# 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:** 296
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5904 "2018-01-07T18:59:39Z")
Fair enough. I’ll be less oblique in the future. Speaking of which, it appears that [**SamuelA** has socked himself, as Vinyasi](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846292). Sample quote: > [@Is it possible to build a machine that generates more power than it uses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-build-a-machine-that-generates-more-power-than-it-uses/805975/8): > > This is the other side of the story of electrodynamic theory left out of our view of the situation: that intelligence is just as significant as is energy (and energy’s equivalent version as matter). This is why I prefer to analyze electrical dynamics in terms of wave mechanics rather than ‘energy IN has to equal energy OUT’. For without energy, intelligence would have nothing to embody itself within. And without intelligence, energy would be a non-functional blob - very amorphous and not at all useful. This is analogous to my trying to make babies all on my own without the help of a woman contributing what I alone do not possess: the entire package of generation of life within my body. There are a bajillion quotes to pick from on that thread, but this one tickled my fancy. Credit to **Cochrane** for [noticing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20707446&postcount=618), with assist from **Morgenstern**. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5905 "2018-01-07T19:12:16Z")
Some socks are clever and cover their tracks. Others not so clever. In Sammy’s case his writing style is so unique, almost DNA unique, that his cover is blown as soon as he posts. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5906 "2018-01-07T19:17:31Z")
I don’t need a bajillion quotes. I need a few specific matches, not general similarities in subject matter. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5907 "2018-01-07T19:49:04Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As I’ve said before, this thread is very helpful to me personally in detecting socks. If you’re not interested helping out, there’s no need to threadshit. My interchange with Morgenstern had to do with him gratuitously insulting **naita** , comparing that poster’s logic with **SamuelA** ’s troll-type logic. By inference, insulting **naita** for not having the same depth of understanding of troll etc. behavior as he himself does. With that background, I think your characterization of threadshitting is an exaggeration. I am not, in fact, interested in the use that you, as a moderator, make of this thread. This thread may or may not be useful to you, but it was not made for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5908 "2018-01-07T20:23:05Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > … I am not, in fact, interested in the use that you, as a moderator, make of this thread. This thread may or may not be useful to you, but it was not made for that purpose. Add clueless to neurotic little twit and you get a clueless neurotic little twit. I’ll bet you’ll never make **SamuelA** ignore list. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5909 "2018-01-07T20:47:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I don’t need a bajillion quotes. I need a few specific matches, not general similarities in subject matter. Best to PM me if you have them rather than posting them here. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5910 "2018-01-07T21:44:29Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Femme Jene (or however he spelled it.) I’ve been working with the understanding that “femme” rhymes with “bomb.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5911 "2018-01-07T22:12:23Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’ve been working with the understanding that “femme” rhymes with “bomb.” Is that an alternative pronunciation I’m not familiar with? I always think, like, Violent Femmes. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5912 "2018-01-07T22:18:28Z")
Yeah, or like “femme fatale”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5913 "2018-01-07T22:21:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’ve been working with the understanding that “femme” rhymes with “bomb.” If it’s badly pronounced in French, it could sound vaguely like the British pronunciation of bomb. But femme and bomb don’t rhyme in American English. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5914 "2018-01-07T22:22:59Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It is my personal policy not to comment on whether I think someone is a sock or troll. **I’m not going to make that claim without hard evidence.** What fun is that? 😛 I’ve given trocks the benefit of the doubt publicly and then they end up PMing me. Then I wise up, forward to a mod, and they get banned. It’s happened a couple times. It’s quite satisfying! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5915 "2018-01-07T23:20:25Z")
Shaggy is bumping his thread again. Pathetic attention seeking creature needs ignored. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5916 "2018-01-07T23:50:00Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > What fun is that? 😛 > > I’ve given trocks the benefit of the doubt publicly and then they end up PMing me. Then I wise up, forward to a mod, and they get banned. It’s happened a couple times. It’s quite satisfying! For one thing, I’m pretty naive. Call it a character flaw. It usually takes me a while to catch on to someone pulling one over. I have some embarrassing stories about this. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5917 "2018-01-08T00:04:48Z")
He may not, strictly speaking, be a troll, but Quartz definitely qualifies as a tool: > [@Election decided by lot and a sore loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-decided-by-lot-and-a-sore-loser/806071/1): > > An election in Virginia was tied so the results was decided by [drawing lots](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/42571600/an-unusual-way-to-decide-an-election-in-virginia) from a bowl (BBC video). The loser behaved very poorly. I don’t know why these assholes just have to go way out of their way to bear false witness and completely evade the main point in question (that the crucial ballot should have been tossed due to illegibility, much less that she was being any sort of “sore loser” in the video), but they do it again, and again, and again. Maybe we need a separate omnibus thread for tools and jerks… ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5918 "2018-01-08T00:11:57Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > He may not, strictly speaking, be a troll, but Quartz definitely qualifies as a tool: > > I don’t know why these assholes just have to go way out of their way to bear false witness and completely evade the main point in question (that the crucial ballot should have been tossed due to illegibility, much less that she was being any sort of “sore loser” in the video), but they do it again, and again, and again. > > Maybe we need a separate omnibus thread for tools and jerks… Possibly the “Blindly Partisan” or “Kool-Aid Addict” thread? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5919 "2018-01-08T00:18:05Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Shaggy is bumping his thread again. Pathetic attention seeking creature needs ignored. But it’s working! Major updates from the track … **Shagnasty** “Misogynistic Prick” is surging far ahead in his pitting thread with 1314 posts. His jockey has him well on the bridle and the gelding Misogynistic Prick is trotting home to a sure win. **SamuelA** “Bloviating Moron” was doing well at 630 posts until he sprained a fetlock and had to be led limping off the track, dashing the hopes of those who had bet on Bloviating Moron to place or show. Rumor has it that Bloviating Moron’s racing career is finished and he will be put out to pasture, or possibly the cornfield. **Urbanredneck** “Trifecta of Ignorance” at 76 posts has hardly moved. Trifecta of Ignorance periodically ambles over to the side of the track at a walking gait and goes to sleep, rendering further participation in this race hopeless. Those with bets on Misogynistic Prick to win, place, or show appear to be well positioned to collect handsomely, as the odds never had him as a favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5920 "2018-01-08T00:55:04Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > … > > Maybe we need a separate omnibus thread for tools and jerks… No one would know where to put a post. Is he a jerk or a troll? I don’t think it would work. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5921 "2018-01-08T01:15:23Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > No one would know where to put a post. Is he a jerk or a troll? I don’t think it would work. New posters go in troll until proven otherwise. Established posters go in jerk/tool. Though I can think of a few that could be both/either. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5922 "2018-01-08T01:22:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > But it’s working! Major updates from the track … > > **Shagnasty** “Misogynistic Prick” is surging far ahead in his pitting thread with 1314 posts. His jockey has him well on the bridle and the gelding Misogynistic Prick is trotting home to a sure win. > > **SamuelA** “Bloviating Moron” was doing well at 630 posts until he sprained a fetlock and had to be led limping off the track, dashing the hopes of those who had bet on Bloviating Moron to place or show. Rumor has it that Bloviating Moron’s racing career is finished and he will be put out to pasture, or possibly the cornfield. > > **Urbanredneck** “Trifecta of Ignorance” at 76 posts has hardly moved. Trifecta of Ignorance periodically ambles over to the side of the track at a walking gait and goes to sleep, rendering further participation in this race hopeless. > > Those with bets on Misogynistic Prick to win, place, or show appear to be well positioned to collect handsomely, as the odds never had him as a favorite. I laughed twice! ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5923 "2018-01-08T01:53:18Z")
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