There are scads of “troublemakers” here at FR. Some are just hateful people, some are trolls, some are plants, some are just stupid, or immature and ignorant. Most threads about current events get a few ridiculous comments that perhaps should sometimes be pulled. Generally I just ignore them as I got tired of arguing with jerks a long time ago. For the most part those people are not interested in becoming smarter or nicer.
I saw the Malia thread and it was ridiculous. In fact in retrospect there were so many over the top comments (not the usual FR ‘caption this’ snide remarks) that it may well have been a concerted effort. Especially since the same terms were used repeatedly and there were several racist comments that were really out there. The thread was a bit of an anomaly- I’ve been on many of the M.O. fashion threads and there have not been anything like the Malia thread. Many of the bad comments didn’t make a lot of sense in that the girl was just wearing shorts and a t-shirt, nothing special. The media deciding to make a big deal over the kid’s choice of t-shirt if anything was what should have been criticized.
Good comments!
I would urge the FReeper community to aovid using off-color language if only to separate our posts from the endless stream of epithets coming from the Left.
IMHO, the Left would be severely handicapped (more than they already are) if they were restricted from using any foul language.
Does anyone remember that troll named Koyann, aka Steve, aka K. from last year? The one that would always go postal over everything I wrote?
Besides getting repeatedly booted from FR, he up and quit two or three forums just because they would not allow him to use his foul mouth.
He is the poster child for the Left’s language.