# 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:** 227
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9005 "2023-04-07T14:25:23Z")
Well played, but it’s a shame that trolls get fed instead of immediately rejected. If nothing else, because it makes the cleanup so much more work. ---
**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 7, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9006 "2023-04-07T15:33:16Z")
The poster known as SuntanLotion is now posting troll shit in the Stupid MFers thread, which is fortunately in the pit, so they can be called out on it _in situ_. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9007 "2023-04-07T15:36:12Z")
I don’t think she’s a troll, but an idiot. That has always been obvious by her inane posting style. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9008 "2023-04-07T15:43:33Z")
^^^ Agree. Just a thoroughgoing moron. ---
**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 7, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9009 "2023-04-07T15:44:56Z")
They been on my ignore list a while now, for writing posts worth less than the time it takes me to read them. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9010 "2023-04-07T15:46:34Z")
I don’t know if they are a troll, but they most definitely are not the person they portray themselves as. ---
**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 7, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9011 "2023-04-07T16:30:39Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Their first post in that thread was highly insulting to other posters. I wish it had been flagged rather than replied to. Thankfully a later post was flagged. I’m sorry, I read the first post and found it insulting, but not (IMHO) anything that would have been actionable, so I posted my mild bit of snark and brought them up here. Their second post about exterminators felt threatening and moddable, so I flagged it with extreme prejudice (and was probably not the only one). My mild snark was forgettable, but there was another poster who was supremely killing the troll with kindness, explaining that you have to be able to, you know, support your allegations and adhere to a minimal level of politeness or they would not be long for the world. THAT was a beautiful piece of work. But I must say, it’s nice to flag someone before bed, and see them gone by the time you get up. Good work @What_Exit! ---
**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 7, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9012 "2023-04-07T16:35:25Z")
I thank you for the flag. Very helpful. It was the only one, believe it or not. Though it did all happen fairly late at night for most posters. ---
**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 7, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9013 "2023-04-07T17:06:39Z")
I do try to flag, and I _think_ my accuracy is getting better. But your point about late night trolling is super accurate. The number of weeknights where I’ve gone to bed and found this thread has a dozen posts about a truly amusing troll-smackdown that is gone before I have a chance to giggle is not small. But, giggles aside, better to have them gone ASAP. Win for everyone. And now we wait for the inevitable return! ---
**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:** [April 7, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9014 "2023-04-07T18:10:00Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > ^^^ Agree. Just a thoroughgoing moron. I misread that as “thouroughbred moron”. Somehow that works, too! ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9015 "2023-04-08T03:43:16Z")
ralfy has just shat upon this thread too. I’m linking to a different post there so there’s no direct trail from him back to here. > [@Why does China want Taiwan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-china-want-taiwan/965145/53): > > Yes of course. There is almost certainly no piece of inhabited dirt today that’s been under the same or legitimate predecessor government since before there were governments. IOW, every bit of inhabited land has changed hands badly at least once and in someone’s eyes the current occupants can be considered illegitimate squatters. All that differs is how long ago the dirt last changed hands illegitimately and how much the former occupants have labored diligently to keep that grudge alive acros… Yes, he’s been reported. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9016 "2023-04-08T03:50:25Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I don’t think she’s a troll, but an idiot. That has always been obvious by her inane posting style.- Yes. I’ve been tempted to pit her many times, but it’s just not worth the effort. Very sad person. ---
**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 8, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9017 "2023-04-08T04:41:52Z")
I see **ralphy** pulled a warning from W\_E for bumping a 3 month dead thread “Is China preparing to attack Taiwan” with a link only based post. That and their scattershot posting all day, normally more or less off-topic or as a content-free apologist attempt made me apply a 3 month ignore. Although since W\_E mentions that they got a warning based on their past history, it seems likely if they keep posting with this frequency 3 months is all I’ll need… What irks me the most, strangely, is that they use a Fallout avatar. I don’t want games I enjoy to be tainted by people who are nutjobs. It’s totally unfair that _this_ is what irks me the most, and I’m puzzled at my overreaction, but damn my apparent human irrationality. I should talk to **BeepKillBeep** about getting an upload to a nice clean inorganic unit with self-editing capabilities… ---
**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 8, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9018 "2023-04-08T07:02:06Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > What irks me the most, strangely, is that they use a Fallout avatar. I don’t want games I enjoy to be tainted by people who are nutjobs. It’s totally unfair that _this_ is what irks me the most, and I’m puzzled at my overreaction, but damn my apparent human irrationality. He’s besmirching the good name of Vault Boy. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9019 "2023-04-08T11:15:02Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > it seems likely if they keep posting with this frequency 3 months is all I’ll need… Already suspended ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9020 "2023-04-08T11:32:01Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > ralfy has just shat upon this thread too. Yeah, hugely annoying. I’m not convinced it breaks any rules. At least, not by itself. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9021 "2023-04-08T12:12:45Z")
Yeah. Ultimately as best I can tell he’s the usual trollish sort. Just keeps posting his largely fact-free position pieces and pays no attention to any responses. In effect treating this place as a blank wall to be graffitti-ed at 2am, not as a place of actual debate or conversation in the daylight. It’s vandalism. Which isn’t strictly against our rules until it arises to breaking the windows, not just spraying the walls. ---
**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 8, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9022 "2023-04-08T12:16:01Z")
He is suspended pending a review of his posting privileges. I will be bumping this up to the Modloop. He has been spamming the board of late and last night violated a mod instruction. It will take me a while to write this all up and my coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9023 "2023-04-08T12:54:56Z")
Thanks for the update. Once suspended it doesn’t much matter how long the coordination takes; the ongoing damage is stanched meanwhile. ---
**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 8, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9024 "2023-04-08T16:08:49Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Yeah, hugely annoying. I’m not convinced it breaks any rules. At least, not by itself. Yeah, I found some of **ralphy** ’s posts, especially in the Why the Hate for Trump thread, to be off-topic, and flagged them, but **Aspenglow** felt they didn’t rise to that level. Which may well be correct! So no arguments about the moderation, and it seemed easy enough to let the Ralf-ster’s body of recent work stand for itself. _Something_ obviously happened to drive the SDMB to the front of his head, as they’ve now gone crazy posting on dozens of old and current threads, but prior to the ignore, I hadn’t seen one that had much more than an almost child-like “Nuh-uh!” involved. But LSLGuy put it best. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Once suspended it doesn’t much matter how long the coordination takes; the ongoing damage is stanched meanwhile. Vault Boy will be free! [second Fallout related bitch: Ralphie the (Heroic) Robot (different spelling) is a backstory element in the New Vegas addon Lonesome Road. It’s kind of cheesy, but a sweet and sentimental Lassie-esque character. And the use of that name probably contributes to my earlier not-quite-justified irritation towards the above poster.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=226) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=228)