I mean, generally, we have trolls and trocks.
The trolls generally stumble upon us, explode with whatever their personal issue is, and get banned relatively quickly.
The trocks know us deeply, and generally horn in on the sort of elements that they can fan the flames with while at least temporarily appearing sincere: Trump, gender issues, race issues, etc. Seriously love/hate issues to the nth degree with the serial trocks.
So IMHO (only) the serial folks get to a point where they can’t stay away, and create their new name and may try to pass for a while, but the desire to PWN some NOOBs takes over and the freak-flag flies.
Not if, only a matter of when.
Honestly, when a new and very prolific poster who is super comfortable with the board and Discourse then starts opinionating on board operation threads, they’re shouting “I’m a Troll”.
Hmm, dgy…A Dodgy Dude…hmm…
Indeed, one of my first thoughts. He wasn’t banned though.
Ok, a bit late, but I went ahead and did so.
Also, from the ATMB thread (warning already issued), this does read like something Martin_Hyde has said:
When a salesman asks me for my contact information, I routinely provide erroneous data.
But then it might just be a thing real-life trolls do. I mean, me, I just decline to provide any information that is not required to make payment. But trolls? That’s just too hard! They just can’t resist providing false information, even if no information at all would be easier for everyone. It’s how they get their jollies.
Gotta a new one with laundry problems. I could find, no less than 8 things they said the opposite of.
2 times in the same v—e—r—y long posts.
Thats a weird one. White mold on the bedspread? Sink too dirty to use? Buckets of oxiclean residue? Goes on about using vinegar and/or vinegar with bleach? (Edit, that doesn’t sound too bad, just bizarre details)
Actually sounds a lot like Jackson99 with the over-obsessive, repetitive details, but with better English. My money’s on troll.
Jeez…wash the dang sink. How hard is that?
Call your mom, grandma, aunt, neighbor, drunk in the alley, any one can tell you vinegar isn’t dangerous. People drink it.
No one is that darn clueless about laundry. My 6 yo grandkid could figure out how to pour stuff in those coin op machines. People poured laundry stuff right on the clothes for years before they had dispensers. Even bleach was added in the water sloshed around and whites added.
They trolling. No doubt.
ETA… honestly I never heard of white mold. Is that a thing?
Not really.
There are a lot of types of mold called “white mold” that are unrelated to each other, and can be white, grey, green, brown… Even black!
Honestly, you might as well just say “mold” because it can refer to any kind of mold.
I get the impression that it’s a marketing term invented by cleaning companies to make it sound scary, since it sounds similar to black mold. But it’s a colloquial term for any kind of mold you might find growing in a house.
Note that black mold is a specific type of mold, stachybotrys chartarum, which has a mythical and scientifically unproven reputation for toxicity.
I’ve cleaned plenty of white mold off uninsulated basement walls. Way too much.
Sure it was mold and not efflorescence?
Frosti needs to come up with a new(shorter) name for her very precious moldy “very thin bed sheet blanket cover” that we now know is blue or purple that was previously white, with white mold, and had yellow stains.
Come on.
Does anyone remember the person who posted about cleaning their kitchen floor some time ago? They were obsessed with accidentally mixing chemical cleaners and also had a problem with dirty buckets they could not use. I have no idea why I remember this but their posts were also very long, involved and repetitive. And they seemed to be in a foreign country and had difficulty comprehending any advice they got. This seems like the same person.
I think it’s a legitimate question/concern. I made up a bunch of nonsense and it seemed to narrow the poster’s focus.
It’s a very bizarre “first post.”
Was that the same guy who couldn’t make his hand quit being red and itchy? Turns out he was washing his hands in alcohol several times a day. He had chemical burns.
You are a tormenter. I’m dying. 
Maybe? I don’t remember if the floor cleaner was a one-off or not. It was just so weird that it stuck in my memory. I do remember red hands person but I didn’t follow that thread so I can’t say if it had the same elements. Maybe there are just a lot of people with obsessive chemical mixing issues. 
I may have overdone it. I thought we were at a breakthrough, but it fell through.
