# 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:** ![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 11, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3813 "2021-06-11T17:40:51Z")

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I hope it’s not out of line to continue to discuss a multiply-banned person’s pattern of posting, but what’s going on here? Stucco was an active participant on the board, with thousands of posts mostly on non-controversial topics, all as far as I can discern (albeit in just a brief random sampling) perfectly reasonable. That being the case, based on just the OP in the recent “virtue signalling” thread, I might have been open minded to the possibility that this was just an area where the OP was completely clueless (rather than trolling). But there’s an implausibly similar thread that @Darren_Garrison dug up earlier:

> [@Revising an industry manual that has racist content](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revising-an-industry-manual-that-has-racist-content/939732):
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> For obvious reasons I must be vague about details but the story goes like this: In the late 90s and early 2000s a well respected estimator in our industry published a job costing manual. I met the guy and attended his classes, and have some of his media, and I’m a big fan. Most of his teachings IMO are very valuable to the industry. Sadly he passed away a few years ago. This winter an industry organization committee was commissioned, with his estates blessing, and I volunteered as a guest revi…

Again, the theme centers around race, and again OP portrays himself as the well-meaning protagonist trying to do the right thing but uncertain how to behave. Again, secret details that cannot be revealed. But a completely different job. That thread was more innocuous, not framed in a self-pitying manner, and did not go off the rails. But its existence strongly implies that both this and the “virtue signalling” thread were complete fabrications. And we now know that stucco had the gadzookery sock on back burner in anticipation of the possibility of being banned.

What’s the point of all this? The recent thread was ultimately quite entertaining, but I think not for the reasons the OP intended. And it just doesn’t seem worth the effort for whatever it was supposed to be.

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