# 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:** 359
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11657 "2024-04-19T16:55:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Could just be a [Rush fan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(album)). So, not a troll, just completely lacking in taste or functional cochleas… > [@What\_Exit](#): > > I’m not thinking troll or trock yet. Pretty benign so far. Stumbling on a thread about a band you hate? Sure, that I can see. The hyper-combatative post about the Smiths directed at another poster tells a different story. It’s the same kind of pointed dickishness as noted XKCD fan ColdBrew50. _Very_ similar tone. > [@Chronos](#): > > Nor do I think this is likely to be trolling. If it were, he’d have picked someone more popular and/or current, like the Beatles or Taylor Swift. You realise F&TM is currently [trending](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/04/19/taylor-swift-florence-machine-florida/73149475007/), precisely _because_ of Taylor Swift? It’s a twofer… > [@Chronos](#): > > Frankly, we need more people stumbling upon the board because they Googled for something. Not if they’re more Rush fans. Better the board go into the night gently, if that’s the alternative. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11658 "2024-04-19T17:10:46Z")
I find the new prospect, perhaps, excessively combative. It does border on dickishness, but as I remind myself daily, there are huge swathes of the internet where being extreme rather than measured is seen as a pro, rather than a con, as it gets you precious attention, whether it be thumbs up or down. It doesn’t impress **me** at all, but I’m probably not the target audience. I will give them the most minor benefit of the doubt in that at least they were posting a negative opinion about the group in question in a thread that was created about negative impressions of the group. If they had done what some trolls in the past have done, and jumped into/rezzed a zombie Pro-(whatever) Subject thread to threadshit, I’d be much more likely to say 100% troll. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11659 "2024-04-19T17:14:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Yeah, I can see someone encountering this band for the first time (possibly through the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack), thinking they suck, and Googling for other people who think they suck. He gets a hit, it’s not marked as closed or archived or anything, and so he posts. Perhaps irrelevant, but weren’t all the songs from Guardians of the Galaxy were from that mixtape, which predates the formation of Florence and the Machine? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11660 "2024-04-19T17:26:39Z")
It was the 3rd movie and something more like an Ipod. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11661 "2024-04-19T17:49:11Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Username ending with a string of numbers - check. Hey now! > [@What\_Exit](#): > > Could just be a [Rush fan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(album)) That’s what I got from their string of numbers. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11662 "2024-04-19T17:59:52Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > It was the 3rd movie and something more like an Ipod. It was a Microsoft Zune, in keeping with Star-Lord’s music collection always being on devices that are pitifully outdated even by Earth standards. > **[Star-Lord's Zune](https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Star-Lord%27s_Zune)** > > Star-Lord's Zune is a digital media player previously owned by Peter Quill until he gifted it to his best friend, Rocket Raccoon. A Zune player from Earth with three hundred songs on it ended up in space, where it was sold at a junker shop. Following... ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11663 "2024-04-21T18:42:52Z")
I’m finding self-avowed “centrist” **Midtown** extremely suspicious: [https://boards.straightdope.com](https://boards.straightdope.com) /t/why-does-everything-have-to-be-so-polarized-these-days/998918/210?u=parallellines Where they’re trying to make much of _another_ thread where people are discussing inside v outside ticket scales at a theater as an example of “extreme polarization”. And they keep trying to tie to back to Obama’s birth certificate. I mean, no, there isn’t a centrist Position on proper locations, and the repeated and utterly out-of-nowhere comparison and _equivalence_ to the two scenarios makes no damn sense. And they keep talking up their “centrist” philosophy as if it makes sense. They’re a this month join, but with lots of read time. I’m not great at this, but if I had to guess, sounds like a former, banned poster that can’t let this place go. Don’t know if they’re waiting for a gotcha, or if they’re just trying to rehab… But considering their first post was a new thread about creating a new tabaco company using organic materials with all evidence of being fully familiar with our systems, and have created 4 threads in a week… That is NOT (IMHO) a new poster. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11664 "2024-04-21T19:05:11Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > And they keep trying to tie to back to Obama’s birth certificate. Where was that gem? Please send me a link or flag 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:** [April 21, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11665 "2024-04-21T19:35:08Z")
Sent - again, to be clear, I don’t think anything rises to the level of obvious trolling yet, but the charged choice, the strange equivalence, and the rest of the patterns strike me as distinctly non-kosher. 🙂 But I’ve been wrong before, and thus I share the poster that others may judge as well! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11666 "2024-04-21T20:44:28Z")
He seemed kinda hinky to me in a thread I was reading yesterday (can’t remember which one), but there was nothing specific enough to report. But I’m keeping an eye on him. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11667 "2024-04-21T20:47:09Z")
He’s gone. He was suspicious from almost the start and his posts in that thread were pure trolling and a nice dose of insulting other posters. It was a short run for a probable Trock, definite troll. [These 2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-everything-have-to-be-so-polarized-these-days/998918/220) posts [really confirmed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-everything-have-to-be-so-polarized-these-days/998918/224) what we suspected: ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11668 "2024-04-24T16:18:43Z")
Made the mistake of opening the in defense of Russia thread. I won’t give that troll any attention there, but fuck am I tired of that asshole. I would be very surprised if posting on message boards is not his job. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11669 "2024-04-24T16:23:15Z")
I’m often wondering if he is a professional astroturfer. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11670 "2024-04-24T16:38:56Z")
Hell, I don’t even wonder anymore. Or there’s so little difference it doesn’t even matter. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11671 "2024-04-24T17:07:47Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I’m often wondering if he is a professional astroturfer. You used a few too many letters. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11672 "2024-04-24T17:14:52Z")
> [@FluffyBob](#): > > I would be very surprised if posting on message boards is not his job. Imagine getting paid to post this stuff and being so profoundly shit at it… ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11673 "2024-04-24T17:28:06Z")
That part actually makes sense. Anybody with half a brain requires too much effort. The rubes, on the other hand, hardly require much effort at all. It’s so much more cost effective to pay for a bunch of shitty trolls to firehose quantity over quality. If you feel you must get somebody good at it, you only get one (or a few at most) and trot them out on a friendly TV network instead and have the cheap trolls extol their virtues online. Some of the true believers will even do that part for free. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11674 "2024-04-24T17:39:21Z")
I think the goal is less “conversion” and more “destroy an intelligent conversation and drive people away”. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11675 "2024-04-24T17:46:45Z")
By that standard, I’d describe our Russophile comrade as good at the job, rather than shit at it. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/11676 "2024-04-24T18:15:38Z")
Yeah. Or ou could put it this way: > He’s good at his job and he is shit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=358) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=360)