# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 186
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8180 "2023-01-21T00:20:05Z")
Yeah, it didn’t seem like trolling to me, either. They seemed to take issue with you calling them an “enabler” instead of a “terrorist.” I can see the logic there, even: an enabler allows people to get away with bad stuff, but doesn’t generally do the worst stuff themselves. You say your initial reply to them was polite for the Pit. I would say the same about theirs. It just escalated into a typical (if old school) Pit fight from there. He got offended by what you said, you got offended by what he said. I think both of you were just expressing your legitimate opinion. Hence he wasn’t trolling just as much as you weren’t trolling him. I actually approve of you asking in this thread. I consider it part of the purpose—to ask if your perceptions of trolling fit everyone else’s. Hopefully you’ve gotten enough answers to your question now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8181 "2023-01-21T00:37:31Z")
Overall, yes. I don’t want to drag it out here, because again, that would be a shadowpitting. I have people IRL that for whatever reason, every time we come across each other we end up in a mutual huff. I figure the 3 months should work, and by that time we’ll both have found other things to be angry with and not be so on edge. Thanks all, just could NOT fully manage to separate myself from the emotional investment after the third go through. I won’t take anymore time away from our troll hunt. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8182 "2023-01-21T01:19:13Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Follow everyone else’s advice to let it go, and listen to the chicken dance instead. Why not just stop with 🎶_Let it Go_ 🎶 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8183 "2023-01-21T02:37:12Z")
PL, it did seem weird that you exploded all the sudden over some rando’s comment, but it was such a well-composed rant. I didn’t think Yookeroo was provoking you, but boy howdy, they touched a nerve. That was a proper verbal shellacking. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8184 "2023-01-21T02:47:27Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > PL, it did seem weird that you exploded all the sudden over some rando’s comment, but it was such a well-composed rant. It’s a personal peeve, thus my old ATMB thread about the single biggest reason for pitting seems to be dishonesty (including lies and misrepresentation). In most threads you have to kinda grin and bear it, because most posters (with some noticeable exceptions) are skilled enough to just stay on the line of ‘lack of context’ and then you get the hammer for calling them liars, or just having to let it go after your second or third attempt. Or you derail the thread. But they did in the Pit, and thus my (mental) response was, ho boy, it’s ON. Again, less than 24 hours later I felt I had gone to far. But then they came back with what I considered a child-like “I know you are but what am I” level comeback and I almost lost it again. Not my proudest moment, but 1) wasn’t going to apologize because given the provocation I would have done it again (with about 25% of the words and 10% of the swearing granted), and 2) I still think in the 2nd and 3rd event they deliberately mis-construed everything I was saying. But since I still have 47 minutes of chicken dance to soldier through, I refuse to dig myself any deeper. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8185 "2023-01-21T03:28:36Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > But then they came back with what I considered a child-like “I know you are but what am I” level comeback and I almost lost it again. I think that part was trolling. Honestly. Not blatant, bannable trolling, but trolling. Everything up to that might have been sincere, but that last bit was clearly meant solely to piss you off and it seemed to work. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8186 "2023-01-21T03:47:26Z")
Newbie **Cham2** raises his concerns in the Election thread _Should Democrats stop talking about social and racial issues?_ ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8187 "2023-01-21T04:53:10Z")
Oh hell yes that’s a troll. White supremacy is fading my … wait, still listening to chicken dance. -deep breaths- That’s a troll. New poster, jumps in with full confidence on a charged issue, claims it isn’t a problem after all… ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8188 "2023-01-21T05:01:43Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > New poster Mmm, assumes facts not in evidence? ---
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8189 "2023-01-21T05:07:58Z")
Well, strictly speaking every trock is technically a “new poster”. 😉 ---
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8190 "2023-01-21T05:08:36Z")
I can’t believe people are getting sucked in by the concern troll when we have a much more fun Bigfoot guy! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8191 "2023-01-21T05:19:18Z")
Fine, let me correct: ‘New poster’ complete with scare quotes for emphasis. 😜 > [@Riemann](#): > > I can’t believe people are getting sucked in by the concern troll when we have a much more fun Bigfoot guy! I assume you’re speaking of the entity with the strangely appropriate name due to the use of the word ‘fishy’ in it? Didn’t we just have another poster that abandoned the use of punctuation and capitalization as well? (thread is “Finding Bigfoot”) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8192 "2023-01-21T05:59:00Z")
Oh holy shitballs batman, the fishy went from weird ‘ha ha’ silly troll to full on TROOOOOOLLLL! See the “how can christians vote…” thread that Aspenglow stomped flat after the OP. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8193 "2023-01-21T06:00:55Z")
Fishy is a keeper. First post - Bigfoot is real. Next post - how can Christians who believe in something that isn’t real be allowed to vote or hold public office? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8194 "2023-01-21T06:02:07Z")
I will be surprised if the mods don’t do catch and release of fishy back to the wilds of the the raging troll river in less than 48 hours at this rate. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2023, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8195 "2023-01-21T06:53:52Z")
More like 48 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8196 "2023-01-21T07:00:50Z")
I see the split/merge/cornfield thread already being processed so, yes, the system worked. And all those who were doing other fun things on a Friday night will have missed a truly strange troll. Anyone want to give odds on Cham2’s duration? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8197 "2023-01-21T15:10:47Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > See the “how can christians vote…” thread that Aspenglow stomped flat after the OP. Where’s this? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8198 "2023-01-21T16:26:08Z")
Pretty sure it’s gone now. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8199 "2023-01-21T16:57:26Z")
Yes, thus my comment that all that were not on at the time had missed a truly strange troll. It was being split off and cornfielded shortly after we started watching. And good riddance. But @Riemann summarized the OP fully upthread > [@Riemann](#): > > Next post - how can Christians who believe in something that isn’t real be allowed to vote or hold public office? That was really it. Although as I recall there was also a little conspiracy theory twist at the end about how various real books of the bible or other works were being hidden to prevent the truth from coming out. Again, weird troll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=187)