Friday, November 07, 2014

TROLL: PAGES FROM A SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

On the last post alicublog had a troll infestation -- that is, we had one troll donning multiple identities, which was observable by the IP addresses and by the lack of variation in style. Not that his tone didn't change: He started out kind of funny, then devolved to tired the-real-racist material ("can't be arsed to even mention Mia Love or Tim Scott, because, you know, the narrative"), then finally personal insults ("You are some stupid unemployed loser who edits for a free libtard blog. Definition of libtard loser," "how are your tits," etc).

I don't like to delete comments or ban commenters, but in this case it eventually became necessary -- and required some diligence because the guy kept coming back with new names. But the effort may have been worth it because it yielded this poignant moment:


The need for acknowledgement, and to humble the object of one's obsession by compelling it -- this, let future generations know, is the essence of troll. You're welcome, internet!

64 comments:

  1. redoubtagain3:59 PM

    Appropriate name, "Patrick Roy," for someone else who will probably disappear (again) by December.

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  2. Derelict4:02 PM

    Yay! Can I offer you come combat pay? Or at least this case of MREs from my anthrax duct-tape-and-Saranwrap shelter?

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  3. Bizarro Mike4:03 PM

    Well, speaking of your fame Roy, I've been noticing a lot of mentions of Alicublog around the web. Hasn't anyone asked you to write for them? It is kinda an injustice that you do this blog for free.

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  4. Bizarro Mike4:05 PM

    That shelter looked like a good investment just last week when Ebola was going to ruin all of western civilization because Obama failed to lead with leadership. Somehow the "epidemic" seems to have shrunk in the eyes of the pundit class back to its real size of one poor soul in NY and a gradually improving situation in west Africa.

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  5. Derelict4:09 PM

    Yeah. Funny how that works.

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  6. Gromet4:16 PM

    We should have let the troll win and saddled him with a responsibility to govern constructively.

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  7. Gromet4:16 PM

    Well, at least everyone who panicked will learn the lesson and never panic like that again.

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  8. Fake EdRoy4:23 PM

    My name is Roy and I'm a jerkoff

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  9. Fake EdRoy4:24 PM

    Who is the troll? You?

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  10. Fake EdRoy4:24 PM

    Roy is a jackass. Unemployed loser

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  11. Fake EdRoy4:25 PM

    This guy Obozo is a moron, isn't it.

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  12. El roy4:25 PM

    I didntvwrite the bit about libtards and how are your tits. That is false, roy.

    First black Senator elected by popular vote in the South- Tim Scott

    First black Republican woman elected to the House-Mia Love

    First Iraq combat veteran elected to the Senate- Tom Cotton

    First female veteran elected to the Senate - Joni Ernst

    First female Senators from Iowa and WV

    First female governor of RI- Gina Raimondo

    First U.S. govermor in a wheelchair- Greg Abott

    First openly gay state Atty General- Maura Healey

    Youngest woman elected to Congress - Elise Stefanik

    ------


    Roy can't be arsed to write about these things. Instead obsesses about 'trolls'.

    This is who they are.

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  13. Fake EdRoy4:27 PM

    Hey El Roy, I am Ed Roy. Are we related?

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  14. Fake EdRoy4:27 PM

    How are your tits? These libtards are assholes, FYI

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  15. El roy4:28 PM

    Aren't we all, somehow, some way?

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  16. Fake EdRoy4:29 PM

    I think by Roy the mod? He is a world class jerkoff by the way.

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  17. Quack4:37 PM

    Quack quack

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  18. Quack4:38 PM

    Why is the mod a quack quack?

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  19. Quack4:40 PM

    Hey Roy- hiw is life as a loser. Unemployed, writing for a libtard blog. Must be a lot of money in that career, NOT. Dickhead you are.

    Quack quack

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  20. Quack4:41 PM

    Quack quack asshole

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  21. Quack4:41 PM

    Quack quack douche bag

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  22. Marion in Savannah4:42 PM

    Man, this dude just NEVER gives up! Even being pounded with The Mighty Banhammer of Destruction just encourages more ad hominem nonsense. I'm going to talk to my broker about investing heavily in Cheetoh stock.

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  23. Looks as if someone's been trolled alright.

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  24. BigHank534:47 PM

    I've always wondered what actual hatefucking would look like. The rage, the tears, emotional wreckage everywhere...but somehow I never imagined how stupid it would look.

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  25. Aw, you really should've left those choice examples. After his head explodes, how will we remember him?

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  26. drspittle5:11 PM

    I'm sure the Rethugs will engage in poultry procreation long after the N(CLANG) leaves the White House so you can count on that for another 20 years at least.

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  27. I'm not sure, but I think it's "Imperial President Hitler Signs Executive Orders, Impeach!!!" Possibly all upper case.

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  28. Marion in Savannah5:51 PM

    Just a wee suggestion for the esteemed Owner And Operator: Way back in the day, before it was taken over by the outrage 24/7 crowd the proprietors of Sadly used to "disemvowel" trolls. Sometimes hilarity ensued, and a fun time was had by all.

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  29. Marion in Savannah5:53 PM

    Oh, crap. There's something new upstairs that I wasn't aware of. I still would strongly suggest disemvoweling trolls, though.

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  30. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person5:54 PM

    "Possibly". Heh. You cockeyed optimist, you...

