# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5820
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5820 "2025-11-11T14:41:30Z")
As to how to complain in this thread (or other troll call out threads) about some post or poster without cluing them in, but with making it easy for your audience here to see the post(s) you’re talking about … Quoting myself from upthread for context … > [@LSLGuy](#): > > My tactic is include a url to the OP of the thread in question then say in my post something like: > > > See **SoAndSo** ’s posts starting at post #234. IMO they’re being a goof. I tried a new technique today to point out a problematic post and poster. It seems to work great; even better than my technique quoted just above. Easy for the reader if a wee bit of work for the complainer. To wit: Create an advanced search that returns just the post you want to highlight. Then include the url of the search in your complaining post in the complaints thread. Anyone who wants to see the problem post clicks your link, which produces for them a fresh search page with one result. Which result they then click to be taken to the offending post. See here for my first such post as an example. And note there’s no backlink to there anywhere in the problem thread. > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/14106): > > Overnight we have a new suspicious candidate. Newbie aer has posted “concern” that a young adult woman is wearing jeans with a smidgen of non-sexy underwear hanging out. And is aghast at the thought that their own pre-teen daughter might do the same some day. So far everyone, including me, is playing nice. But this reminds me of so many attention whore “My life is a soap opera; please advise me” threads. So far the OP is a very mild and not really objectionable version of that. But I have m… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._