Who are the worst trolls in this site's history?

[Never Made it to Graceland]

This question is more for the oldheads who have been around a while, but I've been seeing discussions lately about various users who have an infamous reputation. Who are some of the worst?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Eharding is more of a menace than a mere troll (though he is by far the worst), so I guess I'd say Atheist2006 and his various sock accounts.

[WD]

Eharding is more of a menace than a mere troll (though he is by far the worst), so I guess I'd say Atheist2006 and his various sock accounts.

Who was that? And what did they do?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Eharding is more of a menace than a mere troll (though he is by far the worst), so I guess I'd say Atheist2006 and his various sock accounts.

Who was that? And what did they do?

Did Atheist2006 post 50 times a day?

he used to send about 50 DM's a day to all remotely prominent members filled with so much NSFW images that many of us stopped opening up Atlas in public because we would see a barrage of threads of Goatse style shock images. (he sent his images under usernames of other people, so you would open a DM from, like, Bacon King and see his garbage).

He also made a poll saying whether it would be funny if I was raped by a syrian refugee...

[WD]

Eharding is more of a menace than a mere troll (though he is by far the worst), so I guess I'd say Atheist2006 and his various sock accounts.

Who was that? And what did they do?

Did Atheist2006 post 50 times a day?

he used to send about 50 DM's a day to all remotely prominent members filled with so much NSFW images that many of us stopped opening up Atlas in public because we would see a barrage of threads of Goatse style shock images. (he sent his images under usernames of other people, so you would open a DM from, like, Bacon King and see his garbage).

He also made a poll saying whether it would be funny if I was raped by a syrian refugee...

Jesus....

[S019]

NYCMM, bronz, King Lear

[Boobs]

ElectionsAtlas/Dave. Creating this forum was the greatest bait in history.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Robert Stark is another noteworthy one, a Stormfront-posting Nazi who also spammed like hell and was given multiple temp band but awhile for a permanent one. He also was a regular sockmaster for awhile to come after that.

I've stated before the 2010ish trio of Libertas, Alexander Hamilton and Sven was also notable amongst the worst for the sheer level of bullying and emotional damage they did to others on the forum. FWIW at least Hamilton has repented and become a good person and adjusted human being now (he's still banned but is good on AAD), while the other two remain as deranged as ever even if in different ways.

NYCMM, bronz, King Lear

You have clearly proven yourself to not be one of the "oldheads" this is directed to if you honestly think bronz is even amongst the top 20 worst trolls ever in forum history.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Eharding is more of a menace than a mere troll (though he is by far the worst), so I guess I'd say Atheist2006 and his various sock accounts.

Who was that? And what did they do?

Did Atheist2006 post 50 times a day?

he used to send about 50 DM's a day to all remotely prominent members filled with so much NSFW images that many of us stopped opening up Atlas in public because we would see a barrage of threads of Goatse style shock images. (he sent his images under usernames of other people, so you would open a DM from, like, Bacon King and see his garbage).

He also made a poll saying whether it would be funny if I was raped by a syrian refugee...

Jesus....

He also, according to Mr. Morden, made about 70 sock accounts one time someone made an "Opinion of" thread just so he could get 70 FF votes.

You really gotta wonder about some of the people who go on this site...

[Mr. Morden]

He also, according to Mr. Morden, made about 70 sock accounts one time someone made an "Opinion of" thread just so he could get 70 FF votes.

I did say that, though it turns out I mentally inflated the number.  Here is the thread in question, which I just found:

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=215172.0

Looks like my last post there said that I counted 27 accounts thought to be his sock (all created just to vote in the poll rather than post anything).  Maybe he made some more after I posted that, but I think I just got "70" by misremembering the "7" in "27" or something.  At present, there are 42 FF votes in that poll.  BRTD was doing a series of "opinion of" threads on banned posters, but stopped after that fiasco.

Also, Kal referenced "BaconKingIsGay@web.de" in that thread.  That was another thing about Atheist's sock accounts.  He would frequently register with email addresses that referenced Atlas posters, especially mods.  One of those addresses was "BaconKingIsGay@web.de", which I think then briefly became a meme here.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Oh yeah two more who deserve mention even if they were "trolls" in a rather different way:

Joel, an I-MA who popped up in 2006 claiming to be a professor at some fairly elite private university. After building a following in the community with the usual business (Atlasia, timelines, etc.) he announced that he was considering a run for Senate in 2008 as a Republican against John Kerry. A bunch of people encouraged him stating he had no chance but it could be fun, and started doing things like designing campaign banners, etc. One of the then mods Alcon thought it was a bit odd that a distinguished college professor would first discuss plans to run for Senate with a bunch of teenagers on a forum he signed up only a few weeks earlier before anyone else so he investigated a bit deeper and contacted the university who confirmed there was no person of that name who worked there. After this info was revealed he threw a bit of a huff and left. Not clear what his actual intentions were or if he had any aside from just fooling people for the lulz but some have speculated he may have had intentions of eventually collecting "campaign donations" and pulling off a nasty scam. Who knows.

And the absolute worst sicko: Yates.

He signed up circa 2005ish I think and was at first a pretty bland Moderate Hero type who also blended into the community with the usual Atlasia and timelines stuff. After a couple months he made a post with a big dramatic announcement that he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and had only a few months left to live. This caused immense sadness and emotional reaction amongst the forum (it might seem odd in hindsight that everyone bought it so easily but it was more trusting place back, social media wasn't as developed making it more difficult to verify this sort of thing or attach a sort of permanent internet identity to posters and a lot of people who were inclined to be skeptical probably just figured that this was obviously true because there's no way anyone would lie about this sort of thing), and he led on for a couple weeks posting about how he was moving back home to be with family in his last days and made a dramatic goodbye post. After this he didn't log on but his "cousin" passed on "updates" to a few posters. These updates were investigated a bit deeper after a few suspicious things in them and inconsistent claims were noticed, and eventually it was concluded that in fact the whole story was a hoax. For awhile this was somewhat forgotten...until the original Yates account started posting again a few years with a half-assed apology for what he did and announced intentions to return to Atlasia and participate in the forum again, (he even sent me a PM asking me to be his running mate.) Unsurprisingly he was banned shortly afterwards.

