Your Task Today
I thought we’d do some social science of our own, so could you please engage the trolls who comment here and find out this from them:
1. Their age.
2. Their occupations.
3. How did they first encounter IMAO.
Perhaps this could be illuminating.
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September 29th, 2008 at 10:05 am
1. 47 years old
2. Senator
3. My manager told me about it
It’ll probably be the same no matter who you ask.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Or how about:
1. Name
2. Location
3. IP address
Oh, I forgot. Your site already collects that and more.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Frank, are you open to the slightly unethical practice of collecting troll addresses and putting them on random mailing lists?
September 29th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Engage the trolls!!! Does this mean I have to have a conversation with them!!!!! No Way, FrankJ.!! that’s like talking to the short bus kids!!!
September 29th, 2008 at 10:44 am
The hard part is that they don’t hang around long to be engaged in any kind of debate. They’re Obama’s drive-by community organizers – his form of a blogosphere truth squad. And they carry baseball bats attached to their tongues. On the streets of American cities, they carry a good deal more, like automatic weapons.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:50 am
what, you mean those automatic weapons that they ban us from using?
September 29th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Just wanted to say that Sarah Palin’s dinosaur and Young Earth bs has angered me. She is an abomination on science. Anyone with an engineering or science degree who supports her should have their science or engineering degree taken away.
1) 53 2) web developer 3) The IMAO blimp was over my street again yesterday
September 29th, 2008 at 11:01 am
We have a blimp? Sweet.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Are you gonna have the registrations? i hate registraions cause u have give u real email – no way!!. I found this blog on the memeorandum.com one day. i just want share hope for oceans. please dont make me go away
i wont tell me age to you cuase sekrit.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Oh, benji. We’d never make you go away. I mean, you’re passionate about the oceans!
Your age is a secret? You’re some kind of funny, furry liberal.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Just dropped by to see how my fellow billionaire friends are doing! I hope all is well with your estates. Bush’s tax cuts allowed me to purchase a yacht and a new ranch (my fifteenth home) in Santa Barbara so I’m hoping for more of the same with McCain. I agree with McCain that focusing on the middle class is totally unnecessary. The taxes I pay and the money I spend will trickle down to those lazy individuals eventually. As for the poor well who cares about them – LOL! I’m glad McCain picked Palin because it’s a great way to get those morons who actually care about social issues and God to vote for our side. Like most of you I don’t give crap about abortions or Jesus – I just want to be filthy rich!!
1) I’ll be 62 years young in November.
2) Wealth venture capitalist
3) My crack team of stealth blog ninjas found your great website.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:26 am
As long as “engage” the trolls means “fire weapons at”, I’m all for it!
September 29th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Are we supposed to find out the mental age or physical age, cause you know sometimes there’s quite a discrepancy.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:50 am
age: 14
occupation: subterranean blog critic
Found blog by accident, was shopping on commie-chic websites for a Chairman MAO jacket and handbag, clicked wrong google link.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I’m 78 years old, was born in Budapest, Hungary, my hobbies include paying nitwit bloggers to act all nitwity (see Atreos for example), hating G.W. Bush, trying to influence elections and bringing down the Bank of England.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
The only reason you are trying to gather demographic information on your unknown visitors is because you are shocked at how much hatred their is at Bush for bankrupting the U.S. with his stupid war. Just like Bush said the war was going fine when it wasn’t he said the economy was great when it wasn’t. Yeah, what a suprise people come here attacking you. You deserve every vicious troll comment you get for your support of Bush. Supporting McCain would be ok but now you have to nerve to act like Palin is some great gift to our country. You cheer for the pathetic Alaskan nobody and you expect your sympathy. There will be none. You prop up a retard as a King and you get what you deserve. My age, income, brain power and breast size are none of your losers beeswax.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Email me your breastsize Kate pls stevie@stevieemail.com
I found this site my friend. You all really love Palin really? LOL! You people are so funny. I left a turd on another thread – haha
im in college – no job yet. Probably wont get one thanks to Bush bankrupting the usa. Way to go Republicans – NOT
September 29th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
The avatars are kind of cool though despite you all being idiots. I’m impressed. But you all suck. Ok bye! Victory for Obama and Democratic sweep. Sweep the Republicans out the door!
September 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I can has breastsize?
