Songsoflovetrouble: concern-trolling Trumpist or DrDeth’s dumber little brother?
Was mentioned in the sister thread:
And the posts that got them a warning do no favors either:
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/222?u=parallellines
[ broke my earlier link, even if it wasn’t a current thread, unfair to leave a live back-link to a thread even if it was What_Exit’s warning, and not the actual poster’s posts ]
100% a troll.
Why can’t it be both?
No reason at all! Thanks, @ParallelLines, for saving me from myself earlier this evening!
I try to be evenhanded to all. Repeating myself from upthread though:
Or just flag 'em and leave off the riskier snark entirely as @Chronos suggested.
Faux-adult mode ended, you may now resume your usual snarking!
The three Rs of dealing with trolls:
Refrain from flaming in thread, Report for trolling, and Retreat to the Pit to vent!
From your virtual lips to the FSM’s noodley aural appendages. If we could get everyone to follow that creed, the mods can become lazy, relaxed and bored.
Oh wait, there will always be the spammers. I swear…
You can say that again.
And again.
And again.
And…
What I should have said, more appropriately, is that most of us went to school and actually learned stuff. A couple of us apparently didn’t and now are inventing their own pseudo-science which they deem to be “fact, not theory” (not even understanding what the term “theory” means) and are regaling us with their delusional versions of reality.
I’m reminded of a great line in an episode of the old TV series Family Ties. The parents in the family are very liberal with a background in academia. The father manages a PBS station. When their eldest daughter Mallory starts dating a greaser (think “the Fonz” from Happy Days) the parents ask to meet the young man. When he says he dropped out of high school, the father is very concerned and says something like, “can you expand on that?”. The Fonz says, “Yeah. When they had classes, I wasn’t there.”
Ha! I remember that ep. I’m not usually sensitive about my lack of education, I just wouldn’t want to know one of my favorite canine dopers thinks I’m a doofus.
You are a doofus. (Not attributed to your schooling, mostly it’s your avatar ) We like you like that.
Your canine friend is way more forgiving that he logically should be.
He’s a good dog!
(Oh since it is the pit shut up)
Many of the troll hunters here have long memories. Does anyone recall Martin Hyde being one to post in baseball threads?
Martin Hyde was not a troll in substance. That is, he was an intelligent poster for the most part, albeit brusque and supercilious. He was just a pathological liar it seems, which was what got him banned it seems.
Not the question at all, but thank you anyway.
What you stated matches my recollections.
You have more posts about baseball in The Game Room than Martin does.
Of course I do, I’m a baseball fanatic, less than I used to be, but I lived and breathed baseball when I joined the board. Anyway, never mind. I did my own research.
I don’t recall him being a big baseball poster. Who was RNATB’s dad who was the crankiest old man to ever grace the board?
Are you talking gonzomax? Who was I think Loune’s dad?
I’m not sure who RNATB is.
It looks like you mean Really Not All That Bright, did his Dad post here?