# We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves is… **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 24, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355 "2025-01-24T22:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/1 "2025-01-24T22:22:28Z")
…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.’ > [@Bishop vs trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bishop-vs-trump/1013350/12): > > It just seemed like a lecture, rather than what should be a dialogue. And my personal thought is that sermons should not be a direct personal message to a single individual, but rather a more general discussion for the entire audience. It just seemed contrived to generate controversy. I don’t know, I’m not outrage about it or anything. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/2 "2025-01-24T23:54:21Z")
WWNW is a troll, has been stinking up the board with his were-troll scat for some time now. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/3 "2025-01-25T09:31:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/4 "2025-01-25T14:59:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/5 "2025-01-25T15:05:56Z")
He was always a troll, but the current political climate both influenced and outed his behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/6 "2025-01-25T15:28:25Z")
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’. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/7 "2025-01-25T16:03:50Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > 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 This is SOP for a certain subset of returning trocks. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/8 "2025-01-25T16:20:36Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > 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’. 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. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-re-wolves-not-werewolves-is/1013355/9 "2025-01-25T18:05:26Z")
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).