Interesting New Website
See here:
http://trollbuster.wordpress.com/about/
I discovered this quite recently, and it doesn't look like it has been around very long.
This particular "service" is operated by and for feminists, as you will observe.
What I find interesting is the "definition drift" that is occurring re: the word "troll". Seems it is no longer necessary to pay an actual visit to another web space in order to qualify for the term. Apparently it is enough simply to launch your "trolleries" from a distance, from your own firebase, and voila! you're a troll!
So be it. I don't think freedom of the press in cyberspace differs much from the traditional kind. "Naming and shaming" is a venerable craft with an ancient lineage, and heaven knows some folk richly deserve to be on the recieving end. ;-) Of course, such folk have a long history, down through the centuries, of not liking it - which is understandable. After all, they're only human. So they can call it "trolling" if they wish. Others might call it muckraking, or satire. What's in a word, anyway?
But it's too late now. The name has already been pronounced, and the shame has been shovelled where it rightly belongs. Those with naught to be ashamed about, have naught to fear from naming and shaming, correct? At any rate, it happened once, and it COULD happen again, at any time. Are you listening, [name omitted] at [URL omitted] ...? Tee-hee-hee!
And remember that the new breed of "distance trolls" don't give a rip if you delete or ban them! Go ahead, [name omitted] at [URL omitted] , delete THIS!
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http://trollbuster.wordpress.com/about/
I discovered this quite recently, and it doesn't look like it has been around very long.
This particular "service" is operated by and for feminists, as you will observe.
What I find interesting is the "definition drift" that is occurring re: the word "troll". Seems it is no longer necessary to pay an actual visit to another web space in order to qualify for the term. Apparently it is enough simply to launch your "trolleries" from a distance, from your own firebase, and voila! you're a troll!
So be it. I don't think freedom of the press in cyberspace differs much from the traditional kind. "Naming and shaming" is a venerable craft with an ancient lineage, and heaven knows some folk richly deserve to be on the recieving end. ;-) Of course, such folk have a long history, down through the centuries, of not liking it - which is understandable. After all, they're only human. So they can call it "trolling" if they wish. Others might call it muckraking, or satire. What's in a word, anyway?
But it's too late now. The name has already been pronounced, and the shame has been shovelled where it rightly belongs. Those with naught to be ashamed about, have naught to fear from naming and shaming, correct? At any rate, it happened once, and it COULD happen again, at any time. Are you listening, [name omitted] at [URL omitted] ...? Tee-hee-hee!
And remember that the new breed of "distance trolls" don't give a rip if you delete or ban them! Go ahead, [name omitted] at [URL omitted] , delete THIS!
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posted by Fidelbogen at 6:16 PM
3 Comments:
HAHA Man that website is the funniest thing out. Looks like great advertising to me for a start.
The comments are equally funny:
" charliegrrl on December 23rd, 2006
Thankyou- you have just solved a mystery for me!
So this could mean I have several men commenting abuse everyday rather than just one sick bastard."
Basically showing the fembots that random men from multiple locations have a problem with them, rather than a convenient sole misogynist upon who to lay blame for the conflict.
Whichever way they play it, they'll play it to their advantage.
If it is a "sole misogynist", they will say it is all down to his own personality, and he's all alone, and he's "pathetic", etc etc......
If it is a multiple locations scenario, then instantly that is evidence (to them) of a big bad patriarchal conspiracy.....
Heads they win, tails they win.....
So, why take feminism seriously at all? They're just out to grab whatever they can grab. Thieves don't deserve any donations.
They're masters at the game of redefining words.
I've seen plenty of feminists on even mainstream articles come out of the woodworks and call everyone they disagree with "a troll".
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