Why isn't The Straight Dope very popular?

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@SlackerInc

I looked at his last five or six posts, and didn’t see any moderator action or commentary after any of those.

All you are doing is admitting that you really haven’t read many of his posts. I’ve already linked to Jonathan Chance’s warning.

@SlackerInc

I also think you are conflating “expressing extremely common right wing viewpoints” as “trolling”, which is kind of the point people were making upthread. Yes, those common right wing viewpoints are annoying and lowbrow, but I’m having trouble seeing how expressing those wrongheaded but sincerely held opinions constitutes “trolling”.

How about these:

@Reason10

The survival rate of the Kung Flu is more than 98 percent.

@Reason10

See, THIS is why liberals are so much fun to trigger. They come completely unglued. You’re peeing your pants because I came up with a pun for the coronavirus. We’re all laughing are asses off.

@Reason10

But the Kung Flu has been projected not to exceed 60,000, chopped down from 2.2 million. If you are offended by me calling the Coronavirus that it’s good. I’ve met half my quote today of triggering liberals.

@Reason10

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I don’t know what this “kung flu” thing is. I thought we were talking about covid-19 in this thread. If you want to start a thread about a different disease please feel free to do so.**
You know what it is. And you’re just acting triggered because I came up with a cutesy name for it. And you’re not being clever by claiming you don’t know. You’re just making us laugh at your TRIGGERED status.

@Reason10

I’d tell you to lighten up and grow some tolerance, but you libs are so funny when you’re triggered.

He admitted to trolling over and over and over again. He says quite explicitly that he is posting in order to piss people off and laughing about it. I have rarely seen a troll come out and admit to what they were doing so explicitly.

There’s plenty more stupidity and goading in his posts, but how anyone can say that this guy wasn’t trolling is beyond me.

ETA: I think what it really comes down to is “we don’t want those kinds of people around here”, and while I am instinctively sympathetic to that opinion as I too find them irritating, it flies in the face of the protests that the board does not have a left wing slant or that right wing posters don’t face a headwind if they attempt to participate.

If you wanted to make such a point, you picked one of the worst possible examples to do so. I’m quite sure we would have banned a left-wing troll who behaved in such a fashion.