# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489>\
**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\
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**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, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3944 "2017-10-15T07:26:44Z")

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> [@Morgyn](#):
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> 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.

Already linked about the butter knife line in the other post. The 64% [is truthertalk, too](https://www.google.com/search?q=%2264%25+of+the+acceleration+of+gravity%22+911&oq=%2264%25+of+the+acceleration+of+gravity%22+911&gs_l=psy-ab.3...22260.24245.0.25835.4.4.0.0.0.0.879.879.6-1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.0.0....0.8SV70RuI3k0). (And my wondering about him being Man Trap Hilter has expired–he has shown himself to be a different flavor of nut.)

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**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 15, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3945 "2017-10-15T14:16:39Z")

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**Aufgespammer** [strikes again.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20540190#post20540190)

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**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 15, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3946 "2017-10-15T17:55:18Z")

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Should **drad dog** show up on the radar here? First of all, we have his whining ATMB thread, banging that one note over and over, and his anti- Tom Petty thread, where it ain’t so much the content but _how_ he’s saying it.

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**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:** [October 15, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3947 "2017-10-15T18:31:54Z")

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I think drad dog’s just a dumbass.

But he really is an annoying one.

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**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, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3948 "2017-10-15T18:41:47Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> **Aufgespammer** [strikes again.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20540190#post20540190)

There seem to be less than idle thoughts about banning him.

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**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 15, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3949 "2017-10-15T18:44:08Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> There seem to be less than idle thoughts about banning him.

Someone probably needs to bone up on the rules first.

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**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 15, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3950 "2017-10-15T18:52:15Z")

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> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> I think drad dog’s just a dumbass.
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> But he really is an annoying one.

He’s a fucking troll. But I think pitting him over his Tom Petty thread is lame.

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**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, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3951 "2017-10-15T19:13:20Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> 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…

This is what’s baffling me:

When I left the thread at post #24 we’d opened the collective response with pretty withering contempt. I wake up and we’re at post #220 something and still going strong at 300 a few hours later.

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**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 15, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3952 "2017-10-15T19:27:27Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> I see some _ausgehen_ in his future.

And so it has [come to pass.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20540869&postcount=26)

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**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 15, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3953 "2017-10-15T19:59:54Z")

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Thoughts about banning him were more than idle. He’s gone now.

ETA: Too many fucking ninjas lurking around every time I post.

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**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 15, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3954 "2017-10-15T20:03:18Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> This is what’s baffling me:
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> When I left the thread at post #24 we’d opened the collective response with pretty withering contempt. I wake up and we’re at post #220 something and still going strong at 300 a few hours later.

It would appear that posters have inserted a feeding tube in this troll.

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**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3955 "2017-10-15T21:38:52Z")

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**Jay\_jay** has descended into raging madness, you can almost see the froth on the lips as he pounds his keyboard about, well, I’m not even really sure anymore, something about AMERICA, and TRUTH, and the BIG LIE, and blah blah blah. It would be kind of funny if it wasn’t so sad.

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**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:** [October 15, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3956 "2017-10-15T21:54:23Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> It would appear that posters have inserted a feeding tube in this troll.

> [@BeepKillBeep](#):
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> **Jay\_jay** has descended into raging madness, you can almost see the froth on the lips as he pounds his keyboard about, well, I’m not even really sure anymore, something about AMERICA, and TRUTH, and the BIG LIE, and blah blah blah. It would be kind of funny if it wasn’t so sad.

I felt bad about contributing, but I felt worse about the abused math.

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**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, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3957 "2017-10-15T23:51:55Z")

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A modest proposal:

We ought to create a forum called something like “The Echo Chamber” or “The Big Stage”

The idea is that all CT/Okrahoma/TMsexualI troll or BS threads get promptly moved there. And everybody else knows not to \*ever \*post there. We could even go so far as to block all but guests with less than 2 months seniority from posting there.

The end result is they end up debating with each other, or simply posting an OP and being ignored, the rest of us don’t have to ever visit that forum because it’s pure unadulterated dreck, and nobody needs feel obligated to naysay the stupid. The whole point of the forum is to be nothing but concentrated stupid.

The mods can even be snarky as they move the OP:. e.g. “Your post does not meet our minimum standards for intelligence. Here, I’ll move your thread to the forum reserved for the not-quite-good-enough. Feel free to continue posting there.”

It’ll be our little in-joke. \*We \*all know what the Big Stage is for. Even if they don’t.

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**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 15, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3958 "2017-10-15T23:59:19Z")

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> I felt bad about contributing, but I felt worse about the abused math.

I just like poking him. 😃

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**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 16, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3959 "2017-10-16T00:18:11Z")

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It seems sorta fun. But it encourages us all to be more accommodating to trolls. And encourages more of them to haunt us.

if instead the mods had a policy that all CT threads were locked with a dismissive contemptuous comment we’d probably slowly improve the boards and fight actual ignorance in the world at the same time.

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**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 16, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3960 "2017-10-16T00:27:55Z")

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Anyone else getting PMs from jay\_jay? I’ve gotten two so far. One last night where he asked me if I thought 9/11 was a joke (I replied that no, I thought that _he_ was a joke) and one a few minutes ago where he said:

Sorry about that,  
when the shit hits the fan  
because of the BIG LIE,  
I will not be around to say " I told you so "  
so here it is now …

have a nice day . : )

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**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 16, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3961 "2017-10-16T00:51:34Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> It seems sorta fun. But it encourages us all to be more accommodating to trolls. And encourages more of them to haunt us.
> 
> if instead the mods had a policy that all CT threads were locked with a dismissive contemptuous comment we’d probably slowly improve the boards and fight actual ignorance in the world at the same time.

Unfortunately we’re kind of hamstrung by the policy that “witnessing” is allowed in GD. We’ve had threads moved on the basis that the OP didn’t present a legitimate debate, or that it was just a rant, but typically not on the basis that the proposition presented was asinine. I personally don’t agree with this policy as most of the witnessing threads (as well as the many of the asinine-proposition threads) eventually end up getting locked and the OPs banned, but such is the policy. I think the general idea is that the mods are supposed to judge form but not the merits of the argument. The problem is that this has resulted in countless CT threads ranging from 9/11 truthers to pyramid-building nonsense, and of course the regular appearance of “praise the Lord, Jesus saved me!” threads, frequently with anecdotes of visions and voices that mostly seem to come from deranged psychotics.

As for feeding trolls, I concur, but I understand the temptation. When you see something stupid, given the choice of ignoring it or explaining why it’s stupid using small words, it’s sometimes hard to stay uninvolved, though I do try. I think we should all try harder because thus do trolls survive and prosper.

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**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 16, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3962 "2017-10-16T01:04:19Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Anyone else getting PMs from jay\_jay? I’ve gotten two so far. One last night where he asked me if I thought 9/11 was a joke (I replied that no, I thought that _he_ was a joke) and one a few minutes ago where he said:
> 
> Sorry about that,  
> when the shit hits the fan  
> because of the BIG LIE,  
> I will not be around to say " I told you so "  
> so here it is now …
> 
> have a nice day . : )

That’s a new one. You made a friend! 😃

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**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 16, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3963 "2017-10-16T01:32:29Z")

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I tried to look away, but, well, there is this sort of morbid curiosity. Like seeing some sort of planewreck.

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