# 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:** 179
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3570 "2021-06-06T23:23:21Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Jesus, another fucking idiot that doesn’t understand how the use of a metaphor that is more usually applied to one context may be an apt way to describe parallel behavior in a different context. Not in this case, at least not for me. I’m not acting like I’m on **I Love Me’s** side hoping to get laid. Which is what white knighting means. I don’t know, maybe you are white knighting to get a handjob from some one. Gotta be better than the usual cheeto job. And metaphor is an awfully big word for someone that couldn’t graduate from junior high. > [@cochrane](#): > > Whoosh! No, I understand stupid 30 year old memes that were unfunny even 25 years ago. But when you are stupid, like you, you have to be as clever as you can under the circumstances. Good boy, sit. > [@Riemann](#): > > Anyway, I guess I’m just encouraging more deranged nonsense, so please don’t bother with the next incoming tome if it’s directed at me. I’m resuming my boycott of all posts longer than 5 inches, which I have been assured is the threshold for something being much longer than average. Come on dude! This is the second time you’ve flounced out of this thread because you couldn’t handle a little criticism. Live up to you motto, He’s a big boy, he can take it. I’ve got to admit to a bit of a _empathy_ for flouncers. They lack so many necessary social skills they just can’t carry on a simple conversation. Sad, really. > [@Guinastasia](#): > > You’re unhinged. 🤨 Boy, what a comeback! You sure got me there. Tell me which part is not true. Every single thing I said about you is true. I’ve known you since the old snopes board and you have been the same the whole time. You live for the snark boards and all the gossip and innuendo you can get your hands on. I’ve seen you act all friendly with many posters on the Dope, and then immediately run to one of the snark boards and laugh at them and make way more hurtful comments than I did about you. And the comments I made weren’t even mine, they were from the people you suck up to at the snark boards. They actually mean all that stuff they say about you, you know, they are not kidding. They are not your friends and they never will be. > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > A couple of points. Snark forums are surely different from PMs, which is what you mentioned in the post I was responding to. > > More to the point of this part of this post, no, I wasn’t aware of any snark forum except one, because it has been mentioned here by name from time to time. I’m not so invested in scoring points either there or here that I would seek them out. The snark forums are where Dopers, past and present, insult other Dopers or threads on the Dope. So Dopers that read the snark boards can PM me here because they are members of both. These are the people that **Guin** thinks are her friends, despite of how they treat her. I don’t belong to any of the snark boards and am not even sure where the current one is located, though I could find it if I really wanted, it’s not like they hide them. Many, like **Guin** , use their doper names on both. I can’t really say anything further about these because of board rules. Now, if all these cum stains would take their problem with **I Love Me** back to his Pit thread, where it belongs, we could get back to claiming every new poster is a troll, just as we’ve been doing for a year and 3400 posts! > [@Riemann](#): > > This seems apt. Jeez, dude, give it a rest! Are you trying for most flounces in one thread by an idiot? You got the title already. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3571 "2021-06-06T23:28:38Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > More to the point of this part of this post, no, I wasn’t aware of any snark forum except one, because it has been mentioned here by name from time to time. You’re not missing anything. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3572 "2021-06-06T23:30:33Z")
^^^Still going full steam ahead I see. Perhaps @mordecaiB is such a magnanimous person that the plan here is to roleplay a deranged lunatic - to distract attention from ILMVI’s embarrassing self-Pitting in the other thread with a far _more_ unhinged self-Pitting in this thread. If so, bravo! You have pulled it off more successfully than I would have imagined possible. Heroic self-immolation, you are making ILMVI look insightful and reasonable by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3573 "2021-06-06T23:34:09Z")
Bastet’s belt buckles, guys. Get a room already. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3574 "2021-06-06T23:34:41Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > And metaphor is an awfully big word for someone that couldn’t graduate from junior high. - Your insults haven’t grown past jr. high, either. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3575 "2021-06-06T23:35:04Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Perhaps @mordecaiB is such a magnanimous person that the plan here is to roleplay a deranged lunatic - to distract attention from ILMVI’s embarrassing self-Pitting in the other thread with a far _more_ unhinged self-Pitting in this thread. If so, bravo! You have pulled it off more successfully than I would have imagined possible. Heroic self-immolation, you are making ILMVI look insightful and reasonable by comparison. I think someone has a crush on me and can’t let it go. Sorry, I don’t date people that can’t get a GED. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3576 "2021-06-06T23:36:01Z")
FYI, there is no Discourse _Verbosity_ badge. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3577 "2021-06-06T23:36:40Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Your insults haven’t grown past jr. high, either. Hey, he said he can’t read more than a paragraph and doesn’t understand anything over basic math. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > FYI, there is no Discourse _Verbosity_ badge. For you maybe. Try harder. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3578 "2021-06-06T23:38:42Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > Your insults haven’t grown past jr. high, either. > > Hey, he said he can’t read more than a paragraph and doesn’t understand anything over basic math. - I’m quite sure you have your own intellectual deficiencies. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3579 "2021-06-06T23:39:23Z")
Not ones I brag about on the internet to bolster my opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3580 "2021-06-06T23:40:56Z")
I haven’t been following that drama but I sympathize. Sometimes things here go from snarky to cruel. But it never, ever goes well when someone tries to argue someone out of a pile on. If your first couple of comments fail to land, subsequent comments are unlikely to change anything. I think a nice thing to do would be to send a friendly PM to the aggrieved letting them know you care. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3581 "2021-06-06T23:41:42Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I think a nice thing to do would be to send a friendly PM to the aggrieved letting them know you care. Thank you. My feelings _were_ quite hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3582 "2021-06-06T23:43:46Z")
I also meant to add something about how crusading against cruelty by being incredibly cruel to the poster you’re mad at tends to undermine the message. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3583 "2021-06-06T23:45:59Z")
Well, you see the rules are that being mean to me is fair game, because I’m not ill. Apparently the fact that I’m in long term therapy for my addiction to tentacle porn counts for nothing. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3584 "2021-06-06T23:48:57Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > More to the point of this part of this post, no, I wasn’t aware of any snark forum except one, because it has been mentioned here by name from time to time. > > You’re not missing anything. In any case, I would be afraid of doing a vanity search and finding – nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3585 "2021-06-06T23:52:41Z")
Here’s what I found on me, years ago: “It’s not **Spice Weasel’s** love of tentacles that makes her so bizarre, it’s her crippling social anxiety.” Cracked my shit up. (Sorry, @Riemann, I don’t love them _that_ way, though I suppose we are kindred spirits in a sense.) ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3586 "2021-06-06T23:53:07Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > Jeez, dude, give it a rest! Are you trying for most flounces in one thread by an idiot? You got the title already. That’s not a flounce. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3587 "2021-06-06T23:59:17Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I don’t love them _that_ way I can’t claim to adhere to consistent ethical principles in my diet, but (in all seriousness) I refuse to eat octopus. They are one of the smartest and most interesting creatures on the planet. My retirement ambition is to run an otter-hyena-octopus-raccoon sanctuary. I recognize that there are some compatibility issues to work out, but I feel that we could all learn to get along. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3588 "2021-06-07T00:19:59Z")
I like turtles. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3589 "2021-06-07T00:23:02Z")
Hippo-turtle sanctuary? I could see it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=178) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=180)