ROFL, no matter what this thread always goes back to food.
You gotta stop feeding the trolls.
Even the mods feed them corn.
I don’t think the trolls are being fed corn; quite the opposite.
Just saw this. Malkav is from Whitewolf’s Old World Of Darkness. He’s (to put it briefly)the founder of a clan of insane vampires. The inspiration for Malkav’s illumined madness and educational yet destructive pranks was V in V For Vendetta. IIRC We had a poster by the name of Malkavia way back when.
I played a Malkavian once in a LARP version of Vampire. My character was convinced that he was Batman.
Sometimes he was Bruce Wayne and once a fight broke out while I was Bruce. I refused to engage in combat to not give away my secret identity.
Dang that was fun.
I had a character named John Smith. He was a Malkavian who couldn’t differentiate between television and reality. For a while, he dressed as Batman and carried a utility belt, a taser and a stun gun. He liked to hang out in the mansion of a Ventrue. The Ventrue could not see him (he had no Auspex and I had an Obfuscate of 5), could not effectively keep him out (his security system was easily hacked) or tell his guards about John Smith (it would violate the Masquerade). It was hilarious having John leave notes around the house. “You are officially low on Doritos” “A new season of Survivor starts tonight. Please tape it for me.”
Eventually, the Ventrue’s mortal guards became convinced he was crazy. This is because he would give speeches like “If a door opens by itself, I want you to open fire on it.”
That is damn funny, 
I didn’t have as much fun playing a Malkavian. My clan leader, wearing a gold lame scarf with Bugs Bunny characters inlaid in the pattern, told us we thought we were all cartoon characters. I was assigned Peter Pan.
/comicbookguy Worst. LARP. Ever.
The best malkavian characters are the ones that don’t seem crazy until you start to spend time with them. My favorite was the one I built based on Mulder from X-Files. Except, he was -worse- because he had empirical proof (in his own being) that shit was other there. The problem was, as his his inspiration did, he believed everything was equally valid and true after his embrace. Vampires? Duh! Werewolves, mages, mummies, ghosts? Equally sure! Aliens, ancient and otherwise, conspiracy theories, illuminati, illuminati’s illuminati, Atlanteans, monsters of the week, Nessie, Bigfoot, Invisible Men (with or without Obfuscate!) all were just as “real” as vampires.
Of course, he broke the masquerade all the damn time online. Thankfully for him though, he was ignored because he’d segue into alien invasions and JFK conspiracies moments later on the BBS he ran. Yes, that was how long ago the game was.
Having a crackpot write real things alongside fake things with the same amount of credulity makes everything seem like BS, and to me seems to actually be well in keeping with the masquerade.
“I swear, I saw a vampire who could move with super-speed and punched through a wall!”
“What crap, that exact same thing was posted on that nutjob’s BBS.”
“You’re right, maybe I imagined it. I should stop pulling all-nighters on my computer.”
Well, yeah, that’s why it was tolerated. Sure he was literally breaking the masquerade, but the net effect was exactly as you stated, it made everything equally nutty. 
Damn, I miss that game, the were-coyote that was (or was convinced) that it was following the commands of the true coyote spirit, the fallen that was working as a short-order cook in a diner to make ends meet, and the changeling that was an auto mechanic (player was reading the SERRAted edge novels at the time).
When did this thread stop being about trolls and start being entirely about some video game or whatever it is you’re all talking about?
Tabletop role-playing game, but yeah. 
I’m pretty sure White Wolf had splatbooks for everything on that list.
But none for trolls, amusingly enough.
Well, I stopped with White Wolf around 1996 except for the CRPG Bloodlines, so mostly have core and city books, but yeah, assumed there’s an explanation for just about anything. Just not the ‘mortals’ explanation.
Regarding online trolls here, where did they start listing the OG screen name of a sock? Or has that always been done and I just missed it before now?
I haven’t seen it before this one, but I usually wonder who the “other” was when a sock is id’d.
Usually, we don’t, because we want to cut them out of the community entirely. However, when someone’s been around for a while and the socking is the reason for the banning, we might, because that’s weighed against the community having a right to know why someone was banned.
No indication they are a serial sock, so I went ahead and included the prior username. This won’t happen too often.
I for one found it really interesting to learn who the sock was. Personally I’d love to see the name listed every time a sock is banned. But I also understand wanting to cut them out of the community, and listing their name would probably be feeding the troll.