# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6360 "2022-06-27T19:30:19Z")
You found the reason. These folks are mentally disturbed. Unfortunately, their e-gang is persistent and has a critical mass. ---
**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 27, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6361 "2022-06-27T19:36:02Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > These folks are mentally disturbed. Bless your three hearts. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6362 "2022-06-27T19:45:47Z")
I _do_ appreciate the irony of _you_ casting a wide net. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6363 "2022-06-27T19:57:46Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I didn’t have any idea of what he’s been saying I’m not sure he does, either. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6364 "2022-06-28T03:36:25Z")
And I’ll never understand why people who claim to hate the Pit and think it’s a horrible place always seem to hang out here more than anywhere else on the board. At least, that seems to be the case with **octopus**. If you ask me, THAT’S what I’d consider “mentally disturbed”. But, whatever floats your boat, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6365 "2022-06-28T06:30:04Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > These folks are mentally disturbed. More projection. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6366 "2022-06-28T13:32:40Z")
> [@chela](#): > > I’ll never understand the emotions behind the hate, pile ons, recreational outrage and intense reactions of the doper fam in the pit towards one another. > > The amount of rage and consternation exhibited is astounding to me. Some of you people in the pit are truly sadomasochists. […] > > Perhaps even triggering at times, it chills my vibe/ is a detriment to my enjoyment to wade into all the mudslinging in the forum. Not my bag to fling shit from my corner to another. It’s the Pit, darling. Some people like to use a designated flame forum for flaming, which may include all kinds of nasty swears and insults and just general invective that does not accurately reflect their true deepest feelings or communication style. There’s no need to take to the fainting couch about it. I likewise don’t tend to use the Pit for violently expressing interposter “rage” or “hate” or “pile ons”, but I don’t assume that other posters who do so use it must be emotionally or psychologically off the rails in some way. Un-clutch those pearls and just continue to avoid the Pit if it really bothers you. > [@octopus](#): > > You found the reason. These folks are mentally disturbed. Says the guy who in post #1870 explicitly insults another poster, by name, as “overly emotional, hypocritical and has a limited grasp of things”, and then in post #1903 sanctimoniously tut-tuts that insulting and “hating” on other posters in the forum explicitly designated for hating and insults is a sign of being “mentally disturbed”. Yeah, speaking of “hypocritical”… ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6367 "2022-06-28T14:00:50Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Says the guy who in post #1870 explicitly insults another poster, by name, as “overly emotional, hypocritical and has a limited grasp of things”, and then in post #1903 sanctimoniously tut-tuts that insulting and “hating” on other posters in the forum explicitly designated for hating and insults is a sign of being “mentally disturbed”. Everyone else is hating. octopus is merely playing the game by their rules. The two are completely different, or so octopus keeps ensuring us. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6368 "2022-06-28T14:08:49Z")
How selfless and dutiful of him to keep returning to a forum he disapproves of, to repeatedly imitate behavior that he considers indicative of being “mentally disturbed”, just so that he can continue “playing the game by their rules”. Really, octopus, if you honestly don’t like the “game” of Pit invective and pile-on, you don’t have to play it. But if you do choose to play it, stop trying to pretend that other people are somehow responsible for your own behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6369 "2022-06-28T14:09:06Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Everyone else is hating. octopus is merely playing the game by their rules. Yeah but everybody hates Pigeon Chess except for the pigeon ---
**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 28, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6370 "2022-06-28T14:10:50Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > stop trying to pretend that other people are somehow responsible for your own behavior. That’s all he has. Everything he does is somehow someone else’s fault. Accountability is for _other_ people. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6371 "2022-06-28T14:16:57Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Really, octopus, if you honestly don’t like the “game” of Pit invective and pile-on, you don’t have to play it. But if you do choose to play it, stop trying to pretend that other people are somehow responsible for your own behavior. He **loves** the game. He’s just playing a different one, where he winds people up by being a hypocrite. ---
**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 28, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6372 "2022-06-28T20:17:24Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Open homophobe fuckwit Paul is now blatantly trolling in ATMB. And yes I flagged that shit. He’s continuing it, doing the same thing to other posters. And he’s allowed to do it because I was told by a mod that it’s only “snark and sarcasm” and it’s allowed. So, go for it fellas. Troll away. 👍 ---
**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 1, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6373 "2022-07-01T04:36:46Z")
Opinion, should the following be getting another suspension? Poster Blue\_Thunderbird, has opened 3 thread, all of which were pretty much immediately shut down for being empty of content. The first 3/30/22 (Race), the second the same damn day on Race which was somehow even LOWER in content, and then today on Domestic Terrorism which was a ‘can’t believe this’ plus a link. I’ll point out our own @What_Exit gave them an ever so slightly snarky one day suspension after the 2-in-1 content free starter threads. I’m not sure they’re technically a troll, but the combative attitude in their first thread, and the flippant follow-up thread aren’t a good sign, nor is their posting to reading ratio. I mean, they are a newer join, and they could be a Reddit style poster where they’re trying to make a splash with clickbait style threads, but that’s not a good look either. I wonder if @engineer_comp_geek was aware of the prior content free threads when closing the newest - because I would have expected a more pointed note when it’s 3 for 3. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6374 "2022-07-01T04:47:02Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Poster Blue\_Thunderbird, has opened 3 thread, all of which were pretty much immediately shut down for being empty of content. And they managed to get in a sneer about the concept of “hate speech” in an ATMB thread about hate speech, while they were at it. ---
**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 1, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6375 "2022-07-01T07:13:32Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > today on Domestic Terrorism which was a ‘can’t believe this’ plus a link. And the link was a image on Facebook. Part of it was a painting (iirc) with some specific guy pointed out on it. Another part was a photograph of a social security card with that name with most of the numbers blacked out. There was a third part, but I don’t remember what it was (possibly another document?). I had never heard of whoever the guy was (and don’t remember the name). I have _no_ clue what it was all supposed to mean. ---
**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 1, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6376 "2022-07-01T07:25:30Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > And they managed to get in a sneer about the concept of “hate speech” in an ATMB thread about hate speech, while they were at it. I think there was someone recently saying weird things about federal laws and internet censorship? Maybe it was FortKnox I was thinking of? All those posts are removed, but a mod could see them, to compare Blue\_Thunderbird. [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/1087](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/1087) ---
**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 1, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6377 "2022-07-01T12:54:40Z")
I give it another ten minutes here, tops, assuming a quorum of mods are awake…I mean, absolutely motherfucking obvious troll _is_ obvious and all that. > [@Hate speech and censorship](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-speech-and-censorship/842871/82): > > Hi. No, I had no idea about his intent was. He posted way too much for me to read. I’ll be much more careful. Thank you. > [@Hate speech and censorship](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-speech-and-censorship/842871/83): > > Someone else told me he was a Nazi sympathizer. I had no idea. I’m sorry. > [@Hate speech and censorship](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-speech-and-censorship/842871/84): > > Please don’t spam me. That last one is directed at **e\_c\_g** , so I haven’t even bothered reporting the fucker. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6378 "2022-07-01T13:15:39Z")
His posts seem to be made up of randomly generated English words arranged in somewhat close approximation to valid grammatical patterns but completely devoid of meaning. I once wrote a computer program that did that. You could arrange selected lines to form a sort of other-worldly “computer poetry”. I don’t know if it actually made more sense than anything **Blue\_Thunderbird** has ever posted here, but it was certainly more entertaining. ---
**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 1, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6379 "2022-07-01T13:16:16Z")
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