# 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:** 342
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6824 "2018-02-16T17:21:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It would be kind of interesting to create an inverse sock, where several regular posters have the password to the account and pass the sock around. You would have to watch for the green dot to go out, because, what would happen if two people tried to log in to the same account at once. Clusterhood of the traveling sock? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6825 "2018-02-16T18:19:07Z")
If the mods ever caught on, though, the participants would be hosed. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6826 "2018-02-16T18:21:11Z")
Run!! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6827 "2018-02-16T18:25:05Z")
I hereby deny that I ever had any knowledge that Morgenstern was a group sock, that I had the password or that I ever signed into that sock account. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6828 "2018-02-16T18:29:52Z")
The account never should have been named “ **The Darner** ”. Just too obvious. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6829 "2018-02-16T18:49:15Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It would be kind of interesting to create an inverse sock, where several regular posters have the password to the account and pass the sock around. You would have to watch for the green dot to go out, because, what would happen if two people tried to log in to the same account at once. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > Clusterhood of the traveling sock? Clusterfuck of the traveling sock. FTFY. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6830 "2018-02-16T20:25:36Z")
I wonder if every board has a Fotheringay-Phipps? My other board has his posting twin, circular logic and haughty astonishment when no one else can follow it. Never gets discouraged, just keeps coming back and pointing in the wrong direction. What annoying pricks they all are. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6831 "2018-02-16T20:49:49Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > But the buzzards keep flocking in hoping for a meal. > > We need a real troll , a troll with sexual performance problems and an unwilling wife who prefers her battery operated boyfriend (BOB) to him. > > That’s be good shit right there. This is BOB. BOB is [_brzzt!_] feeling well! ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6832 "2018-02-16T20:53:21Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > I wonder if every board has a Fotheringay-Phipps? My other board has his posting twin, circular logic and haughty astonishment when no one else can follow it. Never gets discouraged, just keeps coming back and pointing in the wrong direction. What annoying pricks they all are. Every forum in the USA hates their stupid poster.[He’s Phipps and he’s really, really lame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDARzui4zPg). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6833 "2018-02-16T21:43:16Z")
What up with Steven Estes? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6834 "2018-02-16T21:49:30Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What up with Steven Estes? [del]Thread please?[/del] Nevermind, found it. GQ. I’m guessing Middle School. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6835 "2018-02-16T21:54:37Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What up with Steven Estes? Looks like he’s been on a break since 2009. Guess he saved up a lot of questions. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6836 "2018-02-16T21:55:35Z")
Yeah, that’s 4 new threads in GQ today. 16 total posts in 13 years, all starting new threads, never replies to anything. Before today, last activity in 2009. That’s another one for the “weird pattern” column. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6837 "2018-02-16T21:56:35Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > [del]Thread please?[/del] > > Nevermind, found it. GQ. I’m guessing Middle School. Since he joined in 2001, he’s at least 30. Asking four questions in GQ on the same day makes someone a troll now? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6838 "2018-02-16T22:00:17Z")
Actually, his first post was in 2005, but he joined in 2001. The system can’t even give an accurate “posts per day” and says 0.00. Luckily, I have a date calculator on my phone so I can easily see that it is 5,999 days since he joined, for an average (at the moment I posted this) of 0.00266711118519753292215369228205 posts per day. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6839 "2018-02-16T22:14:03Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > 16 total posts in 13 years, all starting new threads, never replies to anything. Not correct. Five of his posts have been either replies to his own threads or posts in other threads. Decidedly an odd posting pattern, but by no stretch of the imagination a troll. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6840 "2018-02-16T22:17:57Z")
I’m not doxxing him, since he gave his full name and discussed his book in one of his threads. But this appears to be the guy (unless it’s someone posing as him): > [@](#): > > [Steven Goldberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Goldberg) (born 14 October 1941) is a native of New York City and was president of the sociology department at City College of New York (CCNY) from 1988 until his retirement. He is most widely known for his theory of patriarchy, which attempts to explain male domination through biological causes. Yup, middle school for sure. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6841 "2018-02-16T22:25:40Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It would be kind of interesting to create an inverse sock, where several regular posters have the password to the account and pass the sock around. You would have to watch for the green dot to go out, because, what would happen if two people tried to log in to the same account at once. I got the impression that something of this kind had already happend, either on this board or on AOL, back in '99. When I was a newbie, I’d occasionally come across a post where someone would reference LOVEROCK in a sly, knowing manner. I made some half-hearted inquiries, but the impressions I came away with were that LOVEROCK was some kind of multi-user sock, and that nobody felt that the affair was either admirable/clever or interesting enough to discuss in detail. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6842 "2018-02-16T22:54:39Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I got the impression that something of this kind had already happend, either on this board or on AOL, back in '99. When I was a newbie, I’d occasionally come across a post where someone would reference LOVEROCK in a sly, knowing manner. I made some half-hearted inquiries, but the impressions I came away with were that LOVEROCK was some kind of multi-user sock, and that nobody felt that the affair was either admirable/clever or interesting enough to discuss in detail. Well, [that](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=2793) was not fun to read about. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6843 "2018-02-16T23:12:02Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’m not doxxing him, since he gave his full name and discussed his book in one of his threads. But this appears to be the guy (unless it’s someone posing as him): > > Yup, middle school for sure. So he’s some retired professor running a sociology test on our board? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=341) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=343)