# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489 "2016-05-23T21:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 117
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2321 "2017-06-16T17:09:13Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Just to clarify, was that a joke, or Guadere’s Law in action? I always struggle with “ytpo”. ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2322 "2017-06-16T17:11:56Z")
I think you all have too strong a tendency to label “poster I do not like” (particularly in the politics) or “poster who is a weird person” as a troll. but for dude robert, it must be said he has entertainment value. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2323 "2017-06-16T17:14:09Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > I think you all have too strong a tendency to label “poster I do not like” (particularly in the politics) or “poster who is a weird person” as a troll. > > but for dude robert, it must be said he has entertainment value. It’s hard to tell sometimes. Me being a trusting person, I used to assume everyone was sincere. Y’all have made a cynic of me. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2324 "2017-06-16T17:15:30Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Just to clarify, was that a joke, or Guadere’s Law in action? Hey, you’ve just misspelled “[Muphry’s law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law)!” ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2325 "2017-06-16T17:15:41Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > I think you all have too strong a tendency to label “poster I do not like” (particularly in the politics) or “poster who is a weird person” as a troll. > > but for dude robert, it must be said he has entertainment value. Couldn’t agree more…and he creates a lot of content. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2326 "2017-06-16T17:25:51Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Kinda like the Mỹ Lai Massacre, only with more fucking and less killing. Sounds like that would be a good thing. No? > [@Ramira](#): > > I think you all have too strong a tendency to label “poster I do not like” (particularly in the politics) or “poster who is a weird person” as a troll. > > but for dude robert, it must be said he has entertainment value. I think a lot of us are treating this thread as “trolls and other snarkable posters”. More fun that way. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2327 "2017-06-16T17:33:19Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > What hath dude wrought? OK, Dude, let me give you some advice. You are perfectly welcome to make up goofy hypotheticals and ask us about them. Take a look at your tank vs destroyer thread. That’s a great thread. But you’re going to get yourself banned if you don’t keep yourself under control. You’ve got a brand new toy here, you don’t want to break it, do you? It’s fun to get serious people to consider your goofy shit, right? But I have the feeling you’re going to escalate until you’re no longer welcome here. Don’t do that, OK? ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2328 "2017-06-16T17:33:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I think a lot of us are treating this thread as “trolls and other snarkable posters”. More fun that way. okay that is easier to understand. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2329 "2017-06-16T17:49:38Z")
It is a thread for those _omnibus_ trolls, which gives it broad scope. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2330 "2017-06-16T21:55:14Z")
Does this (not Northern Piper) sound like anyone new? > **[Charlie Wayne, you are a sexist, stupid jerk.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=751112)** > > From Charlie Wayne’s OP in this thread: Take a look at this picture of the current Premier of out \[sic\] Province: You judge people by their looks. You compare a woman to a mule. You think that everyone else will agree with your stupid, bigoted... ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2331 "2017-06-16T23:56:48Z")
We should start IDing them by species. This newbie definitely falls into the “[I am a hopeless emotional wreck and am going to spew my entire sad pathetic life story for you to cut your wrists to](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828855)” genus… ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2332 "2017-06-17T00:39:10Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > We should start IDing them by species. > > This newbie definitely falls into the “[I am a hopeless emotional wreck and am going to spew my entire sad pathetic life story for you to cut your wrists to](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828855)” genus… You mean [like this?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=409022) Ten years ago, that was me. I can’t make fun of the mentally ill. I can definitively state, from experience, that this is not a good place to be for the emotionally unstable. (FYI, people also assumed I was a troll. Good times.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2333 "2017-06-17T02:09:57Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > We should start IDing them by species. > > This newbie definitely falls into the “[I am a hopeless emotional wreck and am going to spew my entire sad pathetic life story for you to cut your wrists to](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828855)” genus… TLDR. My eyes glazed over and I backed out of the thread. Trump could build his wall with that post (or 2). ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2334 "2017-06-17T02:20:07Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > You mean [like this?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=409022) > > Ten years ago, that was me. > > I can’t make fun of the mentally ill. Why not? Not being able to make fun of those people that disagree with me would be so boring. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2335 "2017-06-17T02:21:06Z")
Maybe that one falls into the “too lazy to self-publish on Amazon so I’m trying a message board instead” genus. I read/skimmed chunks of it. No idea what the ask was. Usually there’s something. “Should I stay?” “Does he love me?” “Does the cat love me?” Something. I think this just ended with a vaguely ominous promise to come back with updates. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2336 "2017-06-17T03:56:57Z")
[OMFG!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828867) **dude** really needs to take **Lemur866’s** advice. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2337 "2017-06-17T20:33:12Z")
Why do people buy [this guy’s bullshit?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828951) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2338 "2017-06-17T21:50:06Z")
I have no opinion about that thread, but **SamuelA** is the guy who reads too much sci-fi and has it confused with fact. I’m surprised he didn’t suggest putting the body in a walk-in freezer and waiting for science to revive it – this is the guy who very wrongly stated in another thread that medical science believes cryogenically frozen brains can be revived. Also believes the answer to everything is intelligent [self-replicating machines](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20176315&postcount=74). And I mean [everything](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20256599&postcount=54)! It’s his one-trick pony. Ask him anything, and it will be done with intelligent self-replicating machines. “We already have 'em!” Or possibly, in the future everything will be done with intelligent self-replicating machines controlled by revived human zombies (FDA mandatory label: “Previously frozen”). ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2339 "2017-06-17T22:01:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I have no opinion about that thread, but **SamuelA** is the guy who reads too much sci-fi and has it confused with fact. I’m surprised he didn’t suggest putting the body in a walk-in freezer and waiting for science to revive it – this is the guy who very wrongly stated in another thread that medical science believes cryogenically frozen brains can be revived. Also believes the answer to everything is intelligent [self-replicating machines](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20176315&postcount=74). And I mean [everything](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20256599&postcount=54)! It’s his one-trick pony. Ask him anything, and it will be done with intelligent self-replicating machines. “We already have 'em!” Or possibly, in the future everything will be done with intelligent self-replicating machines controlled by revived human zombies (FDA mandatory label: “Previously frozen”). He’s not wrong. We are all self replicating machines, though I suppose it could be argued as to whether or not we are intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/2340 "2017-06-17T22:05:58Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I have no opinion about that thread, but **SamuelA** is the guy who reads too much sci-fi and has it confused with fact. Ah, yes–every problem mentioned is easily solvable–just build self-replicating AI-operated robots, interstellar communication lasers, fusion drives, and upload human minds: it is all there in principle, it is just an engineering problem! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=116) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=118)