# 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:** 456
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13630 "2025-06-10T14:53:03Z")
It just occurred to me that maybe somebody might be in the business of using a bot to create accounts, and then holding on to them to _sell_ to spammers or whomever wants them. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13631 "2025-06-10T15:01:01Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’m amazed that some accounts that lay dormant for _years_, specifically created to used for trolling in the future. One serial troll we used to have (I think we eventually got rid of it for good, mostly by this board’s collective attention span being a quarter-century long and counting) once created 26 sock accounts at once, one for every letter of the alphabet. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13632 "2025-06-10T15:01:41Z")
Wow. Just wow. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13633 "2025-06-10T15:03:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > One serial troll we used to have (I think we eventually got rid of it for good, mostly by this board’s collective attention span being a quarter-century long and counting) once created 26 sock accounts at once, one for every letter of the alphabet. Please tell me they used something called an Alphabot. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13634 "2025-06-10T15:13:07Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > One serial troll we used to have … once created 26 sock accounts at once, one for every letter of the alphabet. Wasn’t me!!! ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13635 "2025-06-10T15:17:00Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > > [@Chronos](#): > > > > One serial troll we used to have … once created 26 sock accounts at once, one for every letter of the alphabet.   > > Wasn’t me!!! Obviously too advanced for you. 😉 ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13636 "2025-06-10T15:29:39Z")
Not saying redpoint5 is a troll, sock, or trock, but account created in 2008 and has very interesting boards stats. Some of their posts have made me think “don’t feed the troll”. Somehow I totally missed the previous posts about this poster. DOH! ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13637 "2025-06-10T17:23:07Z")
As always, if you see behavior that violates board/forum rules, please flag it for review. It’s been understandably busy with current events, and there’s plenty of stuff we can miss in the mast postings. But you folks were going to do that anyway I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13638 "2025-06-10T18:21:04Z")
Ref that advice I just flagged a post by **clu-me-in** that was a reply to something I wrote almost 2 years ago. As I said in the report: > This poster’s account history and recent behavior has some indicia of a long-dormant sock / troll. This post in and of itself is innocuous. Their other posts also have that “Why now, and why these threads?” smell to them. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13639 "2025-06-10T18:38:56Z")
WTF? I just said I wouldn’t talk to my Granny about certain things. She was dissed for being born early in the last century, (I guess) and having a long long lifetime, 3 husbands, many children and _knowing_ her own mind, opinionated and stubborn. And famously not _suffering fools_. I think you have me confused with someone else, @MrDibble. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13640 "2025-06-10T18:50:16Z")
For the record, it _was_ originally clu-me-in’s thread, though coming back to it after two years feels strange you and me. But they also seem to just drop in once every year or so and start a very vague/undetailed thread and that’s about it. So possibly a false positive - but I’ll leave that to the mods of that forum. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13641 "2025-06-12T12:25:28Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > redpoint5 has appeared on the radar. And already garnered a mod note for implied insulting of posters in P&E. Everything about him screams “experienced troll”. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13642 "2025-06-12T12:33:43Z")
100%. “I read get my news from left wing sources like…Jordan Peterson.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13643 "2025-06-12T12:37:16Z")
Even in the calm and dispassionate “What happens when we run out of SS numbers” thread he keep blandly asserting IT nonsense while claiming to be an IT person and somehow not reading or at least not comprehending any of the replies aimed at him. Gives the posting equivalent of the autistic blank face blinking then repeats himself. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13644 "2025-06-12T15:06:29Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > “I read get my news from left wing sources like…Jordan Peterson.” I was trying to get some info out of the poster, without either baiting them or feeding them. But I figured their answer would tip their hand a bit, and I think it did. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13645 "2025-06-12T15:08:34Z")
It worked out perfectly. I just wish others would stop baiting and feeding them. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13646 "2025-06-12T16:18:25Z")
I just wanted to pop in and thank all the posters reading this thread (as well as those who stay out of it) for in general being good about flagging questionable posts and posters and otherwise not engaging in a way that derails the threads. No shade thrown at @Atamasama for trying sincerely to get a poster to explain their POV either. Please keep doing so. 🙇 ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13647 "2025-06-12T16:55:24Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > “I read get my news from left wing sources like…Jordan Peterson.” Well, he _is_ Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13648 "2025-06-12T16:59:32Z")
Makes him an auto-socialist! ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/13649 "2025-06-14T12:35:20Z")
rp5 is a lying piece of shit in the Marines thread, talking about gang-banging immigrants. Can’t we just ban that trolling asshole? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=455) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=457)