# 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:** 278
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10025 "2023-07-28T19:46:18Z")
Usually, yes, now that we don’t allow direct insults of posters in titles. But you can’t take the “troll” out of the troll thread without confusing its purpose, so instead we just don’t do direct links from this thread. ---
**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 28, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10026 "2023-07-28T19:56:37Z")
This much drama for a first post screams troll to me (and probably sock as well). But TBD I guess. The troll part is in getting other people invested in their manufactured drama. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10027 "2023-07-28T20:02:53Z")
I could imagine a random person googling what to do about their situation and finding their way here, so they innocently post their story. Why else would you do it? If you just want to make up a wild yarn and see people react to it, go do it on Reddit. They have plenty of subreddits happy to pretend your creative writing essay is a real problem. ---
**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 28, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10028 "2023-07-28T20:12:03Z")
> [@Mr.E](#): > > I could imagine a random person googling what to do about their situation… That, I can imagine. > …and finding their way here That I cannot. But in this case they said they were a long time reader. > [@Mr.E](#): > > Why else would you do it? Because they’re a sock, of course. A troll covets what it sees. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10029 "2023-07-28T20:14:39Z")
Ah, I missed that they said they were a long time reader. That does push things in the sock direction, but it’s still feasible (but weird) that they’d be a long-time reader who only just now made an account. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10030 "2023-07-28T23:13:24Z")
I lurked here for months, maybe a year, before I made an account. I wanted to get a good idea of where I was first. ---
**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 28, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10031 "2023-07-28T23:23:15Z")
But was your first post a “Here, let me tell you intimate details of my family life” post? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10032 "2023-07-29T02:49:06Z")
No; but I generally try not to do that here anyway. ---
**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 29, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10033 "2023-07-29T03:00:54Z")
It didn’t seem particularly intimate. All we know (from the OP) is that the poster is married (has a wife, so presumably married to a woman) who is recently unemployed and whose previous boss has issues. No sex, no drugs, no rock n roll. ---
**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 29, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10034 "2023-07-29T13:43:16Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I mean, it tweaked me as pretty much a distillation of every work-related “r/maliciouscompliance” or “r/pettyrevenge” reddit post ever. The bit about the boss demanding the poster’s spouse go pick up the boss’s child from daycare struck me as suspicious. I’d be incredibly surprised if, today, there are any places that will release the child to someone not on the written authorization list. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10035 "2023-07-29T14:30:07Z")
I’d be totally unsurprised if a great many day in home day care providers don’t follow all the rules and laws. Especially when an asshole parent is yelling at them on the phone. ---
**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 29, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10036 "2023-07-29T14:34:42Z")
That part wasn’t surprising Live in a small enough town and even the phone call from the parent wouldn’t be necessary, especially if it’s more of a ‘daycare’ that isn’t licensed by the state and run by somebody looking to a few bucks. Everybody literally knows everybody else and lots of businesses aren’t properly licensed Could this be a troll? Sure. But the details are so …MUNDANE that this would be the most boring troll imaginable. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10037 "2023-08-02T15:13:13Z")
New thread in IMHO about the phrase “that being said”, started by a poster “matt” I do not recognize. The poster has a hidden profile. Mine antennae are quivering, but linguistic prescriptivists trigger me. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10038 "2023-08-02T19:12:09Z")
If you’re referring to mattgg, he’s been around a while. Seems ok. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10039 "2023-08-02T20:04:49Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > …but linguistic prescriptivists trigger me. AAAAAAAAA you rotten descriptivist AAAAAAAAAA!!! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10040 "2023-08-03T12:34:57Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > If you’re referring to mattgg, he’s been around a while. Kind of odd, though. Search for posts by them, sort by latest, and there are a slew of posts going back to June 2020 (ok), then nothing for a long time, and then a single post in October of 2003. That’s… questionable. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10041 "2023-08-03T14:29:35Z")
Maybe not. One post in 2003 – somebody maybe recently online, looking around, didn’t really get into message boards at the time or got into a different one and didn’t come back to this one. June 2020 – remember 2020? Person in isolation looking for something to do, vaguely remembers posting here once, finds the boards again and discovers that now, nearly 20 years later in their life, they are into message board discussion (and/or wherever they’d been doing so in the meantime has become defunct.) I haven’t noticed the particular person, or checked their posts. But I don’t think the posting pattern you describe is automatically questionable just because of the timing. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10042 "2023-08-03T15:14:12Z")
Someone creates an account in 2003 to respond to one post they happened to see. Having completely forgotten that, in 2020 they want to respond to another post they happened to see. They try to create an account and fail because their email address is already in the system. So they update the password and this time they stick around. In 2023 they open a weird thread, people investigate and “what the Hell?” ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10043 "2023-08-03T16:13:56Z")
Or a very, very committed sock. Like the kind that creates a lot of socks over the years and then dusts off/curates as needed. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/10044 "2023-08-03T16:17:16Z")
Ok. There are three theories in the last three posts. We can each decide for ourselves which is more probable. If they do something trollish, I’m happy to re-evaluate the probablities. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=277) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=279)