September 29th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
1. 23
2. Video Game Programmer
3. I found a magical unicorn, and it offered to take me to a land of candy, bunnies, and happiness. I asked him if it had computers, and he said no, so I went to IMAO instead.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
this is a bad site cause republicans do evil like let peeps drown in hurricanes and mean wars where peeps die and bleed. now republicans ruin economy. no one likes republicans. no one will ever likes them unless they will transform. i can vote and my mom will vote for democrats and hopes they will win! obama seems like a nice man not grumpy like mccain. i will vote for the nice man and things will get better. if you don’t like it well then so what!
September 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
The typical response should be:
1. 20 Years Old (Youth will Rock The Vote in November!)
2. I’m in astroturf. There’s a big web-business in astroturf before elections. Go figure.
3. Talking points memo of blogs to hit, along with cut-and-paste copy to explain why Obama ROX and McCain SUX!
4. And I don’t live in my parents basement. I live under a bridge, with my fellow trolls.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Supporting McCain would be ok but now you have to nerve to act like Palin is some great gift to our country.
She is. And gifts often come from unexpected places–such as quasi-liberal, pure-politicians and opportunists like McCain. Go figure.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
BTW, asking for breast size on the internet, you need to be careful. First of all, they might be big, but it might actually be a guy.
Second, they might be impressive, but you need to get waist measurements, and general poundage, or you might find yourself crushed under a ton of liberal love.
Just gotta be careful out there.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Hard to believe, but the trolls appear to be getting more and more incoherent. Has Obamuhhh outsourced his troll squad to a call center in India?
September 29th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I was wondering the same thing, Master Shake. I was just sitting here kinda feeling bad for these idiots. It’s not even fun to “engage” them, because it’s a battle of wits with the unarmed. It just wouldn’t be polite the lay the smack down, you know?
Frank? Do ya think it’d be okay if I just filled in the blanks for all the trolls, so that they won’t hurt their tiny pea-sized brains trying to think of wacky yet poignant fake info for their age, occupation, etc.? Me ‘n’ Master Shake…we been talkin’, and we just don’t wanna make the lil’ trolls go pee pee or poo poo in their little hemp drawers.
September 29th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Stepped on a troll today. Asked the requisite questions and here were its answers:
1. Age has no meaning, my friend; my spirit is as ancient as Mother Gaia.
2. We should never define ourselves by mere occupations, but by our commitment to creating a Bright, Shiny, New World Order in which we will never have need to painfully think or dream again.
3. IMAO is infamous; because of this, it must be destroyed, as must mom, apple pie, and the flag.
At this point the troll began to head over to the Illegal Aliens’ Farmer’s Market; but, being self-reliant and prepared, I dealt it a swift blow and watched the thing shrivel and melt into the sewer. At the last moment, I noted the shoes. It was wearing a pair of Jimmy’s troll shoes! And once again I made the connection between itty-bitty feet, itty-bitty hands, and itty-bitty…. well, let’s just say it’s a visual thing but yes, it is true. I hope I’ve been useful.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
1.35
2. Special education school bus driver/college student (special education major)
3. Looking for right wing blogs because I got tired of all of the left wing BS from CNN and the others. Been a lurker/sometime poster for almost 2 years.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Age: I am immortal, so it doesn’t matter.
Occupation: Former pharmaceutical test subject, various companies.
Former mind control test subject, Camp Hero, Mauntuak, New Jersey.
Currently a policy advisor for the Democratic party and part time troller for KOS.
I also craft nifty tin foil hats.
How I found IMAO: My alien supercomputer inside Obonination base on Zeta Reticuli knows all. The messiah commands us to go forth and get in the faces of all non-believers!
September 29th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
1. 56
2. Professor of Community Development
3. A student included it as a reference on a paper proving that liberal websites were much more intellectual and thoughtful than these vapid right-wing sites, and he was right. I gave him an A+.
You should give up on this rethugican stuff, and bask in the light of Obama. The light will do you some good.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I don’t know. I have trouble believing that trolls exist. They are simply too naive, ignorant, and witless to be true. Of course then there’s Obama, Pelosi and Reid……..
Did you know that every time a troll posts a snail darter dies? It’s true. I know I made it up fresh just this morning- ( How Liberals get their facts)
October 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Benji, another cup of battery acid down the stormdrain. Heh.