# Ever been banned for trolling **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423 "2012-09-11T19:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/61 "2012-09-12T20:41:35Z")
> [@bfpmod](#): > > yeah, that was real, real funny how you came to our forum pretending to be a baby butch trying to find community and started a bunch of ridiculous threads just to jerk our members around for your own deranged amusement. > > What kind of a person does this? And then, basically brags about it. We actually do have a lot of folks who use our forum as a way to figure out where they fit in the lgbt spectrum. We are a helpful, supportive community and you took one of the biggest dumps i’ve ever seen on the internet. Does that give you a hardon? Make you feel gleeful and proud? > > You have to be a sociopath. People will argue on the internet and claim to be things they’re not, claim to have cancer, etc. But this thing you did to us was clearly calculated just to fuck with people for your own amusement. We know who you are, because, well, you’re just not that clever. Arrogant and mean-spirited, but not all that smart. > > And also, not the father of home birthed twins. And not a woman, and not really anything but a big piece of dog shit stuck on the sole of humanity. > > -j 😮 ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/62 "2012-09-12T20:43:05Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > It’s one thing to troll a message board for wacko beliefs or one for extreme fan boys. Doing so to a support group is downright despicable. Agreed. To the OP - Congratulations on your success if that’s what you want to call it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/63 "2012-09-12T20:54:13Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > Not on a forum, but back in the drinking days I woke up one morning to find myself banned from my favorite TF2 server for 24 hours. Still don’t remember what I said. I used to play BF1942 and Day of Defeat using the handle “T. K. Smacktard,” but had to change it when I kept getting kicked and banned immediately after logging into a server. They didn’t even wait to see if it was _ironic_! ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/64 "2012-09-12T20:56:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Same here, but that’s not trolling. Speaking from a position of sanity is not trolling. > > Regards, > Shodan I disagree. There are quite a few message boards I can name that are by whackos for whackos and the rules make it clear that skeptics aren’t welcome. If you think it’s acceptable to go into their boards and try to make them see the light, then you also think it’s acceptable for me to come to your house and try to convert you to atheism, right? ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/65 "2012-09-12T20:56:44Z")
I got banned from a barefoot forum because I had only written France as my location and they wanted something less vague. I didn’t see that one coming. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/66 "2012-09-12T20:58:05Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > Not on a forum, but back in the drinking days I woke up one morning to find myself banned from my favorite TF2 server for 24 hours. Still don’t remember what I said. I have managed this on the chat of various poker programs. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/67 "2012-09-12T21:04:35Z")
> [@BleizDu](#): > > I got banned from a barefoot forum because I had only written France as my location and they wanted something less vague. I didn’t see that one coming. What in the world is a barefoot forum? ---
**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, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/68 "2012-09-12T21:09:40Z")
> [@BFPMod](#): > > Yeah, that was real, real funny how you came to our forum pretending to be a baby butch trying to find community and started a bunch of ridiculous threads just to jerk our members around for your own deranged amusement. > > What kind of a person does this? And then, basically brags about it. We actually do have a lot of folks who use our forum as a way to figure out where they fit in the LGBT Spectrum. We are a helpful, supportive community and you took one of the biggest dumps I’ve ever seen on the internet. Does that give you a hardon? Make you feel gleeful and proud? > > You have to be a sociopath. People will argue on the internet and claim to be things they’re not, claim to have cancer, etc. But this thing you did to us was clearly calculated just to fuck with people for your own amusement. We know who you are, because, well, you’re just not that clever. Arrogant and mean-spirited, but not all that smart. > > And also, not the father of home birthed twins. And not a woman, and not really anything but a big piece of dog shit stuck on the sole of humanity. > > -J Shit just got real, y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/69 "2012-09-12T21:37:24Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > What in the world is a barefoot forum? At a guess, I’d say a forum dedicated to people who like to walk or run barefoot. It might also be for minimal shoes like those toe sneakers, but my non-existent money is on the former. I wasn’t aware of any forums for barefooters, but I haven’t really looked. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/70 "2012-09-12T21:44:31Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > At a guess, I’d say a forum dedicated to people who like to walk or run barefoot. It might also be for minimal shoes like those toe sneakers, but my non-existent money is on the former. > > I wasn’t aware of any forums for barefooters, but I haven’t really looked. Although barefoot running is a “thing” among a segment of the running community, so I expect **Silver Tyger** is right. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/71 "2012-09-12T21:56:25Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > At a guess, I’d say a forum dedicated to people who like to walk or run barefoot. It might also be for minimal shoes like those toe sneakers, but my non-existent money is on the former. > > I wasn’t aware of any forums for barefooters, but I haven’t really looked. Wow, that sounds… promising. “I like to run barefoot!” “Me too!” “Me three!” “I like to run on sand!” “I like to run on grass!” “Wow, grass? I’ll have to try that!” “I like to run on ground glass! Heheheh!” “Shut up, troll!” ---
**Author:** ![Docta\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Docta\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Docta_G)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/72 "2012-09-12T22:36:12Z")
The Internet is really only good for two things: porn and trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/73 "2012-09-12T23:04:16Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Wow, that sounds… promising. > > “I like to run barefoot!” > > “Me too!” > > “Me three!” > > “I like to run on sand!” > > “I like to run on grass!” > > “Wow, grass? I’ll have to try that!” > > “I like to run on ground glass! Heheheh!” > > “Shut up, troll!” You are still the bester post on this site. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/74 "2012-09-13T01:11:45Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > You are still the bester post on this site. He has a fan club you know. Would you like an application? ---
**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, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/75 "2012-09-13T03:45:37Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I don’t think SA cares too much if they get raided, after all, you have to pay them five dollars for the permission to troll them. This was years ago, back before they went pay. They called uncle and some of them ended up coming to our board as regular posters. (We spammed the shit out of them with pictures of kittens and teddy bears and cutesy things like that. AFTER we locked up registration so they couldn’t counter attack. Good times) ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/76 "2012-09-13T04:09:51Z")
I _thought_ that’s what a barefoot forum would be, but then I thought, “No, that would be really lame. It’s probably some euphemism for natural birthing or something”. “How do you guys avoid dog poo?” “I run around it. Just look down!” “But what if he runs at night?” “Running barefoot at night? That’s crazy talk!” ---
**Author:** ![Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/77 "2012-09-13T04:19:40Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Wow, that sounds… promising. > > “I like to run barefoot!” > > “Me too!” > > “Me three!” > > “I like to run on sand!” > > “I like to run on grass!” > > “Wow, grass? I’ll have to try that!” > > “I like to run on ground glass! Heheheh!” > > “Shut up, troll!” I wish there was a “like” button on the dope. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/78 "2012-09-13T04:48:49Z")
I didn’t get banned, but a couple of times my friend and I trolled an anti-smoking page on Facebook. We agreed with the basic premise (“I don’t like being around cigarette smoke”), but a lot of the people on the page were **literally** asking for things like people being imprisoned for years for lighting a cigarette, not giving smokers jobs until they quit smoking, etc. I can’t remember, but one or two might have called for capital punishment for smoking. We hoped that trolling them would get some of them to see how ridiculous their positions were (our trolling was essentially taking their posts to the even further extremes, then much later on when were about done slowly getting more lucid). I’m afraid it may have been lost on them. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/79 "2012-09-13T04:56:15Z")
Misread the title; I thought **Even been** was banned for trolling…:o ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423/80 "2012-09-13T07:37:31Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > What in the world is a barefoot forum? Well, you know how “barebacking” is used as a euphemism? This is similar. All clear? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-for-trolling/634423.md?page=5)