# Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349>\
**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")\
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**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:** [October 8, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1264 "2020-10-08T22:28:38Z")

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Returning to **Velocity** ’s habit of starting threads never to return, what’s up with this one?

> [@Situations in which apologizing increases people anger rather than decreasing it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/situations-in-which-apologizing-increases-people-anger-rather-than-decreasing-it/922189):
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> I grew up in an upbringing where I was taught that even if you aren’t wrong, apologizing anyway can help smooth over a dispute - that apologizing isn’t so much an actual admission of guilt as it is a tool for getting things over with sooner. But I’ve learned (the hard way) that when you aren’t wrong, or are only partially wrong, apologizing can actually pour gasoline on the fire because it then confirms, in the other person’s mind, that you actually were fully wrong and then it inflames their a…

It’s got that same innocent socially unaware vibe I label as Asberger-ish. And beyond the OP he’s not returned.

IIRC **jinx** used to do the OP-only routine a lot. And when he did post mid-thread it was often only to misunderstand or “misunderstand” what folks had said.

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