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2012 Jul 10, 8:55am   4,163 views  17 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (55)   💰tip   ignore  

On the suggestion of a user, I now allow Patrick.net Premium members to restrict comments on their discussions to other Premium members only.

It's totally optional and the default is to not restrict comments on a discussion. But if Premium users want to, they can eliminate trolls this way.

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1   anonymous   2012 Jul 10, 9:09am  

Pay to play. The other free forums I participate in that get the periodic outbreak of the "herpe trolls" from time to time, suggest that route

I'm not a fan, as an american I'm ok with tolerating others actions, and as an adult, I can always just ignore them

The greatest form of mind control, is self censorship of ideas

2   Randy H   2012 Jul 10, 9:58am  

It will be an interesting experiment. I like the Befriend or Ignore option, which is new since I've been last around. I'll have to experiment with that. I will say that eventually the trolls can get to you. Spirited debate is one thing but psychopathic malice is another. When I've seen problems is when someone can't stand the debate so they resort to less nobel courses of action.

3   PockyClipsNow   2012 Jul 10, 10:01am  

Sometimes trolls are fun. The Ron Paul troll is gone now....

:-(

(RON PAUL WHERE ARE YOUR TROLLS!!!!???)

4   Patrick   2012 Jul 10, 10:07am  

The Ron Paul troll was actually a pretty nice guy, just obsessed with Ron Paul. Some of the other trolls have been really mean.

5   Sock Puppet Smasher   2012 Jul 10, 10:12am  

All that's left are a bunch of paid-for sophisticated sock puppets -- made to look and act like real people -- to "talk" to each other and push Communitarian political agendas. Don't you ever get bored over here, talking to yourself and pretending to be multiple "real" people?

How about a real career that's more fulfilling and less aligned with the Satanic set?

6   PockyClipsNow   2012 Jul 10, 10:17am  

wait, i can get paid to be annoying on the internet all day??

please tell me who will pay me for this, im doin it wrong.

8   HEY YOU   2012 Jul 10, 10:57am  

Sock Puppet Smasher,
On the link to mind control, it's not a problem for me. My mind wandered and never came back. I guess it's lost.

9   Sock Puppet Smasher   2012 Jul 10, 11:08am  

I wonder if they play the "Star Spangled Banner" over the louspeakers for you folks over at CENTCOM, while you brandish your MetalGear software and portray yourselves as multiple people in forums such as this one. Then you go home and beat your wives/girlfriends/kids/dogs, because your no-talent job is worthless to most life forms, and spiritually corrupt.

Internal conflict going on inside yet? How about that drinking/drug problem?

10   Peter P   2012 Jul 10, 2:38pm  

I see that Randy is back. I shall delurk.

I like this Befriend or Ignore idea, now that trolls have evolved from the simple Marina Prime type.

11   Randy H   2012 Jul 10, 3:01pm  

Marina Prime brings back some fond memories. I sometimes wonder what happened to all those circa 2004-5 bubble deniers?

12   Peter P   2012 Jul 10, 3:16pm  

They became 2012-2013 bubble deniers?

But honestly, the market has become so strange. It is like a zombie injected with a strong dose of liquidity.

13   New Renter   2012 Jul 10, 3:23pm  

Peter P says

They became 2012-2013 bubble deniers?

But honestly, the market has become so strange. It is like a zombie injected with a strong dose of liquidity.

Yes, Worcestershire sauce!

14   Patrick   2012 Nov 14, 6:08am  

OK, that wouldn't be too hard to do, a couple of hours of work maybe. Worth a shot!

15   Dan8267   2012 Nov 14, 6:48am  


The Ron Paul troll was actually a pretty nice guy, just obsessed with Ron Paul. Some of the other trolls have been really mean.

How was the Ron Paul fanboy a troll? I think of a troll as someone who's being an ass just for the sake of pissing people off. A fanboy and a troll are totally different things.

16   Patrick   2012 Nov 14, 7:03am  

You're right, he wasn't really a troll.

I think of a troll as someone just trying entertain themselves by getting people angry. He wasn't doing that.

17   PeopleUnited   2012 Nov 14, 7:21am  

Did u see Bruno, he had some fun at Paul's expense. That is no way to treat the good doctor. Most guys probably would not have been as nice as Dr. Paul was about it either.

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