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  31. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person5:55 PM

    Heads like that tend to implode, leaving little evidence, and making little noise...

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  32. Another Kiwi5:56 PM

    Projection, it is always, with these people. The loathing of difference and the attempted smears on unemployment which must be due to a flawed personality. The suggestions that homosexuality is evil and can be used as a derogatory label. The complete lack of a sense of humour more mature than a 14 year-old-schoolboy. A simplistic view of the world which has as it's essence "I am the supreme ruler of the universe but also the most discriminated against"
    Same as it ever was.

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  33. gocart mozart6:00 PM

    Then Republican election victory saved us from Ebola. Thanks Obama.

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  34. leroy6:00 PM

    Hilarity never ensued, Marion. I was there. It never happened. Fenwick, maybe, but that guy's a whack job.

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  35. hallo everyperson! it is me, your very good internet comment maker, Dax! haha so how are the politics things? did you know that the women are the stupidest ever, especially that lena durham? haha they are the dumb, and also the black people, who are rally from the africa! and also obamacare!

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  36. leroy6:02 PM

    You are way over-thinking this, AK.

    Seriously.

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  37. Porterville Putz6:03 PM

    6 years ago, 13.6 million Americans were unemployed or underemployed. Today, 18.2 million are. The left calls this “Obama’s recovery.”

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  38. Another Kiwi6:05 PM

    Really? I think it's just notes from the field. Behavioural zoology.

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  39. elroy6:07 PM

    D'oh, my head is still exploding!!!

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  40. elroy6:11 PM

    No, it's not an observation. It's just you pontificating. You're imitating Bill Frist diagnosing Terry Schiavo via TV.

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  41. Another Kiwi6:14 PM

    Keep on rocking, girl.

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  42. elroy6:15 PM

    Yeah, gogurt, that's why Dems got skull-f'ed. Because Ebola on Fix News.

    Whatever lets you sleep at night.

    Heh.

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  43. Point also for "poultry procreation."

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  44. Smarter than Your Average Bear6:31 PM

    Yes and even more so when you throw raw meat at them to do so They just can't help themselves. :)

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  45. DocAmazing6:40 PM

    Stirring shit is an Amazing family tradition.

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  46. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:14 PM

    Just invest your pennies in Depends and you'll do very well under the new regime

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  47. susanoftexas8:40 PM

    We ought to short Republicanism. Why not make a buck by betting they'll screw everything up?

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  48. davdoodles1:36 AM

    "because up until now, it was beneath you."


    This is poignant-as-shit. I want to cry and so forth.
    .

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  49. AGoodQuestion1:59 AM

    If you hold that big vaudeville hook, every now and again you gotta use it.

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  50. Ed Roso3:13 AM

    It was always that way.

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  51. Ed Roso3:23 AM

    @iowahawkblog: Dear Ayatollah,
    Do you want to go to the ISIS dance with me???
    □ yes
    □ no
    □ maybe
    ♥♥♥ BO ♥♥♥
    http://t.co/aDRuXGJ5Od

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  52. Yes, and you were one of the primary whiners there, Dennis.

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  53. Mr. Wonderful11:15 AM

    It's tempting to think of trolling as a deliberately invoked, subversively "provocative" style reserved for the blogs of the Other. But when you ask, "Okay, but how do they write to each other, on their own sites?" and the answer is: Exactly the same: By citing crude stereotypes and then mocking them, with adolescent slurs about the enemy, with bigotry, brain-dead "analyses," Greg Gutfield-styles of frat-moron "humor," and so on.

    So trolling isn't a style of writing. It's a style of tourism. A bull in a china shop doesn't behave especially badly because he's in a china shop. He just does his usual thing. What's important is where he is, not how he behaves.

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  54. Strider1:04 PM

    Teh sadlyly provided quite a bit of much-needed emotional catharsis in the Bush era, but I feel like all of their really good writers moved on sometime in the 2009-2010 timeframe. These days every post is Cernerus quoting a wingnut spiel in its entirety, then saying "nuh-UH!" in no less than 4000 words... Frankly, it gets kind of old.

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  55. Strider1:06 PM

    Misspelled Cerberus' name and can't fix it on mobile.

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  56. Smarter than Your Average Bear9:21 PM

    Exactly

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  57. Smarter than Your Average Bear9:21 PM

    It's become a lot worse of late Ed

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  58. freq flag9:55 PM

    Da, comrade.
    Plus, don't forget "Benghazi!" and "it was cold this morning, so algore is fat!" Also.

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  59. I wish to troll the masses with this comment.

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  60. Agreed about Sadly. Here's a thread from 2007 that I found cathartic, about Neocon attempts to start a war with Iran. *Warning* it may display a gross graphic at the top. But you're right that SadlyNo had a different vibe during the Bush years.

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  61. I'd like to get dumb and hateful with this comment until we are both exhausted and strangely satisfied.

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  62. NonyNony11:43 AM

    No decent bookie would take that bet.

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  63. Smurch6:59 PM

    "I'm stuck like a lark with a thing called snark, and I can't get it out of my heart!


    Not this heart...."

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  64. Another Kiwi10:31 PM

    Good Lord, the Alpha Male idjit spammed my poetry blog. All the boycotting American women junk is there, word-for-word.

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