# etv78, please take a nap **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385 "2010-09-28T19:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BFPMod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@BFPMod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BFPMod)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/101 "2012-09-12T18:11:01Z")
Hah! I can’t really think of it as having any human qualities to speak of. Bless its heart. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/102 "2012-09-12T18:12:37Z")
> [@BFPMod](#): > > This person is a troll. We just had to ban it from our forum for jerking our membership around for a few weeks. It actually gloats about this on another thread here. That would be [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=665178) one?: > [@](#): > > I “troll” couple boards (NOT here). Just got banned from a board. I was there 2 weeks, they could’ve banned me immediately if they had just traced the e-mail addy. (I assume that’s how they did it) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/103 "2012-09-12T18:19:50Z")
Well, this just got mediocre. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/104 "2012-09-12T18:23:47Z")
Captain BFP sailing dauntlessly through the internet rescuing us from obvious trolls. Thank you, Captain BFP, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/105 "2012-09-12T18:46:28Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Captain BFP sailing dauntlessly through the internet rescuing us from obvious trolls. Thank you, Captain BFP, thank you! If it keeps the trolls/kids from cluttering up the Boards, I certainly appreciate it. I get that it wouldn’t be effective to go around making unsolicited accusations in general, but commenting on a pit thread seems appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/106 "2012-09-12T19:00:36Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Captain BFP sailing dauntlessly through the internet rescuing us from obvious trolls. Thank you, Captain BFP, thank you! I appreciate it. See the other thread for what he did over there. Not cool at all. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/107 "2012-09-12T19:25:19Z")
I don’t know or care what someone says he did somewhere else. They took care of it by banning him. When he gets too annoying here, he’ll be banned. If my tolerance is lower than Tuba’s, I can put him on ignore. I don’t see the need for valiant knights to sally forth warning us of someone’s attitude elsewhere. When it’s here, I’ll be outraged about it. Plus, it’s etv. If you get taken in by him, well, that’s a little like leaving a 50 hanging out of your pocket in Barcelona. It’s a shame if someone takes it but really, what did you expect. edit: if it were truly a matter of keeping trash out, he’d have emailed an administrator or made a thread in ATMB. Resurrecting an old pit thread is the action of someone intending to cause more drama. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/108 "2012-09-12T19:29:10Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Plus, it’s etv. If you get taken in by him, well, that’s a little like leaving a 50 hanging out of your pocket in Barcelona. It’s a shame if someone takes it but really, what did you expect. Agreed. The bump was prompted by the other thread where he bragged about his trolling though. If he hadn’t done that, the Mod from the other place wouldn’t have come here. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/109 "2012-09-12T20:27:49Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Is it a person, a collective or an inanimate object? I’m not going to care about your posts until you decide on a pronoun. And I won’t care about your post ever… ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/110 "2012-09-12T20:29:45Z")
Thank you for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/111 "2012-09-12T20:32:40Z")
There’s a mathematical formula I’ve developed to tell where someone falls on the “troll continuum”. Please test yourself to see where you score: Take the total number of posts you have posted since you have been here. Divide that by the number of months that have elapsed since you registered. Got that? Now add the number of letters in your username. From this number subtract the total number of sentences you wrote in your last post. Now divide the whole thing by nine. Did you perform all the calculations? O.K. thanks ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/112 "2012-09-12T23:48:31Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > There’s a mathematical formula I’ve developed to tell where someone falls on the “troll continuum”. Please test yourself to see where you score: > Take the total number of posts you have posted since you have been here. > > Divide that by the number of months that have elapsed since you registered. > > Got that? Now add the number of letters in your username. > > From this number subtract the total number of sentences you wrote in your last post. > > Now divide the whole thing by nine. > > Did you perform all the calculations? > > O.K. thanks Ok, now what… ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/113 "2012-09-13T00:46:59Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > First **Umkay** and now **etv78**? You can’t have **Ambivalid**! You can’t have him you bastards! Ok, ok; time to 'fess up. I’m really just a rogue computer program written by an old man with a Hover-round scooter. Sorry ya’ll! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/114 "2012-09-13T01:57:34Z")
> [@bob ducca](#): > > ok, now what… get trolled suckah ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/115 "2012-09-13T04:47:24Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Ok, ok; time to 'fess up. I’m really just a rogue computer program written by an old man with a Hover-round scooter. Sorry ya’ll! ☹ Do you go indoors outdoors all over town? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/116 "2012-09-13T06:38:37Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Do you go indoors outdoors all over town? Come again? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/117 "2012-09-13T06:46:48Z")
[First eight seconds should more than cover you.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKPeYrrhIvQ) ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/118 "2012-09-13T08:00:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > [First eight seconds should more than cover you.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKPeYrrhIvQ) Apropos of nothing, I once rode a bull in a rodeo for the full eight seconds. I’m not lying, I did. _However_, it was a rodeo run by the Auburn University Vet School for charity. I signed up to ride, having only been on a mechanical bull and a couple of slightly unruly horses. But I was willing to to ride the bull, goddamn it! Well, the the thing is, the only reason a bull will buck is that there is a strap tied across his balls. The vet school students didn’t tie that strap tight enough. So here’s me, sitting on the back of this big-ass bull with gates on four sides. The crowd is reved up. The gate opens, and… The bull simply walks out. _Walks_! It was like sitting on the back of a cow (Which I guess it literally was). Made it the whole 8 seconds, though. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/119 "2012-09-13T08:09:02Z")
> [@Inner Stickler](#): > > I don’t see the need for valiant knights to sally forth warning us of someone’s attitude elsewhere. Would have been handy for umkay, though. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385/120 "2012-09-13T08:22:58Z")
And, see, my skepticism kicks in when someone posts something like this without any evidence being provided how they know it’s the same person. And I frankly can’t figure out what etv would have been doing that would qualify as trolling. Yeah, I guess you can last a long time as a troll if you don’t actually troll. I haven’t even seen a post from him in a while. Why should I care? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etv78-please-take-a-nap/555385.md?page=7)