# 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:** 229
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9045 "2023-04-12T14:25:38Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > So, binge poster **a\_dude’s\_thought\_s** has created a new thread about “men’s responsibility to protect women” … and I’m of many thoughts. Going by said poster’s patterns, they blow in, post a lot for a short while and blow out. They have put up weak ‘put upon threads’ as well, but nothing I’d consider traditional trolling. > > But the whole pattern feels off. They may just be an attention hog, as they blow in, stir up some interest, and then leave for weeks/months, but seems a lot of effort for such little return, especially with just a few hours total read time for a multi-year account. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Recall we had someone called **A\_Dodgy\_Dude** awhile back, who got banned… So do we suppose it’s a coincidence that there is a 2020 account, **Dodgy\_Dude** , that seems to post infrequently, almost only in its own threads, that border on the fucking stupid (most recently a question about what one might do wit ha gold bar), or outright trolling (penultimate thread as of posting being a good example: _I don’t understand the intensity of the hatred for Trump_)? ETA: Actually, looking into it, the account **A\_Dodgy\_Dude** just stopped posting in 2020 (maybe with the board change?) but was never officially banned. I’m starting to think this is an example of a sock account where the owner forgot which email they used to register it and so had to start over wit ha new one (which is, coincidentally, my running theory for _anyone_ who could not figure out how to manage the transition it discourse in 2020: presumed sock). ---
**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 12, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9046 "2023-04-12T14:30:04Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > So do we suppose it’s a coincidence that there is a 2020 account, **Dodgy\_Dude** , that seems to post infrequently, almost only in its own threads, that border on the fucking stupid (most recently a question about what one might do wit ha gold bar), or outright trolling (penultimate thread as of posting being a good example: _I don’t understand the intensity of the hatred for Trump_)? See my post in the thread dedicated to DD: > [@Pitting Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-dodgy-dude/982264/55): > > Let me just remind folks that Dodgy Dude is the same poster as @A_Dodgy_Dude. Note that A Dodgy Dude last posted (and visited) the board on June 9, 2020. Dodgy Dude joined the board exactly one month later. They post the exact same stuff… Also, Dodgy Dude’s “name” (what you can put in your name field for your account here) is literally “A Dodgy Dude”, same as the older account. I don’t even think this is technically socking, my guess is that it was lost access from the old account, and they… Dodgy Dude is a 2008 account, not 2020. They just moved from one account to another, probably losing access to the original. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9047 "2023-04-12T14:32:07Z")
Ah, well that explains why there was such little discussion here. Obvious troll seemed obvious to me. And it turns out, that’s because it was! So obvious it got its own thread… 😳 ---
**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 12, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9048 "2023-04-12T20:49:50Z")
Troll or not, I’ve decided, in this case to go with the old adage: When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Whether it be “A dodgy dude” or “Dodgy Dude” they’re telling us that they are, from one Dictionary source: > Dictionary > > Definitions from [Oxford Languages](https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en) · [Learn more](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/10106608?hl=en) > > dodg·y > > _adjective_ > > INFORMAL•BRITISH > > adjective: **dodgy** ; comparative adjective: **dodgier** ; superlative adjective: **dodgiest** > > 1. dishonest or [unreliable](https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&biw=2116&bih=1058&sxsrf=APwXEdeQtujvgJMPIZZVJd9lPQeYua2aAg:1681332433644&q=unreliable&si=AMnBZoFY6cJe4EcBOpcoqxHCe-IfhvlYfMTTyX-h8izFPElwu3Z7UC3-bmR5LEum47MnQ5JRiHlnt7kiQxeH7m2mvJm1SanjpQ%3D%3D&expnd=1). > > “a dodgy secondhand car salesman” > > 1. potentially dangerous. > > “activities like these could be dodgy for your heart” > > 1. of low quality. > > “their dodgy defence had thrown away a 2-0 lead” I suggest that this poste meets all three definitions, and certainly the first and last. Doesn’t need to be a troll to be low value or dishonest, although most dishonest posters are trolling to one degree or another. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9049 "2023-04-22T01:53:44Z")
