Journal Ethanol-fueled's Journal: The Pussification of Slashdot 9
In the past, I have served as a resident anthropologist who sought to identify the professional trolls of Slashdot and enumerate their behavior. This journal entry is about many a type of cancerous and particularly obnoxious participants who have some form of legitimacy, as well as the techniques they use to maintain their legitimacy. They cannot be considered true trolls because they have no desire to (at least on the surface) deliberately provoke others. This lack of self-awareness makes them rather dangerous(and, unlike real trolls, wasteful and unfunny), and so I am compelled to identify these users by category rather than by individual. But individuals will also be named and shamed, so we get the best of both worlds.
The first obnoxious category is the Philosophy 100 Kid - These larval bedwetters may have prematurely ejaculated egos because they were able to get into the college of their choice, especially if its a community college. They don't know shit, but they will go out of their way to show you that they do - after all, they are armed with the knowledge of the 9 or 10 logical fallacies they learned from Far Side cartoons their professor had to show them at age nineteen because they were too stupid to understand those cartoons when they should have been reading them at age eight.
The Philosophy 100 Kid will look for posts of arbitrary complexity, scan them for the handful of logical fallacies in their puny mental database, squealing and wetting themselves when they find a match. They will immediately respond, pointing out the fallacy by name. They may not even be accurate, or they may miss and ignore the rest of a well-reasoned post, or they're just too damn dumb to do anything except regurgitate what they're taught in class. But that's it. They offer no alternative ideas, no real challenge, not even a "haha dumbfuck" response that some may consider worth reading.
The second obnoxious category is the...shit, the first is all I have for now. Maybe more later.
The first obnoxious category is the Philosophy 100 Kid - These larval bedwetters may have prematurely ejaculated egos because they were able to get into the college of their choice, especially if its a community college. They don't know shit, but they will go out of their way to show you that they do - after all, they are armed with the knowledge of the 9 or 10 logical fallacies they learned from Far Side cartoons their professor had to show them at age nineteen because they were too stupid to understand those cartoons when they should have been reading them at age eight.
The Philosophy 100 Kid will look for posts of arbitrary complexity, scan them for the handful of logical fallacies in their puny mental database, squealing and wetting themselves when they find a match. They will immediately respond, pointing out the fallacy by name. They may not even be accurate, or they may miss and ignore the rest of a well-reasoned post, or they're just too damn dumb to do anything except regurgitate what they're taught in class. But that's it. They offer no alternative ideas, no real challenge, not even a "haha dumbfuck" response that some may consider worth reading.
The second obnoxious category is the...shit, the first is all I have for now. Maybe more later.
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And I did it all by myself, if you know what I mean.
That star by your name ain't a Sherrif's badge, it's the spokes of a training wheel.
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We all generally dislike trolls and shills, but it's quite interesting to see where the conversation goes when people rebuff a shill; even moreso when you agree with all or part of what the shill has said. As a bit of an MS fanboi, I readily admit that I sometimes find great entertainment in such threads.
That said, I normally like seeing what Ethanol-Fueled posts, even when it's the trolliest of
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It's actually a fascinating topic - we know that there ARE paid shills who spend their time astro-turfing. Here's a thought - why not have the IP address visible with every post - or at least the first few octets? 10 posts, all within a minute or two of the start of the thread, all supporting an idea, all from "different" posters, but coming from the same IP? Shill!
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Your idea is useless because proxies.
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Eh, he's lost the fire. Haven't read a decent post from him in a while.
An honest question.. (Score:2)
You say you're a MS fan, why? I can almost understand Apple fans, even though the only piece of Apple gear I own is an ancient G3 somebody dug out of the trash and gave me. I'm pretty much a Linux fan, even though Linux does annoy me once in a while.
Actually I used to be a MS fan myself, but that was back in the DOS days before they seemingly stopped caring about users.
What is it you like about MS? I just don't get it.
Hey, old man! (Score:2)
LOL, that's the nature of youth. You're an anthropologist and don't know that? I was like that, you were like that. When you're twenty you're indestructable and know everything. Then when you pass thirty you start to realise how incredibly ignorant you are. It's said "the awareness of one's own ignorance is the beginning of wisdom."
Er, I have served as a resident anthropologist who sought to identify the professional trolls of Slashdot and enumerate their behavior.
Shouldn't that be "behaviors"? I mean, "enu