# 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:** 389
**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:** [July 8, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12257 "2024-07-08T19:35:48Z")
I did love that Ed couldn’t be bothered to use his own profile for his hiden/unhiden pics. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12258 "2024-07-08T19:38:50Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I did love that Ed couldn’t be bothered to use his own profile for his hiden/unhiden pics. ⁢ He’d have to log in as someone else to show what other users see. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12259 "2024-07-08T19:50:05Z")
I spent a while creating those screen shots just for this purpose. You might have noticed some posts by Banny MacBanface (or something like that) that i made when i was doing it, because we needed to use a non-mod account to do it. ---
**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 8, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12260 "2024-07-08T19:50:37Z")
I was thinking about stalking **puzzlegal** but now if I do that I’ll just look like I’m copying Ed, so never mind. 😫 ETA: I swear it’s a coincidence that I posted the same time as her. I’m not copying Ed!!! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12261 "2024-07-08T19:55:30Z")
Lol. And to be clear, when i made the screen shots, we weren’t sure what we would do. So i made a lot of screen shots showing various options. And i thought it would be least stalkerish to stalk myself, so to speak. Ed just choose the screenshots that were most relevant to the decision. ---
**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 8, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12262 "2024-07-08T20:03:54Z")
Heh, you should see how stalkerish _Discourse_ is - it even rats out the mods as I proved some time ago. I’d say more, but I’d be afraid Discourse and it’s terrible minion (whose name I dare not @) would silence me! ---
**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:** [July 8, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12263 "2024-07-08T20:54:02Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I did love that Ed couldn’t be bothered to use his own profile for his hiden/unhiden pics. Those are copies of the examples I made in this post: > [@If you have a hidden profile it is more difficult to follow your arguments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-have-a-hidden-profile-it-is-more-difficult-to-follow-your-arguments/973302/81): > > For a non-mod, clicking on a user avatar brings up this: [[image] ](https://i.postimg.cc/sXnqJ7C0/profile-1.jpg) Which you can then click on to get this: [[image] ](https://i.postimg.cc/2S7DZqyg/profile-2.jpg) For a hidden user, you get this: [[image] ](https://i.postimg.cc/jdnmzDgZ/profile-none.jpg) And can go no further. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12264 "2024-07-13T12:49:02Z")
WTF? `https://boards.straightdope.com/t/39-people-died-in-the-tulsa-race-massacre-26-black-and-13-white-our-history-has-been-black-washed-and-continues-to-be/1004143` ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12265 "2024-07-13T12:56:19Z")
And it’s a long time poster, albeit one who hasn’t posted for ten years. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12266 "2024-07-13T12:58:06Z")
I read the entire OP with my jaw hanging down. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12267 "2024-07-13T12:59:45Z")
I don’t see any reason for the mods to re-open it in the Pit. It’s a racist, sexist screed presumably intended to rile people up. Does anyone think that opening it will fight ignorance, result in dialogue, or contribute to the board? ---
**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 13, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12268 "2024-07-13T13:02:29Z")
I don’t, but that is not the criteria for what I can close. It doesn’t actually violate any of our rules. The best I can do is what I did. I don’t think it will be re-opened though. I think I have to break @kayaker link, it is inadvertently maybe calling the OP a troll in GD. Though as not fit for GD, maybe that doesn’t matter. ---
**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 13, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12269 "2024-07-13T13:03:18Z")
And none of his previous posts are full of this racist hatred (hatred of that level, you would think would come through in everything he posts). This is definitely a WTF. ---
**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 13, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12270 "2024-07-13T13:05:28Z")
Hey, a lot can change in ten years. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12271 "2024-07-13T13:05:48Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > inadvertently maybe calling the OP a troll in GD. Apologies. I read the post and was so weirded out I wasn’t thinking straight. ---
**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 13, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12272 "2024-07-13T13:06:38Z")
That was my thought. People can be radicalized in 10 years with ease or maybe a Troll figured out the password of an unused profile. > [@kayaker](#): > > Apologies. I read the post and was so weirded out I wasn’t thinking straight. I get it, no recrimination. I just had to remember the method to change your quote that backlinks to an almost link that doesn’t backlink. [The leading and trailing backquotes did it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-a-pit-post-about-trolling-to-another-thread/1003059/17). ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12273 "2024-07-13T13:47:57Z")
White fragility is powerful drug. It’s never that surprising to me to see a white dude turn like that. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12274 "2024-07-13T14:01:11Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > . It doesn’t actually violate any of our rules. We have rules in GD against MRA debates, I’d have closed it on that alone if I were desperate for a technicality beyond just the trolling and jerkitude it also was. ---
**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 13, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12275 "2024-07-13T14:24:14Z")
I’m not sure it wandered into MRA (men’s rights advocacy) but to be trueful I was more scanning his OP\* to see if he had constructed a debate at all or if it was just a rant. It probably could have qualified. But as no Debate was framed in that OP, I took the easy way out. I think it avoided _Scientific racism_ but seemed to come close, that is the [tired topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/tos) I was also scanning for. ETA: The Tire Topics rules are board-wide now, not just GD since the TOS revision. `*` and as there is no need to, I don’t want to give that OP a more detailed read. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12276 "2024-07-13T14:57:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I don’t, but that is not the criteria for what I can close. It doesn’t actually violate any of our rules. > > The best I can do is what I did. I don’t think it will be re-opened though. What? The best you can do is delete that filth. It’s pretty clearly against the jerk rule and has no place here. How is this even a question? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=388) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=390)