# Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349 "2020-06-27T06:30:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/242 "2020-08-01T06:38:57Z")
Whoa. Good to know. I thought he was just trying to get a rise out of people for his other thread not going his way. (“Loving the response from my Senator”). ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/243 "2020-08-01T06:42:04Z")
As I recall from more than 10 years ago, duffer’s MO was to post stupid shit, get shown to be wrong, and slink away to the next thread to _rinse, lather, repeat_. CMC ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/244 "2020-08-01T06:47:09Z")
Yep, you called it, alright. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/245 "2020-08-01T07:03:52Z")
He’s very much reminding me of some middle-class, pimply suburban teen with an anarchy t-shirt, feeling oh, so very rebel, listening to Metallica all the while. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/246 "2020-08-01T07:11:00Z")
Well, yeah. Been listening to Metallica for almost 30 years. You nailed that one. Good job ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/247 "2020-08-01T16:42:11Z")
Well, 30 years of Metallica and you’re still being mistaken for a pimply teen. So good job you. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/248 "2020-08-02T06:50:41Z")
I see @pool has discovered a new way to troll, aided by the Discourse software. If he gets enough of his insults flagged, (as in the Clusterfuck thread now) the software automatically locks the thread for 3 (?) hours, which no doubt awards him the same satisfaction that a 3yr old gets by running away and refusing to share his toys. This software feature should be disabled in the pit, if only so that other trolls do not jump on the bandwagon. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/249 "2020-08-02T06:54:41Z")
Hey I responded to my critics, I genuinely didn’t know that feature of the software was still an issue, I thought it had been fixed. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/250 "2020-08-02T08:25:39Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > This software feature should be disabled I think the _wet_ware feature should be disabled, in _every_ forum. By _wetware_ I mean **pool**. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/251 "2020-08-02T14:13:23Z")
Woot! Thank you, Mods! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/252 "2020-08-02T14:30:05Z")
I’m gonna miss him. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/253 "2020-08-02T14:36:30Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I see @pool has discovered a new way to troll, aided by the Discourse software. If he gets enough of his insults flagged, (as in the Clusterfuck thread now) the software automatically locks the thread for 3 (?) hours, which no doubt awards him the same satisfaction that a 3yr old gets by running away and refusing to share his toys. > > This software feature should be disabled in the pit, if only so that other trolls do not jump on the bandwagon. I reopened the thread when I saw it had been closed, not because we wanted more posts from **pool** , but to conform to previous policy. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/254 "2020-08-02T15:20:40Z")
The **pool** has been drained? I will not miss him. I’d hope the door hit his ass on the way out, but I don’t think the door has done anything to deserve that. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/255 "2020-08-02T16:59:33Z")
Hey be easy on viley misogynist cat-torturers. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/256 "2020-08-02T17:25:47Z")
He only recently came to my attention (with his hilarious mis-read of Tom Cotton’s slavery thing). Was he bad elsewhere? ETA: Jeez, he joined in 2002? Did he have a stroke or something? What led to his recent misbehavior? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/257 "2020-08-02T17:39:21Z")
I first noticed some of his statements that were beyond the pale a few years ago, but in the last two days he had a total meltdown in several threads. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/258 "2020-08-02T17:55:14Z")
In [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934) from February, he got warned for repeatedly taunting @margin over her recently-deceased cat (and more). ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/259 "2020-08-02T18:23:54Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I first noticed some of his statements that were beyond the pale a few years ago, but in the last two days he had a total meltdown in several threads. I do hope it was something we said. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/260 "2020-08-02T20:37:57Z")
You’d think there would be an ATMB thread about warnings and suspensions. He’s been around for 18 years. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/261 "2020-08-02T20:39:22Z")
Give the mods a little time, I’m sure such a thread is coming. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=14)