# My 'Homosexuals' thread wasn't trolling **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915 "2003-03-25T00:30:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/1 "2003-03-25T00:30:41Z")
It was a thread pitting His4Ever and her fanatical obsession with any thread mentioning gays, but in a non-traditional “[prank](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=172299)” format. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/2 "2003-03-25T00:32:57Z")
Yeah, well, either way it was stupid. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/3 "2003-03-25T00:35:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Yeah, well, either way it was stupid. \*\* Well put. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/4 "2003-03-25T01:34:48Z")
It matters less what _you_ say it was than what the mods consider it to be. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/5 "2003-03-25T01:40:29Z")
You were trying to goad her into an argument again. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/6 "2003-03-25T02:04:54Z")
Prank? I think you mean Wank! Just what you are and what your posting style in the other thread was too. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/7 "2003-03-25T03:40:03Z")
Holy crap, what is it with people getting a thread closed, then opening another one on the same topic? Closed means closed! Try using e-mail next time. The board (as a whole) could give a rats fuck if it was trolling or not. Take it up with the mods and shut the fuck up already. Man. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/8 "2003-03-25T04:50:19Z")
Well _I_ thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/9 "2003-03-25T07:13:45Z")
It’s still trolling. Posting disingenuously just to get a response. Textbook. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/10 "2003-03-25T07:17:53Z")
Yeah, it was trolling. It probably should have been locked, but at least it was creative trolling. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/11 "2003-03-25T07:29:06Z")
So, **pizzabrat** , you started a thread specifically to get **His4ever** to post, and with the intent of … getting her with a bucket of cold water. If that isn’t the letter and spirit of trolling (which Lynn said it was, albeit in different words), we’re in an alternate universe. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/12 "2003-03-25T07:36:41Z")
“Well, sure, that first thread may not have been funny or interesting or had a ‘point’, but at least it wasn’t trolling, as I’ve pointed out in this thread that is also neither funny nor interesting!” Really great OP, **pizzabrat**. Really. I for one am truly embiggened by it. Keep reaching for those stars. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/13 "2003-03-25T08:12:27Z")
I thought it was a perfectly cromulent post. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/14 "2003-03-25T08:15:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pizzabrat \* > \*\*It was a thread pitting His4Ever and her fanatical obsession with any thread mentioning gays, but in a non-traditional “[prank](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=172299)” format. \*\* Ah, how wrong you are, Little Doper! You see, the Mods, (peace be unto them) are Omnipotent and Omniscient, at least as far as this message board is concerned. What they say, goes. Sorta like the US Supreme Court, but with a sense of humor. My advice, throw yourself on **THEIR MERCY** and beg forgiveness. If you do this, especially in front of Lynn and promise chocolate, you’ll have a better chance. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/15 "2003-03-25T08:48:17Z")
::cough:: [sub]Freyrthereareotheradminsaswell,nottomentionthenumberofhigherupslikelittleed. STOP andcecilwhohavechairsatthe"banornot?"table.Beadvisedthatthisslipupwillbebrought STOP totheattentionoftheSDMBClique. STOP ThereisnoSDMBClique STOP ThereisnoSDMBClique STOP ThereisnoSDMBClique STOP ThereisnoSDMBClique STOP ThereisnoSDMBClique STOP End[/sub] Trying to save money on the telegraph was kinda difficult, but ya gotta cut corners somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/16 "2003-03-25T08:55:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pizzabrat \* > \*\*It was a thread pitting His4Ever and her fanatical obsession with any thread mentioning gays, but in a non-traditional “[prank](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=172299)” format. \*\* We don’t do pranks in the Pit. Even if we did, I would STILL consider your thread trolling. Be glad that I didn’t ban you and wait for an emailed apology. Lynn For the Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/17 "2003-03-25T09:18:23Z")
IMHO, it did seem to be a thread designed into goading somebody into a confrontation. My handy-dandy [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) says that trolling is, among other things: > [@](#): > > To fish for ( **His4Ever** ) by trailing a baited line ( **thread** ) from behind a slowly moving boat ( **message board** ). The bolded parenthetical references are my own. Seems kinda trolly to me. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/18 "2003-03-25T13:08:54Z")
Confrontation? Really, in the extreeeeeeeeeemely unlikely event that such an innocuous statement like “Some people are gay” could have actually baited her, all I would have said was BLAM!, water. Then laughed. But as was mentioned in the other thread, the post was almost impossible to respond to. My theoretical response from her was “Huh? I heard someone say ‘homosexuals’. What’s going on in here?”, and I knew she wasn’t going to write that. It was just a corny, lighthearted joke; no malice intended. And I started this thread to publicly quell a misunderstanding _and_ to be assured that at least someone got my humour (thanks **Diogenes**!). ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/19 "2003-03-25T13:21:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*We don’t do pranks in the Pit… \ > > Lynn > For the Straight Dope \*\* We [don’t](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169246)? [sub]Sorry, couldn’t resist…Please don’t hurt meeee[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915/20 "2003-03-25T13:36:13Z")
For fuck sake, **Q.E.D.**. Link to **Lynn** ’s post not the entire thread. If you can’t put intelligence into your posts, at least put in some fucking effort. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-homosexuals-thread-wasnt-trolling/163915.md?page=2)