We can work on the ‘no throwing shit at a wall without waiting to see if it sticks’ stuff later.
Sorta is right. As far as I know, nobody has ever even been warned for such behavior by itself. As long as they don’t get involved in a heated battle, or obviously not believe what they write (which would make them a troll), people are just happy to either ignore it or just have fun with it. I know I tend to post my opinion about a topic and then never read it again, unless it just so happens to be near the top for a long time.
Of course, I would never start a topic for that purpose.
Well, I think he may have been warned about it a couple of times in the past, but he seems to sincerely believe the right-wing glurge he tends to borrow for a premise, and he hasn’t launched many threads lately anyway. It appears that some combination of Obama’s election and the health care flap has got him wound up again.
shrug He doesn’t bother me all that much. Try searching a few of his Pit threads from a couple of years ago. He comes off as so Emily Litella-level misinformed in some of them that it’s really rather funny.
There was always something that bugged me about the title of that thread.
I think it’s the whole “Am I hateful” aspect. It reeks of reactionary displacement. Like, when a guy says, “Am I a racist just because I say a certain number of black people can’t hold down jobs?” without being prompted… he’s probably a racist, and just trying to rationalize it by getting people to support him.
So by saying “Am I hateful just because___?” it makes it seem like he worries that he is hateful, or he assumes people will think he’s hateful because of his opinions. I reckon he needs a hug, a therapist, and a thorazine.
I’d say that the responders were worse than Clothahump in that thread, by any measure.
The goal of this board is to fight ignorance. If Glenn Beck or whoever tosses out factually wrong data as talking points, providing true data should be the first priority, not shouting the data down as knowably wrong simply because of its source.
Cut the good people of the SDMB some slack, Sage Rat. It’s a bit unreasonable to expect people to re-invent the wheel Every. Single. Day. If Glenn Beck has consistently shown himself to be counter-factual and unreliable, there comes a point where it’s more efficient to simply ignore him. If he accidently asserts something that turns out to be correct, the same assertion will be sure to come along again from a source that has not worked so hard to make itself untrustworthy, and nothing will be lost in the long run.
If he can’t come up with any facts, then the least that he could do would be to share his own beliefs - there’s got to be a reason that he buys what’s being sold. Perhaps all the Humper really needs is a group hug. C’mon, everybody hug The C.Hump.
The completely unsurprising “reveal” that it was Glenn Beck who posed this list of ridiculous questions reminded me of a Paul Harvey takeoff they did once on The Simpsons–“And that little boy that nobody liked turned out to be…Roy Cohn. And now you know the rest of the story.”