Please stop feeding the troll!

Published on June 11, 2006 By drmiler In Politics

Look I know it's fun to argue with the clueless one. Heck, I do it myself. But he's getting to big for his britches. Try this.....for every post you put on his blog, give him 3 trolling cookies. I do it every day regardless of whether I post or not.

Comments (Page 1)

drmiler

on Jun 11, 2006

shameless bump.

bakerstreet

on Jun 11, 2006

I was telling you guys this a long time ago. Now that he is creeping up the rankings you take notice. You should be more concerned with the fact that you are helping keep his message in people's faces and not where he is on the blog list.
Trolling is for trolling, not zinging people you don't like. Can you even troll your own blog? If he comes to your blog and you consider what he is doing trolling, fine, but jeez.
... I guess there is no C. This is just seems really petty, though.

drmiler

on Jun 11, 2006

I was telling you guys this a long time ago. Now that he is creeping up the rankings you take notice. You should be more concerned with the fact that you are helping keep his message in people's faces and not where he is on the blog list.
Trolling is for trolling, not zinging people you don't like. Can you even troll your own blog? If he comes to your blog and you consider what he is doing trolling, fine, but jeez.
... I guess there is no C. This is just seems really petty, though.

Problem is that he doesn't have the courage to go on other peoples blogs. And just for my info...."you" don't consider the trash he spews as trolling?

bakerstreet

on Jun 11, 2006

No, I don't consider what a person says on their own blogs trolling. I think that people can direct the course of a conversation anywhere they want it to go on their own blog.

I'll be honest with you Doc, you guys call him a lot of names, and on HIS blog. You've all said pretty vile things about him and I don't recall him deleting a single instance or blacklisting any of you. To me that counts for something. Granted, you are also serving to bump his blogs and keep them in view, but he's not twisting your arm to do it.

Just be honest, and go back and look at the Col's average blog and see how many times you guys call names and sleight him without commenting on the meat of the article. I think you'll find that in terms of trolling, the righties dealing with him have no room to talk.

I'm guilty of it as well from time to time, I admit it, and readily accept trolling points for when I am. You definately won't catch me trolling him for just giving back what is handed him.

drmiler

on Jun 11, 2006

Just be honest, and go back and look at the Col's average blog and see how many times you guys call names and sleight him without commenting on the meat of the article. I think you'll find that in terms of trolling, the righties dealing with him have no room to talk.

There is a reason for this and I'm pretty sure you know what it is. Follow your own advise and look back over his blogs and see how many times he has either ignored facts posted or basically told the poster they were full of it. Or outright called the poster a liar.

bakerstreet

on Jun 11, 2006

So? I don't see him behaving any differently than how people treat Rombios and others on their blogs, and to him you are no different than Rombios. You draw a distinction because you know he is wrong and you are right.

Behavior is behavior whethe you are right or wrong, and if we are going to treat people like Rombios like that on our blogs, we don't need to troll the Col for treating us that way on his. I don't have a problem with you boycotting him. Frankly I've been saying for a long time if people don't agree with him they shouldn't help him spread his message.

The trolling thing is a bit abusive, though. The whole points whoring thing is pretty sad, imho, and to me, no offense, but you aren't concerned with anything here other than his name rising up the JU rankings.

drmiler

on Jun 11, 2006

Big difference!! You "ever" see rombios back up his BS with "any" facts, links, whatever? You know I do. When I state something I usually back it up with at least a link. Rombios "never" does.

The trolling thing is a bit abusive, though. The whole points whoring thing is pretty sad, imho, and to me, no offense, but you aren't concerned with anything here other than his name rising up the JU rankings.

This is your opinion and you are welcome to it. However I do not agree with even one scintilla of it.

terpfan1980

on Jun 11, 2006

I save every single one of my trolling cookies for him.

I still wish that Brad (Draginol) and the folks at StarDock would send him a bill and tax his sorry butt for the complete and total waste of bandwidth his lame excuse for a site is. He loves the idea of taxation of the rich so much, tax his butt a penny per character on his blog or in the responses and nail him.

Actually, the better bet is just wait and see him busted for copyright infringement for blatantly copying and pasting whole articles in for his "proofs."

bakerstreet

on Jun 11, 2006

"Actually, the better bet is just wait and see him busted for copyright infringement for blatantly copying and pasting whole articles in for his "proofs."

Like the whole article Drmiller just posted, adding only, what, a line, and no links back to the original article? The Col is not a troll. If you guys want to play points, fine, but it looks pretty sad to me.

"Big difference!! You "ever" see rombios back up his BS with "any" facts, links, whatever? You know I do. When I state something I usually back it up with at least a link. Rombios "never" does."

Nice diversion, but that wasn't my point and you know it. You know as well as I do that many posts are left on the Col's blogs that are nothing more than something like "YOU ARE A COWARD/TRAITOR/LIAR AND YOU ARE AND IDIOT AND YADDA YADDA", and they aren't any less trolling than what Rombios or others leave on ours. Anyone that leaves posts like that can't call him a troll without being a hypocrite.

Obviously you guys aren't using trolling points for trolling, you are just punishing your enemies with them. They ought to get rid of the system if they are going to be used that way. If he trolls your blogs, fine, but if you guys are going to play troll on his blogs you have no right to troll him.

bakerstreet

on Jun 11, 2006

P.S. Feel free to troll me for that. I can fart out a nothing article in ten minutes and make up the points that you guys will take from me.

Dr Guy

on Jun 11, 2006

Problem is that he doesn't have the courage to go on other peoples blogs. And just for my info...."you" don't consider the trash he spews as trolling?

Actually he does. With the same tired old stuff too.

Dr Guy

on Jun 11, 2006

Obviously you guys aren't using trolling points for trolling, you are just punishing your enemies with them. They ought to get rid of the system if they are going to be used that way. If he trolls your blogs, fine, but if you guys are going to play troll on his blogs you have no right to troll him.

Something no one has mentioned, but needs to be. If you read his articles (click on them or whatever), you are giving him points. So doing a trolling is kind of self defeating on his own articles.

Sorry, you will find only one of his articles that I haev commented on in the last year. And that was to suit a fellow blogger.

drmiler

on Jun 11, 2006

Just goes to show what you know. First off that "was" the entire article. Second "if" you had read it rather than just running off at the mouth you would have caught this.....

[This item was posted Tuesday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]

www.dailyprincetonian.com

www.princeton.edu

www.abcnews.go.com

cactoblasta

on Jun 11, 2006

Just goes to show what you know. First off that "was" the entire article. Second "if" you had read it rather than just running off at the mouth you would have caught this.....

You should check out your friendly copyright laws in the US. As an Australian citizen I could get sued for blatantly violating copyright like that. 20%'s the max in Oz and even then it can't be a block quote.

As for the good colonel I don't know why you're bothering with this. You guys are the ones who get the most enjoyment out of his existence. Why bother trying to get rid of something that brings you such satisfaction? It doesn't seem very clever to me.

Daiwa

on Jun 11, 2006

I propose that from now on, all replies to the Col's articles be posted here in the "Please stop feeding the troll!!" thread.

Man Law.

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