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Journal pudge's Journal: Hockey 30

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I play yet another game of inline hockey tonight, in an old naval hangar in Seattle. There I play with an Anonymous Coward Slashdot troll. He's on my team. He won't tell me his IP address, and says he doesn't use a nick, and he trolls Slashdot every night. Any ideas on how to track him?

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  • Random thoughts, complicated by the fact that he's on your team. <irony />
    • Don't let him have the puck/ball/whatever until he fesses up?
    • Get the ref to keep him in the penalty box until he fesses up?
    • Try traffic analysis -- figure out which IPs seem to be active after your hockey games, and aren't when the game is underway. (This may be a needle in a haystack approach...)
    • Let it go: even if you get past him, there are hundreds of others just as bad. Let the moderation system do its job without having

    • Don't let him have the puck/ball/whatever until he fesses up?

      Get the ref to keep him in the penalty box until he fesses up?

      Isn't this something along the lines of "cutting off your nose to spite your face"?

      • I was grasping at straws. The more I think about it, the fourth idea seems best to me: enjoy the game, and ignore the trolling -- he's hardly the only person doing this.
  • Who was it that said, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?"

    Befriend him. Get him to leak information like where he lives, who his ISP is and what kind of setup he's got. Then filter for people from that IP block that fit his profile..
  • The best way to contact a troll is to pose as one, get on AIM/iChat, and post a trollish comment on Slashdot with the name of the chatroom. They will all swarm onto that chatroom. The rest is up to your social skills.

  • Track him with information / social engineering, rather than technology. e.g.:

    • Reveal (better yet, vaguely hint at) some juicy (bogus) slashdot insider gossip and see where this gossip turns up in troll posts. (Try to include some easily-searchable keywords in the gossip :-)
    • Another variation: In discussing the technical aspects of your job, say something that would lead him to believe that a certain vulnerability might exist in slashdot. Then see if anyone tries to exploit that vulnerability.
    • Problem is, does he know your nick? Cause if he does, he probably reads your journal, and then he's read turgs (good) suggestion, and can just resist the temptation to post gossip he hears from you.

      He could be spoofing his IP anyway, using an anonymizer or some such, so he'd be hard to track even given his ISP name and everything.
      • I think pudge is just interested in examining the psychology of a troll. If he knows the guy irl, and he knows what posts he's making, it may provide some kind of insight.
  • well, the wifi force. follow him home, laptop running scanner in hand. park in front/near the house. put nic in promiscuous mode. let it rip. get his ip... you're set...
  • Pretty much all of us were there, although by us I mean trolls and me, as I am of course not actually a troll.

    But many of us non-trolls and trolls alike are downright nice chaps in real life and even in the online forums where it is possible to carry on meaningful intellectual conversation, as I discovered by briefly joining a segment of their community to play a few rounds of Yahoo! Literati and in general carry on a discussion that was more intelligent and mellow than the majority I've had on here (and

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