# 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:** 185
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3684 "2017-09-14T05:47:32Z")
1. What the hell is going on with the formatting on posting a reply now? (Sorry, it’s distracting.) 2. I really came here to share [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836249). I think this may be a record in emo-trolling. That is one looooonng weep into someone’s virtual beer. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3685 "2017-09-14T10:44:56Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > 1. I really came here to share [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836249). I think this may be a record in emo-trolling. That is one looooonng weep into someone’s virtual beer. Was that the “marry me” one? 'This gone now. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3686 "2017-09-14T13:01:45Z")
Yes, it was the long rambling “marry me” one. I should have quoted some of it, but where to start? What to choose? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3687 "2017-09-14T13:05:56Z")
What is the point of linking to a thread or post by a troll, when you know it’s going to wished into the cornfield? If you want to comment on it, quote the damned thing here. Otherwise we be have no idea what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3688 "2017-09-14T13:19:46Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > What is the point of linking to a thread or post by a troll, when you know it’s going to wished into the cornfield? If you want to comment on it, quote the damned thing here. Otherwise we be have no idea what you’re talking about. Eh, I haven’t read the thread in question, but it’s not always apparent which threads are going to be wished into the cornfield. The Mods work in mysterious ways. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3689 "2017-09-14T13:26:06Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > What is the point of linking to a thread or post by a troll, when you know it’s going to wished into the cornfield? If you want to comment on it, quote the damned thing here. Otherwise we be have no idea what you’re talking about. It is still in Google’s cache. Besides, there was no way to know for sure that it would be cornfielded–I assumed that it would just be moved from GQ to MPSIMS. ETA: I see that [the OP was banned](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), too. Probably a sock. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3690 "2017-09-14T14:34:45Z")
Well, considering the last emo-troll is still alive and well and gathering responses about her husband’s bachelor party, it is hard to know what will stick. Plus this sucker was heading into 250 word territory, with no carriage returns, it’s hard to even know what to quote. I’ll try to pick something in future. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3691 "2017-09-14T15:01:39Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > What is the point of linking to a thread or post by a troll, when you know it’s going to wished into the cornfield? If you want to comment on it, quote the damned thing here. Otherwise we be have no idea what you’re talking about. We’d rather you didn’t. If we decide a poster is a troll and disappear the post or thread, we’d rather not have to edit quotes out of posts. Likewise, once a troll has been cornfielded, the less you highlight them the better. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3692 "2017-09-14T15:04:14Z")
I get that. It’s just annoying if someone comments on a post and I come to this thread too late to read the original. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3693 "2017-09-14T15:05:56Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Well, considering the last emo-troll is still alive and well and gathering responses about her husband’s bachelor party, it is hard to know what will stick. Plus this sucker was heading into 250 word territory, with no carriage returns, it’s hard to even know what to quote. I’ll try to pick something in future. Yeah, but she is so lost and just doesn’t knowwhat to do!!! ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3694 "2017-09-14T15:09:51Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > We’d rather you didn’t. If we decide a poster is a troll and disappear the post or thread, we’d rather not have to edit quotes out of posts. > > Likewise, once a troll has been cornfielded, the less you highlight them the better. Ok - I won’t pick something in future. TBH, I haven’t even been including their names in these posts, for this reason, among others (like the fact that some of them come looking for mentions). I hear **Dewey**. It’s usually me that’s missed something. I have become an expert on Google. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3695 "2017-09-14T15:14:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > We’d rather you didn’t. If we decide a poster is a troll and disappear the post or thread, we’d rather not have to edit quotes out of posts. > > Likewise, once a troll has been cornfielded, the less you highlight them the better. If that’s the case, why is this thread allowed to exist? This thread has done nothing BUT highlight trolls and their hijinx. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3696 "2017-09-14T15:23:42Z")
I would posit that identifying trolls isn’t necessarily a bad thing for the mods. In some cases where they are deleted with prejudice, they’re asking for a little more discretion from us up front. In the cases where the bridge-dweller sticks around a little longer, it probably matters less and less as time goes by. This is all my own supposition. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3697 "2017-09-14T16:30:11Z")
The purpose of this thread is to be a safe space to call people out for being trolls without receiving a mod warning for it. That we point out new trolls is just a feature of that purpose. But yeah, I agree with Colibri on not actually quoting people who are going to be cornfielded. Too many people get rushed straight into the corn and we don’t need to quote and highlight their shit here. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3698 "2017-09-14T16:47:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > But who is Hilter? 😃 He’s standing as the National Bocialist MP candidate in the [North Minehead by-election](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/minehead.php). ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3699 "2017-09-14T16:53:32Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > The purpose of this thread is to be a safe space to call people out for being trolls without receiving a mod warning for it. > > That we point out new trolls is just a feature of that purpose. The inevitable end effect of this thread is that if it works well, it doesn’t work for long (with respect to any particular troll). When we start mocking, the timer starts, ‘cause we’re also bird-dogging for the mods. And they’re not gonna let a troll keep trollin’ just because we’re having fun with 'em. We’re the cats. The mods are the humans that take our [del]toy[/del] prey away. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3700 "2017-09-14T16:54:51Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > If that’s the case, why is this thread allowed to exist? > > This thread has done nothing BUT highlight trolls and their hijinx. 1 - it violates no rules. 2 - the assessment of the participants is not always in alignment with the assessment of the arbiters. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3701 "2017-09-14T19:22:27Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > If that’s the case, why is this thread allowed to exist? > > This thread has done nothing BUT highlight trolls and their hijinx. There has been some discussion in this thread about trolls after they’ve been banned, but that’s only a small fraction of the posts here. Besides, that in and of itself isn’t against the rules. The mods will sometimes request that we table discussion about a banned individual if it looks like it’s derailing a thread, or giving the banned poster too much post-mortem attention, but casual references are not against the rules. And the BBQ Pit’s purpose is to be the one forum where it’s OK to do things like call active posters trolls. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3702 "2017-09-16T04:50:52Z")
Only just now discovered “welcome new members” at bottom of SDMB page. So I’d wager **dogslicktheirpeepeesforpleasur** might not be too long of this place. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3703 "2017-09-16T05:16:42Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > If that’s the case, why is this thread allowed to exist? > > This thread has done nothing BUT highlight trolls and their hijinx. Speaking personally, this thread has been very useful in identifying trolls, and I thank contributors. I myself have probably banned at least a dozen trolls pointed out in this thread. (You aren’t always right, though.) But once they have been identified and banned, it serves no further purpose to highlight them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=184) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=186)