What about this twerp, who made his appearance with this bit of inanity and continued inanity in that thread, mostly with plagiarism? You have to congratulate him on this bit of tap dancing He’s still getting is derriere handed to him fairly often though. I’m wondering if he’s going to break the 100 posts a day barrier, though. Right now he’s just approaching 80. But, hey, if you don’t have to write your own material, I guess no goal is hard to reach, hey, Trumpy?
Are you sure you’re in the right thread? This is a thread about trolls. ckalli, at least from the posts you cited, appears to be exactly as he represents himself and I find nothing, at least in these posts, that indicates that he does not honestly believe what he is posting.
Troll? Not by my definition. Thanks for playing, though.
Trolls can honestly believe what they are posting. The distinguishing feature is that they are posting mainly to get a rise out of people. From everything I have seen, that poster is a troll.
I don’t think **ckalli **is a troll either. He seems to put actual thought into what he’s saying. He may overuse “ultraliberal leftist,” but he’s not entirely unreasonable.
He puts *other people’s *thoughts into what he’s saying.
Finding evidence of his plagiarism was easy; I just did a Google search on every sentence of his that didn’t read as if it were written by a child, and sure enough in every case someone else wrote it.
yeah good job Evil Econ !!! Isn’t there a name for troll slayers or hunters? There should be. Or awards or something.
Is ckalli1998, who has 119 posts since joining on March 9, 2017, a replacement username for Blinkyandpinky?
Rick Sanchez has only been here since January, but he’s showing promise as a first class moron in the Gatopescado thread.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20054945&postcount=101
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20055027&postcount=114
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20056226&postcount=182
There does seem to be some sort of pattern where a rabid right-winger shows up, hurls insults at pretty much everyone for a few days, gets banned, then within a couple days another one pops up. Nevertheless in this case I’d say no, on the notion that whoever it is could not alter their writing style that much.
Of course, a lot of his “writing style” seems to have been lifted from elsewhere, so…
Oddly, he uses references to clutching pearls, which - despite my being familiar with the phrase - I rarely hear outside of our own “beloved” Pearl Clutching Provocateur
And he now effectively doubles our supply of black conservatives.
I wonder, however, if they truly are “cut from the same cloth,” so to speak. I’m inclined to say no, but it’s fun to think about.
With the plagiarism, I can’t see why the troll hasn’t been dealt with. When you aren’t even using your own words, it’s clear you aren’t here for some actual discussion about something you feel passionately about.
I do wish people would be more suspicious of people who join the board and their first post is to bombastically attack everyone else for their opinion on controversial topics. It’s not always a troll, of course, but that should make you leery.
One thing I always look for is to see if their behavior is consistent with the legitimate reason this happens: they stumbled upon a contentious post, and got angry enough about it to leave a comment. They aren’t going to take glee in getting attacked back.
Everything about this guy reads as a troll that is deliberately deescalating to try and keep from getting banned. But then they still keep making another trolling post.
It’s also quite common to claim minority status when trolling against liberals.
Rick Sanchez just looks like an example of the genus anus familiaris, the common asshole. Nothing special, really. Their life expectancy on the board is typically short and undistinguished.
Aside from the obvious usage among right-wing Americans, my guess is that “pretend to be black or Latino” (or other relevant minority) is also one of the guidelines posted on the walls of the paid-posters workplaces run by Putin’s government.
That particular pretense provides a handy sort of ‘moral leverage’ in those tireless attempts to undermine Western democracy.
Truth to tell, I shoot at the liberals because that’s that about all that’s left to do around here. As I mentioned in another post, the good writers are all gone.
It’s kind of a message board way of sitting a death watch over an old friend. The SDMB used to be a helluva place. Now it’s on life support and circling the drain.
Explains why the wall are full of slugs.
Way to admit you’re a shitty writer.
Yep. Direct through-and-through shots do leave pockmarks behind the bodies.
Poser. Real shooters use hollowpoints.
so now all you’ve got left to do is troll.
Precious Snowflake, if this place is so shitty that all you can do is troll, then you should go away. You’ve never made any substantive contribution yourself. You’re incredibly stupid, you’re not witty, you’re poorly informed, and you’re just an embarrassment to the quality of the board. You contribute no information, no humor, no insight, no entertainment. You’re a fucking parasite. The best contribution you could make is not inflicting any more of your moronic useless posts on us.
What a complete horse’s ass you are.