# 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:** 191
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3804 "2017-10-04T17:14:49Z")
Now he has revived a [zombie thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20516933#post20516933)and double-posted in it, which amounts to incomprehensibility x2. From the way he spells “programme” it would seem he may be British. Which may be why he doesn’t understand what Jim Crow is (or he is having us on, take your pick). ---
**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:** [October 4, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3805 "2017-10-04T23:38:36Z")
Someone else has to translate that one. The only sentence that had words in an order I accept might be Engish said something about slaves being compensated in the past, and still being compensated. His reality does not match any that I am aware of. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3806 "2017-10-05T00:02:33Z")
If that’s not locked overnight I’ll report it around sunrise. Dripping insanity and a 9 yo thread is not something we want to encourage. Unless somebody else here has already reported it. ---
**Author:** ![Rosvirein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rosvirein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosvirein)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3807 "2017-10-05T00:25:08Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > From the way he spells “programme” it would seem he may be British. Which may be why he doesn’t understand what Jim Crow is (or he is having us on, take your pick). Canadians also spell it that way, and his calling ‘Native Americans’ ‘First Nations’ clinches it. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3808 "2017-10-05T00:48:23Z")
> [@Rosvirein](#): > > Canadians also spell it that way, and his calling ‘Native Americans’ ‘First Nations’ clinches it. He lists his location as West Yorkshire, so unless there’s one of those in Canada, I’m going to go with British. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3809 "2017-10-05T04:36:06Z")
And now, in that rock and roll and satan thread, we have [lifespill](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20518877&postcount=12). Newbie, and has a similar (poor) posting style. I wonder if camina-whosie socked himself to join the thread. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3810 "2017-10-05T05:53:23Z")
I saw an article recently that said the traditional typewriter habit of following a period with two spaces was passé in this computer age, and one is quite enough. lifespill read the memo wrong.Come on, people, at least one space after the period. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3811 "2017-10-05T06:05:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I saw an article recently that said the traditional typewriter habit of following a period with two spaces was passé in this computer age, and one is quite enough. lifespill read the memo **wrong.Come** on, people, at least one space after the period. The irony, it burns. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3812 "2017-10-05T06:37:28Z")
> [@Rosvirein](#): > > Canadians also spell it that way, and his calling ‘Native Americans’ ‘First Nations’ clinches it. You have two errors there. Canadians actually don’t spell it that way, at least not typically. For instance, [here we have](http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/daily.html) the CBC “Program Guide”, not “Programme Guide”. The operative rule here is simple: Canadians generally use British spelling in preference to American spelling, unless it’s silly. For instance, though we have colours and flavours, we have tires, not tyres. And on a related note, our wives may have boots and bonnets, but our cars have trunks and hoods. These are little things but they add up. This is why the Brits have Theresa May and Brexit, the US has Trump, and Canada has Justin Trudeau. Also, the lunatic in question didn’t refer to “First Nations”. He referred to “Frist Nations”. This may have been a reference to the multi-generational legacy of former US senator from Tennessee Bill Frist, whose great-great-grandfather was a founder of Chattanooga. Or it might have resulted from the syndrome wherein that entire post reads like it was sent over a hugely noisy error-prone telegraph wire and reassembled by a drunken chimpanzee. You know what? I don’t care. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3813 "2017-10-05T07:41:05Z")
Chimp. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3814 "2017-10-05T11:06:05Z")
There is [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20516735&postcount=19) on an 9 year old thread about the movie Sister Act. (This is of the “weird and poorly written” genus, not “troll.”) ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3815 "2017-10-05T13:52:26Z")
Setting aside the chance that **lifespill** is really caminwhatshisname I wonder how much the wall-o-text writing style is attractive to other wall-o-texters. IOW, I wonder if we let that crap catch hold around here we’d be inundated with more and more newbies thinking “Oh goodie; a board that writes like I do. I’ll be right at home here.” If so, we need to kill this stuff with fire. I’d favor a rule that wall-o-text posts by newbies are closed with a mod note welcoming them but telling them to repost in normal prose style or go elsewhere. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3816 "2017-10-05T17:37:51Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’d favor a rule that wall-o-text posts by newbies are closed with a mod note welcoming them but telling them to repost in normal prose style or go elsewhere. The trouble is that they think they _are_ posting in a normal prose style, and an exceptionally eloquent and insightful one, too. You can never overestimate the Dunning-Kruger effect. To picture the effect that either a mod note or sarcastic ridicule of the Pit variety has on these folks, try to visualize the image of water droplets falling on a duck. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3817 "2017-10-05T18:56:04Z")
It’s the first time thread lock and subsequent ban if they don’t comply in the second thread that will have the effect I’m seeking. Either that or we’ll discover they really can post coherently. Either way is win-win. A muscular form of win-win, but that’s just how I roll. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3818 "2017-10-05T18:58:46Z")
I did notice one new poster complaining that we were tough on people here about punctuation and spelling. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3819 "2017-10-05T19:03:24Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The trouble is that they think they _are_ posting in a normal prose style, and an exceptionally eloquent and insightful one, too. You can never overestimate the Dunning-Kruger effect. To picture the effect that either a mod note or sarcastic ridicule of the Pit variety has on these folks, try to visualize the image of water droplets falling on a duck. Don’t schools teach the basics of writing anymore? ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3820 "2017-10-05T19:07:24Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I did notice one new poster complaining that we were tough on people here about punctuation and spelling. 🙂 You…don’t…say. 😉 ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3821 "2017-10-05T19:18:29Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I did notice one new poster complaining that we were tough on people here about punctuation and spelling. 🙂 Beckdawrek has made several comments complaining about people complaining about his/her strewing ellipses around like a Duggard strews children. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3822 "2017-10-05T19:34:35Z")
Ding-ding. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3823 "2017-10-05T20:07:53Z")
I gotta say you folks really have a hard on for **Beckdawrek**. An IMO completely unjustified one. In a couple of posts I saw she used ellipses to signify a dramatic pause or groping for a word. Most of us to that device now and again. Including me. I don’t read every forum, so she may be (or have been) throwing around more ellipses than I’m aware of. Contrast this with **watchwolf49** who has some 7500 posts of which all but roughly three are a collection of a dozen or more twitter-like half-thoughts each separated by ellipses. That’s dozens per post times thousands of posts. Which somehow gets a pass from the recently formed Ellipsis Posse. Color me confused about this particular pile-on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=190) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=192)