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Good old Boris...
2004-03-17
Dont just elide the text. Completely delete the article from all listings, including the headlines. Its that simple. He is simply posting the same links over and over. He is attempting to drown out the info here with repeated posts. This is an attack on the site and should no longer be tolerated. Like any mindless terrorist in the real world, the "ADL" poster should have his posts summarily, and without fanfare, eliminated. To do anything less is to encourage him. And if he has all these links, when Yahoo does its scan, being linked to from other sites increases the scoring - so not only is he abusing your readers, he is abusing your site to interject his demented standpoints illicitly to innocent parties. Time to treat him like the rabid opossum that he is - and put him out of our misery.
I've spent most of the day deleting Boris/ADL posts and I'm as tired of it as you guys are. More tired, in fact. His posts show about a dozen different IPs, all of which — to date — are banned. He probably posts from the library or something, or works in an office where he has access to a number of different computers. One IP looked spoofed, so he might be the source of some of those e-mails saying "Read the attached right away."

I've set up a separate "Trolls and Spam" category on the editor's page. The associate editors will have to move them there, but please just ignore them until they do or until I can delete them.

We've been lucky up until this point. The trolls have gone away after a day or two of mockery. Boris is more determined to be obnoxious than the average troll.

I'll probably have to explain that at my trial.
Posted by:OldSpook

#10  His email address? What are you, nuts? People don't just have one email address...I have a half-dozen or so myself, for different purposes.

This has zip to do with "fighting for freedom" or other such concepts. It's just someone with a very small life, sitting in front of the computer all day and taking out his life's frustrations on a bunch of strangers. This activity is more entertaining than the rest of his life, therefore it ain't going to stop any time soon.

Banning IPs isn't a solution...I can post things from hundreds of different IPs using proxies.

"Cop won't find your boy. Cop couldn't find his own butt if it had a bell on it. Wanna find an outlaw, call an outlaw. Wanna find a Dunkin Donuts, call a cop."
-- The Lone Biker of the Apocolypse, "Raising Arizona"
Posted by: gromky   2004-3-18 1:51:15 AM  

#9  There are two main groups, 67. and 68., but also a 197. and a couple others.
Posted by: Fred   2004-3-17 10:57:19 PM  

#8  Question: Are all the IPs where this crap is originating share, like say, the first two set of octets? Or are they entirely all different? If the various originating locations are on a subnet, just whack the whole domain. If a legit user is locked out as a result, well, that's just how things go...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-3-17 10:13:47 PM  

#7  Send me his email address and I'll pass it along to the guys in the 3rd ID, just back from Iraq and looking for someone to take their anger out on.

We really, really need a better way of welcoming troops back from someplace like Iraq than the kind of bs I got coming back from Vietnam, and the "oh, so you're back..." crap the guys today are getting. In the meantime, some way for them to vent might be useful... A douchebag like Boris wouldn't know what hit 'im.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-3-17 9:35:33 PM  

#6  Thanks Fred. I'm not the most net-savvy guy around but if Boris, et al elude the various defenses, I'll s---can him. I was the one who just cut rather than deleted this afternoon.
Posted by: Steve White   2004-3-17 9:35:10 PM  

#5  Grep article submissions for his website and any other keywords and reject any articles that contain it.
Posted by: ed   2004-3-17 9:29:43 PM  

#4  I just sent an email to Steve White on this very subject. Cauterize the sucker. He is attacking the site. Of course, you know, this means war. Or maybe we can talk to them and appease them.... Worked for Spain so far..../sarcasm
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-3-17 9:02:51 PM  

#3  Can't we just ban his IP please. He is a complete mad hatter who is clogging up Rantburg with his bile. We have taunted him, mocked him and even ignored him and nothing has worked.

Posted by: Angry Federalist   2004-3-17 8:48:00 PM  

#2  Count me in, Old Spook.
You're quite right--IP ban them all.
Posted by: Jen   2004-3-17 8:23:29 PM  

#1  Delete if this is out of place. Sorry, just had to vent. Got back from the VA, and it just pisses me off that scum like "Boris" and Elanor etc, abuse the freedoms that these guys won (while losing a lot in the process), and they sit ignored.
Posted by: OldSpook   2004-3-17 8:21:08 PM  

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