quote:Originally posted by King of Men: This does not match my understanding of the forum mechanisms.
It's not this forum's mechanisms. I'm saying that this is what I can do, and I'm openly wondering why it can't be the same here. Especially since it seems (and you note) that the forum is essentially trollbait that PJ can't defend as long as clive can have as many new accounts as he wants to continue his spergrush. Odds are actually pretty high that an IP ban would have stopped him, and that this has not even been tried.
quote: A seriously determined poster cannot be banned permanently, certainly not by the amount of time that PJ can devote to this forum.
So then, for the time being, hatrack has no answer to a sufficiently determined troll, rulebreaker* or insane person.
*we pretty much already knew this though
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But, you normally don't block an entire octet as a forum administrator. You block a specific address.
And, like KOM and I pointed out, a residential address may or may not change. I've kept the same public IP address for more than a year, before. Other times, it's changed twice within a month. DSL users can see a different address every time they cycle their modems, but cable users frequently don't.
It all depends.
(And I can get a static address for $3 a month from my ISP.)
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quote:Originally posted by Tstorm: But, you normally don't block an entire octet as a forum administrator. You block a specific address.
And, like KOM and I pointed out, a residential address may or may not change. I've kept the same public IP address for more than a year, before. Other times, it's changed twice within a month. DSL users can see a different address every time they cycle their modems, but cable users frequently don't.
It all depends.
(And I can get a static address for $3 a month from my ISP.)
I'm not sure if you have your own router or not. I think he has a preferred machine. Laptops are expensive. In your router you can deny certain MAC addresses. Take it to layer two.
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You can also just get proxy servers, and/or get a 3G data card. Either of those is pretty effective at skirting IP bans.
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If the abuser is smart enough, you can't get around him. I'm TDY in Jamaica and one of the officers asked me to encrypt the wireless services. I told him that my encryption would result in the other nation users losing their internet access to talk to their wives and WEP is an easy hack for someone who knows what he's doing. Not to mention the fact that we have a third world nation ISP. The insecure wireless routers I employed aren't any more a risk than the ISP those routers are relying on. I could crack a "secure" wireless network in five minutes and you'll never stop a technically proficient troll. He can clone his MAC.
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quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure:
quote: Second of all, it's the Jews who are the natives.
Yes. Thousands of years ago.
Not. There've been Jews living there all along, and there've been both Jews and Arabs living there ever since the bloody Arab conquest. And while there was a large influx of Jews starting at the end of the 19th century, there was also a large influx of Arabs in the same time period.
quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure:
quote: Second of all, it's the Jews who are the natives.
Yes. Thousands of years ago.
Not. There've been Jews living there all along, and there've been both Jews and Arabs living there ever since the bloody Arab conquest. And while there was a large influx of Jews starting at the end of the 19th century, there was also a large influx of Arabs in the same time period.
Spout your asinine propaganda elsewhere, Somalian.
And the Jews conquered it from someone else. They used to be bloodthirsty too till they lost their numerical advantage.
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quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure:
quote:Originally posted by Lisa:
quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure:
quote: Second of all, it's the Jews who are the natives.
Yes. Thousands of years ago.
Not. There've been Jews living there all along, and there've been both Jews and Arabs living there ever since the bloody Arab conquest. And while there was a large influx of Jews starting at the end of the 19th century, there was also a large influx of Arabs in the same time period.
Spout your asinine propaganda elsewhere, Somalian.
And the Jews conquered it from someone else. They used to be bloodthirsty too till they lost their numerical advantage.
Do you believe that we conquered the land? The only source for that is the same one that says God gave the land to us. If you don't accept the source, you can't reasonably accept the historicity of us conquering the land.
The Arabs didn't have a problem with the Jews living in the Land of Israel so long as we were dhimmis. Subserviant to the Muslim overlords. But when we started coming back in large numbers, we weren't willing to be serfs in our own land any more, and that was intolerable to them. That's the real issue, Somalian. Islam only recognizes dar el-Islam and dar el-Harb. Places that have been conquered by Islam, and places that have not yet been conquered by Islam. They have no room in their theology for a place that was conquered by Islam and then lost. If there was no State of Israel, they'd be banging on Spain's doors right now.
It is an integral part of Islamic theology that the goal is for the entire world to fall under the sway of Islam, by whatever means necessary. And we're standing in the way.
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Some Hatrack History on the definition of Troll.
A couple of years ago Hatrack had a great reputation for discourse. This meant people from many viewpoints came together here to talk and listen to each other.
The emphasis is listen to others, and consider what they have to say. We learned why people on the other side of the debate have the ideas the do. We learned not to argue at each other but talk to each other.
Mal, Clive, and Lisa and KOM on certain topics, do not do this. They just want others to agree with them, and get quite upset when people don't. Their points of view are so obvious to themselves that any disagreement can only be due to evil conspiracies or demented stupidity of others, and they treat those others as evil or stupid in return.
While that is not officially trolling in the wider Internet, it is as close as we want to come here.
While bringing up controversial topics is not trolling, nor is holding controversial views, yelling and arguing instead of listening and discussion is as close as Hatrack wanted to come to it.
