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2004-03-23

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Posted by Fred 2004-03-23 8:41:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Removed 2004-3-23 9:00:31 AM|| 2004-3-23 9:00:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Son, didn't anyone ever tell you that pulling your pud in public is bound to be both a dud for you and a letdown for them? Time for you to lean into the strike zone and take one for the team.

You are one seriously fucked-up induhvidual.

Posted by .com 2004-3-23 9:06:31 AM|| 2004-3-23 9:06:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Removed 2004-3-23 9:19:34 AM|| 2004-3-23 9:19:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred, this is an awesome update! Thanks...

Posted by snellenr 2004-3-23 9:59:14 AM|| 2004-3-23 9:59:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 heh heh .com's right. A shot to the forehead would do you some serious good idjit, and make me feel like a sunshiney day!

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-23 10:26:26 AM|| 2004-3-23 10:26:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Damn Fred! Now how the hell am I going to get any work done at the office?

This is a most excellent update! Thanks!

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-3-23 10:34:49 AM|| 2004-3-23 10:34:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Fred, there may be a clean-up needed on aisle three. Check the 2nd comment in this post. You can delete my counter-comment if it no longer makes sense after JOHN is dealt with.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-23 11:10:41 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:10:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Removed 2004-3-23 11:12:23 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:12:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred, would it be helpful if you kept this type of post open daily for us narks to squeal on the trolls. I've always enjoyed troll-spanking like .com comment above, but I never realized how many people visit this site until you added the number on-line feature. Keeping a Troll Watch post open may allow concerned citizens to help you remove the doggy presents from the carpet. This particular "troll watch post" has demonstrated an ability to attract the kooks to it like a bug zapper so that their mischief and stupidity, overall, is less pervasive.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-23 11:17:11 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:17:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I guess I should comfort myself that he's making the site better -- with more features, better security. But I do resent having to deal with his stupidity. I just turned off comments on articles more than a day old because he was fulminating on one from November, 2001.

Posted by Fred 2004-3-23 11:44:49 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:44:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 But I do occasionally post something that's designed to make him comment, to test a routine I've just written. He usually bites, too...

Posted by Fred 2004-3-23 11:45:51 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:45:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Methinks he's a classic manic obsessive / compulsive. Mebbe if you can capture him alive, you can sell him to some twisted shrink for "medical" experimentation. Dr Steve could prolly broker the deal, heh. He'd definitely be a challenge for pharmaceutical science!

Posted by .com 2004-3-23 11:51:57 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:51:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Removed 2004-3-23 11:52:34 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:52:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 oooooh a Jew-list, kinda like an anti-schindler's?

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-23 11:56:36 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:56:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Boris, my real name was posted early as well. I changed it because the number of Steve's made things very confusing. You are welcome to look back and see what you find. Good hunting.

Fred, I think that is it possible that the feature that you added that displays how many people are currently online may be what is attracting the more tenacious brain damaged chicken-molesters. For some trolls the attraction may be the size of your audience. For others the size of your audience may demand that Rantburg be destroyed. For me knowing how many surfers slide through Ranburg for news encourages me to continue to fight to protect the forum. The work that you and the editors are doing must be of enough value to attract that many surfers and to accumulate such determined enemies.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-23 12:03:02 PM|| 2004-3-23 12:03:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, I must be weird. I think it's interesting to be able to see what the trolls are up to. I don't care about the dumb things they say, except that their incoherent redundancy does get boring sometimes. But then, I haven't been visiting Rantburg for very long (not enough time to get totally sick of it?)

I also like the idea of a Troll Watch, but don't have any idea about how much work it would be to snag the troll posts and funnel them into one window labeled as such. If you can I think you should--just for those of us that need to "bash a troll a day" to feel like we're doing our part!

Posted by ex-lib 2004-3-23 12:25:17 PM|| 2004-3-23 12:25:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 SH, don't know who John is, but he ain't me.

Flush him!

Posted by john 2004-3-23 12:25:38 PM|| 2004-3-23 12:25:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 He's flushed.

Posted by Fred 2004-3-23 1:18:11 PM|| 2004-3-23 1:18:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Ex-lib, I think we are experiencing miscommunication. Fred has been leaving a post open at the above the Short Attention Span topic for the last several days as a forum for ideas. Leaving a "Site Management" post open each day might also serve the purpose of providing a forum for people to identify troll scats throughout the overall site. Rantburg is quite big and the Boris ilk have commenced to use non-zombie names in order to make detection more difficult. Although there are only a limited number of Fred's crack crew of content janitorial staff, there are plenty of us who are wiling to fink on a troll at the drop of a ~~scat~~ hat. I get so much spam in my e-mail box that I hesitate to spam Fred's box with routine Boris sightings. Maybe that clarifies.

This proposal only makes sense if this site has become so threatening to loonies that they can't bear to have continue to exist as it was before. I am, in fact, intrigued that this forum would been seen as so threatening to those that disgust me that they would be overwhelmed with the need to firebomb a forum for ideas with their ravings.

I guess my suggestion is to develop the best way to gattling gun down the zombies as they stagger in looking for lattes and jollies to the annoyance of semi-serious people.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-23 2:12:13 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:12:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 By the way, ex-lib, there's no way yo get "totally sick" of Rantburg. Most of us have been here at least two years; I know I've been reading since soon after 9/11/01. The news and commentary are too good. Now if Fred can just write a routine to add a few more hours in my day...but I'm afraid he's still too busy curing jock itch.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-3-23 2:35:43 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:35:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 One day,
In salla I will leave a poste. Sure has Ford made GT40s and the gawd known as Shelby I will one day post.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-23 7:00:47 PM|| 2004-3-23 7:00:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Fred---my wife is a psychologist and she could figure out the trolls, but they are just strong noise in the signal. I think that she thinks all of us Rantburgers are crazy! LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-3-23 7:14:10 PM|| 2004-3-23 7:14:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 I like being able to bitch slap a troll(upon ocasion),but do as you think best Fred.

Posted by Raptor 2004-3-23 7:41:10 PM|| 2004-3-23 7:41:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 I'll leave the run of the mill trools, but I'll boot them when they're too nasty for polite company or too unimaginative.

I thought Mucky was a troll at first, and where would we be without him?

Posted by Fred 2004-3-23 8:03:03 PM|| 2004-3-23 8:03:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Does anyone here miss Murat?

Posted by Rafael 2004-3-23 8:16:06 PM|| 2004-3-23 8:16:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Seafarious and everybody: I meant totally sick of the neo-nazi/communist liberal loonies , not of Rantburg! Sorry for the mix-up. Actually, I'm already sick of Boris, and Aris, and Kunte Kinte et al. But I would be sad if antiwar were to drop out. And the muskster is fun.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-3-24 12:08:15 AM|| 2004-3-24 12:08:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#27 Seafarious and everybody: I meant totally sick of the neo-nazi/communist liberal loonies , not of Rantburg! Sorry for the mix-up. Actually, I'm already sick of Boris, and Aris, and Kunte Kinte et al. But I would be sad if antiwar were to drop out. And the muskster is fun.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-3-24 12:09:02 AM|| 2004-3-24 12:09:02 AM|| Front Page Top

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