Posted on 02/03/2005 11:21:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator
Edited on 05/17/2005 10:09:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LOL = Laugh out loud
ZOT = (stolen from moderators site)
The history of "Zot".
There are one or two individuals who, for whatever reason, enjoy signing up new accounts here every single day to post leftist drivel. Sometimes they are vanities from DemocraticUnderground. Sometimes they are articles from other far-left sources. Sometimes they are nothing but vile doctored images or profanity laced tirades. Sometimes they are from legitimate sources but happen to strike the eye of the poster as being something that would infuriate conservatives.
The posters in question always post the articles, and then don't reply. They then post other articles, again not replying. This was going on for months. Jim would confirm by looking at the IP addresses and other aspects of the user's 'footprint' that it was the returning troll, and we would nuke the accounts. This went on for months.
Then some of the opportunists who wanted to harm the forum started a whispering campaign, complaining about articles being deleted. They would play off of the fact that the trolls' articles were being pulled to complain that there was some sort of agenda of squelching legitimate conservative postings going on by the moderators.
One day I decided to try something new. I decided, instead of letting the trolls get what they want and have their posts up as flame bait, and instead of pulling the threads outright, I would move their post aside and replace it with something that hopefully others would find humorous. I would do this out in the forum for all to see. The original piece would be available through the history link for the curious, who could see if there was some sort of censorship campaign going on. And the freepers could have fun mocking the troll if they so liked.
It so happens that the way I did it the first time was using a screen shot from Caddyshack, where the pastor gets hit by a lightning bolt. Being a bit of a fan of the comic strip "B.C." I captioned the photo with the lightning bolt sound that Johnny Hart used in his strip- ZOT! That is where the term Zot originated.
Now, sometimes we "zot", and sometimes we simply pull it. It depends on a number of factors, including how busy we are at the time. But whenever you see a Zot, you can be sure that the user was a 'newbie' who was doing their hit-and-run posting, and that if you as a well-established freeper thought the article would have made an interesting discussion, then you could probably post the same piece yourself without incident (although the most vile of the stuff probably would get pulled, and Jim reserves the right to remove anyone who he feels is constantly trying to push leftist propaganda on the forum). Anyway, that is the history and background behind zotting.
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I hope you are bending my mind from home and not pretending to be working in a place of employment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol
Thanks, your link is newer than mine. I'll update my thread.
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I have found that opinions are 90% junk, and blogs have their place. Just not here.
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John made a place for them. Some articles written from a blog may warrent to be in news, ie, the memo story. But, not all blogs, or vanities, should be posted in news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/673536/posts
Fifth Edition of the Lexicon of FreeRepublic * * A helpful FR dictionary for newcomers * *
Many questions by newbies answered here about "what does it mean"
We're probably due for a new lexicon thread. Anyone feel free to update that.
As long as it is open book, I will be fine.
I think this thread calls for an amusing folk parody, don't you?
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LOL!
Next thing I knwo, there will be a Motley Crue reunion.
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D'oh!
They have new material..
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