# 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:** 65
**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 6, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5760 "2022-04-06T02:12:24Z")
Classic smarter trock move, start benign and then unleash the trollery a little later. Some of them are patient enough to wait months before exposing their trolldom. I’m guessing this one saw too much troll-fun in today’s threads to pass up the opportunity. They just need another email address in the end to start fresh. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5761 "2022-04-06T02:17:06Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > They just need another email address in the end to start fresh. How much sadness do these people have in their lives that they go and do shit like this? I mean, to go back and get thrown out of a party over and over again because others think you’re a dick… And then go and do it again. It’s positively masochistic. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5762 "2022-04-06T02:22:06Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Classic smarter trock move, start benign and then unleash the trollery a little later. Some of them are patient enough to wait months before exposing their trolldom. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > How much sadness do these people have in their lives that they go and do shit like this? I mean, to go back and get thrown out of a party over and over again because others think you’re a dick… And then go and do it again. It’s doubly sad when it’s evident that they could have fun just posting here without being an ass. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5763 "2022-04-06T02:25:56Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > unleash the trollery On first read I thought that said “unleash the trolley”, and I wondered if it was some metaphors I wasn’t familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5764 "2022-04-06T02:31:18Z")
I suspect they do the trollery because they feel insecure or inferior. On some level they feel threatened by concerns that they’re not as smart or knowledgeable or witty or whatever as the people that they’re trying to argue with. So if they can fool those people into making serious replies to their insincere arguments, at least initially, then hey, validation and reassurance! I must be smarter than you if I could fool you into taking me seriously! It may look to other posters as though trolls are sufficiently smart and competent to engage in an online conversation without being an ass. But I’m not sure they’re actually capable of finding it fun. What they need is to reassure their own insecurity, and posting honestly without trolling doesn’t feed that need. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5765 "2022-04-06T02:36:14Z")
That may be true, too. I wonder how much of it is ancient grudges turned to new mutiny. With a community as old as this one, there are bound to be some people who just got pissed off one day and never got over it. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5766 "2022-04-06T02:44:33Z")
I think there are people who feel that they have been drummed out of here by the politically correct liberal hordes and this is their way of pissing in the punch bowl. I think there are at least two who are retreads from several years ago who have been sealioning for quite a while. And people who should know better are humoring them by engaging them seriously. Thinly veiled version of “I’m just an extraterrestrial life form who just landed in middle America with no preconceptions. I see that Black people are terribly underperforming. Convince me that it’s not because they are inferior.” And people go on with them for thousands of messages. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5767 "2022-04-06T02:44:47Z")
Some farmers fuck their livestock. Would seem rather rude to claim that that is something that you should link to the profession. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5768 "2022-04-06T03:00:54Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > On first read I thought that said “unleash the trolley”, and I wondered if it was some metaphors I wasn’t familiar with. It could be… > **[Trolley problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)** > > The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. The series usually begins with a scenario in which a runaway tram or trolley is on course to collide with and kill a number of people (traditionally five) down the track, but a driver or bystander can intervene and divert the vehicle to kill just one person on a different track. Then other variations of the runaway vehic... Ban one poster to save the sanity of the rest. Maybe if a troll needs to go, we should “unleash the trolley”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5769 "2022-04-06T03:30:22Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > I think there are people who feel that they have been drummed out of here by the politically correct liberal hordes and this is their way of pissing in the punch bowl. Again, though, ISTM that that strongly suggests insecurity of some kind. If you or I get thrown out of some group by a bunch of brainwashed dumbasses who are incapable of appreciating our merits, do we hang around on the outskirts of that group forever trying to trick said brainwashed dumbasses into continuing to engage with us? No, I doubt we do: we just say “Gah, what did you expect from brainwashed dumbasses” and move on. The SDMB trolls, on the other hand, just can’t quit us, and I think ultimately it’s because they’re worried that maybe we’re not actually brainwashed dumbasses and they have to keep proving to themselves that they can fool us into taking them seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5770 "2022-04-06T03:57:27Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > How much sadness do these people have in their lives that they go and do shit like this? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORq0cU9a520) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5771 "2022-04-06T10:05:50Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Maybe if a troll needs to go, we should “unleash the trolley”. [https://www.dayofthehuman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screenshot-37-1280x720.png](https://www.dayofthehuman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screenshot-37-1280x720.png) ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5772 "2022-04-06T12:20:52Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Would seem rather rude to claim that that is something that you should link to the profession. Looks like you did not attend a rural school. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5773 "2022-04-06T12:29:06Z")
I’m not sure what this means. Are you claiming that a substantial number of farmers engage in intercourse with their livestock? If so, then I _have_ spent a fair amount of my life in semi-rural areas, and I’ve never met a farmer who does so. If not, then you are just making the same insulting smear at farmers for something that an extremely small minority do, the same as you have done for those in the anthropomorphic animal fandom. ---
**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 6, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5774 "2022-04-06T12:38:51Z")
Can you two please take this to another thread? It seems to be a private squabble and very much off topic at this point. (writing as a poster, not a mod. Just a request, not an instruction.) ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5775 "2022-04-06T12:50:16Z")
Absolutely! ---
**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 6, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5776 "2022-04-06T12:50:47Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Would seem rather rude to claim that that is something that you should link to the profession. But you fuck _ONE_ sheep… ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5777 "2022-04-06T12:55:39Z")
Not really private since I’m not the only one, nor the first, who called him out for his stereotyping, and not really off topic as the point is that I am calling him out for trolling with same. But anyway… I’ve made my point. > [@Telemark](#): > > But you fuck _ONE_ sheep… And everyone thinks your neighbor does too. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5778 "2022-04-06T17:01:40Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > writing as a poster, not a mod. Are you junior modding? Wait. Am I junior modding? Shit. ---
**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 6, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5779 "2022-04-06T17:08:49Z")
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