# 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:** 131
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2608 "2021-01-30T00:16:29Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I predict an exceptionally short career here. Thread closed, and I expect it will be cornfielded soon. ---
**Author:** ![FigNorton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fignorton/32/5619_2.png) [@FigNorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FigNorton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2609 "2021-01-30T00:31:19Z")
Sort of but aceplace doesn’t seem surreal enough. Like that vomit bit. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2610 "2021-01-30T01:53:09Z")
You seem to know the board quite well for having been on it for… what, 2 months now? ---
**Author:** ![FigNorton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fignorton/32/5619_2.png) [@FigNorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FigNorton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2611 "2021-01-30T01:58:36Z")
Thanks. I like to think I pay attention to who says what and such. 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2612 "2021-01-30T02:15:18Z")
Yeah, that’s what they all say 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FigNorton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fignorton/32/5619_2.png) [@FigNorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FigNorton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2613 "2021-01-30T02:27:30Z")
Ha. Well, we’ve interacted and I can say I have somewhat of an impression of you, I can assure ASL that I have no idea who he is. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2614 "2021-01-30T05:16:05Z")
> [@Tierce](#): > > **MaltezeBippy** seems pretty… special in the QZ judgments/assumptions thread. Are they gone already? Or is that a coded reference to a poster you don’t want to name? Because I was curious and scanned the whole thread (72 posts) and no-one of that moniker appears there. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2615 "2021-01-30T05:30:39Z")
Cornfielded. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2616 "2021-01-30T06:01:15Z")
Called it! ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2617 "2021-01-30T10:37:01Z")
Anyone who is not a liberal is undisguisable from a troll. We are straight forwards towards the dope of truth. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2618 "2021-01-30T11:00:20Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > Anyone who is not a liberal is undisguisable from a troll. As a non-liberal, I strongly disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2619 "2021-01-30T11:26:44Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > We are straight forwards towards the dope of truth. Who’s “we”, white man? ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2620 "2021-01-30T11:36:56Z")
**Wiskaz**. Recent sign-up; high number of threads started vs posts; typically posts in their own threads; weird thread subject matter (is a cellphone with a crack in it radiation-safe? Are old and crumbly benzodiazapine tablets safe?). Pretty much being called out already, but I thought I’d mention them in passing. j ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2621 "2021-01-30T13:03:56Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Anyway, the avatar is a dead giveaway that something’s not right. As is yours, btw. Whose sock are you really? For my education, what is it about the avatar of (I think) **rboyce** that you find suspicious? I’m not disputing you, but just mystified at what’s tripping your trigger. Everything else about that guy is a troll-signal or at least a clueless goofball-signal. The pic seems to me to be innocuous enough. Ref recent mod instructions - if my question amounts to asking you to dox, please disregard me. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2622 "2021-01-30T13:18:05Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > For my education, what is it about the avatar of (I think) **rboyce** that you find suspicious? He already explained upthread. > [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Just so we’re clear, I do not for a minute think the avatar or the name are genuine. What seems to be a common theme among a certain kind of troll (the kind that spams multiple forums) is to crop out a head shot of some rando from a photo and use it as their own. See also **CoconutPete** , **jakeyjake** , and **jakeyjakey**. That said, he also seems to think FigNorton’s is a trolly avatar, despite being a variation on yours and naita’s, and the type of thing I’ve done elsewhere. It’s fun to play around with the default avatars. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2623 "2021-01-30T13:52:27Z")
Thanks; I’d seen that upthread. Which IMO was an answer that answered nothing. If a head shot avatar is a sign of trolling we’ve got a lot of sleeper trolls amongst us right now. Are those posters’ avatars shots of random schlubs, random celebrities, or of the poster themself? Hell if I know. Nor do I know how to tell one possibility from another unless I happen to recognize the pic as a particular celebrity. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2624 "2021-01-30T15:14:08Z")
Now that we’re sorta done w **rboyce** for a bit I’ll give a shout-out to **Jillwood77**. They’ve started two threads this month, both of which are idiotic. The person writes like an illiterate or else someone whose native language is utterly unlike English, but slowly gives away the fact they’re absorbing lots of US RW propaganda. Meanwhile folks are patiently interacting as if they are real and yet every cite is ignored, every explanation just bounces off, and the same nonsense / _non sequitur_ question / assertion is repeated. In a “well onto the spectrum” deadpan manner. As a separate matter to these two bland if stupid threads, they’ve posted in a bunch of Trump/politics related threads. With an outside observer’s tone, but one exposed to lots of US media. Whose view is the US is doomed by their divisions. Generally one post per thread, but occasionally more than that. If somebody was a very amateur Chinese _agent provocateur_ with marginal English skills, IMO they’d look/sound a lot like this. Whoever/whatever they are, they’re not an asset. They’re not even a good example of being a bad example. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2625 "2021-01-30T15:19:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > f somebody was a very amateur Chinese _agent provocateur_ with marginal English skills, IMO they’d look/sound a lot like this. > > Whoever/whatever they are, they’re not an asset. **They’re not even a good example of being a bad example.** Yet. - That just shows how _good_ they are. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2626 "2021-01-30T15:24:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > a head shot avatar is a sign of trolling we’ve got a lot of sleeper trolls amongst us right now Just so you all know, my avatar is a head shot of me, really truly me, at 8 years old. Taken in Cedar Rapids Iowa, a genuinely swell place to grow up. LSL and Spoons helped with the graphic design. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2627 "2021-01-30T15:37:32Z")
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