# 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:** 197
**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 13, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3924 "2017-10-13T22:04:14Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Comrade **Okra** again tossing up a bunch of crap to see what sticks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=838508) Election-related this time rather than [immigration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=832138). Seems like an excellent system. Thanks to amazing Bitcoin technology, poor people and blacks won’t be able to vote in American elections, but the Russians will. But not to worry about poor people and blacks, Russians and their American millionaire friends will be able to vote as many times as they like to make up the difference. According to Okra, poor people and blacks can always vote by lining up at the public library, and I can see just how this will work. Thousands of them will line up for hours to use the library’s one and only computer, whereupon the head librarian will eventually emerge to inform them in a heavy Russian accent that the computer is unfortunately out of order. To get the full effect you need to imagine the head librarian bearing a remarkable resemblance in appearance and speech to the Rocky and Bullwinkle character Boris Badinoff. This is clearly a voting system with many advantages. > [@Chimera](#): > > That OP came across as being very spam-like. As if the OP works for PJ. I would imagine almost everyone working for PJ hates the son of a bitch as much as they hate the crap he makes. This is either a paid PR guy or, hey, maybe it **is** Papa John! We should ask him about his house – Mittens says everyone should have a house like that! ---
**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 14, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3925 "2017-10-14T03:41:54Z")
This guy looks like someone who would have qualified for the “one and done posters” thread, but he/she has made at least one other post and might or might not stick around (and might or might not become a troll.) But the name [hypnotizedseagull](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20537906&postcount=9) is going to seem especially outdated in time if he sticks around. ---
**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 14, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3926 "2017-10-14T03:45:39Z")
It’s just been locked, too. ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3927 "2017-10-14T11:42:40Z")
Aaaand, I’m making my official prediction of “[death by meltdown](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=838851)” for the seagull. (If he isn’t a returning banned poster, and two or three possibilities come to mind for that.) ---
**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:** [October 14, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3928 "2017-10-14T12:03:30Z")
Howzabout [a 1st post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=838822) intimating a conspiracy theory w.r.t. the Vegas shootings? After all, it’s just “new” information, just asking questions… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3929 "2017-10-14T20:26:52Z")
We’ve got a [new one in General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20539104&postcount=98), who thinks that a Boeing 767 can’t fly fast enough at sea level to crash into a skyscraper hard enough to bring it down. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3930 "2017-10-14T20:27:42Z")
Maybe **Aufgeblassen** ’s next thread can be Happy Swinging Troll Day… ---
**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 14, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3931 "2017-10-14T20:43:20Z")
I suspect we may soon say auf wiedersehen to Aufgeblassen. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3932 "2017-10-14T21:49:28Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > We’ve got a [new one in General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20539104&postcount=98), who thinks that a Boeing 767 can’t fly fast enough at sea level to crash into a skyscraper hard enough to bring it down. Has anyone used the “Report This Post” button to request his banning yet? I’ll happily concede that his troll-itude has not been established. But his crank-itude has, and we don’t need cranks any more than we need trolls. If not, I’ll be happy to do the honors. The only reason I haven’t already is to avoid duplicated efforts. ---
**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 14, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3933 "2017-10-14T21:51:00Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > **Has anyone used the “Report This Post” button to request his banning yet?** I’ll happily concede that his troll-itude has not been established. But his crank-itude has, and we don’t need cranks any more than we need trolls. > > If not, I’ll be happy to do the honors. The only reason I haven’t already is to avoid duplicated efforts. Yes. ETA: the three GQ mods all went offline before he showed up. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3934 "2017-10-14T21:57:55Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > We’ve got a [new one in General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20539104&postcount=98), who thinks that a Boeing 767 can’t fly fast enough at sea level to crash into a skyscraper hard enough to bring it down. [He’s gone to GD now.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=838916) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3935 "2017-10-14T22:14:55Z")
The more that fool writes, the more I suspect he’s been here before. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3936 "2017-10-14T23:08:01Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I suspect we may soon say auf wiedersehen to Aufgeblassen. I see some _ausgehen_ in his future. ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3937 "2017-10-14T23:27:21Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > The more that fool writes, the more I suspect he’s been here before. Well, there is a certain banned recently banned poster who was obsessed with 9/11, but I’m thinking that he is too stupid to have come up with this. ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3938 "2017-10-14T23:59:08Z")
Does anyone know of an online tool that accepts samples of prose and determines how likely they are to be the same author? If so, it might be interesting to gather up a couple thousand words by some of our recent joiners and compare them to a sample of some recent banees’ fine workmanship. ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3939 "2017-10-15T00:28:11Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Does anyone know of an online tool that accepts samples of prose and determines how likely they are to be the same author? > > If so, it might be interesting to gather up a couple thousand words by some of our recent joiners and compare them to a sample of some recent banees’ fine workmanship. Probably need bigger continuous samples of text to get a meaningful result than you are likely to get. Eyeballing jay\_jay and some of terrorism-obsessed you-know-who’s posts, you-know-who seems to have had a better grasp of capitalization and putting line breaks between paragraphs than jay\_jay does. ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3940 "2017-10-15T00:33:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Probably need bigger continuous samples of text to get a meaningful result than you are likely to get. > > Eyeballing jay\_jay and some of terrorism-obsessed you-know-who’s posts, you-know-who seems to have had a better grasp of capitalization and putting line breaks between paragraphs than jay\_jay does. That’s what he _wants_ you to think. ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3941 "2017-10-15T01:48:44Z")
Yeah, punctuation / capitalization is easy to dumb down. Even I could dumb down my posts that way. It’s the words & sentence structure that’re harder. For darn sure the larger the sample the better the reliability of any metric of match. I was thinking that if we could at least say “Wow, [www.SockChek.com](http://www.SockChek.com) says newbie A writes a lot like banee B. Maybe TBTP ought to eyeball their IP addresses.” that might help our overworked mods to stem the tide. Then again, there’s a large and ever-replenishing tide of friggin idjits out there. And Google sends us a fresh batch every day. ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3942 "2017-10-15T06:11:35Z")
Okay, jay\_jay’s imperviousness to facts and his incompetence in math is now making me wonder what Man Trap Hilter thinks about 9/11… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3943 "2017-10-15T07:08:50Z")
He has an odd obsession with the phrases “like a hot knife through butter” and “64% of the acceleration of gravity”. I’m kinda wondering where he got that last figure from from. I’m also wondering about “power required to move a body through air increases exponentially as the speed increases linearly”. No one’s said this isn’t true, and I don’t remember enough physics, especially as applied to the aerodynamics of airplane flight, to tell if this is true or not. My gut says no, but my gut’s been out of sorts lately and could be wrong. Still, seems to me he’s completely off his trolley. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=198)