# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14293
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/14293 "2026-02-26T02:40:11Z")
It wasn’t before: we’d always get told that just “disagreeing” with someone wasn’t enough to merit a warning/suspension/banning, no matter how odious their tactics and rhetoric were, with the implication that the troll in question would get a free ride because mods _weren’t_ mind readers. [I then got a warning when I tried to point this out, undelicately admittedly] This changed when we got a brand new batch of mods c. 2020-2021. > [@Pointing out trolls, a question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointing-out-trolls-a-question/845677/11): > > The poster you refer to has been a member for almost two years. The views he expresses are evidently held by a significant number of Americans. Just because you disagree strongly with someone’s political opinions doesn’t make them a troll or their posts trolling. The OP should keep this in mind. Which of course involved “reframing” (strawmanning) the poster’s [@Euphonious_Polemic’s] concern by the (former) mod in question, after someone got warned for calling out a troll’s tactics in a non-Pit thread. Note I am _glad_ for said sea-change, as mods mollycoddled these people for far too long. Haven’t seen the above kind of dismissal by any mod in a number of years now, and very few “instigator” warnings of the above sort. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518)._