I went back to the start of the current Troll R US thread, and did a tally for the 1st 500 posts (from last summer). Note in some cases the R US post failed to link to the thread/post and/or didn’t specify the exact handle-was forced to throw those out (1 fit that description). In some cases their failure to come up on search indicated that they were cornfielded.
:Long-term posters who are still active: 8 [Ashtura, Whack-A-Mole, Velocity, Octopus, jtur88, JohnT, Omar Little, Kearsen1]
Bannees: 23 [incl. 11 who were cornfielded]
No longer active: 8. But almost all of these were long-term Dopers, around for at least a year before they got called out, most of which didn’t bail on the board soon after their Pitting. I’ll list them in case anyone wants to examine them more closely:
jim23
YWTF
Pavelb1 [the only newbie when he got pitted then bailed soon after, BUT someone recognized the secondary name in his profile as that of a long-term Doper from when we ran vBulletin)
duffer
putnam6
SayTwo
agzem
Harrington
You can also examine why they were being called out, if you like: seemed to me like in almost all cases the pitting was warranted-only jim23 seemed like an unfair case, just a brief accusation of being a sock, then no more attention whatsoever.
BUT: the kicker is that I could find no newbies who were Pitted there, then shaped up (as in were not pitted anymore from then on) and became a frequent and useful contributors to the board. The 8 in category one were typically repeat offenders, with many people in the R US thread calling them out numerous times over the lifespan of the thread.
If anyone wants to continue from post #501 knock yourself out.