Honestly, I don’t very many people could both be that dumb and be able figure out how to post. And being an idiot is not mutually exclusive with being a troll.
“I don’t do cites” is both a bait and an excuse to keep the trolling simple at the same time. Mere stupidity does not fit the consistent threadshitting. This is intentional threadshittting for the entertainment value inherent in trolldom. When someone manages to hijack this many different threads with the same knee jerk right wing memes it is more than mere idiocy.
Just look at this post. After called out on shitting up a thread about the how fewer people identify as moderates that used to, with a very unrelated comment about how
he responds that indeed he has no goal of engaging in debate but that his
Now perhaps his take is that anyone with any view other than his own is a self-righteous ideologue, maybe not, but clearly he has admitted that his self appointed mission to to get in other posters’ faces, not to engage. And that behavior, in GD and in Elections, is trolling.
leave me with not much more to add. My straw came in the Palin thread where he did a standard troll two-step. Make some racist remarks (blah blah ghetto, unknown fathers, reference to reparations; got called on it; claimed people were reading into other posts; got quoted; shifted again with no honesty whatsoever. Not a Stormfront denizen or a standard freeper mindset, but a simple, bored teen trolling message boards.
The only problem with DNFTT is that one hates to leave some crap uncorrected.
Serious questions - Is it possible to calmly provide the facts and cites that contradict the troll’s bait without engaging or feeding the troll? Or is even that much allowing a troll to hijack a thread? Are complete non-response to all posts required?
(I don’t do ignore lists, but can ignore all the same. I have no problem taking the pledge if advised that even correcting crap without direct engagement is feeding the troll.)
I’ve stopped replying to him because it’s a lost cause. Unless there’s a rule about post counts per thread/hour/topic, the only way to recover the election folder is to ignore him and talk amongst ourselves. I realize what you’re saying about leaving things uncorrected, but I’m convinced he’ll never stand to be corrected about anything.
When I posted this thread I thought he might actually want to discuss things but I no longer feel that way.
I would think that his admission as quoted above, and his overall pattern of posting, should already be enough. Even if we all make our best effort to ignore I can’t imagine he is long for this board, at least in that avatar.
Personally, I refer to it as Reinforced Republican. And while I try to avoid putting posters on ignore — hell, even the likes of Rand Rover has been known to add something useful to the discussion, even if inadvertently — eventually it got to be too much. It’s only the second carbon unit to be added to my list.
I see where the fucking liar continues to take potshots at government employees, and has added teachers to his targets of opportunity, accusing them of “teaching nothing”. Fuck him, the fuckin’ Tea Party fuck, and all his lying friends and family. For someone who says he’s 50, he’s learned little in all that time.
This morning, in the “Recent Cycles” thread, **twickster **gave some pretty explicit instructions about not repeatedly hijacking threads. Recovering Republican is hijacking that thread to argue about how he isn’t hijacking threads, really. So it’s just a matter of time, I think.
Also, on the off chance Recovering Republican is an idiot, not a troll, and is reading this thread:
Listen, “throwaway lines” are the worst sort of passive aggressive bullshit in the world. They can’t be ignored, because ignoring them gives the appearance that one agrees with them. To then protest that people are making a big deal about what was “just a throwaway line” is serious douche behavior, in the same vein as teasing a little girl until she bursts into tears and then exclaiming 'I was only JOKING. Why’s she got to be so SENSITIVE?".
Also, see how I made this comment in the Pit thread, where it is appropriate, and not in the Elections thread, where it is off topic?
He’s not religious, which is the only major issue he appears to differ with the Republican party on. He also criticizes Bush, but that hasn’t been an indicator of being a Republican for a while now.
The truck drivers were probably government workers, which means that they dumped the stuff somewhere north, south, east or west (or some combination thereof) of where it was supposed to go. Then they went and got drunk on the clock.
Not just government workers, but teachers hired by the government to go to Iraq and, rather than teach anything, drive trucks in between their six breaks per day. Fuckin’ putz (not you, him).
Or, you know, for the mods to actually ban someone who is not only trolling, but who also admits to trolling. But can’t do that. Have to keep the righties around here in their current ‘protected species’ status - which is ironic on several levels, of course.
This bears repeating because I doubt the point has penetrated what appears to be a thicker than normal skull.
I also found the “oh poor persecuted me” response to what twickster said in the Election thread to be pretty pathetic:
Oh boo-fucking-hoo y’damn big baby. You might as well curl up in the corner sucking your thumb.
Furthermore dumbass, YOU couldn’t stay on topic from your first post in that thread because you had to make a crack slamming Islam. And that was only the second post in the entire thread! RTFirefly posted what has to be the most non-partisan OP I have seen in the Election forum in a while. But, YOU just couldn’t stand letting an actual discussion take place free of partisan politics or offensive slurs.
The fact the comment was the result of your apparently limitless ignorance and bigotry just makes it more annoying.