# Mods trolling, isn't that against the rules?

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**Created:** [November 18, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-trolling-isnt-that-against-the-rules/704916 "2014-11-18T00:08:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-trolling-isnt-that-against-the-rules/704916/12 "2014-11-18T00:35:54Z")

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Rest assured, before starting this topic, I knew full well it will be as wonderful as complaining about the local cops. To the local cops.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3332):
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> Trolling, trolling, over the bounding main…

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3327):
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> I will, however, continue to remind people that this assclown is nothing but a troll and responding to him substantively serves no purpose.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3322):
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> Fish gotta swim  
> Birds gotta fly  
> Trolls gotta troll  
> They don’t even know why.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3310):
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> Trolling 101: Call people who call you on your trolling trolls.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3311):
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> Classic troll tactics. Don’t feed him.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3304):
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> … he is merely trolling, and not dignify his nonsense with a pointless attempt to engage him. I only post to it immediately after he’s gotten so desperate for attention that he bumps it again.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3301):
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> … I’m quite gratified that no one has dignified this troll .

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3299):
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> Pathetic starving troll.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3281):
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> Troll, troll, troll away!

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3278):
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> It’s been months now since anyone’s given the poor troll

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3275):
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> I sincerely hope, with all due respect, that people don’t continue to feed this idiot troll’s need for constant negative attention.

> [@I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/3271):
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> More likely they just decide not to feed the troll any more.

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