Trolls

I got an email from a “former” reader this evening. (They were very clear on the “former” part). People stop reading me all the time and while it is never something that is fun to find out, I understand. There are eleventyhundred and one different things that could be the reason or motivation, so I really [...]

Apparently Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have a self-image problem. Solution? Boob jobs. We knew Mary-Kate had a self-image problem, with her anorexia and all. Well, so does Ashley, and she wants to solve the problem by surgically making her boobies big. And Ashley wants Mary-Kate to do so, too, so they – the boobs – will not [...]

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            I will publish these from time to time. Only to demonstrate the subtle mindgames that are often used when Black women exhibit any other characteristic but compliance and remaining in a stereotypical box. Unfortunately for these parties, I am well onto this charade. Whether this person is male/female is irrelevant, the message is clear: The underlying message is for

Recently, the NYTimes.com had an article about a malicious sort of on-line anti-social behavior called Trolling. One of the people the author interviewed was Jason Fortuny, a thirty-two year old web programmer, who's passion is trolling. Today the Internet is much more than esoteric discussion forums. It is a mass medium for defining who we are to ourselves and to others. Teenagers groom their My

The New York Times does a deep dive into the world of internet trolls in an article by Mattathias Schwartz. It’s a great read and as I got deeper into it I couldn’t help think of Fight Club and the Space Monkeys. Schwartz talks with several leading trolls, people who disrupt online communities and play psychological [...]

Read the whole article here. This was the most interesting thing I’d read in a long time. The author obviously did a lot of research, and it’s very accurate; I don’t generally go into these sorts of articles (articles having to do with online/tech/internet related topics) expecting the writer to know more about the subject than [...]

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Unlike Obama's online support which has risen up quite organically, it appears that McCain is attempting to manufacture greater web presence through his "Blog Outreach" program. read more | digg story

One filling and she removed a small piece of bone; April 25, 2008 — Self Portrait. . WordPress recently announced a new feature it hopes will act as a catalyst for WordPress bloggers to get to know each other. Unfortunately there are people using WordPress who should never meet. Like racists and civil rights activists, or Sci3ntologists [...]

Earlier today, I posted a picture that I thought would be of interest to the American people. Well, as expected, some anonymous Far Right Wing lunatic fringe tool left a rather nasty comment here on my Blog. I won't get into the specifics as to what was said, as I don't wish to give this feckless coward any more attention than he really deserves. But I will say this, if you are going to leave a message here, saying the the stuff that you did, you are not going to leave it here anonymously. Sorry, this is my space, my blog, my domain, if you are going to criticize me and/or leave abusing comments, you're going to have to either register with Blogger and leave full information or a valid URL or e-mail address. Any messages of any kind of threatening nature will be reported to Google s

Want an interesting way to spend a day in Tampere? (For a pronunciation clue, that all rhymes…) It’s not that hard to figure out what to do – for Tampere, Finland, is the home of Moomin Valley, the Moomin museum! Moomins are comic book trolls created by Finnnish writer Tove Jansson. The series has achieved renown [...]

Los Trolls de Lava son temibles adversarios y criaturas increíbles. Muy agresivos en encuentro casuales, estos solitarios seres buscan presas para satisfacer su excepcional apetito.Su origen no es muy claro. Aunque en tempranas guerras contra otros Trolls, Humanos y otras especies inteligentes, no ha sido hasta ahora cuando se ha descubierto la antigüedad de estas criaturas.Resistentes a temperaturas extremas, los Trolls de Lava gustan de pasar la inmensa mayoría del año entorno a los Grandes Volcanes de Hlon. En ocasiones puntuales viajan hacia el sur hasta un cenagal frío y oscuro. Su permanencia allí provoca extraños efectos en la tierra, y comerciantes que han tenido la desgracia de cruzar la ciénaga en esa época aseguraban que la temperatura que había allí era muy superior a los 30º.Hermanos de ellos, los Trolls de Fuego son una especie orgullosa, aunque frecuentemente incluidos como una subespecie de los Trolls de Lava o una población minoritaria. La confusión provi

Hey Kids, In the spirit of lightheartedness, please don't respond to trolls. Just ignore them and I will clean up their droppings. I will delete posts of trolls and those who respond to them. You know who they are.

hamtaro17000 posted a photo: Le troll géant du magasin Mille sabords à La Rochelle.

