# 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:** 225
**Author:** ![Ssounder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@Ssounder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ssounder)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8965 "2023-04-04T13:49:35Z")
I considered that myself. From what I’ve seen, they have different posting styles. I can’t rule it out 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:** [April 4, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8966 "2023-04-04T22:51:00Z")
I don’t know anything about this poster, but in their OP in the thread about why folks hate Trump, this phrase certainly caught my eye and looked very much like sealioning. > Can someone explain - calmly and without exaggeration A quick glance at posting history does not throw out any red flags, so maybe it is just general cluelessness. I look forward to their return to their thread where they will declare the wool lifted from their eyes and their new clear perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8967 "2023-04-04T22:53:12Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > A quick glance at posting history does not throw out any red flags, so maybe it is just general cluelessness. He did start a thread about the “Russia Hoax.” So there’s that. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8968 "2023-04-04T23:00:50Z")
I had considered bringing that thread up here, but after a review similar to @Roderick_Femm’s, I didn’t see any sign of trollishness. Doesn’t mean they aren’t a low-information Fox news watcher - the question would be, if they actually read and follow up on the incidents mentioned, if they double down on the Trump defense, deflect to the “it’s not anything else rich people don’t do”, or improve. I wouldn’t lay odds though, especially since they dropped that turd of a biased OP and haven’t responded. ( no offense to @What_Exit suggesting that P&E was not the right place to attack the OP’s insinuations and own bias [IMHO it was the right call], but it was still noticeable ) ---
**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:** [April 4, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8969 "2023-04-04T23:06:43Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > He did start a thread about the “Russia Hoax.” So there’s that. My quick glance missed that. And he never came back to that thread. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8970 "2023-04-05T00:00:40Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I don’t know anything about this poster, but in their OP in the thread about why folks hate Trump, this phrase certainly caught my eye and looked very much like sealioning. Okay, so it wasn’t just me who had their trolldar pinging faintly. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8971 "2023-04-05T05:08:59Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I agree that we shouldn’t @ or link, I get the “shouldn’t link” part as that’s a mod ruling, but “shouldn’t @”? Whyever not? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2023, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8972 "2023-04-05T05:19:40Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > That was a high quality post by his standards. I assume we’re talking post 4071. No clue about how factual it was, but it wasn’t a bare link post at least. ⁢ I personally assumed it was a copy-paste job. That opening read like some spam I’ve seen, claiming it was reported in all of these news sites. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2023, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8973 "2023-04-05T05:30:32Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I get the “shouldn’t link” part as that’s a mod ruling, but “shouldn’t @”? Because the person gets a message about the post, you’re basically sending them a private message to come join the thread. And that’s not necessarily something you want to do in this thread. Not that the thread is secret (anyone can read it) but that doesn’t mean you have to advertise either. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8974 "2023-04-05T09:26:08Z")
That wasn’t as a mod. Just to avoid dragging the person to the thread and disrupting this thread. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8975 "2023-04-05T10:05:39Z")
I think this thread shouldbe where we talk and warn about trolls, not engage with them. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8976 "2023-04-05T11:28:00Z")
Agreed ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8977 "2023-04-05T14:52:00Z")
The poster **r a l f y** is on a streak. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8978 "2023-04-05T15:00:26Z")
Yeah, I can almost hear the timer ticking on that one. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8979 "2023-04-05T15:01:35Z")
First warning issued and an ejection from the Ukraine Invasion thread. So we’ll see if they modify behavior or carry on. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8980 "2023-04-05T15:54:52Z")
Did anyone get a feel for that pile o’ turds ralfy dropped into the Ukraine MPSIMS thread? I understand it’s been characterized as “off-topic” (and my glance at it showed that it was also terse to the point of incoherence, except for a bunch of links), but I’m trying to gauge how “out there” their “contribution” was. Pro-RU propaganda? Irrelevant conspiracy theory crap? Political nutbaggery? All of the above? If no one bit the bullet to sample the garbage, I understand. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8981 "2023-04-05T15:57:42Z")
It was off-topic for the thread. Some was Pro-RU. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8982 "2023-04-05T16:00:09Z")
Ok. I was just trying to understand how anyone could go so far off-base, but I guess if you don’t care about the rules or the thread context it’s easy. Pitiful. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8983 "2023-04-05T16:02:15Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I was just trying to understand how anyone could go so far off-base Has ol’ **ralf** ever been _on_ base? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/8984 "2023-04-05T16:05:09Z")
Hit by a pitch. Picked off trying to steal third (directly from first, mind you.) Left the team after the rest of the players (and coaches) filled his cup with Gorilla Glue and Ben-Gay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=224) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=226)