Oh, and please, don't blame the overworked PJ for not banning people fast enough. You can't blame the overworked police for the bank robbery. All you do is get the cops upset.
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quote:I'm TDY in Jamaica and one of the officers asked me to encrypt the wireless services.
Mal, do I understand you correctly? That you have military users on unencrypted wireless in Jamaica?
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quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure:
quote:Originally posted by Lisa:
quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure: [qb]
quote: Second of all, it's the Jews who are the natives.
Yes. Thousands of years ago.
Not. There've been Jews living there all along, and there've been both Jews and Arabs living there ever since the bloody Arab conquest. And while there was a large influx of Jews starting at the end of the 19th century, there was also a large influx of Arabs in the same time period.
Spout your asinine propaganda elsewhere, Somalian.
And the Jews conquered it from someone else. They used to be bloodthirsty too till they lost their numerical advantage.
Do you believe that we conquered the land? The only source for that is the same one that says God gave the land to us. If you don't accept the source, you can't reasonably accept the historicity of us conquering the land.
I accept the source as being partially truthful in regards to the history of your people. It is not surprising that it contains an uncritical reproduction of the lies you told yourselves to justify stealing land from others.
quote: The Arabs didn't have a problem with the Jews living in the Land of Israel so long as we were dhimmis. Subserviant to the Muslim overlords. But when we started coming back in large numbers, we weren't willing to be serfs in our own land any more, and that was intolerable to them.
Well it was their land and you were their guest. It isn't an entirely unheard of thing to be respectful of the cultural demands of the people that are graciously letting you stay as a guest.
quote: That's the real issue, Somalian. Islam only recognizes dar el-Islam and dar el-Harb. Places that have been conquered by Islam, and places that have not yet been conquered by Islam. They have no room in their theology for a place that was conquered by Islam and then lost. If there was no State of Israel, they'd be banging on Spain's doors right now.
So then why do Christian Palestinians also want your people to pack up and leave?
quote: It is an integral part of Islamic theology that the goal is for the entire world to fall under the sway of Islam, by whatever means necessary. And we're standing in the way.
More like provoking them by oppressing and subjugating their brethren.
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Trolling is a term that should rarely, if ever, be applied - for the simple reason that it implies something about the intent of the person making a post, and because it is usually very difficult to accurately divine a person's intent over an online forum if they don't specifically say it. People often get called trolls simply for saying controversial stuff that a lot of people disagree with, or for saying stuff in a controversial in-your-face fashion. In the past, most people who were assigned the label turned out not to be trolls, and many are still on this forum, some for many many years. A few people actually were intentionally making trouble. But in almost all cases, the name calling was not productive: People who actually are trolls want to cause trouble so they have no problem being called names, whereas people who aren't trolls but get called trolls end up becoming upset.
For non-trolls, in some cases the problem lies with how they post, and the solution is to change the way they post. In other cases, the problem lies with the other people on the forum not being open to their opinions, in which case the solution is for the others in the forum to change. In some, probably most, cases it is both.
In your case, contents under pressure, the trouble is that you start most threads with an opinion you know other people will disagree with, and do so in a way that provokes emotion. "Here's my opinion; Most people think its wrong but I know its right; I dare you to disagree with it!" Among other things, you also make generalizations about the other side of the agument, like how "liberals say this" which often are both not true and not a charitable understanding of the argument the other side is trying to make. It's possible you can't make people be charitable towards your own opinions, but you can definitely be more careful about the way you present them and more aware of the reactions they may provoke.
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quote:Mal, Clive, and Lisa and KOM on certain topics, do not do this. They just want others to agree with them, and get quite upset when people don't. Their points of view are so obvious to themselves that any disagreement can only be due to evil conspiracies or demented stupidity of others, and they treat those others as evil or stupid in return.
What's more is they've been asked many times to avoid those topics and don't seem capable of it. We really need the threat of some sort of permanent ban behind the request. Post in one more thread on the topic and you're gone...
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quote:Originally posted by Darth_Mauve: ... This meant people from many viewpoints came together here to talk and listen to each other.
To be fair, while this has been said, most examples that have actually come up of past threads tend toward the homogeneous. I think TomD has posted the analogy of white flight, which I think describes the phenomenon well.
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quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure: What's the dirt on KOM?
I am the resident troll on religion, and may I add, I'm a lot better at skirting the very edge of what the mod will allow than you are. Getting banned after a few months of posting, tch.
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quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure: What's the dirt on KOM?
I am the resident troll on religion, and may I add, I'm a lot better at skirting the very edge of what the mod will allow than you are. Getting banned after a few months of posting, tch.
At least you are interesting.
Tresopax,
quote: Trolling is a term that should rarely, if ever, be applied - for the simple reason that it implies something about the intent of the person making a post, and because it is usually very difficult to accurately divine a person's intent over an online forum if they don't specifically say it. People often get called trolls simply for saying controversial stuff that a lot of people disagree with, or for saying stuff in a controversial in-your-face fashion. In the past, most people who were assigned the label turned out not to be trolls, and many are still on this forum, some for many many years. A few people actually were intentionally making trouble. But in almost all cases, the name calling was not productive: People who actually are trolls want to cause trouble so they have no problem being called names, whereas people who aren't trolls but get called trolls end up becoming upset.
