Posted on 01/04/2011 7:33:31 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
I think that used to be Tonto Kowalski's name...
He could have just gone to Haulover Beach.
Did not know that the Amish had made it to Fla.
What??? No jobs available with the TSA??? All he has to do is go work for them and he gets to see naked women all day long and get paid to boot.
ibtz is not for trolls. it means exactly what it means.
you impled that the thread would get the zot. it’s surprising that it did not.
Since I don’t know him, I couldn’t say. There are a lot of Hispanic nationalities down there.
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.
OK that’s very interesting. It still basically means “in before the thread gets pulled”. You thought it would, I thought it would. It didn’t. Why are you banging me over the head with this?
Just trying to lend a newbie a helping hand.
OK thanks.
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