# Let's pit  Dopers who engage in debate with Starving Artist

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**Created:** [October 28, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pit-dopers-who-engage-in-debate-with-starving-artist/515389 "2009-10-28T02:33:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pit-dopers-who-engage-in-debate-with-starving-artist/515389/318 "2009-10-31T05:38:11Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> I am beginning to suspect trolling. If anyone doesn’t believe me, take note of how often I accuse someone of it. **This will be the first time.**

Bolding mine.

The following post was made less than six months ago:

> [@911 hanging up on caller for swearing -- can they DO that?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/911-hanging-up-on-caller-for-swearing-can-they-do-that/495308/175):
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> I know I said I was gone for the night, but since my absence seemed to result in little but making way for the trollery of **Tenebras** , I figured it wouldn’t hurt to jump back in.

And you wonder why people are skeptical about accepting your recollections as representative of what was going on half a century ago.

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