Trolling is a term that should rarely, if ever, be applied - for the simple reason that it implies something about the intent of the person making a post, and because it is usually very difficult to accurately divine a person's intent over an online forum if they don't specifically say it. People often get called trolls simply for saying controversial stuff that a lot of people disagree with, or for saying stuff in a controversial in-your-face fashion.
Tresopax gets it. In a lot of places, the definition of troll gets watered down to 'poster that vocal people on forum consistently dislike.'
This is not to say that clive isn't a troll (he is) but the term has been thrown around uselessly here and elsewhere.
Malanthrop isn't a troll, for instance. Or at least I wouldn't call him a purposeful troll. He's more a slag, an individual who is mentally and behaviorally incompatible with reasoned dialogue, combined with a tendency to interject and derail, thus eroding the forum's environment and capacity towards reasoned dialogue. Neither him nor clive understand why they are considered either.
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An interesting distinction. Do you have a classification ready to hand for the likes of Lisa and me?
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: ...thus eroding the forum's environment and capacity towards reasoned dialogue...
Sam, I would agree with all of that except for maybe this part. I find the reasoned responses to mal's posts informative and enlightening. While mal himself does not add reasoned dialog to the forum, he elicits it. (Or, at least, if not reasoned dialog, then reasoned individual posts.)
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: ...thus eroding the forum's environment and capacity towards reasoned dialogue...
Sam, I would agree with all of that except for maybe this part. I find the reasoned responses to mal's posts informative and enlightening.
Right, but that's not a dialogue, because it's one-way. You can correct him (or reshpeckobiggle, or ron lambert, or bean counter) but you might as well be talking to a wall.
If a forum used to have productive or at least respectful dialogue, and it gets replaced with a point where the most common interactions are driving away moderate, polite, and ultimately functional and productive members of the forum, because the subjects are getting overwhelmed with people who derail this with their one-way interactivity where they constantly puke their opinions into the thread and remain impervious to correction or self-moderation, throwing the forum headlong into antagonism because regular users become progressively (and rightfully) more and more frustrated with where they're derailing the entire forum towards.
quote:What's funny is I remember the term "Slag," but it doesn't seem to be on the site anymore.
That's because it was in the "What's happened to hatrack" thread which now appears to be deleted.
PPS: if anyone can find a copy of that somewhere on the internets, it's the answer to the whole 'slag v. troll' thing. It would take me forever to re-write it and I'm at work, so if not, I'll have to chase it down tonight.
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What's funny is I remember the term "Slag," but it doesn't seem to be on the site anymore.
I'd rather be an ideologue for a correct position than a moral equivocator like some here.
What she said. Among the other evils that religion brings, it causes you to tolerate assertions of false fact (or even worse, as with kmb, assertions that there are no facts). To do otherwise when uncheckable facts are asserted as matters of life and death leads to dreadful wars. A healthy society would not show respect for those who assert what is demonstrably false, although as a matter of mercy and pity it might refrain from imprisoning them, especially since the art of curing the insane is, alas, in its infancy.
However, Samprimary seems to be working off a classification scheme not related to the Internet Warriors page, and I was interested in his classification rather than random links to years-old memes.
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quote:Originally posted by An Escape Goat: ... Orson Scott Card first broke out of his cocoon in Richland, Washington, were he lived his early life as a Mormon zergling with his Hydralisks.
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: oh hey cool now hatrack's being FO REA' trollspammed.
hi encyclopedia dramatica.
Maybe I'm being naive but that post seemed to have so many references to the poster themselves being wrong that it seemed more like someone already here trying to put up a lengthy joke (including the member title, and the fact that it's in this thread instead of its own topic). But the level of vulgarity alone make it hard to believe they really thought it was somehow in line with the forum ...
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I was thinking that it was an existing poster who after being informed by the "New Information" that it is effectively impossible to ban/deal with a persistent troll, has decided to play around with that. *shrug*
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It's worse, An Escape Goat is posting trolling stuff all over the forum. Some of it is really, really vulgar...
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quote:Originally posted by contents under pressure:
quote:Originally posted by Kwea: How are you not, under any of your alts?
I created multiple alts (one after the other) for the simple reason that I was unfairly banned for merely stating my opinion. If Lisa can say monstrous things about the Palestinians then it's curious why I can't share my frank opinion on feminists/homosexuality/etc.
Whistled. On the off chance that PJ hasn't already seen it.
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to explain better: what was being posted was the entry on Orson Scott Card from Encyclopedia Dramatica.
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quote:Originally posted by rivka: Yes and no. Lisa skates very close to the line and occasionally steps over it. When warned by Pop, she has rescinded, edited, etc., as she was asked to do.
Clive ignores the line altogether, and then ignores what he is told by Pop and gets banned for doing it anyway.
quote:Originally posted by An Escape Goat: ... Orson Scott Card first broke out of his cocoon in Richland, Washington, were he lived his early life as a Mormon zergling with his Hydralisks.