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.