Dear Penthouse, I never thought this would happen to me…
Long story short, coworker at a company I’ve known for 10 years and speak to him every day randomly asked me if I was single. I’m not, but I decided to humor him because I know a few guys who might be interested and since I respect him I always wanted to do him a favor.
…by lying to him about my relationship status. That’s right, I’ve known him for 10 years and speak to him every day, but he has no knowledge of my status, and I thought the best way to respect him was to lie about it, and lead him on about whether I might date his niece. That’s a favor worth doing, in my book. Not all heroes wear capes.
The responses range from accepting his bullshit, hook, line, and sinker, and making fun of him (in FQ, no less!). There’s no way that thread is on the level.
It’s just upset that Max_S is getting all the (earned) hate, and he is feeling lonely. Maybe, FSM be semi-praised, he’ll finally step over the border of behavior in trying to recover his place in the heat-lamp of hate and the mods will get to stop him.
But was actually here to look at @RitterSport’s concerns about Asuka. Not feeling trolly from either of those threads, although they do feel a bit like ‘pay attention to me’ threads rather than anything of depth. If they were trying for some sort of ‘gotcha’ on immigration issues, I think it would have been more overt by now.
If you have other threads or posts that show more of a trend though, I’d be happy to reconsider.
I don’t remember all the threads, but I have an overall impression of stupid OPs, bullshit responses, and little value-added. As a counterexample, I have a positive impression of your posting history, but I have no idea why.
That said, this OP is clearly bullshit. Here’s this coworker that he talks to every day for ten years. The coworker doesn’t know about his relationship status – OK, I can believe that, maybe they only talk sports. But, then he (Asuka) says that he respects him (fake coworker) and wants to do him a favor…which he (Asuka) does by lying about his own relationship status.
It’s just bullshit. He probably came across the question about dating to keep someone in the country and made up a story to go along with it.
Well thank you for the compliment! I’m honestly touched, although I’ll own up to many sub-par posts and one OP that I still wish I hadn’t (one of my first, and at a time I was somewhat hysterical in all honestly in the leadup to the prior presidential election).
As for Asuka then, yeah, I think we have similar POVs, I did definitely feel they were of the ‘gee, look at me’ level, rather than anything meriting actual discussion, or as you put it “I never thought it would happen to me…” level of discourse.
But while generally unimpressive, I don’t think I’d put it at the level of troll. But there are plenty of people that try to get attention, and become increasingly willing to exaggerate and lie until they get the level they want. Which can easily become trolling.
I see Asuka as more of a troll wanna-be. Or maybe Diet Troll. Doesn’t have the gumption or wit to go full on troll but has those urges from time to time.
If I had to guess, since they have a large number of posts that start something like “I heard a podcast” “I heard from a friend” “My [friend/family] did X and…” they are an aggressive self-insert individual. So they see/hear something and they get all sorts of obsessive about what if it happens to them (the “real life sexual assault” one especially felt sort of creepy self-defensive).
They also have a tendency to post an OP and not participate much, which combined with the fact they often mass-produce Threads in a short period of time makes them look rather lopsided (I mean, I might start 1-2 threads a month, but Asuka’s done 12 in May and it’s got a week to go!).
I still don’t know - they touch on a lot of issues that with just a little bit of a twist would be absolutely traditional troll-bait, but they never seem to even get to the subtle ‘wink-wink’ stage. @Great_Antibob might be right, or they may just bee an attention whore who jumps from topic to topic like a weasel on speed hoping to get the attention fix. Very possibly both - everyone knows the attention trolls get, and thus they throw out some trolly bits when they think it’ll get more attention.
Thanks RitterSport, I’m of many minds, but will watch a LOT closer in the future.
You do several things here, almost none of which add value:
In ATMB, complain about moderation and how unfair it is to conservatives
In the Pit, derail threads to make them about you, complain about how mean we are to conservatives
In other forums, spout conservative talking points in a condescending manner, with no cites or backup
Why don’t you try and engage truthfully, honestly, and usefully on this board? Find a subject you like, and be a positive example for once. You can be a principled conservative and have a fine life here – look at Martin_Hyde. Instead, you bitch and moan, and talk about how much you hate it here.