# 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:** 305
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6084 "2018-01-15T19:49:36Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > Actually, it’s always been my assumption that he works for the Republican part in some capacity or other. “Unwittingly.” ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6085 "2018-01-15T20:30:38Z")
> [@naita](#): > > As someone who does think this thread and its application of the term “troll” has drifted too far from the original intent/meaning of both, I must say that your whining here about the correct definition and usage of “troll” is rather tedious. How 'bout you go shout at 4chan-ers that their “memes” aren’t adhering to Richard Dawkins original definition instead? Original meaning? I am criticizing - and why not it is the fucking Pit and why not waste some time - the stupid idiocy of a certain set of the left posters here who rush into this thread to whine about some right wing person being a Troll just because they have made some post that these crybabies find annoying or irritating. It is very much like the stupid complaining about bias that certain of the right wing posters love to do here. it is a stupid whiny habit and worth a moment every nine months to mock it. > [@Chimera](#): > > Yeah, of course. It’s idiotic and makes me a moron to assume that when someone with whom I am unfamiliar jumps in to defend a hysterically hypocritical hyper-partisan like Adaher, that they’re of the same ilk. :rolleyes: I did not defend Adaher at all idiot. I only said applying the word troll to him was stupid and not warrented. I made no defense at all of him. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6086 "2018-01-15T20:54:57Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > I did not defend Adaher at all idiot. I only said applying the word troll to him was stupid and not warrented. I made no defense at all of him. And I didn’t call him a troll, moron. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6087 "2018-01-15T20:57:57Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > Original meaning? > > I am criticizing - and why not it is the fucking Pit and why not waste some time - the stupid idiocy of a certain set of the left posters here who rush into this thread to whine about some right wing person being a Troll just because they have made some post that these crybabies find annoying or irritating. > > … If someone is forcing you to come here and read anything, then I suggest you call your local authorities and report the same. If you’re reading here without such coercion, then you’re the problem, not the thread. If you’re pissed because our troll game isn’t according to Hoyle, then that’s just really too effing bad. ETA, as the Chinese say; “mei ban fa.” ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6088 "2018-01-15T21:45:16Z")
If someone is forcing you to read and reply to my little time wasting in this thread, then I suggest you in fact call your authorities… otherwise it is fun to continue to point out how silly crybaby some of the accusations are ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6089 "2018-01-15T21:49:54Z")
Is it time for recipes? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6090 "2018-01-15T21:52:09Z")
Careful, you’re painting yourself into that right-wing-snowflake corner. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6091 "2018-01-15T22:06:54Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > You are a moron. Differences of opinion are not trolling. That is not a difference of opinion. That is deliberately eliciting negative reactions for the purpose of entertaining himself, which is what trolls do. Prior to that thread, he had started six in the Pit since 19 December 2016 and five of those turned against him. Putting that in the pit rather than IMHO is either monumentally stupid or he wanted it to backfire. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6092 "2018-01-16T01:04:23Z")
Holy Crap, dougie\_monty sure had a quick meltdown and got banned for his trouble. :eek: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20725571#post20725571](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20725571#post20725571) I don’t mean this as an insult and I don’t actually know anything about him personally, but it makes me wonder if he was ‘off his meds’ at the time. :o That whole turn and his comments are a whole lot of _WTF???_ ---
**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:** [January 16, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6093 "2018-01-16T01:14:27Z")
He should have known better than to go menacing legal action like that. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6094 "2018-01-16T01:16:46Z")
He had a few warnings in the past for threatening people after taking innocuous comments very personally. That latest outburst wasn’t his first mini-meltdown, it just unfortunately was the first where he pulled out the insta-ban legal threat. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6095 "2018-01-16T01:17:45Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > He should have known better than to go menacing legal action like that. Yeah, right? a 99er and 10k posts and poof! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6096 "2018-01-16T01:33:18Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > He had a few warnings in the past for threatening people after taking innocuous comments very personally. That latest outburst wasn’t his first mini-meltdown, it just unfortunately was the first where he pulled out the insta-ban legal threat. And none too soon. After that, “How DARE you?”, I was expecting a challenge to pistols at dawn. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6097 "2018-01-16T01:36:41Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > And none too soon. After that, “How DARE you?”, I was expecting a challenge to pistols at dawn. Funny isn’t it. Threatening to shoot someone will get you warned, but threaten to sue that person and it’s the death sentence for you. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6098 "2018-01-16T01:44:03Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Funny isn’t it. Threatening to shoot someone will get you warned, but threaten to sue that person and it’s the death sentence for you. It isn’t threatening to sue someone else. Threatening legal action against the Straight Dope is an insta-ban. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6099 "2018-01-16T01:46:47Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > It isn’t threatening to sue someone else. > > Threatening legal action against the Straight Dope is an insta-ban. Per **ECG’s** announcement in ATMB, threatening legal action of any kind will get you banned. It doesn’t have to be against the SD directly. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6100 "2018-01-16T01:57:36Z")
Ah, makes sense. You go around threatening to sue people on the board, it becomes problematic for the company that owns the board. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6101 "2018-01-16T02:52:15Z")
I still maintain that no functioning human could ever be as dumb as dougie portrayed himself to be. I’m not surprised that he was banned for something dumb. I think that was dougie’s goal. Although why he would want that is a mystery. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6102 "2018-01-16T03:02:11Z")
No, Dougie, whyyyyy? Don’t you realize how much entertainment your quirks gave us? I can’t tell you how many nights, before hitting the sack, I’d check to see if you’d had another “misunderstanding”. I’m a titch ‘on the spectrum’, and you made me feel part of a whole crowd. Especially when you’d interpret a work of fiction as real life, and get furious at the characters for flouting authority in a movie (wasn’t it Marty McFly that you were mad at for skateboarding behind a truck because he was putting the stuntman’s life in danger?). Ah, here it is – a whole thread of [what you object to](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=47127). Post 26 is an excellent view into your movie morality. In fact, you’d been so good lately, only posting factual “GQ” questions, that I’d despaired of ever witnessing your epic frustrations again. SO sad that this one was your last… I’d take all my amusement back if only you were here again. Miss you already, **dougie** … ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6103 "2018-01-16T04:46:27Z")
That _was_ a bizarre way for a long-time Doper to exit stage left. I wonder if that fifty-something ex-cute-kid dude out near Fresno will ever find out how his cousin sacrificed so much to preserve his (the Fresno guy’s) honor and dignity among a crowd who couldn’t give a fig one way or the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=304) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=306)