Cracked had an article about [LANGUAGE WARNING!] ways to deal with trolls in the future. A lot of the internet is kinda cluttered with idiots with too much time on their hands (editing Wikipedia at least gives some of them something somewhat useful to do), and I wouldn’t mind it being cleaned up a bit. I think the best solution would be to have like a separate rich man’s internet for people with basic social skills and then leave the unwashed trolls isolated to their own area to bite and claw each other.
I notice a few of the trolls who first appeared when Palin was announced are back. I guess it didn’t take long for them realize how empty their lives are after the Obama victory so now they’re back to pestering people. I do wish some journalist would do an expose on trolls and actually track down some of these people and show us exactly who they are. My guess is it won’t be that interesting (they’re probably just teenagers with little social skills), but I’m still curious.
(hat tip to Conservative Grapevine)
But Troll-hunting is so much fun!
As a conservative Christian and lifelong Rethuglicken, I have to say that I am concerned that this site has decided to use these mean-spirited and racially motivated attacks on the President-elect, the most gracious and intelligent man ever to walk the face of the Earth. Using troubling code words like “Obama victory”, “people”, and “the”, you spread your hate to keep the Obama victory from the people.
#2 wasn’t me.
All we need to do is get back some of the lost functionality of USENET: killfiles.
I do wish some journalist would do an expose on trolls and actually track down some of these people and show us exactly who they are. My guess is it won’t be that interesting (they’re probably just teenagers with little social skills), but I’m still curious.
I would say it’s ‘ol Baracky himself, but he probably doesn’t know how to get on the internet.
Anyway, you have any commentary on this? Personally, I’m surprised Bill Ayers isn’t on there.
The solutions are worse than the problem.
I have a fool-proof method of dealing with trolls, I ignore them unless they’re funny or I’m bored.
And besides, where would this blog be without trolling?
You upped your traffic hugely by trolling (Puppy blender anyone?).
You delight in trolls:
Unfunny treasonous ronin!”
-Lou Tulio*
“You, sir, are a natural born killer.”
-E. Harrington
And think of the fun we had with Ronulans and Kwazy Kos Kids. How many posts have you done just to get them to come here so we could poke them with sticks?
And of course, who can forget The Limey? That guy inspired a whole series of posts.
Nope, trolls are good. The only way to get rid of trolls is also the only way to make communism work, take human beings out of the equation.
I think that trolls are much like the DNC Convention – watching reminds me why I’m a conservative Republican, and what the cost of drifting from that could potentially be. I could never budget for enough pot, vodka, and cocaine for any of that crap to start making sense. I’d rather have working brain cells than liberalism any day.
It’s amazing when they put their best face on it with spin and glossy production values and it’s still a warm turd. Oh wow! A slickly produced tribute to Ted Kennedy! Now it’s a warm turd with glitter on it!
I also loved when they’d bring an Obama spokesman on Fox whenever some controversy came up. He would inevitably say, “people don’t care about Obama associating with terrorists! They care about the economy!”
– 48 percent DO care.
– 48 percent also realize that the economic mess has a LOT to do with Pelosi and Reid and their blocking efforts to reform Fannie/Freddy. Or Nancy “drill your brains” Pelosi draining billions to foreign oil this Summer. Or Reid claiming that some unnamed insurance company was almost bankrupt, which tumbled the stocks in all insurance companies the next day, or before all this Shumer doing a similar stunt on an Ohio bank and bankrupting it this past Summer. Wow, and now we get to trust you fools with the whole economy! Spif-tastic!
– Claiming “people don’t care” doesn’t answer ANY of the questions about the facts of the case of Obama’s associations, which I take to be an admission of guilt. If you had facts, you’d use them. Since you don’t, you try to redirect like the world’s worst clown magician at a kids birthday party.
– Saying people care about the economy pretends like you have a plan. Ironically, something you are also unwilling to discuss. Even now.
If this is what their leadership looks like, trolls who actually LOOK UP to this snake-belly of inept hubris have to be so deeply deprived of sunlight and sanity that we really need to consider child psychology more than logic when dealing with them. Confronting trolls is a bit like tossing pennies between bums to watch them fight for them – you may get a smug thrill from it but you feel dirty afterward.
Like Palin said in her interview with Greta VanSusteren… they’re just dolts who sit in their mom’s basement, wearing pajamas all day long, with nothing better to do than to create imaginary controversy. (Okay, she didn’t say “dolts”… but I’m sure she meant that… and rightfully so.)
Here’s a funny list about the advent of trolls & some of their habits. Some of the stuff on the list is somewhat insensitive to the Faithful, but hey, I’ve got a thick skin, as do most of you.
I’m John McCain and I’m going back to the Senate. I look forward to working across the aisle with my Democrat friends and our new President, Barack Obama, to help rescue the American economy and make a stronger America. I voted for the bailout and I continue to support it. I also want to make the Republican Party a better tent for all Americans, my friends. You can start on blogs like this one by respecting people who disagree with you or are disrespectful. You call them ‘trolls,’ I believe. Embrace them and bring them in just like all our Mexican friends who have chosen to call America home and make it a better place. You can take another important step towards our common future by rejecting people like ussjimmycarter who always seem to reduce politics to ripping people’s heads off and stuffing them up their… I can’t use that word, my friends.
Slide over & read that NY Times article referenced at the end of the Cracked piece. Some people just need a serious, serious butt-whoopin’
Frank, I’ve just been made aware of your Cyber Dinosaur with Bazooka Troll Slayer Via ISP that’s hitting the market right after Thanksgiving. Until then, your secret’s safe with us. (Excellent timing, by the way.)
Why not just build some bridges that they can hide under? We can post “BRIDGE CLOSED” signs and then go about our own business?
Raving Lunatic.
I second that. Not turning those sources toward the end of the article over to the FBI is yet another example of the NYT getting chummy with the wrong side.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin once broke society down into “friends of God” and “enemies of God”. It is interesting how the NYT never, EVER can be mistaken for the first group. That paper can’t go under fast enough.
Still and all, trolls are so very entertaining. Since I don’t watch TV or listen to the radio anymore my opportunities for fun and frolic are somewhat curtailed…..and you can only do “that” for so long before you get tired (at my advanced age). So…… messing about with trolls is just about the best fun to be had with your clothes on.
I am looking forward to treating them EXACTLY the same way they have treated us for the last 8 years. I want to Palinize them. Every time Bi…bi…bi.. den opens his mouth there’ll be some new delight for us to talk about and for trolls to squeal over.
After all now the “the messiah” is ready to rule (and yes one of his sycophants did say that) the fun should start in earnest. Bring it on. Oh and for those of you who’ve never read David Eddings, one of his characters reminds the hero of a very important strategy in war, politics and life…..”Never leave a live enemy behind you”.
Words to live by.
Part of that article struck home. My company is on the verge of going out of business, and the stress has put me in an evil mood a few days ago. Evil-HCG was a **** to another IMAO poster for no good reason, and I have felt kind of guilty ever since. With any luck, he didn’t read it.
If we weren’t anonymous, or had Karma markers, I might have thought twice before typing. In my defense, the undeserved insult I wrote was pretty funny (IMHO).
Sarah had it wrong. They aren’t in the basement! They are in their mommies bedroom while she’s down buying new tires for their house after a hard day on the street corner meeting their prospective new “daddy”…
Oh…and John McCain…please pull your head out of your ass, rip it off and stuff it back up your ass! Thank you, my friend!