Trolls R Us Resurrections

[crowmanyclouds]

Damn, I was going to ask them to show how a deck of cards proves the Resurrection…

[LSLGuy]

With a side order of low-grade numerology. All the best religious cranks include numerology.

[Velocity]

It reminds me of the person who said the End Times will involve nuclear weapons because the word “abomination” in the Bible means “A-Bomb in Nation!”

[Andy_L]

Hey, that kind of thing was a crucial clue in the case of the shooing of C Montgomery Burns

[Gyrate]

@Czarcasm

now we’ll never know if where Jesus’ hand and/or arm positions on the cross, coupled with the positions on a clock face

All I can think of now is this:

[JRDelirious]

OK the last one was fast — though obviously this is one if those characters who’ll want to make a point of not even bothering to hide their trockness.

[iiandyiiii]

Minor drive by troll: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/313?u=iiandyiiii

[wguy123]

Yeah, I wanted to mock them for their stupidity, but I decided to not feed the moron.

[What_Exit]

@iiandyiiii please don’t do direct links, that is effectively calling the poster a troll outside of the pit. I will fix your post. OK, I added the backquotes before and after the link, so it is fairly easy to follow, but doesn’t insult those outside the pit.

Moderating

For reference:

Linking a Pit post about trolling to another thread

gnoitall sums up the issue pretty well. When we first adopted the rule about insulting other users in thread titles, the Troll thread was a bit of a difficulty, because there really wasn’t a way to rename it so linking from it didn’t accidentally break the rule against insults in non-Pit forums, while still making it clear what the thread was actually about. The workaround (that was arrived at largely by the participants of the Troll thread, and not the mod staff) was to not post any live link…

[iiandyiiii]

If I’m understanding correctly, I can say he’s trolling (here in the Pit), but I can’t link to the specific post, right?

[What_Exit]

Correct, and I have now finished the link fix.

If anyone is curious as to why I moderated this, it is because the link caused an insult in Politics & Elections.

[ParallelLines]

@What_Exit cited the proper post, but just to be extra clear - you can’t include a live link from this thread because it would generate a direct link with the implied insult of the title in the other thread. Other Pit threads, with titles in-line with the current rules, can have live links, though of course, it may be in poor taste.

From @Miller’s own follow-up:

@Miller

On reconsideration, I removed this bit from my previous post. “Don’t make links that could possibly be construed as insults,” is a bit more restrictive than I want this to be. The point is to avoid explicit (if unintentional) insults showing up in non-Pit forums, not to completely firewall the Pit off from other forums. If there’s a tangent in the Troll thread about banana bread, and someone links to a really good banana bread recipe in MPSIMS, that should be fine. Stuff that might look like an insult if someone doesn’t take the two seconds to click a link to get the context isn’t an issue.

[kaylasdad99]

@Miller

If there’s a tangent in the Troll thread about banana bread, and someone links to a really good banana bread recipe in MPSIMS, that should be fine

Fine? It should be in Cafe Society, shouldn’t it?