# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3825
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3825 "2017-10-05T20:31:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I gotta say you folks really have a hard on for **Beckdawrek**. An IMO completely unjustified one. In a couple of posts I saw she used ellipses to signify a dramatic pause or groping for a word. Most of us to that device now and again. Including me. I don’t read every forum, so she may be (or have been) throwing around more ellipses than I’m aware of. There’s been no pile-on, it’s kind of an issue she has created. She pretty much exclusively used ellipses instead of periods everywhere, and the **watchwolf** -like post below is the first one that drew a response. > [@Put her back in the closet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-her-back-in-the-closet/796858/58): > > I want ot ask this gently, because I believe these people may do the right thing for their exploring/questioning dau/son…Has anybody with teens noticed there are more LGBTQ kids than there used to be…or were they just on the down low and hidden (in the closet)…my 18yr old has probably 4 friends that have LGBTQ ,I don’t really know what to call it…maybe …lifestyles. I 've met them all …nice kids. I feel for them though…all have family problems stemming from these differing lifestyles… One is her best friend since grade school…he came out to us first. I encouraged him to talk to his mom.It went really bad…he moved in with grandparents…mom now hates me… (another story)…he is fully living as a male now…but as I say…I was just wondering is it more out now or are there more kids identifying as different from their sex at birth? To which Leaffan responded politely: > [@Put her back in the closet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-her-back-in-the-closet/796858/62): > > \ > (And could you please stop with the … and just punctuate correctly? A single period and capital letters for the next sentence perhaps?) She thanked him for the feedback and said she’d try, but then asked why she should stop. And more people responded politely (including you, **LSLGuy** ). > [@Put her back in the closet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-her-back-in-the-closet/796858/65): > > They’re annoying and make your posts hard to read. > [@Put her back in the closet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-her-back-in-the-closet/796858/69): > > Ditto what Leaffan said. The dots make your posts hard to read, and give your writing less weight. Effective writing needs thought put into the mechanics as well as the ideas. And you seem to have good ideas, so you should make the most of the delivery. > [@Put her back in the closet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-her-back-in-the-closet/796858/75): > > With all due respect, it suggests you are a very slow thinker. It’s the equivalent of saying “uhhhhh…” a lot in conversation. It makes your posts be taken less seriously. If that’s what you want, go ahead, but there’s no good reason to include ellipses after every sentence in written conversation. And that would have been the end of it, but she has since complained about how she was “beaten up” over ellipses in a dozen other threads. New poster welcome thread? She chimes in to watch out for jerks that complain about grammar. Someone mentions an insult? She tells us about the time she was insulted for using ellipses. Totally unrelated thread? She still finds a way to mention the damn ellipses. It’s not other posters raising the issue, it’s her. I like **Beckdawreck**. She has posted good comments in a number of threads, and we need more new posters like her. But geez, drop it already. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489)._