# Is anyone going to do anything about Rick Rolling? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901 "2008-03-27T07:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/21 "2008-03-27T15:30:44Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Somebody call? 😕 [/QUOTE] Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’, keep that Rick guy rollin’… There have been very few instances of RickRolling on the Dope, as far as I know. Two were reported this morning and another last week. Searching for the term doesn’t turn up much, but then, that’s the idea.[We’ve clarified the rule on NSFW links](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7697028#post7697028), although it probably covered this situation anyway: > [@](#): > > If you’re going to post a link to that site, or another site that is intended to startle/annoy by a sudden sound/image, check with a staff member first. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/22 "2008-03-27T15:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] > [@](#): > > If you’re going to post a link to that site, or another site that is intended to startle/annoy by a sudden sound/image, check with a staff member first. [/QUOTE] Good point. _That_ looks like possible precedent (to my amateur eye) for a moratorium on “Rickrolling,” should the staff so decide. I find RRing irritating, not Internet-breaking. But that’s mostly because I can avoid it. And these things do have a way of getting run into the ground, like the 1920s-style death ray gags lately. Carefully mousing over links and thinking about their poster’s known proclivities wouldn’t chase me off the SDMB, but it would add a level of annoyance I do not currently have to endure. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/23 "2008-03-27T15:48:55Z")
In case it wasn’t clear in my post, the word “sound” was added to that rule by **Dex**. In full, the rule could have been understood to apply in this situation anyway, but this makes it clearer. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/24 "2008-03-27T17:24:21Z")
I reported a Rick Rolling link where the post was just “Here’s the video” and nothing else. It is funny maybe twice. After that it is just annoying. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/25 "2008-03-27T21:49:32Z")
RE the “two click rule”, one of our fine members has provided us with this very useful site [澳门新甫京·娱乐娱城(最新VIP认证)-IOS/安卓通用版](http://www.seigle.net/extraclick.php?u=). Just put the address of the site you want to link to after the =, like this [http://www.seigle.net/extraclick.php?u=http://www.google.com/](http://www.seigle.net/extraclick.php?u=http://www.google.com/) Maybe this could be added to the sticky? CMC +fnord! I won’t even ask why we don’t have a _[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/extraclick.php?u=](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/extraclick.php)_ page! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/26 "2008-03-27T21:50:45Z")
If you don’t like Rick-Rolling, then you’ll shit when you find out about the telephone Rick Roll. Yep, somebody set up a website where you can enter a number, and the site dials them and plays the Rick Astley song. (google “rick roll phone” if you want it) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/27 "2008-03-28T11:01:21Z")
I don’t think that the video can really be considered NSFW, or containing a startling sound/image. If you need to keep your workplace surfing on the QT, you shouldn’t be clicking random links while having the sound turned up. Most links don’t elaborate terribly much on where they’re going, and can always result in some ad throwing out some noise. Rick Rolling is by definition a joke, and you can probably make an argument that it is inappropriate to post something like that in GQ, GD, ATMB, CCC and CSR, and maybe in IMHO, CS and GR, but this silly stuff is made for MPSIMS and the Pit is a free for all. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/28 "2008-03-28T12:05:36Z")
I suggest we do the following: Nothing. I mean, collectively, deliberately do _nothing_, when it happens. Rickrolling is annoying, I agree. But if _nobody_ responds to the post in which it happens - everybody just carries on as if it wasn’t there, then the silly joke falls completely flat. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/29 "2008-03-28T15:03:34Z")
If you think RRing is bad, I’ve got two words for you: meat spin. DO NOT Google it. My brother almost got me the other day, linking to a cruise he just booked. I was wise to his game though. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/30 "2008-03-28T18:02:00Z")
ttp://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9624797#post9624797 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/31 "2008-03-28T18:18:20Z")
Sorry, I hit “post” instead of “preview” :smack: My previous post shows one example of the many methods to comply with the 2-click rule. Interested users can just copy/paste the URL in the address bar and add the h. Whatever method you use, just preview first to check that the link is disabled. There’s no need to use a special URL as **crowmanyclouds** suggests. Unclicking “Automatically parse links in text” has one important deficiency: if the post is quoted, the quoter probably won’t remember to unclick that option. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/32 "2008-03-28T20:10:11Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > Please don’t make me leave another formerly-great message board in utter disgust. If this is how you react to a Rick Astley video, good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/33 "2008-03-28T22:14:23Z")
I dunno. Sometimes it’s amusing, others it isn’t. Surely the latter can be classed as jerkish behaviour? And sometimes people make mistakes. So alert the mods and let them decide. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/34 "2008-03-28T23:09:07Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] If this is how you react to a Rick Astley video, good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass. [/QUOTE] Tell me about it. It’s a cheesy 1980s video, not goatse, lemonparty or something like that. I’d hate to see how he would react if he’s confronted with a lolcat, ORLY owl or HA! HA! Quaker. A stupid meme from the outside world, which doesn’t involve pies, death rays, or Opalcat is not a sign of the apocalypse. If the OP is looking for a message board that is completely insulated from Internet memes, I recommend some academic quantum mechanics or postmodernist philosophy listserv. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/35 "2008-03-28T23:29:05Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] If this is how you react to a Rick Astley video, good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass. [/QUOTE] Always nice to have you posting without sounding like, oh what was it they said about ya the other day? 😛 More charitably to the OP, if you are bothered by the fact that a prank is played on you, maybe you need to relax and take a deep breath (and plot revenge). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/36 "2008-03-29T01:00:36Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] If this is how you react to a Rick Astley video, good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass. [/QUOTE] This is not how you talk to people in ATMB and you know that or should know it. If you have a problem with someone take it to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/37 "2008-03-29T01:07:27Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] If you think RRing is bad, I’ve got two words for you: meat spin. DO NOT Google it. My brother almost got me the other day, linking to a cruise he just booked. I was wise to his game though. 🆒 [/QUOTE] Damn you for that. BTW, 27 spins before I was able to close it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/38 "2008-03-29T02:05:15Z")
There [is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNDh_tFIHn4) a solution to Rickrolling. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/39 "2008-03-29T04:52:00Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] There [is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNDh_tFIHn4) a solution to Rickrolling. [/QUOTE] I can’t explain why, but I kind of like this. Which is good 'cause it’ll be in my head all weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-going-to-do-anything-about-rick-rolling/442901/40 "2008-03-29T04:55:53Z")
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