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Thread ID: 13836 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2004-05-22
2004-05-22 22:09 | User Profile
Is it just me, or have we been picking up more trolls than usual lately?
First, there was that guy on the rban Pakistan thread ranting about wanting racists to burn in hell.
Now we have a poster named Jim X claiming that Bush senior will soon be sky diving onto the Yale campus to transfer Berg's head to the Skull and Bones society.
Edit: Oh, yeah, and I forgot. Metric One also signed up recently and proposed the dubious idea that we join a yahoo list dedicated to doing background searches on other dissidents.
2004-05-23 02:41 | User Profile
At least Jim X is creative. College is let out for summer, and some schools only have a week to go. There'll be more. When parenting is too hard, get your kid a computer and a phone line.
2004-05-23 21:29 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Valley Forge]Is it just me, or have we been picking up more trolls than usual lately? [/QUOTE]
I remember the good old times when Trolls used to be single and hide under bridges, occasionally eating a traveller, but otherwise not being much of a nuisance.
2004-05-24 11:55 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Paleoleftist]I remember the good old times when Trolls used to be single and hide under bridges, occasionally eating a traveller, but otherwise not being much of a nuisance.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the good old days when life's biggest worries were spitballs in class and stepping in a big pile of fresh troll sh*t as you approached the nearest bridge.
Now we have boolies with gats in our classrooms and yahoodies trolling the net.
I sure miss 1962!
Walter
2004-05-24 13:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Valley Forge]Edit: Oh, yeah, and I forgot. Metric One also signed up recently and proposed the dubious idea that we join a yahoo list dedicated to doing background searches on other dissidents.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I thought that was humourous, actually. "Hey everybody, just give us all the personal information you have about all the 'right-wingers' you know, and we'll make sure they are 'authentic!'"
"What's that? Oh, of course, the information will be held in the strictest confidence."
Is anybody really that gullible?
2004-05-25 03:31 | User Profile
I can hardly see any trolls. All I see is infighting on OD -- a clear sign of absense of common enemy on the premises.
2004-05-25 03:48 | User Profile
MR, check out this guy's post.
[url]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showpost.php?p=81839&postcount=2[/url]
Trust me, it will be good for a laugh, if nothing else.
2004-05-25 04:10 | User Profile
Seems like a troll, as similar language has been used as a parody by "LF trolls".
2004-05-25 14:56 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Valley Forge]MR, check out this guy's post.
[url]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showpost.php?p=81839&postcount=2[/url]
Trust me, it will be good for a laugh, if nothing else.[/QUOTE]
What's that picture in his avatar.
I've seen that before somewhere I think.
Walter
2004-05-25 15:11 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]I can hardly see any trolls. All I see is infighting on OD -- a clear sign of absense of common enemy on the premises.[/QUOTE] You may be right, but two quick points. 1. A certain amount of debate is healthy for the board. 2. Some trolls purposely try to kindle infighting, so infighting is not de facto evidence of a lack of trolls.
[quote=walter yannis] What's that picture in his avatar.
I've seen that before somewhere I think.
Isn't that the crazy guy on that old show "Taxi?"
2004-05-25 15:15 | User Profile
And speaking of trolls, would asking for help with your high school chemisty homework on a conservative internet forum qualify?
[url="http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=13869"]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=13869[/url]
2004-05-25 15:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]And speaking of trolls, would asking for help with your high school chemisty homework on a conservative internet forum qualify?
[url="http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=13869"]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=13869[/url][/QUOTE]
That's hilarious!