"These things must be handled delicately..."
Posted on 05/12/2009 12:07:37 PM PDT by jveritas
There are some really annoying liberal trolls on Free Republic who have survived for months and years without being banned. Why is Free Republic allowing them to stay? We have enough liberalism and left wing lunacy on 90% of the media and we do not need this crap on this forum.
It is not difficult to spot these trolls. A quick review of their posting history will prove without any shadow of doubt that they are liberal trolls. Some of them try to mask it but they cannot fool the vast majority of us.
There are plenty of left wing forums which will welcome them that if they are not already registered and active members there.
It is time to get rid of them.
Hit the abuse bottom on them and hit it often.
When yer right, yer right!
The largest influx of trolls came in 2004, right after the Buckhead incident. A ton of them stayed. They use non-political threads (sports and pop-culture mostly; my favorite troll loves earthquake threads) to make friends and build cred. One thing they’re not here to do is engage in anything remotely resembling honest debate. They try to keep the activism in check, to sow seeds of doubt in potential participants and turn the place into a bickering AOL-type message board rather than a community.
I actually agree with JV. I wish the mods were a little more aggressive with them. I wish it was more difficult to register here, too.
He scared quite a few folks around here!
He was pretty good at it, too.
Yep...badge of honor...
(He reminded me of one of my uncles.)
"These things must be handled delicately..."
Yes, at least with the ones who actually argue. The trolls who post an article, and then run away, are another story. Not many Lefties like to debate on a forum where actual debate can occur, because they tend to get creamed.
Bjork, bjork, bjork!
Yup, and I think we currently have one such troll on the American Idol thread.
Certainly some of the Rudy fans self purged by doing their suicide opuses. But if they want to stand and argue facts and not slander conservatives, then I have no problem with them. Anymore than I have a problem with most GOP cheerleaders here.
Well, jveritas...it's like this. Jim must have subjects to test the FR's environmentally friendly anti-troll product "Troll Away" on. If there were no trolls on the FR how could he test a product that is only designed to repel trolls? :^)
True. But as I read today that Hussein has taken the first steps to make the U.S. a nuclear free nation. I find myself wanting to ask those folks who carried on as if Huck, Rudy and Mitt were the devil themselves, do they feel safer?
LOL!
I’m proud to confess that I am a troll.
Born and raised in Southcentral Michigan. Fanatic of the Tigers, Dread Wings, Pissed-Ons and (reluctantly) Lions.
>>Didn’t MurryMom get ushered out of the building years ago?
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Yep.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~murrymom/
FR’s environmentally friendly anti-troll product “Troll Away” on. If there were no trolls on the FR how could he test a product that is only designed to repel trolls? :^)
I was flamed for expressing interest in an electric car!
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Antoninus, I concur. Note that you are the second one to have pinged steve-b to this thread. Might we be detecting a pattern here? :)
Because Viking Kitties need squeaky toys, that’s why.
If they remain civil and state their points of view well, they make us think more critically and measure our responses appropriately. And some of us are so single issue oriented that we fail to see that someone who disagrees with us on that issue may agree with us on 70, 80 or 90% of other issues.
Just remember, the first one to call names loses.
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