Profile: MartySays

MartySays  was a user and commenter on GoComics, and the first of the New Pollers.

MartySays' first poll appeared on November 15, 2017. It entailed of:

"poll: what was your favorite science experiment in middle school? thank you"

-MartySays, November 15, 2017

Because of the Poll War in the past, many commenters strongly objected to his polls. But even though there was this backlash, he still kept polling. However, he kept his polls relatively strip-related. This led to the creation of the Narwhals, the anti-censorship group wanting to protect MartySays from those who fight to prevent a second Poll War, and the Anti-Polls, a counter-survey group believing that polls cause a massive disruption to the comment section and only cause division. This also led to a plethora of imitators who created polls like him and also got backlash. However, most of these were ignored, as MartySays usually took the featured comment before anyone else.

However, MartySays' polls became more and more off topic everyday, and thus the resistance against his polls increased. It soon became apparent that he was using a second account named "boosted" to try and capture featured comment. This was confirmed when, on November 19th, MartySays replied to his own poll, saying, "oop, got to make this featured comment." The next day, user 0A1S2D3F4G5H wrote a comment summarizing the evidence that MartySays was really a troller. The comment was featured and at it's peak had 71 replies, most agreeing with 0A1S2D3F4G5H. Many other comments were also written that day calling for MartySays to be banned. MartySays did not help his case, as he ranted and complained and helped certify himself as a troller and spammer in the process. Many users sent emails to the comment section moderator, demanding that MartySays be banned.

The next day, November 21, 2017, MartySays and his second account boosted were banned from the comment section after a week of polls, spam, and intense fighting. The Narwhals admitted to MartySays being a troll, although still defended polls in the comment section, while the Anti-Polls celebrated their hard fought censorship.

Here is a list of polls that MartySays has created as of November 18, 2017:

Trivia

 * MartySays was later known as "EllenSays".