# 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:** 199
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3971 "2021-07-07T18:29:11Z")
Thread closed indeed, so I will post here as a funny and not contentious reply to @Northern_Piper’s typo when calling New Zealand as “Mew Zealand” Mew Zealand? Is the conquest of the earth by the cats starting in Kiwi land? > **[Пин на доске hello](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346425396329683583/)** > > 17.08.2016 - Maine Coon, uma obra de arte, a post from the blog Gateiro on Bloglovin’ ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3972 "2021-07-07T18:40:57Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > Don’t worry, they’ll be back again. “Banning is but a door. The internet is but a window. I’ll be back.” - Sock ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3973 "2021-07-07T19:10:28Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Mew Zealand? Is the conquest of the earth by the cats starting in Kiwi land? Re-reading that post and the high ratio of noise to signal, I conclude I should never post in the morning without at least two cups of tea first. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3974 "2021-07-07T19:14:21Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Re-reading that post and the high ratio of noise to signal, I conclude I should never post in the morning without at least two cups of tea first. Or switch to coffee. It does this kind of job better. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3975 "2021-07-07T20:03:37Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Thread closed indeed, so I will post here as a funny and not contentious reply to @Northern_Piper’s typo when calling New Zealand as “Mew Zealand” > > Mew Zealand? Is the conquest of the earth by the cats starting in Kiwi land? Lew has a cat? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3976 "2021-07-07T20:12:26Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Thread closed indeed, so I will post here as a funny and not contentious reply to @Northern_Piper’s typo when calling New Zealand as “Mew Zealand” > > Mew Zealand? Is the conquest of the earth by the cats starting in Kiwi land? At the time I googled and was suprised that that wasn’t a pun in Pokemon fandom. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3977 "2021-07-07T20:16:02Z")
His tendency throughout that thread to deliberately misinterpret everything everyone said marked him as either a blatant troll or a really, really, really stupid person. Either way, he was not exactly a promising addition to the board. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3978 "2021-07-07T21:01:39Z")
His posting style and feigned ignorance seemed really familiar. I had the feeling he was a sock, but I am dreadfully poor at identifying previously banned posters… ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3979 "2021-07-07T23:13:46Z")
The “argue with everyone” and know-it-all attitude smelled like SamuelA a bit, but Sammy’s posts went on forever. This doof had too many short posts. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3980 "2021-07-07T23:42:46Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > > [@BigT](#): > > > > They’re handling the trans topic correctly, which goes a long way for me > > No, they’re handling it “correctly” to use as a weapon to accuse others of hypocrisy, in exactly the way they were accusing Czarcasm of racism in that Juneteenth thread. They don’t care about the actual issue, just how they can wield it as a troll-hammer, and you’re a sucker if you think they do. I will walk back my statement partly: they were trolling in that threat at first. But the behavior I was commending was when they backed down after moderator sanction, and seemed to actually discuss the topic normally, in a coherent manner. People who don’t care about the topic get all the details wrong. What I now suspect they are doing is, however, a somewhat common trolling technique. They’re trying to ingratiate themselves a bit so that some people would defend them. Looking at the rest of their posts, I have to agree they are here to stir up shit. Thus I will henceforth not defend them. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3981 "2021-07-08T13:37:09Z")
It got a “not quite a warning” for this just last night: > [@HughGoply](#): > > > [@asahi](#): > > > > I think there needs to be serious talk about mandating vaccines or no school and no job. > > I think it should be vaccine or no continued life. Fingers crossed it gets to digging a little deeper. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3982 "2021-07-08T13:44:05Z")
[quote=“ASL\_v2.0, post:3981, topic:913349”] > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > > I think there needs to be serious talk about mandating vaccines or no school and no job. > > > [/quote] > > > > > > I think it should be vaccine or no continued life. > > Fingers crossed it gets to digging a little deeper. It’s attention whoring, plain and simple. It’s part of his entire affected, sad schtick. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3983 "2021-07-08T16:46:31Z")
I’ve read that you people… well us, are ruining this board for the new people . . . that your track record identifying actual socks is so high is apparently irrelevant. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3984 "2021-07-08T16:49:10Z")
I’ve always said that we are incapable of making new friends. We can barely tolerate the old ones. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3985 "2021-07-08T16:54:43Z")
Heck, I’ve got friends I haven’t even _used_ yet. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3986 "2021-07-08T16:57:47Z")
I don’t know half of you half as well as I shouldn’t like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve! ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3987 "2021-07-08T17:00:46Z")
So \< 1/16th? Sounds about right. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3988 "2021-07-08T19:16:18Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I don’t know half of you half as well as I shouldn’t like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve! “You are without doubt the worst Doper I’ve ever heard of.” “But you have heard of me.” ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3989 "2021-07-08T20:58:06Z")
I’d rather be with you people than with the finest people in the world. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3990 "2021-07-08T23:39:37Z")
People are _shocked_ that mods find this thread of any use. Eh. My biggest complaint about it is the cornfielded threads. I wanted to see those. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=200)