# 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:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1767 "2020-12-01T21:21:19Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> You could have been sensible and avoided the thread completely, based on the obvious troll-like nature of the title.

The thing is, though, that when other posters don’t push back against troll-like tactics, the tacticians then try to invoke that as evidence that disciplinary action against them is unwarranted and unfair. Witness the recently closed [ATMB thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgender-topics/926758/81) regarding one of the other recently closed threads, where one of the posters is arguing that the criticized behavior can’t really have been so bad because it hadn’t already provoked a Pitting.

I give jerkish or trollish behavior a pass around here all the time because it’s not worth it to me to be jumping on every single instance that I see. But I recognize that giving such behavior a pass is to some extent passively enabling it. There’s no magic cure for jerkish/trollish behavior, not even by ignoring or avoiding it.

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