…a shitposting sealion baiting posters into responding to his disingenuous claims with an ‘Aw, shucks…I didn’t read the sermon but it was definitely inappropriate for a bishop to give a speech on a topics that Republicans had elected to politicize to manufacture outrage and fear.’
Stranger
WWNW is a troll, has been stinking up the board with his were-troll scat for some time now.
He’s a troll now.
But I had a vague impression that when he first appeared, he was generally pretty innocuous, and evolved into his current troll persona over time. I just went to his profile and browsed back to his earliest activity, and this impression is confirmed. He starts out with unremarkable comments about music and sports, while very occasionally hinting at a conservative mindset that doesn’t align with this board’s “majority” position.
Then he discovers that he can get a lot more attention by deliberately poking people, dropping threadshits that derail established conversation, and we’re off to the races.
Troll. Maybe I missed the start, but I blocked him after the second post of his I read, and I’m don’t recall if I have ever bothered to block any other poster.
He was always a troll, but the current political climate both influenced and outed his behavior.
Maybe the account, from creation, was meant to end up as a troll account.
Maybe it was intentionally seeded with neutral posts occasionally (to keep it active) before it could be politically weaponized while hiding under the guise of a ‘long standing account’.
This is SOP for a certain subset of returning trocks.
Any time I see a new poster come in and post a thread with some softball, easily googled question, my presumption is “troll doing a ‘look how normal I am’ routine” before they spring into active trolling.
To be honest, I prefer an occasional poster with a low signal-to-noise ratio (like the werewolf in question) to a very frequent poster with a low signal-to-noise ratio (who presumably don’t even realise that their ratio is that low).