# Pitting Jim\_B **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 4, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958 "2022-05-04T18:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/221 "2022-07-29T20:36:10Z")
Just for the record, even though I answered a question posed by Jim, I wasn’t doing it for him. I didn’t want the idea to be left unchallenged that incoherent rambles are never considered trolling. For anyone else following along the discussion, I was hoping it was clear that on the contrary, that’s a very common (and very old) tactic attributed to trolls. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/222 "2022-07-29T20:42:27Z")
I appreciated it. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/223 "2022-07-29T20:58:33Z")
Okay, I can answer the charge of trolling here then 🙂 . I have been on these boards for over twenty years. Look at my old posts as far back as you want. The way I have expressed myself, the things I have said, the very topics I have chosen have always consistently been the same. You’re saying this alleged deliberately act of trolling, I’ve kept it up exactly the same way, and all this time? And why? Because I somehow enjoy it? Of course you will say, yes, somehow that is still true. Well, discuss that thing here all you want then, because this is the last thing I plan on posting in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/224 "2022-07-29T21:01:20Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > You’re saying this alleged deliberately act of trolling, I’ve kept it up exactly the same way, and all this time? And why? Because I somehow enjoy it? [Long-term trolls do exist.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-hyde-has-been-banned-for-violation-of-the-registration-agreement/968203/4) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/225 "2022-07-29T21:07:28Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > You’re saying this alleged deliberately act of trolling, I’ve kept it up exactly the same way, and all this time? And why? Because I somehow enjoy it? I’ve made a post explaining why people engage in trolling, it’s not always the same motivation. [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/2059](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/2059) As before, though I’m answering Jim, this isn’t necessarily for Jim’s benefit. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/226 "2022-07-30T03:14:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Great research and a really solid answer to a dumb question I’d like to memorialize this. If > _Fighting ignorance_ since 1973. (It’s taking longer than we thought) ever loses its luster, this is my current frontrunner for what motto should replace it. Carry on. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/227 "2022-07-30T12:24:35Z")
I’m starting to pity the trolls now. Not allowed to ramble. Not allowed to keep trolling for years. Next there will be rules against them posting at all! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/228 "2022-07-30T12:29:45Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > this is the last thing I plan on posting in the Pit. > [@The Closure of the "Father Solanus Casey Was A Living Saint Thread"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closure-of-the-father-solanus-casey-was-a-living-saint-thread/968493/107): > > I plan on only asking this question once. > [@The Closure of the "Father Solanus Casey Was A Living Saint Thread"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closure-of-the-father-solanus-casey-was-a-living-saint-thread/968493/118): > > This is the last time I am going to bring this issue/s up too. Looking forward to “this is the last post I’m ever going to make on this board”. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/229 "2022-07-30T14:20:23Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Looking forward to “this is the last post I’m ever going to make on this board”. I think the third time he posts that will be the best! ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/230 "2022-07-30T20:28:21Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Looking forward to “this is the last post I’m ever going to make on this board”. Okay, then I guess I’m back then. I just wanted to point out that I am the only poster anyone has ever accused of being developmentally disabled or mentally ill. Has anyone else ever been a board member who could say that? I’m serious. Provide a link. I still point out no one would stay on these boards that long, and keep a pretense like that up all that time. And besides you think I am developmentally delayed. You have to agree that sounds equally unlikely. You’re the ones who brought that subject up. Not me. There’s also a thread on the rest of the boards that I thought was ironic about using the term “r@tarded” that I was thinking of citing here. But I think that I will ask a moderator first about that. Obviously (and ironically) nothing that goes on here could go there. I don’t know if it works vice versa. Off to ask a moderator. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/231 "2022-07-30T20:30:38Z")
I am posting in this thread just to keep the subject’s stupid fucking avatar from appearing in the feed. I have it blocked on my PC through Adblock, but not my iPad. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/232 "2022-07-30T20:31:30Z")
Oy!, we just exposed a troll that has been trolling for 15 years or so and he was still a far better poster than Jim\_B. Thanks again **ASL\_v2.0** on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/233 "2022-07-30T20:45:52Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > I just wanted to point out that I am the only poster anyone has ever accused of being developmentally disabled or mentally ill. Has anyone else ever been a board member who could say that? I’m serious. Provide a link. I’m not even going to do that anymore. This is such over-the-top trolling that I’m not falling for it. **Of course** there have been posters who have been accused of developmental disabilities or being mentally ill. We’ve had posters who have claimed that of themselves. Some are regular, frequent posters, even valued members of the community. Unless this was very badly-conveyed sarcasm, this is obvious trolling. In which case, fuck you and your insincere smilies. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/234 "2022-07-30T20:47:31Z")
You should have signed that: Regards Name ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/235 "2022-07-30T20:48:13Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > **Of course** there have been posters who have been accused of developmental disabilities or being mentally ill. Not recently, I think was my point. As I had to learn the hard way, a lot has changed (here and in this country) in the past years… EDIT: Plus you people are using it in an insulting way. (I was about to bring up another fact. But I’ll save that for a complaint to a moderator, if I decide to make it.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/236 "2022-07-30T20:53:38Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > Plus you people are using it in an insulting way. For what it’s worth, I don’t think you’re impaired. I think you’re faking it as a troll. So take heart in that. And no, I don’t see people insulting you with it. I think the people insulting you are saying you are fully cognizant, you’re just fucking with the board. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/237 "2022-07-30T20:54:40Z")
This is the pit, many many poster are trying to insult you here. Generally speaking all we have to do is quote you. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/238 "2022-07-30T20:56:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > For what it’s worth, I don’t think you’re impaired. I think you’re faking it as a troll. So take heart in that. That’s very good then 🙂 . Who else on this thread wants to take that statement back? I’m serious. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/239 "2022-07-30T21:02:44Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > Not recently, I think was my point. Yes, recently. Yes, in an insulting way. I don’t know about your mental health. You are manifestly a troll. Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/240 "2022-07-30T21:08:44Z")
This is also the only message board where they treat me this way. No other message board has ever issued me a warning. Or a topic ban. I’ve posted more incendiary stuff, with no problems. And **no one** on another message board has ever taken issue with my mental status. No @Sunny_Daze , no one here knows anything about my mental status. But you are the ones who brought it up. That is the only reason why I even talk about it. I’m at least unaware of a recent example. But I could be wrong. I’m still waiting on permission to post a link that might be pertinent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958.md?page=13)