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YOUR STUPID
In honor of April Fools' -- and the fools all year long -- Salon's reader community Table Talk offers the ultimate in troll posts.
[2007-04-06]
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  • possibly first!

    rarely have i seen such wisdom.

    my stupid? your stupid!

    -- Jonathan Versen
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    Thursday, April 5, 2007 07:33 PM

  • Troll Trap or Academy Award

    Is this feature supposed to incite the trolls to only post here, or is it going to be a sort of hall of fame of trollery?

    Singling trolls out in this way will only inspire them to greater heights. Since the identity system is trivially hackable, I don't see that this is a good idea.

    -- yesteray
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    Thursday, April 5, 2007 09:38 PM

  • Pretty Clever, Actually

    Except for the last entry, they are pretty clever. We get much worse every day, out in the real world.

    -- timbuktom
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    Thursday, April 5, 2007 09:52 PM

  • The Problem With Parody

    Is that the reality of stupid Con trolls is usually much, much more ridiculous than any parody we could dream up...

    -- BabyGrumpus
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    Friday, April 6, 2007 04:35 AM

  • Collecting troll droppings is a great idea but what to do with it?

    I think collecting this stuff is a great idea. Maybe the Salon alchemists should think of a way to have this crap generate something besides pageviews. How about this: once you've collected enough, ship it off to Richard Lederer or Funny Times and they'll make books and t-shirts out of it generating lot of income for Salon so they can drop subscription fees attracting even more trolls to generate even more of this crap... Wow, a perpetual crap machine. Enough of this and Salon might actually start to smell like The Onion.

    -- rwanderman
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    Friday, April 6, 2007 04:37 AM

  • The very best trolls lull you into a sense of complacency

    Gently reeling in the fish, like catching an eight pound bass on a five pound test line.

    Once you have them reeled in, then you net them..

    They don't even know what's happening until they are in the cooler on ice.

    -- Jonathan Hoag
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    Friday, April 6, 2007 05:42 AM

  • Sports message boards...

    ....get this stuff daily.

    -- tigerbaby
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    Friday, April 6, 2007 06:44 AM

  • Who is stupid?

    Perhaps you didn't mean to butcher our English grammar, but unless you're using street syntax (as in "my bad") the title should have been "You're Stupid."

    -- ScreamName
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    Friday, April 6, 2007 07:33 AM

  • Hey, that's my post you're talking about!

    It's a little bit scary to think I can now be lambasted in the letters section myself.

    But I think I'll just take the troll's attitude: if people are talking about ME, then WHAT"S THE PROBLEM???!!!

    HAHAHAHA!

    -- nerdnam
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    Friday, April 6, 2007 08:45 AM

  • Read the last item

    Then you'll understand the title.

    I really hate the your/you're mistake.

    -- BadReligion
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    Friday, April 6, 2007 10:37 PM

  • Have ya'll SEEN the letters section at Democratic Underground? Or Fox?

    The trolls around here seem intellectual by comparison. That parody is genius. Thank you. I needed that laugh!

    -- domini
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    Saturday, April 7, 2007 12:04 AM

  • dumb

    These are overly cute. People are dumber than this.

    -- joseph
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    Saturday, April 7, 2007 10:43 PM

  • Really, your stupid

    >>I really hate the your/you're mistake.

    -- Brenda Palomino
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    Monday, April 9, 2007 09:02 PM

  • Really, your stupid

    "I really hate the your/you're mistake."

    It's not a mistake. It's a joke.

    -- Brenda Palomino
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    Monday, April 9, 2007 09:03 PM

  • I know!

    I know it's a joke! Somebody else didn't get it, and I was explaining.

    -- BadReligion
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    Monday, April 9, 2007 10:47 PM

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