Había sido llamada "hija del diablo" por los ignorantes y ahora soy llamada troll por los semipelagianos del siglo XXI. Sólo porque veo que en la cultura cristianista (aficionada meramente a la figura emblemática de Cristo) están empeñados en reducir el mensaje del evangelio de la salvación tan sólo a las categorías de la filosofía teológica del sinergismo y el monergismo.Algunos quieren cerrar este debate (como si no fuera permanente y dinámico en todo el mundo) por "cansador" y porque "aburre". Es decir, que mientras por un lado aluden referencialmente a las Escrituras, por otro se empeñan en descentralizar lo que es central en las Escrituras: La Salvación por Gracia provista por la Cruz de Cristo y su resurrección. (1º Corintios 15:14)Todos dirán que Cristo resucitó. Pero no alcanzan a comprender ni a creer que la resurrección nos incluye como creyentes, y que por esta misma razón no hay ninguna intervención nuestra para la justificación y la santificación, ni

"Purity Trolls" is the term that HairyTrueMan used to describe a particular class of the Daily Kos mob that he obviously dislikes. The interesting part about this is that he is attacking the purity trolls in order to defend the purity of Hillary Clinton. Here is his definition of a purity troll: "'Purity Trolls' These are trolls from the left. Otherwise known in real life as drama queens. No matter how pure your position is, their position is more pure. No matter how compassionate or informed or skeptical or vigorous your opinion is, theirs is more of it. These trolls are insistent that they are the true spirit of liberalism, and spend their time being quite put out that the rest of us don't turn over our resources, our audiences, and our respect to them, regardless of how thin their positions may be on the merits. Drives me nuts, personally."Honestly, after reading the quote I was starting to like HairyTrueMan. He even said that Hillary wouldn't be his first choice. I really thoug

Juro que cuando escribí el post de ayer sobre los tipos de trolls no me había pasado por el blog de Gina ni me había comprado El Pais. De hecho, lo primero lo hago una vez por semana más o menos y lo segundo nunca aproximadamente xD. Pero ya que el tema es de actualidad, y aprovechando la coincidencia, me gustaría plantear una pequeña encuesta/debate entre mis lectores con blogs, webs, foros… Quiero saber qué opináis de este tipo de personajes, los trolls. ¿Qué política seguís vosotros con ellos? ¿Moderáis los comentarios o los dejáis hacer? En mi caso, rara vez modero o censuro los comentarios del blog, excepto el spam. He recibido comentarios absurdos, insultos, amenazas, incluso a alguno le ha dado por intentar robarme el blog. Ante estas situaciones, no puedo hacer otra cosa más que sonreir y dejarlos hacer. No suelo borrar posts a no ser que alguien se pase tres pueblos y dañe la imagen del blog, y tengo bastante manga ancha con mis comentaristas. De hecho,

Puede que no estéis familiarizados con el término troll, pero estoy seguro de que conocéis a más de uno. Un troll es ese extraño especímen cuya vida es tan absurda y tediosa que se dedica a boicotear la de los demás. En Internet aparecen en multitud de ámbitos, incluso en mi blog he sufrido alguna vez a alguno. El otro día, en uno de mis viajes a mi mundo interior, donde nunca hace frío, nunca hay tráfico en las Rondas, la RENFE funciona de puta madre y los jefes simplemente no existen; pensé en todos los tipos de trolls que se me podían ocurrir. (more…)

"Purity Trolls" is the term that HairyTrueMan used to describe a particular class of the Daily Kos mob that he obviously dislikes. The interesting part about this is that he is attacking the purity trolls in order to defend the purity of Hillary Clinton. Here is his definition of a purity troll:"'Purity Trolls' These are trolls from the left. Otherwise known in reallife as drama queens. No matter how pure your position is, their position is more pure. No matter how compassionate or informed or skeptical or vigorous your opinion is, theirs is more of it. These trolls are insistent that they are the true spirit of liberalism, and spend their time being quite put out that the rest of us don't turn over our resources, our audiences, and our respect to them, regardless of how thin their positions may be on the merits. Drives me nuts, personally."Honestly, after reading the quote I was starting to like HairyTrueMan. He even said that Hillary wouldn't be his first choice. I really thought

