# 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:** 253
**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:** [June 8, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9525 "2023-06-08T22:42:49Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Is “don’t feed the trolls” the new form of trolling? Maybe. We talked earlier about, “Don’t feed those who say don’t feed the trolls,” since it’s generally useless advice. I do think in the “jackass” case though, it was pretty obvious that any response was a bad response. That was a, “Hey everybody come smell what’s in the elevator” thread. He **wants** you to complain about how nasty the fart was. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9526 "2023-06-08T23:07:58Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > It takes two to troll: one to troll, another to be trolled. Who’s the more trollish, the troll or the troll who follows him? ---
**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:** [June 8, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9527 "2023-06-08T23:25:58Z")
Troll not, lest ye be trolled. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9528 "2023-06-08T23:35:24Z")
Ask not for whom the troll trolls. It trolls for thee. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9529 "2023-06-09T01:19:52Z")
^thats the thread. We’re done with this one. @discobot, could you start the next one, please? ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9530 "2023-06-09T01:19:53Z")
> 🔮 Better not tell you now ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9531 "2023-06-09T01:20:46Z")
Insolent little shit… ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9532 "2023-06-09T01:20:47Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9533 "2023-06-09T01:21:28Z")
Ask you for help _again_? After the shit you just tried to pull??? Never this side of hell! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9534 "2023-06-09T01:21:33Z")
Can you fix the YouTube glitch? ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9535 "2023-06-09T01:21:35Z")
You’ve disabled me in your preferences. You need to allow new user onboarding tips to interact with me. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9536 "2023-06-09T01:22:26Z")
@Discobot, tell me the truth. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9537 "2023-06-09T01:22:58Z")
“You’ve disabled me in your preferences. You need to allow new user onboarding tips to interact with me.” I guess you can take that as a “no,” @crowmanyclouds. Like I said, he’s an insolent little shit. ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9538 "2023-06-09T01:22:59Z")
> 🗨 _If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude._ — Colin Powell ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9539 "2023-06-09T01:23:22Z")
Oh fuck off! ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9540 "2023-06-09T01:23:43Z")
LOL, you asked discobot for truth and you got a quote from Colin Powell. Now I see who the real troll is! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9541 "2023-06-09T15:46:23Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Polite request? > > I agree that a long talk about how we (well, not WE but you get my drift) lump together all non-visa’d immigration (temporary or otherwise) is worthy of a long talk both here and IRL. But, whether or not it’s in ATMB, maybe not in _this_ thread? I think it’s a great thread idea even in great debates, and much more so than the thread the troll spawned. Agreed–but I definitely think it’s an ATMB discussion. > [@"Illegals" and "invaders" should be moderated as hate speech in the context of immigration debates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illegals-and-invaders-should-be-moderated-as-hate-speech-in-the-context-of-immigration-debates/985244): > > I’d like to talk about three terms that show up in discussions of immigration: Illegal immigrants Illegals Invaders (and “invasion”) First, “Illegal immigrants” is a term that is falling out of use among experts in the field. [The DOJ no longer uses it](https://www.npr.org/2021/04/19/988789487/immigration-agencies-ordered-not-to-use-term-illegal-alien-under-new-biden-polic). [The AP Style Guide hasn’t used it for ten years](https://blog.ap.org/announcements/illegal-immigrant-no-more). Linguists decry it as “[neither accurate nor neutral](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/06/illegal-immigrant-label-offensive-wrong-activists-say)”.But I don’t think it should be considered hate speech. It’s the equivalent of an outdated term like “Negro” to describe a Black person: use it… ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9542 "2023-06-09T16:25:55Z")
You have my support (and the ammunition I linked earlier!) but glad to get it out of _this_ thread. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9543 "2023-06-10T02:32:32Z")
Sorry to bring it back here, but that’s where it belongs: that bellend is trolling the **shit** out of the ATMB thread. I’ve reported it, and won’t respond to him further there, and encourage others not to let it turn into a “satisfy his sad trolly urges” 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:** [June 10, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9544 "2023-06-10T03:49:25Z")
TOWB I assume? They are certainly trying to ‘win on the interwebs’ in a way indistinguishable from trolling. Again, not sure if they believe what they’re saying (which if not, makes them a fucking troll) or just want to win their argument and don’t care that it makes them (and makes them look) like a troll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=252) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=254)