Trolls

and some TROLL on ilm seems to think i'm schizophrenic anyway.

No you dignified it with two HA HA HA HA oh my sides can i go home yet.

i'm too intellectually lazy to post on any of the "intelligent" threads anyway.

Ned, a troll? That explains a lot;>

But seriously, Tom, I can't always post a lot either. And when I do, I occasionally enjoy goofing around (see above comment). But, from what I've seen, ILM/E thrives on the strange questions....as well as the serious ones.

I try to only post when I've got summat to say about a particular subject, but it's not easy to resist the pull when you are "surrounded" by talkers. In fact, that's what makes it fun.

Why not think of it this way: we outnumber the "trolls" 100 to 1.

http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/may/31/writer-and-his-troll/

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oo8ilv_sJFg/T-p1lJdNd6I/AAAAAAAAAxs/tlr9_R78aXA/s1600/trollcollection.jpg

11 years pass...

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idk where else to put this but lol

http://www.fox.com.au/scoopla/trending-now/blog/2014/6/amazing-rainbow-tie-dye-number-surprise-cake/

hahahahaha

let us marvel at the speed with which comments on a child's birthday cake devolve into total political ragefest shitstorm

That was delightful

what's a troll?
― nathalie, Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:00 PM (12 years ago)

Classic post

I love the internet.

Obvious Poster I am A professional Baker • 10 hours ago

Uh, I'm pretty sure you can freeze ice cream.

LOL

http://onlygags.com/wp-content/uploads/How-to-troll.jpg

adrian chen on anonymous and its mainstream water carriers

http://www.thenation.com/article/190369/truth-about-anonymouss-activism

great stuff; chen has been on fire lately

it's mostly a very harsh review of Gabriella Coleman, who i've heard on the radio at least once explaining the Anons. She also chimes in in the comments, looks like, on something pretty minor.

I thought the thread bump might be for this interview, which belongs in the canon of troll studies:

http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/interview-my-harshest-critic

Coleman is also heavily featured in the terrible hagiographical documentary We Are Legion.

Tony Ortega doesn't think Chen gets the sci-ti stuff right:

http://tonyortega.org/2014/11/18/what-adrian-chen-got-wrong-about-anonymous-and-scientology/

that is fair enough

how did I not know someone was arrested for a hate crime for covering himself in vaseline and pubic hair? what a world

two stories about the exposure of trolls:

more adrian chen!

http://www.technologyreview.com/photoessay/533426/the-troll-hunters/

a group of volunteer researchers called Researchgruppen, or Research Group,has pioneered a form of activist journalism based on following the crumbs of data anonymous Internet trolls leave behind and unmasking them. In its largest troll hunt, Research Group scraped the comments section of the right-wing online publication Avpixlat and obtained a huge database of its comments and user information. Starting with this data, members meticulously identified many of Avpixlat’s most prolific commenters and then turned the names over to Expressen, one of Sweden’s two major tabloids. In December 2013, Expressen revealed in a series of front-page stories that dozens of prominent Swedes had posted racist, sexist, and otherwise hateful comments under pseudonyms on Avpixlat, including a number of politicians and officials from the ascendant far-right Sweden Democrats.

(meta commentary here: http://www.technologyreview.com/fromtheeditor/533561/the-cost-of-trolling/ )

...aaaand reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/2cpgy4/update_i_32f_just_discovered_my_husband_34_of_six/

I confronted him about the issue very tamely, over breakfast. I asked him, flat out, if he was harassing and bullying people online. He said yes, and immediately withdrew. After telling him that I needed to know why -- really why, not just "I don't know", he said he needed time to think about it.

When he finally gave me his answer, I was disappointed. He said he trolled/bullied people because it was an outlet for him to relieve stress. He said he didn't view the people as real, or what he was doing as anything other than a joke, and if it hurt feelings, "those people have bigger problems and it's not my fault."

I told him that it wasn't an acceptable behavior of an adult, and that he needed to stop it and find another way to express his frustrations that didn't involve hurting strangers. He said he would think about it.

Unfortunately, he's still doing it.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/transcript

The irony of Ira Glass narrating the segment about vocal fry was almost too much to bear.

well, at least they point it out

i guess 4chan, other racists and "redpill" types, have begun to fixate on a nickelodeon show called "bella and bulldogs"

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cancelbella&src=typd

far-right dudes are p well obsessed with cuckoldry in general at the moment

(i first heard about this on Uhh Yeah Dude a couple weeks ago)

googled this to understand what the heck it was, instantly found a super racist site complaining about this, like "jew york times" territory

yeah, sorry, should have put some kind of general warning

the nickel version is that there's a nick show featuring a white girl and a black boy as main characters. some enterprising trolls have found that the producer had done some work in cheesecake media. you'll never guess what happens next.

http://i.imgur.com/rxMMkPJ.jpg

Creators of media for kids have been filling it full references to their weird fetishes forever- cf the entire history of comic books

i would not suggest taking this seriously

It seems very odd that, in order to be concerned about this, one must believe that all those details, which are so subtle, attenuated, and submerged into the background of the show that they require a lengthy exposition with explanations and enlargements for adults even to see their existence, are simultaneously so powerful and irresistible that children must certainly be corrupted by them.

Exactly what is it we are supposed to think will happen to the kids watching this show? That they'll all grow up to be 'cuckold fetishists'? Seriously?

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/rockosmodernlife/images/d/dc/Chokey_Chicken.png/revision/latest?cb=20120208100034

heh, i was thinking that's gotta be Rocko's Modern Life, and of course it is

i would love it if Nickelodeon gave an official "are you fucking kidding me?" response but what are the chances

cuckolding! there's a shakespearean reference i didn't think i'd see memed this year!

Given what is being said about 'cuckold fetishism' in that graphic, the word is being used all wrong. By rights, a cuckold fetish ought to involve antlers, not bulls, and hasn't the slightest connection to big black men schtupping pretty white women. Especially when they are unmarried.