Internet Drama, Lies, and Deception by BYTEMITE

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Internet Drama, Lies, and Deception

POSTED BY: BYTEMITE
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 13:02
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:04 AM

I thought I'd post this fascinating story about an internet sock-puppet artist/troll at work and how she's exposed, just to show that as contentious as things sometimes seem around here on the board, we're nowhere NEAR as this bad.

Fandom is fun, but people do sometimes get a little crazy about it.

It's rather long, you can probably get the gist of it reading up to Part 5. But it's still really interesting reading after that, wondering when enough's enough.

http://www.journalfen.net/users/charlottelennox/784.html

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:16 AM

CANTTAKESKY

Incredible. No, we've never been that bad. (Knock on wood.)

The internet can bring out all sorts of personality disorders.

And now I think I can recognize a few sockpuppets around here. ;)

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:23 AM

BYTEMITE

Even just the first section before we even are introduced to the story subject is kind of amazing. Inter-discussion group dislike and STALKING. Over children's books and fanfiction.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:45 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

And then there are the epic facebook trolls who have elevated it to a performance art form - folks like Chest Strongwell, Tom Joad, Surly Thor, Duke St. Rollins and Duchess St. Rollins, and some others. Their main aim is hilarity, but they can also be recruited to do good in the name of a good cause.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:04 PM

BYTEMITE

It's true. There are many trolls that you can admire for their quality, for the way that they have more in mind than abusing or manipulating people. This is not one of those stories.

(I should look up your recs though. I do enjoy reading about a good troll)

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:51 PM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
It's true. There are many trolls that you can admire for their quality, for the way that they have more in mind than abusing or manipulating people. This is not one of those stories.

(I should look up your recs though. I do enjoy reading about a good troll)

I'll save ya the effort:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/09/extraordinary_internet
_trolls.php

It's funny, because when the article came out, I realized I was already friends with three of these four. I haven't done any facebook trolling, but I've been behind the scenes for a few things, and have a few more in the works.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:02 PM

BYTEMITE

*Reads comments*

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All of you filthy liberals who advertise your favorite troll pages disgust me! You are nothing but purveyors of filth, fornication and foul language. Hell calls for you!

They realize that to most internet users, this would come across as a compliment?

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