# 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:** 247
**Author:** ![NinthAcolyte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ninthacolyte/32/13676_2.png) [@NinthAcolyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinthAcolyte)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9405 "2023-05-23T15:06:40Z")
Looking back on the dumbass posts of one’s impressionable youth is always good for a laugh… Or at least for a moment of humbled reflection. See for example this gem from eight years ago - > [@Should a man who self-identifies as a woman be allowed to compete in Female Olympic categories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-man-who-self-identifies-as-a-woman-be-allowed-to-compete-in-female-olympic-categories/718500/76): > > I’m a staunch supporter of the rights of transgender individuals […] Oh you poor, sad, stupid, _extremely trans_ bitch… ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9406 "2023-05-23T17:15:10Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > In paleontology that would be a [_holotype_](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holotype) – the single specimen designated by an author as the type of a species or lesser taxon at the time of establishing the group. The trollotype! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9407 "2023-05-23T17:43:25Z")
That was some prime snark in that link. I particularly liked: > As of January 24, 2014, Mabus was still at it, enlisting the help of an alleged “[friend](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sockpuppet)” to harass PZ Myers and others.[[24]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze#cite_note-24) His “[friend](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sockpuppet)” posted similar rants on other atheism and freethought-related message boards, which, after others’ responses, quickly devolved into rants very transparently written by Mabus himself, thereby casting further doubt, as if any were needed, on the idea that someone as clearly deranged as Mabus could have friends.[[25]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze#cite_note-25) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9408 "2023-05-23T18:16:22Z")
While I can’t say my posts never look new or dumbtastic upon stumbling on them again, what happens more often is I see a thread and while reading it think " I know exactly what I’m going to say to that!" Only to scroll further and find out that it was a zombie that I did not remember and that I in fact, did post what I intended to post. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9409 "2023-05-23T18:44:01Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Only to scroll further and find out that it was a zombie that I did not remember and that I in fact, did post what I intended to post. I’ve done that so many times I wonder if someone programmed me like a robot. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9410 "2023-05-23T19:34:20Z")
My husband likes to convince people that we’re in a giant simulation. If he’s right, maybe you have been programmed. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9411 "2023-05-23T20:01:35Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > My husband likes to convince people that we’re in a giant simulation. A civilization of tiny aliens decided to investigate how a universe with much larger people would function? ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9412 "2023-05-23T21:09:02Z")
How do outside programmers program people in the simulation who are programmers? They’d have to anticipate every computer bug ever to give the programmers something to error detect. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9413 "2023-05-23T21:14:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > They’d have to anticipate every computer bug ever to give the programmers something to error detect. Well, they have implemented true randomness into our computer systems. Of course they have their own bugs in their simulation, that’s what we observe as glitches in the matrix. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9414 "2023-05-23T21:57:48Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The trollotype! Brilliant! ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9415 "2023-05-24T19:16:22Z")
> [@NinthAcolyte](#): > > Looking back on the dumbass posts of one’s impressionable youth is always good for a laugh… Or at least for a moment of humbled reflection. For better or worse, the posts of my youth have been lost to antiquity. One because of a software glitch (the forum itself survives, albeit in something of a rump state relative to what it had been at its height, but everything posted pre-2013 was lost) and the other because… I honestly don’t know why. Snopes decided to stop paying the electric bill, sure, but then how much does it really cost to keep a forum going without moderation, and how much had he taken from forum members in donations for other purposes? Oh, well, spilt milk. Like water poured out over so much ground. Or tears in rain. Whatever. Pick your figure of speech. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9416 "2023-05-24T19:39:23Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > (the forum itself survives, albeit in something of a rump state relative to what it had been at its height, but everything posted pre-2013 was lost) Are you referring to your own posts in some past incarnation (your join date is 2019)? Because there are definitely much older posts around. I was just looking at a thread started in 2005. Apparently the only gap is the famous Winter of Our Missed Content, I believe spanning between December, 2001, and March of the following year. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9417 "2023-05-24T19:41:20Z")
I thought ASL was referring to the Snopes forums, but could be wrong… ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9418 "2023-05-24T19:43:26Z")
Yes, thanks, I believe he was, just as surely as I suffer from the occasional reading comprehension deficit. 😬 ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9419 "2023-05-24T19:57:09Z")
Boy, in twenty years that post is gonna be really embarrassing. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9420 "2023-05-24T21:17:43Z")
Here’s hoping 1) the board will be here 2) all of us are alive 3) all of us are still cognizant to be embarrassed in 20 years. Someone make a detailed note to follow up 5/23/2043. I volunteer J\_B! ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9421 "2023-05-24T21:27:07Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Here’s hoping 1) the board will be here 2) all of us are alive 3) all of us are still cognizant to be embarrassed in 20 years. Hear, hear! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9422 "2023-05-24T21:41:07Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Someone make a detailed note to follow up 5/23/2043 I would have been 81. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9423 "2023-05-24T21:50:52Z")
Damn time travelers showing off. Can I get some stock tips at least? ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9424 "2023-05-24T22:01:05Z")
Get your hands on a sports magazine, it pays out, like documentaries about time travel showed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=246) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=248)