So whose sock is Nadnerb? Just looking at the sporadic posting history and the read time (and the very short, zero effort OPs) they just have to be a sock, right?
I’m guessing Brendan.
I don’t know who Brendan is though.
No doubt a misspelling of Brandon.
Oh no. Another. Locker room newby
Gone, thanks for the report.
Thank you
Joined 2016, so probably not.
If you think they’re trolling now flag it please.
Eh, I flag plenty, and get a good mix of “you’re right, there’s something wrong” and “thanks for flagging, but you’re jumping the gun”.
But the issue you quoted happens most with those later night / holiday hour posts when the mods are scarce on the ground. And of course, I can’t lie in bed with some zinger singing in my brain all night even though deep down I probably know better…
I mean, it’s being right on the internet, no greater temptation.
And no greater responsibility.
nitter in the Abe Vigoda thread is either a moron or a troll, and I vote troll.
A 17-year-old girl texts while driving, gets sentenced to thirty days in juvie for this first offense, and her reaction is to join the Straight Dope and to start a thread in the correct forum (MPSIMS) telling us that she really screwed up and must now pay the price.
Seems legit.
Completely. Yep. /s
At least it wasn’t cut and pasted from another site. This one is special for the SDMB. We operate under the assumption it is legit but we’re watchful.
We do some fairly basic checks unless the poster causes problems.
And this 17yo took the time to compose an essay with well-constructed sentences, paragraph breaks, no slang or abbreviations, as though she were writing a college application?
It’s obviously fake, but I’m just not sure what the point of it is.
Oh gawd! So obvious, and yet so many people going for it. See user name Sadie for those reading from a future where their thread, somehow, still exists, but is at least not at or near the top of MPSIMS.
There are people with prison/jail fetishes for one, who might enjoy the role play even as the ficticios author. But some folks just want to watch the world burn, for another. Why does any troll do what they do?
Attention, attention! Attention!
Another tell: never comes back to their thread, or the board in general.
RIght, that’s the part I don’t understand. Are they reading all the replies while masturbating, or what exactly?
@Beckdawrek is developing a very nice style of response for these sort of threads. I like it.
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I was wondering about that poster. Sure, this board is the first place lots of teenagers go to post about their experiences. (Sarcasm.) And as noted, many of these first-time posters never return to the board, not even to read the replies.