# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 9913
### Author: ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0) #### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9913 "2023-07-10T16:43:35Z")
There’s a difference between “not liking,” even “asking for clarification,” and derailing an entire thread by going on at length about the horror of using unfamiliar acronyms. ETA: This might perhaps be better discussed in another (existing) thread, rather than here: > [@I Pit ILMVI for Complaining Incessantly About Acronyms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142): > > ILMVI, please, for the love of DOYC, stop derailing threads to gripe about acronyms (or, for that matter, [legalese you don’t understand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-american-with-a-40-year-old-dui-in-america-visit-canada/943054/28)). I have gotten so sick of you disrupting threads over [your pet peeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pwua-people-who-use-acronyms-and-terms-they-assume-people-will-know-spoiler-they-dont/839030/53) that I have had you on ignore for months now (honest: that’s the only reason, I can’t stand your moaning about acronyms). But apparently even that’s not enough. Because every time you drop a squat in a thread over someone’s use of an acronym (and so frequently in situations where its meaning… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518)._