**Chicago Faucet** spent some time shitting up the latest Cecil Column, arguing against a nearly 20 year old documentary on a point only somewhat related to the thing Cecil’s Column was about. Are humans producing CO2 at unprecedented levels? Does an increase in global average temperature have any effect on anything other than perhaps causing CO2 levels to also increase? What does any of this have to do with Canada? None of these questions will be answered, but they will continued to be asked by people whose opinions seem to have ossified somewhere around 2010. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9050 "2023-04-22T02:25:15Z")
Ah, Mr. “I’m back because I got kicked out of all the other places.” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9051 "2023-04-22T03:08:05Z")
He is so dumb by declaring that _commenters_ debunked the science cited at Skeptical Science and that that is enough (yes, anonymous denier posters are scientists for him), forgetting that if it was debunked then the science would have changed a long time ago, the only solution for idiots like him is to **also** deny how the latest scientific reports and new data do not conform to what he stupidly declares. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9052 "2023-04-22T03:23:22Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Ah, Mr. “I’m back because I got kicked out of all the other places.” In his profile he states that he is a conservative and a “biological male”. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9053 "2023-04-22T03:24:57Z")
I had him on ignore at climate change denialism. That just confirms my assessment. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9054 "2023-04-22T03:31:18Z")
The warning bells started going off for me when he mentioned getting banned from places where you have to try really hard to get banned, and when one of his reasons was > Another course of events is when someone says, “Hey, what conspiracy theories are we not allowed to talk about?”, and you answer them. Aaaand, a conspiracy theory right out of the chute. ---
**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 22, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9055 "2023-04-22T05:09:04Z")
Not long for this place. ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9056 "2023-04-22T10:12:27Z")
**Chicago Faucet** (in the latest Cecil column, _Is Canada poised for world domination due to climate change?_) makes me feel like a wildlife biologist who’s discovered an extant example of a species previously believed to be extinct. What ho! A verified authentic climate change denier, of the ancient species _negator mutationis climaticae_ of which we previously only had fossils. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9057 "2023-04-22T11:06:31Z")
I love how Chicago Faucet thinks they’re angering people but it is like “No, dude, you’re just wrong and we’ve proved this crap wrong many, many, many times before.” I don’t think his return will last long. The only question will be whether he decides that “I’m just not welcome here” like with everywhere else that he’s left or gets banned in a blaze of glory. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9058 "2023-04-22T15:40:16Z")
BTW, another part of his profile is " Some call me a “sigma”, but I’m not a psychopath, if that’s what you were thinking." I had to google “sigma”: > **[The Sigma Male Explained: Traits, Characteristics (+ Quiz)](https://theadultman.com/love-and-lust/sigma-male/)** > > Has anyone ever called you a non-conformist? Then you may be a sigma male. Learn all about this captivating, lone wolf archetype in our mega-guide. > **[Sigma male](https://incels.wiki/w/Sigma_male)** So not only is this turd that floated back to the top of the toilet bowl a conspiracy theorist, but he is a proponent of Vox Day, the saddest of puppies. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9059 "2023-04-22T15:46:07Z")
Holy fuck nuts, there’s a wiki for incels? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9060 "2023-04-22T15:47:33Z")
When I started typing in “sigma”, Google autosuggested “sigma male”. Those are two of the top hits. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9061 "2023-04-22T15:51:36Z")
I’ll need a bit of brain bleach later, but I _did_ read that article. It sounds like someone calls themself a sigma male if everyone thinks they are an asshole, but that’s just because of how much better they are, and if they _wanted_ to, they could bend everyone to their will. I didn’t look too hard, but I didn’t see, “How to _not_ be an incel” on the incel wiki. Seems that’s what they need the most. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9062 "2023-04-22T16:11:17Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’ll need a bit of brain bleach later, but I _did_ read that article. The glowing support of the description reminds me of how people used to write about their “Indigo children”. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9063 "2023-04-22T16:11:58Z")
I first read that as “smegma male.” Is there any daylight between those two terms … really? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9064 "2023-04-22T16:26:55Z")
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