# 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:** 340
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11277 "2023-12-11T21:25:06Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I cannot believe people are engaging over there. At least a few people have said they’re bowing out – record time, really. I was originally suspicious, but the story was too lame to be a real attempt to troll us. But maybe. In the end, who cares. It’s stupid either way. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11278 "2023-12-11T21:29:27Z")
It didn’t say that at first. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11279 "2023-12-11T21:40:47Z")
I thought that might be the case, but at least now there is no ambiguity, 🙂 I also get the impression that aside from any problems with their posting (and those problems do seem to be worthy of noting), they aren’t trying to be deceptive about being a returning poster or about who they were. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11280 "2023-12-11T21:41:55Z")
I was just sayin’ My bad. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11281 "2023-12-11T21:58:49Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My bad. Your bad bad bad? 😁 ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11282 "2023-12-11T22:08:46Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Actually, not a new poster, but one that probably forgot their own logon. Passed off to ECG to merge the accounts. But the thread is being reviewed by MPSIMS mods also. So, looking at their “old” account, it wreaks of the sock drawer in its own right. Several years old, sure, but very infrequent posting history, and half of their (limited) posts seem to be on topics they started (many of which appear to have been locked, for what I can only assume are very good reasons–not interested enough to open them up). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11283 "2023-12-11T22:29:33Z")
Well, I was bored waiting on an appointment. So I looked. The poster _Ponders_ a bunch. Needed homework help. Asks big questions and doesn’t engage. I’m done with this poster. 😑They don’t wanna be my friend. So there! ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11284 "2023-12-11T22:34:11Z")
In general, I’d say that if you’re unsure, go ahead and report it. Worst case scenario, we look at the report and go “Nah, that’s totally legit”, and there’s no harm done. More likely, our response is “Hm, that is suspicious, but not enough evidence yet, we’ll keep an eye on that poster”. And occasionally, we’re able to find enough evidence to act. But it’s tough to catch them if we don’t have an idea to look in the first place, and we don’t read every thread, and even if we did, we might not notice something a poster noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11285 "2023-12-12T02:28:19Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > My bad. > > Your bad bad bad? I chortled. A bit. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11286 "2023-12-12T03:55:45Z")
Y’all so funny. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11287 "2023-12-13T09:41:46Z")
I’m starting to think a poster named Amber who claims to be 13 is actually using AI to generate her posts. And that her most recent thread asking about using ChatGPT to make forum software is a tell. If you keep these AI bots running too long, they get a lot less coherent, as seen in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YihYDEcLs8) (full version in the description). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11288 "2023-12-13T12:51:31Z")
I had the same thought, but I didn’t realize they were making weird 13 year old girl claims elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11289 "2023-12-13T13:01:15Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I had the same thought, but I didn’t realize they were making weird 13 year old girl claims elsewhere. ⁢ That was just a way to obliquely reference her name. I don’t know if she’s actually ever claimed to be 13, but that’s what that sort of name implies to me. I phrased it poorly. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11290 "2023-12-13T17:46:54Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I don’t know if she’s actually ever claimed to be 13 They claimed to be 15 [in 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-duet-80s-song-i-heard-on-spotify/990873), so 18 now. Their other threads don’t strike me as particularly AI-driven, or even particularly trollish. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11291 "2023-12-13T17:58:16Z")
I’m nervous about any poster with _Amber_ in their ID ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11292 "2023-12-13T18:32:43Z")
It puts me in a state of alert. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11293 "2023-12-13T18:48:17Z")
So I… (•\_•) ( •\_•)\>⌐■-■ (⌐■\_■) … Heard. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11294 "2023-12-14T15:28:22Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > … Heard. …he said wryly in glee. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11295 "2023-12-14T15:46:50Z")
That poster has been posting incoherent stuff for longer than the current AI text generators have existed. She comes by her incoherence naturally. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11296 "2023-12-14T16:00:29Z")
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