Hear ya.
True story:
When I moved from uk to Oz I joined a sited for expats to ask questions and get to know what was happening around australia .
Some very helpful people gave great advice / schools/ benefits/ jargon/ best areas/ worst areas- that kinda thing .
One guy 'Aussie jon' was king of the helpdesk- Site Mod , all round good guy. And he took a load of abuse from trolls - one in particular .
Anyhoo, after a week or so my work colleagues and I began spending a bit too much time on the site bagging the troll with our own brand of humour, which caused us to be branded trolls also. Now Aussie Jon (site Mod) warned us repeatedly not to get involved with said troll- and everybody sympathised with Aussie Jon.
But here's the thing - we worked out that Aussie Jon was the Troll!
He was abusing himself for the sympathy vote!!
The MOD was the TROLL !!! Honest
We found this hilarious as we had worked it out several days before the big argument began begun. He got into an argument with us, first siding with us as Troll / then talking us down- as Aussie Jon !! This went on for several hours-
only on one of the posts - just as we deduced - he swapped personas by accident in the heated debate.
He quickly deleted it - along with the pair of us and the conversation -
It was hilarious. He went quiet for three days.
We threatened to out him if he didn't reinstate us - and he had to reinstate the conversation.
He did with a full confession - citing stress. A MOD trolling his own site!!!
Funniest thing I have seen.
....Flake?????