# 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:** 273
**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:** [July 11, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9925 "2023-07-11T01:22:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > People always assume I like to paddle a boat. Turns out Mr and Mrs Aker named their son Kay. I always thought it was a brand of draft beer! đŸș ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9926 "2023-07-11T03:03:40Z")
I’m disappointed _ILMVI_ doesn’t parse correctly as a Roman numeral. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9927 "2023-07-12T21:45:31Z")
Well, “the loner with the bad golf swing” is suspended for 30 days for ignoring mod instructions and for a history of general bad posting attitudes. He had two (count them, two) threads corn-fielded, all unbeknownst to us. It’s interesting to me how some posters can join and post for a while, and although they may rub a few people wrong, they don’t get a reputation or draw attention in this thread. Then one day something seems to change, they are mentioned here, and suddenly other posters realize what a jerk that poster can be, and pretty soon they are careening off a cliff. I confess to not understanding this phenomenon very well. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9928 "2023-07-12T22:10:48Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > He had two (count them, two) threads corn-fielded, all unbeknownst to us. I saw the assassination thread. I don’t know how many others flagged it besides me, but it was fucking bizarre. Although the guy’s given off crackpot vibes for a while, this was way over the line of propriety. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9929 "2023-07-12T22:40:07Z")
I think he is, and always has been a troll. And probably a sock as well. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9930 "2023-07-12T23:02:03Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > And probably a sock as well. Just for the record, by the way, if you ever suspect that someone is the sock of some other specific name, please let us mods know about that, and why you think it. We have various ways to check, but it’s a lot easier to compare two specific people than to compare someone to everyone who’s ever been banned. This is especially true when (though I haven’t seen this recently) folks say “
And we all know whose sock he is”. No, we don’t all know: If we did, they would already be banned. On the other hand, if it’s just “He’s probably a sock because trolls like him usually are”, well, possibly, but not very useful for us (we probably already have similar suspicions). ---
**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:** [July 12, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9931 "2023-07-12T23:04:06Z")
There was quite a lot of speculation about them in this thread a ways back. They seemed to be trying very hard to ‘fit in’ in ways that did not resemble a new poster. I think there was a strong feeling that they were indeed a sock, but _maybe_ (most minor possible benefit of the doubt) one trying to rehabilitate themselves rather than trolling. And comments were made about the timing. But, as has been pointed out before in this thread, serial socks, even if they start out sane, tend to keep pushing until they can’t be ignored. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9932 "2023-07-12T23:06:30Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > But, as has been pointed out before in this thread, serial socks, even if they start out sane, tend to keep pushing until they can’t be ignored. Almost as if they are disappointed by the amount of attention they can get from just being a regular poster. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9933 "2023-07-16T15:16:03Z")
**Digger11** just outed themselves in the SAG-AFTRA thread. Anybody else aware of this shitclown? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9934 "2023-07-17T11:11:05Z")
Not noticed them before, but the post was nicely fielded. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9935 "2023-07-17T12:12:04Z")
I missed the now-corn-fielded post – outed themselves as what? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9936 "2023-07-17T12:16:25Z")
Nothing was cornfielded. Post 23 is still there. I’m a little unsure what they outed themselves as myself. Semi-Anti-Union I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9937 "2023-07-17T13:28:30Z")
Looks like it was fielded, not corn-fielded. Doesn’t seem like a troll. Has posts in other threads that are pretty normal. Maybe a bit conservative (and with some of the blindspots that brings) but that doesn’t make one a troll. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9938 "2023-07-17T14:15:14Z")
It’s anti-Labor, and stupid as well. That makes them a troll in my book. YMMV, obviously. In any case, I won’t be seeing any of their posts in the future. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9939 "2023-07-17T16:03:20Z")
I don’t see anti-labor and stupid as trollish. It’s at best ignorant (and maybe even correctable) and at worst pig-headed. But I don’t see it as being deliberately inflammatory. Some people have a narrow view and limited knowledge of the purpose and history of unions. It’s not uncommon for people to see them as being solely about safety, and unaware of all the other ways that people are exploited by organizations. And there is the mistaken belief that acting is inherently safe, void of danger, when in reality unions go to great pains to make things as safe as they can and people still get hurt and even killed during filming and preparation for filming. That’s not on the level of “so wrong you are either being deliberately offensive or you’re beyond hope”, the way antivax or flat earth or Q folks are. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9940 "2023-07-17T23:28:49Z")
Not to mention, not all unions have been so great. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9941 "2023-07-17T23:35:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s anti-Labor, and stupid as well. That makes them a troll in my book. “Troll” doesn’t mean “People I don’t like”. You seem to be using the word the same way some Republicans use the word “woke”. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9942 "2023-07-17T23:37:46Z")
Fine, I should have posted that in the “Stupid MFers” thread. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I grovel in the dust in shame and indignity. I rend my garments and gnash my teeth in humiliation. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9943 "2023-07-17T23:39:57Z")
Oh sure, in my day we also crawled through the mud to beg forgiveness. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9944 "2023-07-17T23:44:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Fine, I should have posted that in the “Stupid MFers” thread. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I grovel in the dust in shame and indignity. I rend my garments and gnash my teeth in humiliation. All of Neptune’s oceans could not wash away the stain of your shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=272) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=274)