# 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:** 214
**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:** [November 7, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4264 "2017-11-07T17:25:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Not to junior mod or anything, but you really should email a mod to merge your accounts. They are pretty strict about users having multiple accounts. There’s really no point since the initial account has no posts. No need to make more work for the admin staff that would need to do it. I went ahead and blocked the old one. We did notice when that was created and had a chuckle about the misspelling. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4265 "2017-11-07T18:54:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > \*\*Here. > > • [COLOR=“red”]you > • go > • 🙂 [/COLOR]\*\* > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Ehh. At least it wasn’t Comic Sans. > [@Colibri](#): > > **Maybe this is a whoosh, but it was.** Holy Christ, so it is! I see that now, on my PC. Note to self: Comic Sans on an iPhone shows up as Times New Roman. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4266 "2017-11-07T19:24:47Z")
I don’t think this is trolling, but since we don’t have a thread dedicated to “Delicious Irony”, I’ll put it here. We occasionally get a newbie post that is an incoherent rambling solid wall-o-text, so that much isn’t all that unusual. But [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=841115) is intriguing because as it lurches forward and upward in its construction of a sort of linguistic edifice, an impressively massive ziggurat of solidly cemented words unblemished by paragraphs, the author enlightens us with the following revelation: “I’m a writer”. Actually, the full revelation is “I’m a writer, so I add everything in but some of you might appreciate that”. Really can’t argue with that. Everything has indeed been added in that one can imagine, excepting only the kitchen sink, coherence, and of course paragraphs. I’m sure that others will be as intrigued as I am to know what it is that this person writes professionally, who employs her for this purpose, and whether she also has a day job which, needless to say, she should be urged to hang on to at all costs. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4267 "2017-11-07T20:35:38Z")
:eek: ---
**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:** [November 7, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4268 "2017-11-07T23:47:24Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > :eek: > [@What is considered 'A Bad Customer' (and have you ever been one)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-considered-a-bad-customer-and-have-you-ever-been-one/800971/1): > > …This went on and on ad nauseam… It sure did! But at least you can sympathize with how folks here would feel trying to get through your overly long, rambling OP. Long isn’t necessarily bad, but rambling is. And especially if it’s your first post. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4269 "2017-11-08T00:15:09Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I don’t think this is trolling, but since we don’t have a thread dedicated to “Delicious Irony”, I’ll put it here. We occasionally get a newbie post that is an incoherent rambling solid wall-o-text, so that much isn’t all that unusual. But [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=841115) is intriguing because as it lurches forward and upward in its construction of a sort of linguistic edifice, an impressively massive ziggurat of solidly cemented words unblemished by paragraphs, the author enlightens us with the following revelation: “I’m a writer”. > > Actually, the full revelation is “I’m a writer, so I add everything in but some of you might appreciate that”. > > Really can’t argue with that. Everything has indeed been added in that one can imagine, excepting only the kitchen sink, coherence, and of course paragraphs. > > I’m sure that others will be as intrigued as I am to know what it is that this person writes professionally, who employs her for this purpose, and whether she also has a day job which, needless to say, she should be urged to hang on to at all costs. Look again, there were paragraph breaks (I count 12), just no extra lines of white between paragraphs. There were 2 long paragraphs that might have been further broken, but what bothered me was not the length of paragraphs, but the general incomprehensibility. Mystery abbreviations (WU?), garbled syntax, run-on sentence, sentence fragments, the list goes on. Lots of people call themselves writers these days. They may write clever Facebook posts or telling tweets, but they aren’t professional writers, and I can’t see anyone paying for writing of this caliber. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4270 "2017-11-08T00:38:40Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Look again, there were paragraph breaks (I count 12), just no extra lines of white between paragraphs. There were 2 long paragraphs that might have been further broken, but what bothered me was not the length of paragraphs, but the general incomprehensibility. Mystery abbreviations (WU?), garbled syntax, run-on sentence, sentence fragments, the list goes on. > > Lots of people call themselves writers these days. They may write clever Facebook posts or telling tweets, but they aren’t professional writers, and I can’t see anyone paying for writing of this caliber. You know, shortly after I made that post I was actually thinking of a followup post to note that the paragraph thing can happen if the text is prepared in an editor like Wordpad which, by default, displays white space between paragraphs presumed to be defined by line breaks but which doesn’t actually insert physical white space between them. But then I thought better of it, because the product excreted by this particular “writer” is, as you correctly point out, basically incoherent garbage. And after all, the poster even went back later to do some edits, and could not have helped but notice the obvious wall-o-text, which apparently struck this particular poster as the epitome of fine writing. In ridiculing incoherent garbage, my preference is to give priority to humor rather than strict technical accuracy. 