Mashable recently posted a Wordpress plugin that needs far more coverage than it's getting. The Douchebag Plugin allows for you to visually tag your commenting trolls with an official douchebag icon. Certainly the Gawker and Weblogs, Inc. networks could make good use of this. Even better, would be a community-generated douchebag icon, when specific commenters are consistently complained about. Unfortunately, Shake Well Before Use operates off of Movable Type, but there's always other ways of publicly calling out dbags.tags technorati : dbags douchebag gawker plugin weblogsinc wordpress

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Whatever HappenedTo Do Unto Others As They Do Unto You That's All That Mike DidWas To Show Bill A MirrorYou Whiney Aholes Get Over YourselvesAnd Your Self Righteous P CAttitudes O K And To Concern TrollsOn Right Wing Damage PatrolIt Hurts To Be You How Do You Like ItBill, When What You Do, Is DoneTo You, Hypocrite Thank You, Mike Stark ForHaving The Guts To Do ThatIt Was BrilliantMIKE STARK: I just returned from Falafel Bill's house

World of WarCraft gamer Nicole recently put together these cute little guys, an Orc Shaman and a Troll Rogue. They took her an hour each to complete, but before you blow the dust off your grandmother's sewing machine, keep in mind that Nicole has been a self-taught seamstress since the age of 14. Don't let that stop you though: she's taking requests. Something tells me there's a solid business

Regular readers have noticed a growing problem with Christian trolls here at Atheist Revolution. I know that they've noticed because I've received some complaints. Because I want to encourage visits by Christians, including relevant comments, I have been reluctant to take action to better control the trolls. However, four factors are now motivating me to look for solutions.First, a recent post has generated 160 comments and counting. I realize that this is nothing for many blogs, but it is more than twice what I've had before. As tempting as it would have been to conclude that my post must have touched a nerve, it turns out that something like 75% if the comments had little to do with my post and were instead irrational arguments from Christian trolls and well-intentioned rebuttals from regular readers. When only a handful of the 160 comments addressed my post, the problem is hard to ignore.Second, I have noticed that the comments of some of my more persistent Christian trolls are

My friend Susan asks me why managers are all so surly. Why they yell through their doors and snarl at their tenants. I’ll tell you why, because the minute we nicety-nice it up with our tenants they turn into bloodsucking leaches. It’s true, don’t call me a bitch without hearing me out. The only tenants who ever call me because they’ve locked themselves out, because they need a spare lightbulb, because they want a favor like getting their mail for them are the ones I’ve been nice to or accepted gifts from. So I stop being nice and accepting their gifts (most look like re-gifts) and they quit calling with trivial matters that they can handle themselves. Like a clogged toilet that just needs to be plunged. So next time you curse your manager think about what it’s like for us. Or like I tell my tenants, your mistakes are not my emergencies.

I’ve written before that I believe the blogger’s code of conduct is a commendable but ultimately unimplementable idea because the trolls simply don’t care. However, now Tim O’Reilly and and the rest of his posse, who can’t see beyond their ostentatious intentions, have drafted a code of conduct, complete with badges that you can stick on your blog if you follow the code. I will not put one of those badges on my blog! First off, I couldn’t comply with the code if I wanted. Rule number 3 just screams “wrong” to me: 3. We connect privately before we respond publicly. When we encounter conflicts and misrepresentation in the blogosphere, we make every effort to talk privately and directly to the person(s) involved–or find an intermediary who can do so–before we publish any posts or comments about the issue.  Much like Scoble, I won’t solve issues behind closed doors when they’ve occurred in public. Third

That unholy scream you hear (don't you hear it?) is me gnashing my teeth over the fact that EVEN WITH COMMENT VERIFICATION the Internet trolls are managing to inundate my site with spam, most of it p*rn related.  Until Typepad and I can sort this out, I'm going to turn off all comments, except on the most recent couple of posts.  This drives me nuts, and I'm really sorry for the inconvenience. If you need to reach me, you can click on the e-mail me link to the left.  Unless you're a troll, in which case you take a flying leap off something very tall. Darn trolls.