Please dont feed the trolls
Silent Bob | 22.09.2005 19:40
Taken from Boston Indymedia, it states the bleedin' obvious but may serve as a reminder to folk who rise to Mr Lustbathers twaddling
Please Don't Feed the Trolls
Wikipedia defines an Internet Troll as: "An Internet troll is either a person who sends messages on the Internet hoping to entice other users into angry or fruitless responses, or a message sent by such a person." Boston IMC strives to provide both a grassroots media resource as well as a forum for people to contribute to a meaningful discussion about local issues. Please, when posting comments, be respectful of others and ignore those trying to interrupt or discourage meaningful discourse. Thank you.
-- Boston Indymedia volunteers
Silent Bob
Comments
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*& ^^ Xlp0
22.09.2005 20:08
lob rampa
collapse the comments section?
22.09.2005 20:13
might make it less appealing for them too - less exposure and we can click on them if we want to and ignore the usual suspects
sort it owt!
Problem
22.09.2005 21:07
Its the emotion-ridden baggage we want to ditch surely, not sensible debate?
Observer
here's one I caught earlier
22.09.2005 21:12
big game hunter
I second that
22.09.2005 21:26
Khawaga
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22.09.2005 22:44
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Censorship by any other name
22.09.2005 23:05
Label anyone who disagrees with the nonsense that passes for news on here a troll. The shoddy attempts at owning both the argument and the space does little for any of the decent and thought provoking news that on occasion manages to rise above the tirade of pseudo news and rumour.
Observer
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22.09.2005 23:33
Wikipedia defines an Internet Troll as: "An Internet troll is either a person who sends messages on the Internet hoping to entice other users into angry or fruitless responses, or a message sent by such a person." Boston IMC strives to provide both a grassroots media resource as well as a forum for people to contribute to a meaningful discussion about local issues. Please, when posting comments, be respectful of others and ignore those trying to interrupt or discourage meaningful discourse. Thank you.
-- Boston Indymedia volunteers
Silent Bob
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Trolls, etc.
23.09.2005 01:01
An INTELLECTUAL COWARD is a person who seeks to restrict a discussion under some pathetic pretext. Those requesting the hiding of comments, or their removal altogether represent such people.
To the TROLL, I send no message (they don't care), but the message to others is always the same- please ignore them, and NEVER respond.
To the COWARD I say, we all know you have the option NOT to read the comments, and NOT to participate in the discussion. What on Earth gives you the right to try to prevent others from doing as they would wish. Of course, in truth the COWARD is just another of Blair's New Labour (New Reich) goons hoping to eliminate all that nasty free speech that so ill serves their master.
BTW Observer, did you write that dribble that you quoted from wikipedia??? Damn, now *I* am responding to a troll.
twilight
Trolls have some meaning
23.09.2005 09:01
As for cancelling the comments, that is a troll idea, since it is from the considered comments that we can learn a lot.
thank you
K.
koona
disc
23.09.2005 09:20
Frig of you pompous yank,so the only meaningful discourse is when you dont step out of the strict confines of indymedia.Its funny you put up with hard right nuts, conspiracy dreaists and the absurd twaddle of twilight,yet whan i try to argue about the dead end of trad left student politics i get slagged off.
Mr Lustbather
Yeah, get rid of the comments...
23.09.2005 14:48
becca
Reality Dreck
23.09.2005 14:59
Your righteous mission might bear a little more weight if you actually understood what terms like "fascism", "left", "right", and "Nazi" actually mean.
Otherwise you are just coming across as an angry idiot who gets alarmed when people who actually know avout politics talk about stuff that's clearly wayyyy over your head. If you can't tell the difference between the Green Party and the BNP then that's your look out.
If you want "moral inversion", just go to the mainstream press and read articles like how destroying a police station in Iraq is somehow defending democracy and the rule of law.
But don't try and justify your clueless interventions as some kind of self-appointed "voice of the people" crusade.
got your number
No, don't get rid of the comments
23.09.2005 16:56
- Tony Blair
Abdul Aziz Ibn-Myatt
Indymedia staff to biased to delete troll messages
23.09.2005 18:00
American Anarchist
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23.09.2005 19:07
Mr False-conciousness
Don't let trolls spoil the picnic
23.09.2005 23:04
Trolls try to stifle and derail debate. Perhaps they are even paid to do so - how do we know?
Surely we can use our intelligence to distinguish between an opposing viewpoint and a deliberate effort to sabotage debate? I agree with those who suggest we ignore them, when we detect a troll.
Leave the real discussion (though heated sometimes!) to those who bring real opinion and feeling to this site.
bluey
Who
24.09.2005 01:27
Colin Jordan
"I would not allow the Indymedia staff to delete messages"
24.09.2005 08:48
imc user
Jordan Thornton
24.09.2005 10:33
Jordan (under many pseudonyms) regularly spams copy & pasted articles broadly across IMC enticing people to the abovementioned e-businesses.
He throws a wobbly at anyone who dares suggest said spammed articles are total crap and he predictably starts accusing everyone and anyone of being a "spook" or a "troll" or just plain old stupid.
Initially, it seems like a very stupid marketing strategy, but deeper analysis reveals that this faux lunatic persona is just the kind of stuff that appeals to paranoid militia types and who cares about level-headed discerning people! They're never going to buy anything from the sites anyway!
Mystery Shopper
I agree
24.09.2005 15:29
Boab
pompous observations from a rehabilitated deviant
26.09.2005 22:02
If I read between the lines correctly, there is a growing concern regarding resources versus current structure?
Is Indymedia worth having with no right to reply? Is IndyMedia being dragged into filling the role of Anarchist Chat Forum?
What's the solution??? More volunteers??? Editorial restriction???
Keeping posts to the point and as succint as possible surely helps. Personal attacks and repetitive spamming surely doesn't.
Freedom of speech is for all, including my enemies! But let them get their own server hahaahaha!
magoo