# 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:** 41
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5280 "2022-01-09T23:46:48Z")
Well, my post is practically moot at this point, but I feel the principle is good to post anyways: I don’t see much logic in someone famous using their real name and not being willing to prove it’s them. It’s just going to result in people thinking you’re pretending and produce animosity. If you want to be anonymous, use a pseudonym. And, if you want to public, then verify. Without proof, it’s far, far more likely that it’s just someone using their name. As a board about fighting ignorance, being skeptical is important. We should be hesitant to believe things without proof, lest we increase ignorance rather than reduce it. There’s a reason why “Cite?” is our favorite catchword. Unless/untill he provides proof, it makes sense to treat him like he’s not the real deal. Treat him like @Barack_Obama or similar. Don’t be rude or mean, but take everything he says with a massive grain of salt, maybe even with more skepticism than the average poster. ---
**Author:** ![Pseudonym](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudonym/32/9895_2.png) [@Pseudonym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudonym)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5281 "2022-01-09T23:48:06Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I don’t see much logic in someone famous using their real name and not being willing to prove it’s them. It’s just going to result in people thinking you’re pretending and produce animosity. Seconded. (If that wasn’t clear from what I said already) EDIT: Well. Actually. Was he not willing to? I’m lost now… nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5282 "2022-01-09T23:49:54Z")
Welcome, @neiltyson. Thank you for graciously confirming your bona fides for those who were unconvinced. I’m sure you are not surprised to find this is a community of skeptics. At least you didn’t join a message board where the primary question was, “Who is Neil Degrasse Tyson? And why should we care?” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5283 "2022-01-09T23:52:10Z")
I must have missed it. Did any recent posters in this thread post a link to any NDT thread or posts so I can go take a look for myself? ---
**Author:** ![Pseudonym](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudonym/32/9895_2.png) [@Pseudonym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudonym)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5284 "2022-01-09T23:52:38Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Billy Carter? Now. What’s happened here is, either you know more about me than you should, or I know more about you than I should. Or neither. Or somebody knows something about Billy Carter perhaps. I’d like it best if that remained a mystery! ---
**Author:** ![Pseudonym](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudonym/32/9895_2.png) [@Pseudonym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudonym)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5285 "2022-01-09T23:54:54Z")
You can go through his profile? Here’s the thread: > [@Newton a fraud?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newton-a-fraud/957280/25): > > Read the whole thread. Just some observations… Newton’s “dot” notation for calculus is still used today in physics, just as he invoked it – to identify derivatives with respect time. Of course for all other applications of the calculus, we lean towards Leibniz’s more elegant notations. I’ve seen no study on scientists who have falsified data in support of what turned out to be a correct hypothesis. For all we know, it’s the majority of correct new ideas. You can imagine the thinking: “I’m q… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5286 "2022-01-09T23:55:32Z")
How many other high ranking politicians had a brother so famous for being drunk that a beer was named after them? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5287 "2022-01-09T23:56:50Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > had a brother so famous for being drunk that a beer was named after them? Samuel Adams comes to mind. Or John Adams, whichever one it might apply to. ---
**Author:** ![Pseudonym](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudonym/32/9895_2.png) [@Pseudonym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudonym)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5288 "2022-01-10T00:00:43Z")
I’m afraid I’m not at liberty to reveal that information. Billy Beer? I always thought it was named after Billy Beer, the inventor of beer. Germans later made their own version, Bock Beer. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5289 "2022-01-10T00:00:54Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > At least you didn’t join a message board where the primary question was, “Who is Neil Degrasse Tyson? And why should we care?” [Well…](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-that-republican-voters-are-dying-of-covid-at-5x-the-rate-as-democrats-as-claimed-by-neil-degrasse-tyson/949869/8) ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5290 "2022-01-10T00:03:47Z")
They were cousins. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5291 "2022-01-10T00:15:01Z")
Welcome to the Dope! Hope you stick around. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5292 "2022-01-10T00:16:57Z")
Welp - that’s a follow. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5293 "2022-01-10T00:27:16Z")
Excuse me, I have to go calm my wife, she is overgasped after having a fangirl squee of epic proportions. Today is a good day for science. Welcome @neiltyson, may you enjoy the snark and discussions. And the snarky discussions. And the discussions about snark. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5294 "2022-01-10T00:31:05Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Welcome to the Dope! Hope you stick around. And what better way to welcome a Notable Newbie than with an insta-Pitting? We’re such a welcoming tribal bunch, we Dopers are, we are! 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5295 "2022-01-10T00:51:53Z")
How do you follow a poster? ---
**Author:** ![Pseudonym](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudonym/32/9895_2.png) [@Pseudonym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudonym)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5296 "2022-01-10T00:58:50Z")
Is there a way? Or was that just “web lingo”? (I’d actually find it a somehow creepy if it’s possible 😬 Maybe that’s just me.) ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5297 "2022-01-10T01:02:46Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > How do you follow a poster? > [@Pseudonym](#): > > Is there a way? Or was that just “web lingo”? > (I’d actually find it a somehow creepy if it’s possible 😬 Maybe that’s just me.) Pretty sure she meant on Twitter. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5298 "2022-01-10T01:12:38Z")
I don’t think you can “follow” a poster here. The highest notification level for another user is “Normal”, which means you’re notified if they reply to you or mention you, that’s it. There are two lower notification levels, including “Ignore”, but nothing higher. As for our pal Neil deGrasse Tyson, I’ll be convinced if his verified Twitter account mentions that there are dipsticks on the SDMB who don’t believe that @neiltyson is really NDT. Then I’ll profusely apologize. Until then, I remain unconvinced. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5299 "2022-01-10T01:15:18Z")
Again, pretty sure she meant on Twitter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=42)