It only looks that way. The original target of the link is cornfielded, so when you follow the link Discourse gets as close as it can. Which is the following post, I guess.
It’s not really a self-own, but it’s still a mistake (live link from a troll callout thread to a non-Pit thread).
Oh I knew when I posted it exactly what happened. I just thought the end result was funny.
Damn, Ryan Liam has really figured out how to get the monkeys to dance to his tune in the “Phenomenon” thread.
What tiresome nonsense. I bowed out back around post 20 and just noticed a couple minutes ago it’s up around 390 posts. I shook my head, but didn’t click in.
ETA: and also ref @EinsteinsHund just below …
We always knew this place contained a few total dipsticks. That person is one of them.
And once someone demonstrates a hole in their thinking quite that large, at least for me it calls into question everything they say about anything.
I don’t doubt their sincerity; just their thinking ability. Then again, Americans’ collective thinking ability is highly questionable these days on quite a few topics.
This seems more like witnessing than trolling. They are rare, but sometimes a Doper comes out as a believer in woo.
If he didn’t want answers, he shouldn’t have asked the question then misrepresented what was given to him. This isn’t “witnessing”-this is pretending to be science.
I’m not saying it’s aliens leading posters around by the nose, but…
Shouldn’t this be in the “What were you thinking” thread? I don’t think he’s trolling, and he’s been around a while.
You’re misrepresenting the point. No one’s claiming every idiotic post is proof of trolling. What I’m arguing is that the pattern of logical anomalies, including trolldar, WTF, and trained visual testimony across multiple unverified anecdotes, deserves more than retrofitted mundane explanations after the fact.
Puerto Rico? Maybe stupidity. But when “maybe stupidity” becomes the boilerplate for every unexplained logorrheic anomaly, you’re not explaining its pacifying. There’s a qualitative shift here in how often the bullshit gets waved away by the same handful of incredibly patient Dopers.
Well played.
Golf clap
Maybe we need a different term than “troll” for “Too stupid / misguided to be allowed to hang out with us adults.”
I’m sure we can each think of a dozen or more such community carbuncles who’re resolutely in the “few total dipsticks” category and can’t, not won’t, graduate to the adult table since it’s beyond their capability.
The term “troll” is a very specific form of irritating poster. Redefining it in the general direction of “anyone irritating” is IMO unhelpful. Especially when we have rules about trolls, but don’t have rules about other forms of irritating behavior.
Agreed. Adding in the fact that he’s actively insisted that he’s not witnessing, but believes that he’s examining things with a critical (but open-minded) eye, and has accused pretty much everyone else in the the thread of being too quick to judgment, and too willing to dismiss the supernatural, I think he really is a true believer, who started the thread hoping to impress and convince others.
This set me up nicely for my parody post, but I actually do agree it would have been more appropriate in the other thread.
I’m embarrassed that I didn’t see the parody until I saw a few more responses.
He does have his high-profile admirers, such as Martin Scorsese, Sam Raimi (who compared his mastery of action to Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of suspense) and Quentin Tarantino. Personally though, I consider him to be a glorified B-movie director at best.
Weren’t the Woo that band that made that movie about the muds and rockets?
In some threads, it’s not all that clear what Phenomenon is being discussed, and you have to Guess Woo.
I thought it was a mildly diverting Jada Pinkett Smith vehicle.