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4271 "2017-11-08T00:52:29Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > You know, shortly after I made that post I was actually thinking of a followup post to note that the paragraph thing can happen if the text is prepared in an editor like Wordpad which, by default, displays white space between paragraphs presumed to be defined by line breaks but which doesn’t actually insert physical white space between them. But then I thought better of it, because the product excreted by this particular “writer” is, as you correctly point out, basically incoherent garbage. > > And after all, the poster even went back later to do some edits, and could not have helped but notice the obvious wall-o-text, which apparently struck this particular poster as the epitome of fine writing. In ridiculing incoherent garbage, my preference is to give priority to humor rather than strict technical accuracy. 🙂 It certainly had entertainment value beyond the typical wall-o-text newbie OP. I didn’t make it through the whole thing, but I think you pretty accurately described it in your initial assessment. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4272 "2017-11-08T11:45:00Z")
That makes me think of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20586089&postcount=63) post. Forget the sentiment of the post. Forget that it bumps a 5-year-old thread. Look at those sentences. They seem to just meander around between the initial capital and the period at the end. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4273 "2017-11-08T11:58:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Holy Christ, so it is! I see that now, on my PC. > > Note to self: Comic Sans on an iPhone shows up as Times New Roman. Which just means that iPhones don’t bother installing Comic Sans at all (despite them being one of the Microsoft “Core” websafe fonts). I guess they just hate it that much? It doesn’t help that this site uses HTML 4, and so doesn’t have fallback fonts. So it’s either the font you chose or the default font for your device. Nothing in between. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4274 "2017-11-08T14:14:16Z")
Should I rat out this guy who [ate a Chick-Fil-A?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=841197) I’d blackmail the creep! (A well composed post, with paragraphs and everything. We’re attracting a better breed these days!) ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4275 "2017-11-08T14:15:41Z")
(posted a minute too slow.) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4276 "2017-11-08T14:23:52Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Which just means that iPhones don’t bother installing Comic Sans at all (despite them being one of the Microsoft “Core” websafe fonts). I guess they just hate it that much? > > It doesn’t help that this site uses HTML 4, and so doesn’t have fallback fonts. So it’s either the font you chose or the default font for your device. Nothing in between. My Android is also not displaying the Comic Sans… Weird. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4277 "2017-11-08T14:29:55Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > (posted a minute too slow.) If you hadn’t been eating that chick-fil-a sandwich, you would’ve beaten me! The guys is now doubling down on his blistering expose of the sad tale of the SJW and the Chick-Fil-A lover. It’s like Romeo and Juliet, set in White Trash America! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4278 "2017-11-08T14:34:19Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > **My Android is also not displaying the Comic Sans… Weird.** This post has been sanned by the Comedian! ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4279 "2017-11-08T15:28:34Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Should I rat out this guy who [ate a Chick-Fil-A?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=841197) > > I’d blackmail the creep! (A well composed post, with paragraphs and everything. We’re attracting a better breed these days!) What a bummer to see two posters get baited into rule violations by Obvious Internet Troll. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4280 "2017-11-08T15:49:19Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The guys is now doubling down on his blistering expose of the sad tale of the SJW and the Chick-Fil-A lover. It’s like Romeo and Juliet, set in White Trash America! Unlike my pet troll, who was a one-post wonder and likely will never be seen again, yours has already come back to regale us with further commentary about the Chick-Fil-A scandal. So there’s a good chance that this may become an ongoing saga, “The Blackmail of Henry, or, the Chick-Fil-A of Doom”. When Henry and his girlfriend break up over the Chick-Fil-A incident, it ultimately turns into a hard-hitting real-life drama of fiery passions and brutal vengeance in the food courts of America. The fact that Henry was so enjoying the homophobic chicken sandwich that he was licking his fingers will figure prominently in the resulting bloodshed. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4281 "2017-11-08T15:58:22Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Unlike my pet troll, who was a one-post wonder and likely will never be seen again, yours has already come back to regale us with further commentary about the Chick-Fil-A scandal. So there’s a good chance that this may become an ongoing saga, “The Blackmail of Henry, or, the Chick-Fil-A of Doom”. When Henry and his girlfriend break up over the Chick-Fil-A incident, it ultimately turns into a hard-hitting real-life drama of fiery passions and brutal vengeance in the food courts of America. The fact that Henry was so enjoying the homophobic chicken sandwich that he was licking his fingers will figure prominently in the resulting bloodshed. If I’ve never mentioned this before, you have a real talent for writing. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![WilyQuixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WilyQuixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilyQuixote)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4282 "2017-11-08T16:03:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If you hadn’t been eating that chick-fil-a sandwich, you would’ve beaten me! > > The guys is now doubling down on his blistering expose of the sad tale of the SJW and the Chick-Fil-A lover. It’s like Romeo and Juliet, set in White Trash America! No doubt it totally-happened-for-realz-you-guys, just like the frog pyjamas incident. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/4283 "2017-11-08T16:19:03Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If I’ve never mentioned this before, you have a real talent for writing. Bravo! I agree completely. And I would add that Wolfpup has clear and concise way of getting to the nuts and bolts of a problem. You too John Mace. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=213) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=215)