Having been on the board for a year, I’ve noticed that there seem to be several different types of trolls. However, since I rarely get to GD or the Pit, some details are a little fuzzy: Here’s a first pass on the types:
Ax-to-grind troll: Shows up in GQ with about 20 different questions that are all the same, usually “Why is the US such an awful country”
Narrow-minded bigot troll: Shows up in GD(?), GQ, or the pit, trying to convince people that his/her extreme racism/sexism/gay-bashing/? is not only acceptable but justified and all people should agree with him/her. If it doesn’t start in the pit, it goes there quickly? No matter where he/she is, every other word is a cuss word. Usually writes three page posts.
Adolescent hormone-laden male troll: Either shows up in GQ with a bunch of questions about sex, or shows up in MPSIMS with sex-related threads designed to make him look studly thinly disguised as survey questions. Yawn. The worst spelling of the bunch.
Finally, our newest type of troll
The pity-whore troll: Shows up in MPSIMS with several threads about how terrible his/her life is. Hardest to detect, because we’ve all started threads like this and we’re usually happy to help one another. All advice will be spurned, and the trollish nature will become apparent when someone insults him or her, at which point s/he will turn on people like a rabid dog.
Troll Baiters are also Trolls, but uglier, since they never shut up! **
They are part of the same game.
Classic Co-somethings (I missed Psychology 101 that day).
Like the alcoholic and the nagging spouse.
Both are simply unpleasant people as everyone else can see, but they each blame each other.
So I guess that makes me Your Co-something (somebody look that up, will you?, while I keep the fight going), but I don’t mind. What’s a spouse for if not to enable fighting to go on?
I think the search feature is just psychic. Just because his name has been mentioned, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have been. If we can’t get a moderator to disappear him, then we ALL have to stop kicking him around and discussing how annoying he is. He seems to like it…OHMIGOD WE ARE FEEDING THE TROLL! SHAME SHAME SHAME
I think I’m not finding the specific Pit thread that really set lswote off. I found some threads with his name in them, but none that were especially combative, by Pit standards. Has it been deleted?
Yes, his attempted rant about ultress was deleted, apparently at his request. He mentions in his Please stop hurting me thread (post at 7:40 this morning) that he requested that the Pit thread be removed. I neither understand nor agree with the SDMB Administration’s decision to remove (rather than just close) the Pit thread.