twitter's Journal: One Year of Harassment

For more than a year now, I've had to read abusive posts by well organized or insane ACs. They have posted the same boring, stupid flame all year long. They don't take vacations. Every post, regardless of day of the week or hour of the day has been flamed, usually within thirty minutes. About six months ago, they added a vile new message, which I'll quote in full because it's so disgusting:

Twitter, you're a petulant cock-gobbling sycophant to Linux Torvaldyos! Quit taking DP from ESR and RMS's feculent cocks and why don't you try to stop sucking quite so much? Get out of your parents' basement and see the real world - maybe then you'll see how pathetic you sound, with your neverending stream of bullshit about how Microsoft is stalking you. Wasn't it you who said that Microsoft believes your insane ranting is actually a threat to them, so they PAY PEOPLE to reply to you on Slashdot? No sir, I don't get any money. I do it for the love. Someone has to go up against your paranoid whining. So get back in your cage and shut the fuck up already.

Oh, I'm hurt, I really am NOT.

It is annoying, however. I to have to read comments below my threshold on the off chance that some new user might have a reasonable question. It also eats up Slashdot's resources, probably more than I can imagine, even now. Hopefully, this kind of thing will earn someone a nice long stay in jail, especially the people who every now and then make a death threat.

The assholes want to disrupt conversation here and they are doing it. The ultimate cost of thousands of such posts is that real conversations with other Slashdot users are rare. Members of the local LUG have told me things like, "the comments are useless" and have given up. Real posts are drowned in a sea of self moderated garbage.

A small experiment shows that the posters are organized and well funded. Deciding that what's good for the gander is good for the goose, I latched onto a couple of M$ apologists, Bonch and GeckoX. I researched their histories and posted this and this. I followed them around as an AC too. The effort was exhaustive and I was unable to come anywhere close to covering them the way I've been covered. More importantly, after about a dozen or so such posts, I got a warning from Slashdot threatening an IP ban. So there are either:

1. Lots of dumbasses like my little brother who admitted to cutting and pasting AC posts.
2. A few lunatics with money or botnets who like to be insulting.
3. One or two PR firms who specialize in disrupting Slashdot, with either a lot of IP address space to use or a botnet.

1 is unlikely because these people would soon have their IPs banned.

2 is possible, but my faith in mankind resists the notion that anyone would waste their time that way. Simply cutting a pasting responses to two users is more effort than anyone with a life should be willing to expend. Still, Ron L. Hubbard created a religion on a joke and a few evil people continue to perpetuate that joke today (Yes, I know someone who was swallowed by that cult and completely stripped of their belongings and life). It's a waste of time, you morons. When you spam one communications channel, people will simply move to another. When you follow them, they will return to the first channel, there are many more normal people in this world than there are losers like you.

We are left with either 3 or something I have yet to consider. There are many large companies that would like to disrupt Slashdot. One of them is famous for such efforts and name calling.

I seem to have made them angry and that makes me happy. I was placed on the front page of antislash.org and have taken a moderation pounding that's clearly abusive. Cool, I'm wasting their resources.

I really could care less. I write here to sharpen my writing skills. Most troll posts make poor exercise for those skills but a ten pound weight is better than none. I read here for the news, and you trolls don't do a very good job of spinning it. The overwhelmning news to be found here is still that the freer software is the better it will be and M$ junk is the worst. I'm going to keep doing exaclty what I do because I enjoy it.

Random Notes

[IpalindromeI]

I would like to address your three points, but I must first admit to having no acquaintance with your situation. The assumptions I am making about some details, with which I am unaware, may have lead me astray. Your second sentence indicates that the post's content is always the same. If that is true, I may have some insight for you, although no solution.

This trolling could be done fairly easily in the following way:

1. Poll your info page [slashdot.org] at some interval, say every 10 minutes. This page lists your last 24

I know the reason:

[koreaman]

Twitter, please, for everyone's sake, stop talking about Microsoft. We all already know that MS makes buggy software, but when you say things like "That's easy to fix, just use an OS that manages memory properly!" in response to Firefox's memory leaking flaws adds nothing to the discussion. I invite you to realize that problems in FF's code is not the fault of Windows, and I also invite you to compile this on your Linux computer and a Windows computer and compare the (similar) results.

main(){while(1){mallo

Re:I know the reason:

[koreaman]

Ooops, I forgot a semicolon in there, but you get the idea, right? Just in case you don't it should read:

main(){while(1){malloc(1024);}}