dedazo's Journal: How To Stop The Insanity, in 123 Easy Steps

Recently in a thread started by everybody's favorite troll where I also posted to let someone know that he was being stacked after the sockpuppets where whipped out of their dark hiding places, someone posted this reply to me. And while the person I originally replied to was not aware of what was happening (thus validating my comment, in my mind at least), my responder does have a point. A very valid point. The recommended solution to this nagging problem is for everyone to use the Slashdot IFF system and adjust their viewing preferences so that they won't have to read any of it, ever. That's what it was designed for! twitter's nemesis used to be very nice whenever he got this kind of reply. He would apologize (!) and ask that people mark him as a foe so they wouldn't have to suffer through the indignity of reading his comments about the Shill In Chief's idiocies. Me, I'm a little more organic and I was about to post something harsh (because seriously, compared to these shitstorms, a "look out for the troll" post once in a while is really peanuts, I think) but again, I realized this person had a valid point, and after thinking about it a little bit more (and being in an uncharacteristic good mood) I decided to turn that negative energy into something useful. So I sez to myself, I sez: What if we had a centralized place where people can easily foe all these accounts? That would be great!

So this morning instead of canvassing Reddit and Digg for yesterday's memes and LOLcats while I drink my coffee, I dug up an email from willyhill that had all the known socks and their account IDs in HTML format, fired up PyShell and one gnarly regex + twenty minutes later - voila. The handy Foe The Sockpuppet mashup. Bliss is only a few clicks away at this point! So without further delay:

Click here to foe twitter
click here to foe Erris
click here to foe gnutoo
click here to foe Mactrope
click here to foe inTheLoo
click here to foe willeyhill
click here to foe westbake
click here to foe Odder
click here to foe ibane
click here to foe freenix
click here to foe deadzero
click here to foe GNUChop
click here to foe myCopyWrong
click here to foe right handed
and click here to foe trimmer.

.... wait, you think you're done yet? No, not a chance. You still have to go through his 26 trollpuppet accounts, just in case he decides to start using them again:

Click here to foe twittter
click here to foe twiiiter
click here to foe willlyhill
click here to foe wi11yhill
click here to foe willyhilll
click here to foe willyhlll
click here to foe wlllyhill
click here to foe wlllyhlll
click here to foe dedaz0
click here to foe willlyhilll
click here to foe inTheLooo
click here to foe twiiter
click here to foe vvillyhill
click here to foe wlilyhill
click here to foe wi1lyhill
click here to foe wlliyhill
click here to foe westfake
click here to foe vviIIyhiII
click here to foe wwillyhill
click here to foe Oddder
click here to foe freeenix
click here to foe inTheL00
click here to foe wiIIyhilI
click here to foe vvlllyhhlll
click here to foe freenlx
and finally, click here to foe wiIIyhiII.

There! You're all done. That wasn't so hard, was it? Only 41x3 clicks!

Oh, one last thing: Foe me as well. That's only three clicks, but who's counting, right?

Convenient? You bet!

The next time you see someone whining about "wah, poor twitter, wah, leave him alone, wah, you're a bigger pain than he is, bwah", just point them to this page. After they recover from the RSI flare up they're going to get from all that clicking, maybe they'll bitch a little bit less. They won't see my posts, they won't see any of the trolltard's posts, and everyone will be happy. That's what I call bliss, right there. And all for the price of a little Ben-Gay.

Peace out.

Re:

[dedazo]

I'm glad you liked it, twitter, even if it's just creepy to see you talking about yourself in the third person.

What part makes you mad though? Is it that I'm giving people a handy way to foe you, or the fact that I included your second, more exciting group of accounts?

Is there anything you would like to say about your inclusion in the troll zoo?

Oh, I'd love to. And I'm sure many people would as well. Unfortunately you disabled comments, remember? I don't really blame you, though.

If you're still feeling public service minded,...

[Bill Dog]

...consider also creating and maintaining a Twitter Blacklist account (see http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=&query=blacklist&sort=1&op=users [slashdot.org] for examples). Then foe all the sockpuppets in that one account. Then each of us (who use "Foe of Friend" in addition to or instead of "Foe" to do filtering) could just click one relationship change, friending the blacklist account, instead of foeing 41 or however many it may grow to.

Re:

[dedazo]

Ha ha, I thought you were going to tell me to get a life :)

There's already one account used for that: http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/foes/ [slashdot.org]

But it doesn't have the other 26 as foes. It's a great idea though.

Re:

[dedazo]

I didn't realize he had blanked that out as well. I thought they were going to get incorporated into the SockDisclosure journal, but I guess lack of time or something has interfered.

I did get to see a draft of the expanded trollpuppet post with evidence and everything, so I don't think it hasn't been posted for a lack of material.

Hands... seizing up... too much clicking...

[The Bungi]

... must go on... for great justice...

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[dedazo]

Ha ha, you missed the trollpuppets though, c'mon!