FYI we never found out exactly who he was. There was some circumstantial evidence pointing toward another poster who posted a bit before him and quit posting during "Yates"' heyday, but nothing conclusive. One theory is that he started as a sock for Atlasia vote fraud purposes and then developed a life of his own in the poster's mind...but of course nothing justifies the absolutely sick ruse that was pulled. That might be a good pick for the single worst action anyone on the forum has ever done to the community.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

the most persistent one since I joined is probably Greedo. Dude keeps blaming everyone else and trying to come back

obviously not as bad as 70% of those described here

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

-snip-

Wow. I knew about Yates but not this Joel guy. With hindsight, it looks like we had far worse/sicker trolls back then than we tend to get now. Although Eharding still has to at least be one of the five worst posters.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

I find it strange Opebo hasn't been mentioned yet.

[PSOL]

I find it strange Opebo hasn't been mentioned yet.

I’m amazed one could get that many posts on this site in the first place. The bits and pieces I hear show how much a force he still holds on this site.

[Donerail]

I was not around for his heyday but I'm shocked we've made it this far without mentioning Rochambeau — vacuous spammer who at one point was on track to break brtd's posting record. Also notable for an incident where he changed his signature to an image from Joe Republic's flickr page(?) and Joe responded by changing the image to something not appropriate for a family forum.

Another notable name is Einzige

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I was not around for his heyday but I'm shocked we've made it this far without mentioning Rochambeau — vacuous spammer who at one point was on track to break brtd's posting record. Also notable for an incident where he changed his signature to an image from Joe Republic's flickr page(?) and Joe responded by changing the image to something not appropriate for a family forum.

I had only joined here at the tail-end of Roach's time here during BBCgate. My fondest memory is when he created a sock account and expressed his desire to have his testicles removed surgically for feminist reasons. Not long after he told me who he was in a PM.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So fun fact about Rochambeau: when he first started posting he broke 250 posts per day. I have no doubt he holds the record for highest post per day rate. Granted that was all in one day but still...250 posts in one day.

And that reminds me, though he was a more recent poster there should be a mention of texarkana. For the very new people: he was a former infrequent poster who came in and then took the position child pornography should be legal, after people called him out for it and called him a pedophile he "proved" that he wasn't one by...placing a picture of a curvy black pornstar in his sig and insisting that if he was a pedophile he couldn't like curvy developed women like this. This resulted in a massive backlash against him from people attacking for the NSFW content and a weird cult defending him claiming the criticism was simply racist (?) and during which time his postings skyrocketed and he was averaging over 100 posts per day of basically pure spam. He got muted and forced to tone down his sig and eventually banned, only to return with a tankie gimmick sock who also overposted and was then banned.

What made him so creepy wasn't really just his sig but that he openly posted sh!t about how he wanted to creepily sexually harass female posters, posted about very creepy fetishes openly, and was later proven to have participated in a 4chan thread aimed to obtaining nudes from non-consenting girls via hacking and social engineering and has likely disseminated revenge porn. And despite this...he had a bizarre fan club insisting he was only banned for his sig and calling for him to be reinstated.

But still he's up there with the all time worsts.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

And that reminds me, though he was a more recent poster there should be a mention of texarkana. For the very new people: he was a former infrequent poster who came in and then took the position child pornography should be legal, after people called him out for it and called him a pedophile he "proved" that he wasn't one by...placing a picture of a curvy black pornstar in his sig and insisting that if he was a pedophile he couldn't like curvy developed women like this. This resulted in a massive backlash against him from people attacking for the NSFW content and a weird cult defending him claiming the criticism was simply racist (?) and during which time his postings skyrocketed and he was averaging over 100 posts per day of basically pure spam. He got muted and forced to tone down his sig and eventually banned, only to return with a tankie gimmick sock who also overposted and was then banned.

What made him so creepy wasn't really just his sig but that he openly posted sh!t about how he wanted to creepily sexually harass female posters, posted about very creepy fetishes openly, and was later proven to have participated in a 4chan thread aimed to obtaining nudes from non-consenting girls via hacking and social engineering and has likely disseminated revenge porn. And despite this...he had a bizarre fan club insisting he was only banned for his sig and calling for him to be reinstated.

For a brief period I was accused of being a texarkana sock. Damn I had no idea of the absolute horrible scum I had been compared to. I mean...

[Sir Mohamed]

This dude has clearly been the worst. Surprised this poster isn't permabanned already.

[Amanda Huggenkiss]

This dude has clearly been the worst. Surprised this poster isn't permabanned already.

Why is that?

[Sir Mohamed]

This dude has clearly been the worst. Surprised this poster isn't permabanned already.

Why is that?

It's actually an old joke

[Amanda Huggenkiss]

This dude has clearly been the worst. Surprised this poster isn't permabanned already.

Why is that?

It's actually an old joke

Okay. I'm confused, but okay.

[Sir Mohamed]

This dude has clearly been the worst. Surprised this poster isn't permabanned already.

Why is that?

It's actually an old joke

Okay. I'm confused, but okay.

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[Continential]

NYCMM, bronz, King Lear

I like how there was someone worse then any of them outlined in the last posts before you but you choose them (NYCMM, bronz, King Lear).