# Dunning-Kruger Overdrive **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102 "2012-07-13T13:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/41 "2012-07-13T18:23:39Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > There’s enough Troll food here to feed an army. People can’t resist feeding them, and the trolls can’t resist lining up at the trough. > > I blame the feeders as much, if not more, than the fed. I agree. There are some very stupid people here and it’s not made-up entirely of the trolls or new members who believe in a ton of bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/42 "2012-07-13T18:35:43Z")
Fine, I’ll go. _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/43 "2012-07-13T18:39:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Or ever finish takin’ care of business? Oh, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/44 "2012-07-13T18:44:57Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Fine, I’ll go. _sniff_ Oh no, not you - you’re our _special_ special person. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/45 "2012-07-13T18:51:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Remember when coming in waves used to be _fun_? ☹ Not for the people downstream. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/46 "2012-07-13T19:49:48Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Oh, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Buh-buh-buh-baby… (I remember at the time thinking “Is Bachman-Turner Overweight making fun of stutterers?”) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/47 "2012-07-13T19:57:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, he DID say he was from Berlin, remember? No, just that he was a marmalade-filled fried pastry, or something. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/48 "2012-07-13T20:03:12Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I suspect one crazy thread gets indexed by google, which attracts a bunch of other crazies to the board when they search for stuff about “the truth about 9/11” or other such phrases. Then they start their own crazy threads, and the cycle continues. > > Obviously this process will continue to snowball, and the SDMB will be nothing but racists and truthers by the end of the year. Worse yet, racist truthers. Racist truther jelly doughnuts. No, seriously, this is the job. This is the Straight Dope. People come looking for truth, or looking to speak what they think is truth. Some get banged by enough clue-sticks they change some of their views. Some are more stubborn. Just like the rest of the world. How boring it would be with no one new to come in out of our educated, perceived-as-enlightened set of preconceptions about objective reality! With no one to come in and ask where all the blue goes when the sun sets, or claim that white people are a different species! ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/49 "2012-07-13T20:11:15Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Stupidity, the only thing that travels faster than light. Stupidity, and bad news. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/50 "2012-07-13T20:30:57Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Buh-buh-buh-baby… > > (I remember at the time thinking “Is Bachman-Turner Overweight making fun of stutterers?”) No, they’re Canadian so they’re probably just shivering. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/51 "2012-07-13T20:40:26Z")
Meh, I’m just comfortably numb to them now. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/52 "2012-07-13T21:17:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I blame Obama. Clearly you didn’t get the memo -[everyone is blaming Bush for everything now](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=657424). ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/53 "2012-07-13T22:01:39Z")
Well what an interesting day on the SDMB, I was told I was a disgrace by a Neo-Nazi, learned what 14/88 means and have been playing in two threads of idiots one here and a GD. What the hell happened? Is there something in the water? Gotta take a nap **kozmik** should be back soon **CAPT** ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/54 "2012-07-13T22:11:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Clearly you didn’t get the memo -[everyone is blaming Bush for everything now](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=657424). Why do you hate America? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/55 "2012-07-14T00:18:20Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > There’s enough Troll food here to feed an army. People can’t resist feeding them, and the trolls can’t resist lining up at the trough. > > I blame the feeders as much, if not more, than the fed. “Don’t feed the troll” is a bit passé, don’t you think? That just lowers the trolling bar. Better to mess with them until they get banned. I think the name “The Straight Dope” is what attracts the crazies. They seem to misinterpret it as _the real truth that the Powers That Be (and/or Liberal Media) don’t want you to know_. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/56 "2012-07-14T00:34:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Clearly you didn’t get the memo -[everyone is blaming Bush for everything now](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=657424). I blame Obama for that. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/57 "2012-07-14T01:25:30Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > “Don’t feed the troll” is a bit passé, don’t you think? That just lowers the trolling bar. Better to mess with them until they get banned. > > I think the name “The Straight Dope” is what attracts the crazies. Makes me curious. Have we ever gotten a LGBT crazy who thought the board name was a deliberate reference to gender preference and went all Kozmik on it? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/58 "2012-07-14T01:54:57Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > The Dunning-Kruger Overdrive is takin’ care of business, every day, takin’ care of business…and working overtime. Gah, this band just has no ability to realize how awful they are. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/59 "2012-07-14T06:47:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I blame Obama for that. I blame the Illuminati. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102/60 "2012-07-14T14:10:35Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Obviously this process will continue to snowball, and the SDMB will be nothing but racists and truthers by the end of the year. Jews did 9/11? > [@John DiFool](#): > > Their lips move but I can’t hear what they’re saying. They’re humming. > [@Chimera](#): > > Have we ever gotten a LGBT crazy who thought the board name was a deliberate reference to gender preference and went all Kozmik on it? Well using “[straight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqMMfMwYlQ4)” as a synonym for truthful is heteronormative… [/mister nyx] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunning-kruger-overdrive/628102.md?page=4)