# 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:** 49
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/961 "2017-03-28T08:15:16Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Pretty annoyed with\*\* Urbanredneck\*\*'s [drive by bullshit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20096327&postcount=682). > > Dude [never makes a lick of sense](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=822593), puts zero thought into his posts, and never comes back to explain what the fuck he’s talking about. Evidence indicates that is due to a bad case of Dunning-Kruger though, not a desire to troll. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/962 "2017-03-28T13:25:57Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Evidence indicates that is due to a bad case of Dunning-Kruger though, not a desire to troll. Comes a point where it becomes a distinction without a difference. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/963 "2017-03-28T19:13:12Z")
I was planning to stop by and mention **4kad** ’s annoying bus driver thread. Apparently, he’s been banned and the thread is in the cornfield. Is it just me or are the mods a bit quicker off the trigger right now? Not complaining, mind you. Quite the contrary. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/964 "2017-03-28T19:24:05Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I was planning to stop by and mention **4kad** ’s annoying bus driver thread. Apparently, he’s been banned and the thread is in the cornfield. > > Is it just me or are the mods a bit quicker off the trigger right now? > > Not complaining, mind you. Quite the contrary. I’m guessing they’ve become quite good are recognizing familiar IP addresses. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/965 "2017-03-28T20:15:50Z")
Characteristic behaviors can be even more useful. You can change your name, and you can change your IP, but you can’t change who you are. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/966 "2017-03-28T20:28:58Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Comes a point where it becomes a distinction without a difference. Eh, really depends on what you like to talk about. If someone is really dumb, but just likes to chat about mundane things and isn’t confrontational, that’s no big deal. Dumb and wants to argue, sure that might be hard to distinguish from trolling. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/967 "2017-03-28T23:09:04Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Evidence indicates that is due to a bad case of Dunning-Kruger though, not a desire to troll. Slight temporary hijack from talking about our trolls: [QUOTE=Wikipedia] The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. [/QUOTE] How long before this name is changed, or at least added to, to honor 45? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/968 "2017-03-29T23:02:04Z")
Has CosmicManiac been mentioned yet? Citing a Spiderman super-villain as your authority on gender relations–repeatedly–has got to be trolling. ---
**Author:** ![CosmicManiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CosmicManiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CosmicManiac)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/969 "2017-03-29T23:09:13Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Has CosmicManiac been mentioned yet? Citing a Spiderman super-villain as your authority on gender relations–repeatedly–has got to be trolling. I was only citing him as a form of words of wisdom, which yes, can come from fictional works. I never said I agreed with all of Osborn’s antics. Furthermore, I also cited my experience watching real-life documentaries about drug abusers and their families, and as such know how they generally act. The thread wasn’t merely about “gender relations”, it was about a man with a cocaine-addled girlfriend who is probably coming close to eventually stealing from him to fuel her drug habit. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/970 "2017-03-29T23:11:20Z")
> [@CosmicManiac](#): > > I was only citing him as a form of words of wisdom, which yes, can come from fictional works. I never said I agreed with all of Osborn’s antics. Furthermore, I also cited my experience watching real-life documentaries about drug abusers and their families, and as such know how they generally act. The thread wasn’t merely about “gender relations”, it was about a man with a cocaine-addled girlfriend who is probably coming close to eventually stealing from him to fuel her drug habit. Again, you are calling the reality tv series _intervention_ a documentary? ---
**Author:** ![CosmicManiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CosmicManiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CosmicManiac)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/971 "2017-03-29T23:16:10Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Again, you are calling the reality tv series _intervention_ a documentary? If you don’t consider it legitimate, I’m happy to tell you I’ve watched many more documentaries than that on this subject, including a really fantastic and heartbreaking one that came out last year called _Chasing the Dragon_. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/972 "2017-03-29T23:22:57Z")
> [@CosmicManiac](#): > > If you don’t consider it legitimate, I’m happy to tell you I’ve watched many more documentaries than that on this subject, including a really fantastic and heartbreaking one that came out last year called _Chasing the Dragon_. How many documentaries have you seen where a casual drug user keeps there life together and/or eventually outgrows it? ---
**Author:** ![CosmicManiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CosmicManiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CosmicManiac)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/973 "2017-03-29T23:27:49Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > How many documentaries have you seen where a casual drug user keeps there life together and/or eventually outgrows it? Some, but there were in the extreme minority of cases ---
**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:** [March 29, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/974 "2017-03-29T23:29:43Z")
> [@CosmicManiac](#): > > Some, but there were in the extreme minority of cases Because there is no story there. Why do you only hear about the worst of the worst car crashes on the news and not all the fender benders? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/975 "2017-03-30T01:33:20Z")
> [@CosmicManiac](#): > > I was only citing him as a form of words of wisdom, which yes, can come from fictional works. I never said I agreed with all of Osborn’s antics. Furthermore, I also cited my experience watching real-life documentaries about drug abusers and their families, and as such know how they generally act. The thread wasn’t merely about “gender relations”, it was about a man with a cocaine-addled girlfriend who is probably coming close to eventually stealing from him to fuel her drug habit. You are ill informed, nor have you lived. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/976 "2017-03-31T02:58:41Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Has CosmicManiac been mentioned yet? Citing a Spiderman super-villain as your authority on gender relations–repeatedly–has got to be trolling. He’s banned. There’s no doubt whatsoever in my mind that he was **ckalli1998**. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/977 "2017-03-31T03:03:50Z")
Seems plausible. I had to go back and refresh my memory as to which of the many trolls he was, but, yeah, he fits. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/978 "2017-03-31T19:16:19Z")
Which forum has the “Poster X was banned for reason Y” announcements again? I’ve seen them linked to for some of our late posters. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/979 "2017-03-31T19:22:22Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Which forum has the “Poster X was banned for reason Y” announcements again? I’ve seen them linked to for some of our late posters. I searched, but there is no poster **X**. > [@](#): > > The following errors occurred with your search: > Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/980 "2017-03-31T19:23:33Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Which forum has the “Poster X was banned for reason Y” announcements again? I’ve seen them linked to for some of our late posters. ATMB. > [@Kayaker](#): > > I searched, but there is no poster X. I’m pretty sure there’s some whooshing going on here; the only question is in which direction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=50)