# You can't chide someone for trolling IRL either? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 8, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-chide-someone-for-trolling-irl-either/784052 "2017-04-08T12:45:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-chide-someone-for-trolling-irl-either/784052/35 "2017-04-12T22:14:43Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > HurricaneDitka’s statement was an honest description of his activities _off the board_, activities that might reasonably be construed as “real-life trolling” of liberals. Say what? I do not see any list of activities by **HurricaneDitka**. Here’s his post again: > [@Why do Trump and other "conservatives" want to defund opera and other arts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-trump-and-other-conservatives-want-to-defund-opera-and-other-arts/783963/91): > > NO! I strongly disagree with this! It is, in fact, my principle objection to NEA funding (and a whole host of other federal programs), and there are lots of “Constitutional conservatives” that feel the same way. There are certain things that the Constitution authorizes the federal government to do. “Funding art” isn’t on the list. I wouldn’t object to California taxing Californians to fund a California Endowment for the Arts, but I do object the feds doing it at a national level because I believe it’s “unconstitutional”. > > Poking libtards in the eye is just an ancillary benefit. He says he opposes the federal government funding a whole host of programs because funding those programs is “unconstitutional”. That’s the sum total of the list of things I see. > [@](#): > > Elvis did not accuse HurricaneDitka of trolling _on the board_ (i.e. making bad-faith statements to provoke other board members), he commented that he disapproved of HurricaneDitka’s _real-life_ trolling to provoke real-life liberals. Show me again where HurricaneDitka said anything about IRL activities. How do you limit his sentence to be constrained to IRL, rather than mean he likes riling up liberals on the board? > [@](#): > > By analogy, the stricture against accusations of lying applies to alleged lies made _in one’s statements on the board_. Suppose, in a discussion of sexual politics, poster X states (honestly) that he lied to his wife about his infidelity. Poster Y is surely free to state that he believes that “lying to your wife in such circumstances is despicable”, without being warned for calling poster X a liar. Agreed, but it has no relevance to this incident. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-chide-someone-for-trolling-irl-either/784052)._