# 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:** 186
**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:** [September 16, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3704 "2017-09-16T10:50:18Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > 2 - the assessment of the participants is not always in alignment with the assessment of the arbiters. > [@Colibri](#): > > … (You aren’t always right, though.) … To be fair, the “not always right” part comes mainly from a loose interpretation of the word “troll”. Many of the uniquely wonderful posters identified here are not actually trolls, but are still worthy of attention – if not Ban Camp, then perhaps one’s “ignore” list, or as a source of unintended humor. For instance I don’t think the Man Trap Filter, who brings us such refreshingly novel theories of physics, is actually a troll, but rather a moron and Dunning-Kruger exemplar extraordinaire. Others that I won’t mention because they’re no longer with us were various kinds of sociopaths. But in general I think the collective judgment in this thread in identifying the wonderfully deviant has been pretty accurate. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3705 "2017-09-16T11:41:07Z")
Agreed. My working definition of “troll” is somebody being disingenuously provocative for his/her entertainment. IOW a vandal. Ordinary jerks, know-nothings, and folks unable to form a coherent paragraph outnumber “true” trolls probably 10 to 1. They’re all pests, but only trolls and jerks are readily bannable as a status crime. The others need to work a bit to rise to the level of bannable for conduct. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3706 "2017-09-16T13:44:46Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Many of the uniquely wonderful posters identified here are not actually trolls, but are still worthy of attention – if not Ban Camp, then perhaps one’s “ignore” list, or **as a source of unintended humor** … This thread has been wonderful in that respect. Thanks to everyone here who’s included links. I mean, reading the almost-a-trolls’ tenuous grasp of politics, the scientific method (even reality itself!) is entertainment at its best. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3707 "2017-09-17T01:04:00Z")
If you like that sort of thing, this Pit thread from 3 months ago might give you some more fuel: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828147](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828147) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3708 "2017-09-17T04:09:47Z")
Thanks, it’s a gold mine. And there’s MANTRAPHILTER right in the second post. I’ll make a big bowl of “popping corn” (that’s what it says on the package) and binge watch a message board. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3709 "2017-09-18T00:54:43Z")
The lovable sweat209 just asked about opinions on a 1972 book on the hippies, and it turns out he hasn’t read it or anything. Basically he wants support for a vague hypothesis he has based on reading _about_ the book. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836405](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836405) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3710 "2017-09-18T01:51:20Z")
> [@naita](#): > > The lovable sweat209 just asked about opinions on a 1972 book on the hippies, and it turns out he hasn’t read it or anything. Basically he wants support for a vague hypothesis he has based on reading _about_ the book. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836405](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836405) > > :smack: Poor guy just wants some small talk to impress this hot 65-year-old ex-hippie Spanish girl he met, and you’re harshing his mellow. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3711 "2017-09-18T03:22:14Z")
I still think **sweat209** is just someone who barely speaks English and is gets very intrigued by what he reads. Of course he’s never read the book. He only reads English online or from school. (I believe he was the one who would ask ESL homework questions here, until we told him to cut it out.) Maybe I’m just being gullible. But I think we’re actually fighting ignorance with this guy. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3712 "2017-09-18T03:40:06Z")
Join date 2012, first post 2017. That feels odd to me, although, he doesn’t feel like a jerk. Yet. I just have a funny feeling it is a forgotten sock puppet and sooner or later the inner troll will emerge. Hopefully I’m wrong. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14818547&postcount=91](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14818547&postcount=91) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3713 "2017-09-18T03:46:25Z")
Eh? Every post in that thread is from 2012. Looks like it got zombied by a now-cornfielded spammer. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3714 "2017-09-18T03:48:59Z")
I like where he posits: “Or some how I’m confuse of difference of social deviance vs counterculture.” I really wanted to reply “Some how I’m confuse of difference of social deviance, too. May be you when come back have read the book.” ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3715 "2017-09-18T03:55:59Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Eh? Every post in that thread is from 2012. Looks like it got zombied by a now-cornfielded spammer. I didn’t notice that the post was in 2012. D’oh! ---
**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 18, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3716 "2017-09-18T05:28:30Z")
[**A Tale of Two Persecutions & Discriminations Through History; Blacks and Jews**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836566) > [@A Tale of Two Persecutions & Discriminations Through History; Blacks and Jews](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tale-of-two-persecutions-discriminations-through-history-blacks-and-jews/796602/1): > > …I think minority leaders need to deal with their own community problems and focus less on inanimate symbols such as statues and problems of the past such as the history of slavery and racism. > [@A Tale of Two Persecutions & Discriminations Through History; Blacks and Jews](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tale-of-two-persecutions-discriminations-through-history-blacks-and-jews/796602/2): > > Is there a debate, here? Yes there is. It’s the same as the one [in this thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20442031) > [@JBGUSA](#): > > **Submitted: Current Racial Problems NOT Caused by Memorials** > > Since Dylan Rooffs’ Charleston massacre and with gathering force since the Charlottesville violence, there has been a crescendo of efforts to erase history. In Baltimore all Confederate monuments were ripped out in the middle of the night… > > I think that the umbilical ties to nursing ancient hatreds are part of the problem. See A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It.[“And Angelou was, in a way, just as furious about the sheriff’s condescension, the blithe evil of warning the innocent to “lay low.”]. Why not focus on real current barriers to learning and achievement rather than the evils of long-dead white losers such as Southern sheriffs, governors using police dogs, and Klansmen? There are serious needs to be addressed, serious current problems. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3717 "2017-09-18T08:57:32Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > [**A Tale of Two Persecutions & Discriminations Through History; Blacks and Jews**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836566) > Yes there is. It’s the same as the one [in this thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20442031) Which was itself closed because he’d already had two previous threads on the same topic. Our friend **JBGUSA** appears to be operating in the same mode as previous members of the banned: if at first your earnest screed is shown to be ludicrously flimsy, just keep reposting it in new threads and hope in vain for more sympathetic responses. ---
**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 18, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3718 "2017-09-18T11:16:54Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I still think **sweat209** is just someone who barely speaks English and is gets very intrigued by what he reads. That semi-coherent writing style looked familiar, and yep, he’s [this guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=819999). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3719 "2017-09-18T11:23:25Z")
What exactly _is_ a **sweat209**? Does it refer to anything meaningful? Maybe the username **moist** was taken. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3720 "2017-09-18T11:50:30Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > What exactly _is_ a **sweat209**? Does it refer to anything meaningful? > > Maybe the username **moist** was taken. My assumption was always that it was a misspelling of “sweet.” Not sure about the 209, though there is a [Summer Sweet 209](http://abbottcobb.com/seed/summer-sweet-209/) bell pepper. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3721 "2017-09-18T12:29:36Z")
More fun with **JBGUSA** [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836019) where, apart from his bizarre “modest proposal”, he demonstrates his Democratic credentials by petting a large dog and conclusively proves that illegal immigrants can vote in California because he once filled out an online voter registration application but didn’t submit it. If he’s _not_ a right-wing troll, he is a very confused individual. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3722 "2017-09-18T12:42:06Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > What exactly _is_ a **sweat209**? Does it refer to anything meaningful? > > Maybe the username **moist** was taken. I’m in the 209 area code and it gets pretty hot in the summer. I pray this is not the case 'cause it means he’s near. ---
**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 18, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3723 "2017-09-18T13:25:35Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’m in the 209 area code and it gets pretty hot in the summer. > > I pray this is not the case 'cause it means he’s near. I didn’t know you were a Central Valley guy. Labor Day weekend must have been brutal!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=187)