Virtual ice-axe: Activated!

[sabotabby]

Hah. Nothing like coming home from a hard day's work and banninating a couple of incomprehensible trolls from free_palestine. If my Russian friends could pop over to their LJs and let me know what the deal is with these guys, that would be fabulous. Because they don't make any sense in English, and they are all over political comms lately. I hope they at least appreciate my Stalinist userpics.

I shall also take this moment to decry the poor quality of trolls in free_palestine as of late. Not like I've really been free to deal with them, so perhaps it's just as well, but you'd think at least the Gaza Freedom March might have stirred up some interesting flamewars.

Comments

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I had wondered if F_P had suddenly become a Role Playing community.

I was vastly entertained by the sheer weird of what had happened there.

[sabotabby]

I would play along but in the other comms, he was just repeating the same shit. So I don't think he's the interactive sort of troll.

I don't understand what's going on there, so I banned it because I do not like things I don't understand.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

That's very narrow minded of you Sabs!

I mean, really now...

[sabotabby]

Hence the tag. I am an asshole.

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was definitely some interesting crazy. I give it 0.3 Timecubes.

[sabotabby]

Are you a Jew or a gay?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Damn it, I don't have a Stephen Fry icon!

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

I'm only half gay and I can't evolved into a Jew until my trainer finds an Everstone. So, no.

[sabotabby]

There are Jewish Pokémon?

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that there are not, but it was the first thing that came to mind that seemed likely to make your troll explode entertainingly. And you were imitating them. So.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Yes, UnGeller.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/a-decade-of-pokemon-scandals/a-decade-of-pokemon-scandals/1299469/4

[darkphoenixrisn.livejournal.com]

Incomprehensible is right.

[sabotabby]

Indeed.

[on-se-dit-tu.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I thought it was funny? I mean, not that it was appropriate to do it in the "Free Palestine" comm of course - very disrespectful, and that was obviously his point. He deserved to be banned. The guy was just being a dick, given how Jewish people are not held in high regard in Russia. It made total sense to me. Russian sense of humor...

I'm sorry

[on-se-dit-tu.livejournal.com]

What I mean to say is that he was making fun of the community for liberal North American beleifs. Obviously. Mocking the idea of taking on causes, et al.

Re: I'm sorry

[sabotabby]

I found it hilarious, don't get me wrong. But he had a few hours to be creative and failed.

[seriesfinale.livejournal.com]

That redshon just popped up on the San Francisco community. Seems like some trolling.

[sabotabby]

He showed up in politicsforum. Banninated and bahleeted, of course.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

You antisemitic gay-hating trollophobe! Why has a gay Jewish troll never been President of Canada?

Boy, that was one surreal conversation. Do you think maybe they're robots? Well, provided some entertainment value.

Perhaps I should post the Cairo Declaration to free_palestine and see if it stirs up some decent flame wars. (Or, y'know, just 'cos it would be good for people to see it.)

[sabotabby]

I intend to be the first gay Jewish troll President of Canada. I can't be a robot, but I suppose by the time Canada has a President, I could possibly have cyborg parts. I'll do my best.

Perhaps I should post the Cairo Declaration to [info]free_palestine and see if it stirs up some decent flame wars. (Or, y'know, just 'cos it would be good for people to see it.)

Content? In my free_palestine?

(Do it. That would be awesome.)

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

I intend to be the first gay Jewish troll President of Canada.

+1

[corvus.livejournal.com]

Are you antisemitic or gayphobic?

[sabotabby]

Yes.

maybe it'll work better with this icon

[corvus.livejournal.com]

Are you antisemitic or gayphobic?

Re: maybe it'll work better with this icon

[sabotabby]

Yes.

Re: maybe it'll work better with this icon

[corvus.livejournal.com]

Are you antisemitic or gayphobic?

Re: maybe it'll work better with this icon

[sabotabby]

Yessssssss!

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

Could be they have jobs and not enough time for quality.

Its hard to be high quality when you have little time for the interwebs but want to try every so often. That's my problem.

I see something, and think, I'll post this, but I ususally have like 4 minutes to do it and no time to research. I should just say nothing...but when nothing to say, very difficult to say nothing.

Oh well.

[I read it, he was having us on...]

[sabotabby]

Well, my job owns my life, so I can sympathize. Perhaps it's the recession. As I recall, not having a job was a much bigger pain in the ass than having one—I was most productive at blogging when I had a pink collar office job. So perhaps as these jobs disappear, there is a smaller pool of both quality bloggers and quality trolls.

Just a theory.

What's the guy's deal? And why the same thing in so many comms?

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

You are onto something. Yes, problems of work are far superior to problems of no work. People often think I'm trolling when I am being sincere. More so because of poor communication skills and lack of attention to detail on my part.

I think that one had just a bit too much time and doing those posts just to stir it up.

Unrelated Did you hear the David Rovics and David Solnit interview?

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/davidrovics

Good point Solnit makes.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

I think at least two other folks in that thread are also trolls.

One got snagged by the bait, though.

[culpster.livejournal.com]

That's like the Beckett version of the entire world circa now. Someone should actually print that out and perform it.

[culpster.livejournal.com]

Hey...actually, could you DO that? Are comment forums (fora?) private property? Hmmmm

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Kaschenism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaschenism) reduced to a formulaic cliché. Passé and unexciting. Just like free_palestine.

[sabotabby]

I'd never heard of Kaschenism. Does it ever amount to anything interesting?

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, but what this manner to hear about something infamiliar and immediately to ask worth it is something? I not able to understand. Communities of Kaschenites were long before this yours 4chan or existence of word "trolling" or this yours idiotic lolspeak. I not can to understand such ungreatfulness and egocentrism from yours side. To Russian intelligentsia still will be found what to teach world. Only are you listening?