# 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:** 210
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4191 "2021-08-01T23:39:59Z")
Posting in 12+ different threads on their first day as a member is at least a yellow flag. Most newbies find this site by landing on a particular thread after a Google search. Then over time they might start perusing other threads. Or if they were a lurker, they join because there was finally one thread that interested them enough to join. Sure, it’s possible this one came new to the site with a bunch of interests, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt (for now). It’s also possible their previous sock was quickly identified, say by an intense focus on COVID, and they are attempting to be more subtle this time. I suppose we’ll find out soon enough… ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4192 "2021-08-01T23:48:41Z")
You have identified the same suspect that I have. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4193 "2021-08-02T01:20:53Z")
Abatt…88 in the Pit thread on why we don’t need no stinking conservatives (at the end). The name = troll. Possibility that it’s jtur? I need more information in order to make that determination. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4194 "2021-08-02T01:23:09Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Abatt…88 in the Pit thread on why we don’t need no stinking conservatives (at the end). The name = troll. Possibility that it’s jtur? I need more information in order to make that determination. - It’s been flagged just for the name alone. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4195 "2021-08-02T01:47:48Z")
I must say the Abattoir certainly seems to know his/her way around the board for a brand new poster, completely aside from various strange aspects of the user name and, of course, the mandatory hidden profile. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4196 "2021-08-02T02:07:54Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I must say the Abattoir certainly seems to know his/her way around the board for a brand new poster, completely aside from various strange aspects of the user name and, of course, the mandatory hidden profile. - Including the optimal time when the fewest mods are around. Feces-flinging to the max! ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4197 "2021-08-02T02:12:05Z")
Post and user already cornfielded. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4199 "2021-08-02T02:20:09Z")
Why, it’s as if we had never had an Abattoir at all, and were all vegetarians! 😄 The slaughterhouse-themed sock actually managed to get in a post immediately after yours right in this thread, and it vanished into the cornfield before my very eyes, even as I watched. Ain’t modern technology marvelous? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4201 "2021-08-02T03:05:41Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Ain’t modern technology marvelous? Indeed it is. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4202 "2021-08-04T04:40:50Z")
Never noticed blueslipper before the CS Delorean thread. He seems to be quite the angry poster. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4203 "2021-08-04T13:20:15Z")
I’m picking up frustration instead of anger. They seem to be the type who needs all their information in nest little boxes, and is bothered immensely with a “fact” that cannot be verified. Not everyone is comfortable with “That source is wrong, and we cannot tell just where that wrong info came from.” ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4204 "2021-08-04T14:25:24Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I’m picking up frustration instead of anger. They seem to be the type who needs all their information in nest little boxes, and is bothered immensely with a “fact” that cannot be verified. I’m going also by other threads he has started. Very quick to be snippy to commenters in them. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4205 "2021-08-04T14:35:22Z")
See, for example, responses in “Can someone explain E.T. to me please?” and “Why is the monkey gesture racist towards those of African heritage?” He tossed moddable snipes at both Colibri and ITD early in those threads (though I don’t know if they were actually mods at he time.) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4206 "2021-08-04T15:11:15Z")
Ah. Thank you. They have been entirely below my radar and I was reacting to that one specific thread. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4207 "2021-08-04T15:25:57Z")
You’ve sure done your research, back 7 years and more. 🙄 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4208 "2021-08-04T15:36:46Z")
I see a poster acting oddly, I check to see what other threads they’ve started to see if they have a pattern of odd posts. Two clicks to get that list. Nothing particularly weird or in-depth there. And I didn’t check very many of the 70 threads started by the OP, just ones with eye-catching titles. But he was an ass in each of those. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4209 "2021-08-04T18:14:56Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > You’ve sure done your research, back 7 years and more. 🙄 You make that sound like a bad thing. It’s good that he didn’t just come in and start talking about someone without checking their posting history. One post could just be a poster having a bad day. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4210 "2021-08-04T21:08:11Z")
Not a troll - just an asshole. I guess they’re used interchangeably these days, though. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4211 "2021-08-04T21:08:35Z")
Perhaps this thread should be retitled “Annoying Posters (to some of us) R Us.” ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4212 "2021-08-04T21:16:07Z")
Not to worry. The MO of these types is to become more and more belligerent as they post more and more outlandish and/or provocative stuff, untilt they are eventually banned. We shall see. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=209) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=211)