Yeah, it didn’t seem like trolling to me, either. They seemed to take issue with you calling them an “enabler” instead of a “terrorist.” I can see the logic there, even: an enabler allows people to get away with bad stuff, but doesn’t generally do the worst stuff themselves.
You say your initial reply to them was polite for the Pit. I would say the same about theirs. It just escalated into a typical (if old school) Pit fight from there. He got offended by what you said, you got offended by what he said.
I think both of you were just expressing your legitimate opinion. Hence he wasn’t trolling just as much as you weren’t trolling him.
I actually approve of you asking in this thread. I consider it part of the purpose—to ask if your perceptions of trolling fit everyone else’s. Hopefully you’ve gotten enough answers to your question now.
Overall, yes. I don’t want to drag it out here, because again, that would be a shadowpitting. I have people IRL that for whatever reason, every time we come across each other we end up in a mutual huff. I figure the 3 months should work, and by that time we’ll both have found other things to be angry with and not be so on edge.
Thanks all, just could NOT fully manage to separate myself from the emotional investment after the third go through. I won’t take anymore time away from our troll hunt.
PL, it did seem weird that you exploded all the sudden over some rando’s comment, but it was such a well-composed rant. I didn’t think Yookeroo was provoking you, but boy howdy, they touched a nerve. That was a proper verbal shellacking.
It’s a personal peeve, thus my old ATMB thread about the single biggest reason for pitting seems to be dishonesty (including lies and misrepresentation).
In most threads you have to kinda grin and bear it, because most posters (with some noticeable exceptions) are skilled enough to just stay on the line of ‘lack of context’ and then you get the hammer for calling them liars, or just having to let it go after your second or third attempt. Or you derail the thread.
But they did in the Pit, and thus my (mental) response was, ho boy, it’s ON. Again, less than 24 hours later I felt I had gone to far. But then they came back with what I considered a child-like “I know you are but what am I” level comeback and I almost lost it again.
Not my proudest moment, but 1) wasn’t going to apologize because given the provocation I would have done it again (with about 25% of the words and 10% of the swearing granted), and 2) I still think in the 2nd and 3rd event they deliberately mis-construed everything I was saying.
But since I still have 47 minutes of chicken dance to soldier through, I refuse to dig myself any deeper.
Not blatant, bannable trolling, but trolling. Everything up to that might have been sincere, but that last bit was clearly meant solely to piss you off and it seemed to work.
Fishy is a keeper.
First post - Bigfoot is real.
Next post - how can Christians who believe in something that isn’t real be allowed to vote or hold public office?
I will be surprised if the mods don’t do catch and release of fishy back to the wilds of the the raging troll river in less than 48 hours at this rate.
I see the split/merge/cornfield thread already being processed so, yes, the system worked. And all those who were doing other fun things on a Friday night will have missed a truly strange troll.
Yes, thus my comment that all that were not on at the time had missed a truly strange troll.
It was being split off and cornfielded shortly after we started watching. And good riddance. But @Riemann summarized the OP fully upthread
That was really it. Although as I recall there was also a little conspiracy theory twist at the end about how various real books of the bible or other works were being hidden to prevent the truth from coming out.
Let it Go 
