# 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:** 171
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3410 "2021-05-22T20:53:40Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’d always assumed our @Riemann chose his name in homage to the mathematician. Correct. I dropped out of maths in the 1st year at college because I wasn’t good enough (later turned into a biologist). I chose the name out of respect for the great man, and also to try to encourage myself to make the effort to understand more of his work. It hasn’t really worked so far… I just have to live with the self-imposed embarrassment of total lack of comprehension of most of the work of my namesake. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3411 "2021-05-22T23:37:08Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I just have to live with the self-imposed embarrassment of total lack of comprehension of most of the work of my namesake. You just set your sights too high. I mean sure I’ve never brilliantly outmaneuvered an enemy army. But then again I’ve also never subjected a city to a horrific sack. I admit I feel oddly good about the latter 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3412 "2021-05-23T00:21:40Z")
I still hold to my stance against Bobs and submit I am great among those who do ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3413 "2021-05-23T00:25:36Z")
I mean, really - you reverse a Bob and you get a boB; it’s maddening. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3414 "2021-05-23T01:56:37Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I’ve also never subjected a city to a horrific sack. I admit I feel oddly good about the latter 🙂 The night is yet young. Go forth and conquer young Jedi! Thar be wimmin & pillage galore! Prithee sate thine base nature! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3415 "2021-05-23T02:15:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The night is yet young. Go forth and conquer young Jedi! Thar be wimmin & pillage galore! Prithee sate thine base nature You’ll never hold a candle to Attilla the Hun! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDNWI5AKB8&t=442) ---
**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:** [May 23, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3416 "2021-05-23T03:55:40Z")
Meh, [wrong Attila,](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gf7ea) but it would be cool if Kenny T was actually Kenny G, pissed at how the twilight of his career is likely in the ‘springtime of his senescence’, gently blowing away with a San Diego twilight in the distance, a cool breeze of rotten kelp wafting by. ---
**Author:** ![Acierocolotl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acierocolotl/32/6241_2.png) [@Acierocolotl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acierocolotl)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3417 "2021-05-25T13:55:54Z")
I guess I’m supposed to be angry that a superstar of stucco hates poutine so much that he’s twice-roused a slumbering thread, but I can’t be roused to bother. But I’ll raise a plate of poutine to his efforts to troll. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3418 "2021-05-25T20:21:29Z")
Got himself a warning, mind. j ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3419 "2021-05-25T21:52:38Z")
In the thread about SNL he has in cafe society, his OP ends with "\*\*\*\*\*FYI notice: If you enjoy my content, you can “smash that Like button and hit SUBSCRIBE,” (Ends just like that, with a comma.) Is it part bot? Or not a bot, but is copying comments from YouTube videos? The trolling is so obvious from that last thread (woman mom) that I’m surprised the ban hammer hasn’t come down. I mean, once it’s that obvious, you don’t need to rack up the instances, do you? And 3 threads advising criminals to not talk to the police… ---
**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:** [May 26, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3420 "2021-05-26T01:39:37Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Or not a bot, but is copying comments from YouTube videos? This is my vote. Too dumb to be a bot but dumb enough to blindly copy and paste. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3421 "2021-05-26T23:22:23Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Or not a bot, but is copying comments from YouTube videos? Anyone know what the rules are about copying content from other sites? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3422 "2021-05-26T23:26:37Z")
I think just normal “fair use” principles. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3423 "2021-05-26T23:28:03Z")
Right. " **Copyright** – Do not use copyrighted material without permission. Fair use guidelines apply and are interpreted conservatively. If you are quoting material it is good etiquette to provide a link to the source." ~Max ---
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3424 "2021-05-27T00:14:06Z")
I can’t tell if this guy [shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313) is trolling or is just fucking stupid as a box of hair: He first posts “new info” with a 14 year old article. When called on it, he posts a new article that has nothing whatsoever to do with the origin of the spanish flu. When I point this out, he apparently does not understand what I’m saying. My vote is fucking stupid, but you never know. > [@New Info On The 1918 Origins Of The Spanish Flu \[Article is from Jan 2014\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-info-on-the-1918-origins-of-the-spanish-flu-article-is-from-jan-2014/942921): > > " Historian [Mark Humphries](http://www.mun.ca/history/fac_staff/humphries.php) of Canada’s [Memorial University](http://www.mun.ca/) of Newfoundland says that newly unearthed records confirm that one of the side stories of the war—the mobilization of 96,000 Chinese laborers to work behind the British and French lines on World War I’s Western Front—may have been the source of the pandemic. Writing in the January issue of the journal [War in History](http://wih.sagepub.com/content/21/1/55.abstract?etoc), Humphries acknowledges that his hypothesis awaits confirmation by viral samples from flu victims. Such evidence would … ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3425 "2021-05-27T00:24:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I can’t tell if this guy [shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313) is trolling or is just fucking stupid as a box of hair: Not troll - my impression is elderly, possibly poor eyesight, various bees in bonnet and just muddled/clueless. And I think “she”. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3426 "2021-05-27T00:35:36Z")
I agree w @Riemann. What’s missing is the malice. Dumb and erratic, but malice is absent. To be sure, they’ve said some things that are politically incorrect enough that some folks can’t imagine anyone saying them with_out_ conscious malice. But IMO that’s just youth and inexperience talking. Not so say **1313** is an asset to our community; far from it. Just that I’m reserving judgement for what seems to be a dodderer. To be sure if they cross the line the mods will stomp and I’ll be cheering them 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:** [May 27, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3427 "2021-05-27T01:11:23Z")
I have a memory of shh1313 being stupid and obtuse before, but not really a troll. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3428 "2021-05-27T02:03:14Z")
Definitely stupid. Just sent me a pm thanking me for my support. Sent to the wrong person I suspect. Should have gone to the local white knight. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3429 "2021-05-27T03:31:27Z")
OMFG. A new thread by the poster who wanted to show us their pain. I can’t even … I think we would be doing them a favor by just ignoring it and letting it slide down the list to oblivion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=172)