When he was banned, I was so upset that I swallowed fifty pieces of Lego and smashed myself in the abdomen with a hammer until the pieces formed a heart shape, which I then broke by leaping from a third-story balcony onto a pile of upturned javelins.
athelas, the racist troll who was a dedicated serial plagiarist of racist trolls.
Is it really trolling, when you plagarize trolls? Or is that some meta-troll level, achieved only by the privileged few?
Is someone a bag of shit not because they are full of their own shit but because they swallow the shit of other’s? Technicalities on which I choose to quibble not.
This. Here we expect better of our trolls.
Fair point.
I think you’re right.
It has been a long time and I am old.
He was posting under UBB instead of vB and I am not sure that it had the same limits.
It wasn’t quite a troll thread, but I remember running across a link to an old thread on this board that was hilarious. It was shortly after some membership changes when the mods were heavily looking for and banning people with duplicate/sock accounts, and talking about it a lot to make sure people knew multiple accounts wasn’t OK. Someone started a thread with ‘hey, so who else is a duplicate account? I figure they’re going to catch me soon so I’m just going to confess’, and people started posting to it admitting to multiple accounts. Shockingly, all of the people posting except for the occasional mod or ‘WTF are you doing?’ now have a ‘banned’ by their username.
Remember Cesario the pedo? He wouldn’t shut up about the unfairness of statuary rape laws keeping him away from hot four-year-olds (gag) with come-hither eyes, and he nearly split the board. Because he wasn’t going to do anything illegal, no sir, he just thought that it should be legal. People were threatening to leave because if he wasn’t banned because “Pedophile!”, and people were threatening to leave if he was banned because “Censorship!”
And thus the problem. There’s a fine, almost indistinguishable line between troll and nutjob. Our rules include sanctions for trolling but acceptance - largely - for nutjobbery. It creates some conflict.
I guess you’re thinking of dorkusmalorkusmafia, formerly known as SqrlCub.
No wonder I have survived so long.
Regards,
Shodan
I actually thought the mods handled that well, except they should have moved faster. Ban the topic since he is a one trick pony, then ban him when he still wouldn’t shut up. A great way of handling it within the rules.
Though he was also somewhat indirectly the reason I got my first pitting (as I defended someone seeking common ground with him), so there’s that…
I do hope the mods are checking on the OP. This thread seems quite close to either a troll sock wondering if their name will come up, or a troll hoping for pointers.
It’s not a food thread for someone with possibly trollish activity to make.
I don’t know… I found his RIP thread, but I remembered the thread being significantly longer than that. Maybe there was more than one wave of suicide by mod? The amount of ‘BANNED’ in that thread is pretty amusing though.
I believe the warning was retracted in the “repulsive penis” <band name> thread after movement to the pit.
Rubbish. S/he was an utterly unbelievable troll - Hi, I’m a chirpy sky-diving quadriplegic with perky tits! Ask me about my sex life! - who just lucked into a credulous readership here who were all too eager to pat themselves on the back for their worship at the altar of the Inspirational Cripple without asking themselves “Y’know, how likely is this?” Not this board’s finest hour.
As a mod, I’d probably nominate posters that not many know or have heard of. There are two trolls in particular who will try to make a new name every week or so…one of them which has been doing this off and on for the last two years abouts.
I’d call him the worst troll…or at least most determined.
umkay seems to take the cake in terms of “most effective.” A whole lot of people were snookered, a whole lot of praise was heaped on the poster before the outing.