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Smashy | 07.05.2012 10:38 | Smash EDO | Afghanistan | Anti-militarism | Palestine | South Coast
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Comments
Hide the following 12 comments
There will always be Trolls
07.05.2012 11:11
G
365° awareness required
07.05.2012 13:56
Don't let the same thing happen here, stay safe.
snitch hunter
re 365 degree awareness
07.05.2012 15:10
Smashy
@smashy
07.05.2012 15:27
snitch hunter
hang on a minute
07.05.2012 17:14
I don't see the issue - if someone disagrees with SmashEDO then surely it is their right to be able to protest against it?
Otherwise we arnt living in a free country where all protests should be tolerated.
In fairness
Indymedia Editorial guidelines
07.05.2012 17:26
imcista
@hang on
07.05.2012 17:33
Troll Hunter
In fairness?
07.05.2012 17:37
Spreading absolute falsehoods on the internet to damage campaigns and activists is unacceptable and in contravention of the guidelines for the site. In particular:
-Inaccurate: posts that are inaccurate or misleading.
-Disruptive: Contributions by individuals who habitually publish above mentioned discouraged content. Posts where topical or regional selections disrupts the utility of the sub pages (ie spamming regional and topic selections).
"I don't see the issue - if someone disagrees with SmashEDO then surely it is their right to be able to protest against it?"
If all they are capable of doing is spreading malicious falsehoods, then there is an issue.
If you want to continue this discussion then email the list
IMCista
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no body needs to ask permission to troll
07.05.2012 22:13
So there are editorial guidelines banning it?
Presumably there are guidelines preventing a noise demo.
Stop being sheep. You don't need to ask the mods permission to troll
alox
Indymedia: the key to success.
08.05.2012 01:21
Stop being sheep. You don't need to ask the mods permission to troll"
Trolls don't go out onto the streets. They don't have the confidence.
As far as trolling the Indymedia newswire is concerned its generally ineffective anyway. The people who read this site already know who they are and know what their causes are about. They aren't the type of people to be dissuaded by junk they read on the internet, especially when all it amounts to is gobbing off for the sake of it.
I'm am a long-time user of IMC and just take trolling for what it is, juvenile stupidity from those who genuinely don't know any better.
I don't consider it to be a form of protest.
I don't think it matters in the comments. Its when articles appear that are deliberate misinformation that it becomes nefarious. That's just poor quality and disruptive.
But whatever it is, the mods look like they are finally on top of it. Trolling is dealt with almost as soon as it appears and that's good. IMCUK is looking good at the moment.
Now, all we need is compelling in depth articles on animal rights, erosion of free spaces, erosion of the right to protest, the role of the MSM, austerity and its imminent collapse, policing, public service funding, the history and heritage of anarchism, the failure of the two party system, the role of democracy in wartime, genuine humanitarian struggle, the state of trans-atlanticism and the EU, the legitimacy of globalisation, the struggle for energy resources, war, conflict and settlement, autonomy then now and in the future, the role of NVDA, the legitimacy of political state violence, the WTO, the IMF, the rise and fall of nationalism, the failure to count war dead in capitalist societies, oil and the Persian gulf, the role of the ICC, justice and international law, corruption and currency speculation, foreign exchange trading and leverage: the UK and US, capital costs and immigration, misinformation and the media, hegemony and political discourse, privacy and centralised policing, Facebook and the pentagon, Google and the DNS, corporate spying as automated process, conspiracy theory and state disruption, biosphere pollution, food production and seed extinction, genetic capitalism and insect extinction etc etc.
These are all the subjects that trolling stops you writing and thinking about. Indymedia is an established site that can guarantee high search engine placements with any story on any subject.
Imagine what you could achieve if you actually started writing instead if pissing your life away on listening to trolls?
I guarantee that when you die, you'll regret that.
Wedlock.
Stupid one. Somebody would throw money to the trolls.
08.05.2012 10:45
Hammer
"....otherwise they would be long gone."
08.05.2012 17:24
A troll