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In reply to the discussion: Question on how best to deal with some recent posts [View all]Hekate
(90,645 posts)41. This really needs to be an OP so it can be Bookmarked
I'm following links tonight from an OP by Tobin: "I don't know what the hell is wrong with DU." Anyhow, one link leads to another, and I ended up here.
I also remember Ye Olde Days at DU, when troll-spotting was a sport, and ridding the site of them was a duty we all shared. Someone observed once that Internet trolling and its effects were an observable phenomenon, and that left unchecked, trolls ALWAYS degraded a site to their own level.
Wtf is wrong with DU, indeed.
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This OP has links on troll methodology. But my feelings of what's up now are different:
freshwest
Dec 2014
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