# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6240 "2022-06-14T03:01:38Z")

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I apologize, my post wasn’t meant to criticize you personally. I just wanted to correct the record that it was actually 40 yrs. My hackles got raised when other posters immediately went to accusations of lying and trolling. Again, sorry.

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6241 "2022-06-14T03:22:05Z")

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No apology is necessary, but accepted anyway. Both your original post and your latest post were factually correct.

Please consider, however, whether that particular clarification (or correction if you prefer) was relevant to the topic or to the thesis of my post. Then consider how a pointless correction like that might look to other posters, and you might understand why a few took it amiss.

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**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:** [June 14, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6242 "2022-06-14T03:29:12Z")

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> [@D\_Anconia](#):
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> I apologize, my post wasn’t meant to criticize you personally.

Yeah, it totally wasn’t personal!

> [@D\_Anconia](#):
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> the poster in question is of a certain age, so to speak.

> [@D\_Anconia](#):
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> Is it laziness, or stupidity, dementia, or what???

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**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6243 "2022-06-14T03:32:30Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> No apology is necessary, but accepted anyway.

Thank you.

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**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:** [June 14, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6244 "2022-06-14T10:51:27Z")

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> [@D\_Anconia](#):
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> the poster in question is of a certain age, so to speak. Certainly, he can remember the 80’s.

I’m 64. For me, the 80s was a time when cocaine was readily available. Remembering the 80s is a big ask.

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**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 14, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6245 "2022-06-14T17:55:33Z")

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And in this thread, people patiently explain to D\_Anconia that 40 is a larger number than 30, amidst his confusion and outrage.

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6246 "2022-06-14T18:18:54Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> …the 80s was a time when cocaine was readily available. Remembering the 80s is a big ask.

I didn’t know that - today I learned that memory loss is a notable side effect of cocaine.

(Well, I suppose I might have learned it in the 1980s…)

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6247 "2022-06-14T18:24:36Z")

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> [@Riemann](#):
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> > [@kayaker](#):
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> > …the 80s was a time when cocaine was readily available. Remembering the 80s is a big ask.
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> I didn’t know that - today I learned that **memory loss is a notable side effect of cocaine.**
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> (Well, I suppose I might have learned it in the 1980s…) -

On the other hand, you learn something new every day.

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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6248 "2022-06-15T15:27:01Z")

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Not a troll, but also not worth a dedicated Pit thread:

> [@House raises the age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21 (but unlikely to pass in the Senate)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-raises-the-age-to-buy-semi-automatic-rifles-to-21-but-unlikely-to-pass-in-the-senate/965901/184):
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> Whatever. I’m not going to continue the hijack

You made a series of false statements; you were corrected; you now claim that these corrections are a “hijack”.

That’s certainly one way to avoid engaging with the repudiation of your claims. If, for example, you were an intellectually bankrupt simpleton with no interest in a good faith debate.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6249 "2022-06-15T15:32:10Z")

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I don’t believe my claims were false. The specific claims of when property can be taken have not been put before SCOTUS, so at worst they have not been proven. You and others posted absurd examples like, ‘What about heroin? What about cocaine?’

> [@Babale](#):
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> That’s certainly one way to avoid engaging with the repudiation of your claims. If, for example, you were an intellectually bankrupt simpleton with no interest in a good faith debate.

Or, you could open a new thread about what constitutes ‘property’ and why it is Constitutional to take it without compensation.

You’ve caught me in a bad mood, so fuck your pitting.

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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6250 "2022-06-15T15:42:34Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> You and others posted absurd examples like, ‘What about heroin? What about cocaine?’

Your exceedingly stupid post said that if guns were illegal and the government took them it would be required to pay fair market value for them. This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard this week. You claim cocaine is an absurd example, because apparently an illegal item is different from an illegal item for…reasons?

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6251 "2022-06-15T15:43:07Z")

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Whatever.

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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6252 "2022-06-15T15:45:29Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Whatever

“Stop digging” is a good choice, good call

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**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 19, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6253 "2022-06-19T05:19:19Z")

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Well, we haven’t had much troll tracking recently, so I thought I’d post one thread with two posters that seem . . . off? I have no idea if it’s trolling, but definitely something abnormal.

The thread is the recent Kim Kardasian Hoax/Joke

[https://boards](https://boards). [straightdope.com/t/kim-kardashian-hoax-joke/966421](http://straightdope.com/t/kim-kardashian-hoax-joke/966421)

Link broken of course.

It was created by a poster called blueslipper, their first post in 11 months, and while they’re an older account ('06) they seem to create a lot of threads, post little, and have a very very low read time. They’re also echoing phraseology that suggests a lot of Fox news following - “Shows for the millionth time mainstream media has lost the plot.” being a direct quote.

Then, near the end of the thread (as it stands right now 6/18/22) another older account Wood\_Man pops in and complains about the fact checking of the news and repeats the exact same line which may or may not mean anything. Except they have the same patterns of very, very low read time, creates a lot of topics, and barely replies, despite being registered since '11.

Just feels suspicious, but I could be utterly wrong.

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**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:** [June 19, 2022, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6254 "2022-06-19T06:15:25Z")

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If it were one, it’d be likely to be a returning poster who sees a liberal hivemind ripe for poking.

Since it’s two, I assume it’s a hack job of some sort. Wasn’t there a security issue a few years back where we were encouraged to change passwords?

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**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:** [June 19, 2022, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6255 "2022-06-19T08:02:46Z")

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Outstanding catch, I’ll clean it up in the morning.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6256 "2022-06-19T08:24:41Z")

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never mind

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6257 "2022-06-19T14:41:58Z")

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> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> Just feels suspicious, but I could be utterly wrong.

No, you are totally right. I thought exactly the same thing looking at that thread, although I hadn’t gone beyond noticing that they were unfamiliar names.

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**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 19, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6258 "2022-06-19T17:02:58Z")

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Thanks all, and I agree with @k9bfriender and @Riemann - it was originally just one of those, oh great someone has come back for some minor anti-liberal winging, but it was that second post that set me off. At least enough to dig into the posting history which itself was problematic.

And now all is right in the world again, and we may exchange inflatable demi-gods until another entity volunteers for our vigilante justice!

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**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:** [June 19, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6259 "2022-06-19T23:47:42Z")

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“Shows for the millionth time ~~mainstream media~~ What\_Exit has ~~lost~~ found the ~~plot~~ sock.”

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