# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489>\
**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")\
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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> She could have been lurking and finally worked up the courage to post. I read the thread and didn’t get any sense she was trying to provoke.

Did you read the last paragraph in the linked post?

> [@Would A Conservative and/or Trump Supporter Rationally Explain This?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-conservative-and-or-trump-supporter-rationally-explain-this/850702/215):
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> I’m kind of sorry that no one took the bait to crush me, what fun it would have been!, but it does shed new light on an old prejudice _I_ confess to: that, as a group, Democrats are incorrigibly mean-spirited and spiteful. Everyone has been really nice to me here, considering I’m a Republican. Maybe it would be possible to have dinner together without one of us leaping across the table with a knife, or even getting agita.

Baiting people for fun is pretty much the SDMB’s definition of “trolling”.

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