# Who was the worst troll on this site? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 29, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487 "2017-04-29T14:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/41 "2017-04-30T12:42:52Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > A lot of posters think that broader internet phenomena originate here. Really? I hadn’t heard that. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/42 "2017-04-30T13:28:22Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > Surely it was WallyM7. The bad-tempered plagiarist who faked his own death. > > Allegedly. I wonder how many folks you just “whooshed.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/43 "2017-04-30T15:10:16Z")
There’s also **derekmichaels00** , who finally self-destructed after much liberal baiting. There is some speculation that he’s back as a sock in a new Pit thread, under the name **Great White Dope**. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/44 "2017-04-30T15:11:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There’s also **derekmichaels00** , who finally self-destructed after much liberal baiting. There is some speculation that he’s back as a sock in a new Pit thread, under the name **Great White Dope**. Its not his first sock, either. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/45 "2017-04-30T19:47:58Z")
^Rutgers is a very diverse school , they even have Centipede-Americans. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/46 "2017-04-30T20:55:17Z")
Say what you will about Charlie Wayne’s proclivities, I do miss his commentary in the thread on “The Americans” TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/47 "2017-04-30T21:18:43Z")
The worst troll is the one none of us remember because he was boring. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/48 "2017-04-30T21:26:10Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Say what you will about Charlie Wayne’s proclivities, I do miss his commentary in the thread on “The Americans” TV series. Dude was obsessed with Keri Russell. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/49 "2017-04-30T22:16:36Z")
Gee. No one remembers SECRETAGENT or Phaedrus? ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/50 "2017-04-30T22:41:17Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Gee. No one remembers SECRETAGENT or Phaedrus? We do not discuss those names in polite company. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/51 "2017-04-30T22:50:44Z")
ANYbody can piss a bunch of people off… **Umkay** messed with the whole gamut of people’s emotions, mine included. I thought about leaving the board because of it… (usually I just look over my shoulder, go “Oh. drama… _shrug_ ooh,look, someone got a new kitty”) **Umkay** for the [del]win[/del] loose. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/52 "2017-04-30T23:44:07Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Gee. No one remembers SECRETAGENT or Phaedrus? Patrick McGoohan and Robert Pirsig were posters here? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/53 "2017-05-01T00:02:27Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Patrick McGoohan and Robert Pirsig were posters here? We would have welcomed either of those gentlemen. SECRETAGENT posted in all caps, claiming that his supersekrit phone only allowed caps to be transmitted and insisting that he had all sorts of insider intel on Sadam Hussein, (nearly all of his claims turned out to be false, of course), while demanding that the SDMB support Bush’s desire to launch a war in Iraq. Phaedrus was a nutcase kid who claimed to be an old man who was desperate to disprove the Theory of Evolution. He relied on his (claimed) North American Indian ancestry to prove that he was smarter than the rest of us, ('cause those folks are, of course, the smartest people on Earth), who eventually flounced out of here with a post in what he claimed was Dakotan that he repeated, claiming that it was a different North American language, even though it was the identical text posted in italics. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/54 "2017-05-01T00:36:15Z")
Only person I’ve ever put on ignore on this site is D’Anconia. He just exists for the sole purpose of derailing threads he doesn’t like the subject matter of. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/55 "2017-05-01T02:08:27Z")
Chefguy wrote: “Dude was obsessed with Keri Russell.” You say that like it’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/56 "2017-05-01T02:54:57Z")
I’d never heard of \*\*umkay \*\*before reading this thread, but after going to some of the linked threads - wow. The most skillful trollery I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/57 "2017-05-01T03:04:04Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Gee. No one remembers SECRETAGENT or Phaedrus? I must have missed SECRETAGENT. Unless you’re thinking of FORMERAGENT. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/58 "2017-05-01T03:24:18Z")
I would like to nominate **badchad** , who was a relatively rare atheist troll. He practically harassed **Polycarp** into inactivity on this board. I’m not exactly your poster child for religion but I went 15 round with him on whether or not there was anything admirable about Jesus of Nazareth. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/59 "2017-05-01T04:51:43Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > SECRETAGENT posted in all caps, claiming that his supersekrit phone only allowed caps to be transmitted and insisting that he had all sorts of insider intel on Sadam Hussein, (nearly all of his claims turned out to be false, of course), while demanding that the SDMB support Bush’s desire to launch a war in Iraq. Whatever he may have claimed about his background or technology, one is impressed with the fact that he managed to get his posts past the board software’s ALL CAPS restriction, apparently without the use of the rinky-tink coding tricks that we sheeple are obliged to resort to. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487/60 "2017-05-01T05:16:13Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Chefguy wrote: “Dude was obsessed with Keri Russell.” > > You say that like it’s a bad thing. [No kidding](https://in.pinterest.com/leste_08/keri-russell/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487.md?page=4)