Posted on 04/23/2008 2:47:50 PM PDT by 5tealth
Recently on the popular internet site called YouTube, a person named Glazlad has been attacking users who post videos about hunting, fishing, and trapping. He has been trying to get them and their videos kicked off of the site. What people do when they don't like (or get offended by) a video of some sort is they do whats called "flagging" or report it to YouTube staff. YouTube comes in and sometimes take it down if nessesary. They also have a protocol as many believe that takes the "flagged" video down automatically. That has been Glazlad's aim for the past few months. What he does is gets his massive group of followers to come onto YouTube and "flags" all the videos he wants flagged because he doesn't like seeing people enjoy a good hunt or a good day of fishing. He calls it Animal Abuse. What he doesn't seem to get is that "Youtubers" (as they're called) can post pretty much whatever they want as long as it doesn't violate the Terms of Service. We post it fine, but Glazlad tries everything in his power to get the videos taken down. And there is a lot in his power.
Like I said before, he gets his massive group of hunter-hating followers (the AnimalClan as they're called) and flags the videos. The videos get taken off YouTube and the hunters are sad.
So recently, some of the other hunters and I, particularly the ones who fight Glazlad the most, performed something we called "Operation Glazlad". What happened was we sat there and reported him pretty much all day. For a while, a couple weeks, nothing has happened.
But today the bugle has sounded. The VICTORY cry has been heard. Glazlad has been banned from YouTube. Liberty wins the battle over freedom on YouTube for now, so as you can see with our story, battles for Freedom, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can be won on whatever ground you fight them on. Remember that America has been victorious throughout the decades and two centuries, and remember that the Liberty Bell will always be heard over the horizon, no matter how far you are from our Homeland. America can be won on the internet, on the radio, on the news, and most certainly on any battlefield.
Good Job, everybody has to play by the rules.
The idiot probably already has another screen name, and will keep on harassing sportsmen.
He would also have to use a different isp, wouldn't he? Via another computer/location?
That could get time consuming and could still be knocked out, one by one?
Most large providers have floating IP addresses, so that would be difficult.
One "flag" and it's gone? If that's the case, Youtube would be empty in a week.
Well we’ve pretty much got it taken care of as far as other accounts. He’s already had other accounts when he went onto our channels and we banned him, so he comes back to annoy is with other accounts. We got those banned. Just one more to go, but I think he is too scared this time to do anything really bad like flagging.
If he’s targeting hunters, he sounds more like he’s primarily a PETAphile rather than a hoplophobe. (Although he’ no doubt a gun-hater too.)
Thats really good Skenderbej! Thats the kind of stuff that I love to see on YouTube!
Well no actually he’s not a part of PETA, he lives in Scotland. I don’t know if PETA is up there or not, but he denies being with PETA.
PETA is worldwide, but assuming he’s not lying, I’d guess ALF/ELF connections.
Really? Thats extra bad then, I just thought the USA was cursed with their nonsense.
i like the prairie dog ones. some very impressive shots on the little buggers from pretty long distances.
No offense, but that sounded like a terrible background story for a Dungeons & Dragons board game.
As to getting that tool kicked off You Tube, good job.
oh yeah the prarie dog videos were attacked by Glazlad for a short time and that was how I was alerted to his presence in the first place.
check out my popular Death of Glazlad series
http://www.youtube.com/user/5tealthh/
pretty fun making but no more because he’s gone. first one was made by Marc Guiver.
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