# 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:** 470
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9389 "2019-02-22T04:51:29Z")
Darn Colibri! That was a masterful redirection from your hypocritical sanctimony. Have fun with your snipe hunt but please don’t pretend this is a virtuous thread. ---
**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 22, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9390 "2019-02-22T04:55:38Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Does ignore keep you from seeing quoted posts? I didn’t think it worked that way… If EVERYBODY puts him on Ignore, nobody will BE quoting him. These sending people to Coventry initiatives don’t tend to work out anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9391 "2019-02-25T10:38:57Z")
But if I put **octopus** on Ignore, who will give me my daily dose of “It’s terrible how liberals keep calling conservatives racist, sexist and homophobic just because they keep saying and doing racist, sexist and homophobic things - surely straight white men are the best arbiters for deciding what is racist, sexist and/or homophobic!” shtick? I’ve come to rely on it like a big fluffy cholera-ridden security blanket. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9392 "2019-02-25T13:49:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > But if I put **octopus** on Ignore, who will give me my daily dose of “It’s terrible how liberals keep calling conservatives racist, sexist and homophobic just because they keep saying and doing racist, sexist and homophobic things - surely straight white men are the best arbiters for deciding what is racist, sexist and/or homophobic!” shtick? I’ve come to rely on it like a big fluffy cholera-ridden security blanket. \ Smallpox. It was smallpox blankets. Cholera you get from drinking water. \ ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9393 "2019-02-25T14:11:06Z")
Yeah well what if your drink the blankets, smart guy? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9394 "2019-02-25T14:13:19Z")
Like blankets can’t get wet. :rolleyes: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9395 "2019-02-25T14:23:28Z")
Speaking of wet blankets… ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9396 "2019-02-25T16:46:44Z")
\*\*octopus \*\*at least gives us more insight on how his side thinks. When a lot of posters complain about something Trump said or did, normally forum readers think “Gosh, a lot of people don’t like what Trump said or did.” \*\*octopus \*\*thinks “Gosh, all these liberals must be getting together at a word factory somewhere and generating all these anti-Trump responses to distribute to their unquestioning drones. Surely nobody normal thinks that way.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9397 "2019-02-25T17:23:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If EVERYBODY puts him on Ignore, nobody will BE quoting him. > > These sending people to Coventry initiatives don’t tend to work out anyway… I go one step further, I put every poster that quotes some of our more toxic brethren or other assorted idjots on ignore. A “Cordon Sanitaire” if you like:) People really should know better than to argue with the village idiots. If you are arguing with one of those folks you really are posting to “hear” your own voice. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9398 "2019-02-25T17:27:26Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > I go one step further, I put every poster that quotes some of our more toxic brethren or other assorted idjots on ignore. … I like the extremity of the cut of your jib. ---
**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 25, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9399 "2019-02-25T17:35:29Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > \*\*octopus \*\*at least gives us more insight on how his side thinks. However, he seems to think that rather than this being a thread to identify trolls, this is a place for trolls like himself to post. Not content to troll every other thread in the Pit, he has to infest this one as well. He simply can’t get enough negative attention. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9400 "2019-02-25T18:11:42Z")
New poster **SIick** is totally not a moon landing denialist. [He just has some questions.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871390) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9401 "2019-02-25T18:53:51Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I like the extremity of the cut of your jib. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824576](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824576) This thread inspired it. Anyone posting there after page 3 is a tedious wanker or a racist. I use page 20 as a hard cut off. I use it to update my ignore list every time I think “what are all those pompous morons doing here?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9402 "2019-02-25T19:17:37Z")
Frankly I was amazed that anyone listened to a podcast lasting more than two hours, let alone that he managed to get over 2,400 replies to the thread. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9403 "2019-02-25T22:21:54Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > However, he seems to think that rather than this being a thread to identify trolls, this is a place for trolls like himself to post. Not content to troll every other thread in the Pit, he has to infest this one as well. He simply can’t get enough negative attention. How did a dishonest fool like you ever get a position of authority? You have compromising photos of the former man? ---
**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 25, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9404 "2019-02-25T22:51:40Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > However, he seems to think that rather than this being a thread to identify trolls, this is a place for trolls like himself to post. Not content to troll every other thread in the Pit, he has to infest this one as well. He simply can’t get enough negative attention. Yup. Still trolling away, ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9405 "2019-02-25T22:54:35Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > How did a dishonest fool like you ever get a position of authority? Seems like a strange thing for a Republican to be surprised about. ---
**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 26, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9406 "2019-02-26T03:08:13Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Seems like a strange thing for a Republican to be surprised about. His definition of honesty appears to be “_saying things that I find appealing_”. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9407 "2019-02-26T04:09:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Yup. Still trolling away, If you, as a moderator, are convinced that he’s a troll, then why is he not banned? ---
**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 26, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9408 "2019-02-26T04:34:41Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > If you, as a moderator, are convinced that he’s a troll, then why is he not banned? Because a degree of trolling is permitted in the Pit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=469) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=471)