# 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:** 172
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3430 "2021-05-27T03:43:25Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > > [@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”. Soft disagree with you there, @Riemann. Hidden user profile (making it that much harder to look for trends) indicates poss-sock-hi to me. Contentious sock = troll. ---
**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 27, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3431 "2021-05-27T04:53:41Z")
Yeah, the hidden profile, along with the user name seem suspicious in the direction of sock to me. ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3432 "2021-05-27T05:16:48Z")
I’ll go with “ **eenerms** / **shh1313** ” sock for 200, Jack. ---
**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, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3433 "2021-05-27T12:31:24Z")
I wonder if Discourse has an admin setting that can be flipped to prevent private profiles; at least for newbies if not for everyone. There’s no real value to an honest user I can see to a private profile that simply leaving all the optional information blank doesn’t accomplish just as well. Would also that we had an admin to flip that switch. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3434 "2021-05-27T12:34:35Z")
OTOH, whenever I see a private profile, I immediately assume sock, so it’s an easy way for them to mark themselves. ---
**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 27, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3435 "2021-05-27T18:29:09Z")
[This guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-god-s-sake-let-me-explain/942995) is really something. ---
**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 27, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3436 "2021-05-27T18:43:04Z")
Yeah he was mentioned in this thread some time ago, see [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux/913349/3322). ---
**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 27, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3437 "2021-05-27T18:45:07Z")
I knew you guys would be on top of it. I present that new thread as Exhibit 12-B then. ---
**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 27, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3438 "2021-05-27T18:50:04Z")
👍 To be fair it’s really easy to miss because it was a short discussion but it put him on my radar, otherwise I’d probably have missed it in this thread too. ---
**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, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3439 "2021-05-27T18:50:42Z")
It only took about 3 paragraphs for that guy to wear out his welcome with me. And I’m usually pretty welcoming. Maybe he really is the unfortunate victim of a hard life badly lived from birth. Not my circus not my monkeys this time. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3440 "2021-05-28T09:26:38Z")
Might be trolling. More likely that he just has “issues”, to sum up what appears to be a rather complicated situation. Either way, I’m not sure we can help him much beyond a pat on the back and a “there, there”. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3441 "2021-05-29T15:50:09Z")
When a poster suddenly pops up on my radar as [an obnoxious dick for no good reason](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-indian-tribes-who-lived-inland-before-1492-conceive-of-the-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans/942786/50), it often sets the troll bells ringing. When they start making [ATMB threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-newbie-questions-for-what-exit/943164) “defending” themselves (for want of a better word) the bells ring louder. When I look up their profile and see a 5-month posting hiatus, they also start to smell like a sock drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3442 "2021-05-29T18:02:06Z")
Maybe **Roger** just needs a good rogering. 😉 ---
**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 29, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3443 "2021-05-29T19:35:07Z")
To be fair, in the “adults throwing away their kids’ possessions” thread (not the literal title) it was Saintly\_Loser who was the dick for no good reason, who persisted in re-interpreting the OP and arguing against something completely different from what the OP was about. It was too bad the OP couldn’t let that go and just proceed, but as a new poster it may be something they haven’t learned yet. Edited to add: I guess Saint\_Cad got involved in some way too, I dropped out of the thread before then because it was clearly a train wreck. ---
**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 29, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3444 "2021-05-29T19:36:24Z")
I like to see a nice piece of profiling. Sweet. Here’s another: cannonkuo - been here 13 hours, 8 mins read time, 8 posts read, three new threads and two posts (in one of those threads). Two of the threads are in P&E, just to make it easier to check them out. I’m not going to @ the cannon - they’ll be over here soon enough. j ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3445 "2021-05-29T20:04:38Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Two of the threads are in P&E, just to make it easier to check them out. I think those two OPs look like homework questions. ---
**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 29, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3446 "2021-05-29T20:10:05Z")
Three history homeworks for the weekend? Sheesh - who’d be a kid nowadays? 😉 j ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3447 "2021-05-29T20:25:20Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > > > I don’t care if people are insulted by the “Karen” designation. > > ISTM only those actually named “Karen” and do not behave like the stereotype have a legitimate claim to feel insulted. How about if I have a cousin I’m fond of who is named Karen? Also, this is an interesting thread. I should probably peruse it more often. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2021, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3448 "2021-05-30T08:04:28Z")
Sorry, no. **Saintly\_Loser** replied to the OP first but wasn’t a dick to them personally, IMO, just brusque. To which **Roger\_That** came back with “Sure glad I never had you for a parent, I will tell you that.” That’s not “couldn’t let it go”, that’s just being a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3449 "2021-05-30T17:34:03Z")
Huh, if I am not mistaken this is the first time that a serial socker (x2) has been explicitly identified by the mods, as well as the original account: > [@Bolivia wins, USA loses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-wins-usa-loses/923478/66): > > Closed as a serial Sock keeps bumping it and no one else cares. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=171) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=173)