Posted on 01/02/2009 10:10:12 PM PST by I can has Low Taxes?
I want to let everyone know now, that we have all the facts, why today seemed a bit, well, crazy...
At Team Sarah we are experiencing -- and, with your help, neutralizing -- an attempt to frame this community for harboring hate speech and bigotry: violations of our own Terms of Use and community standards. We have just found and documented a group of 90 invaders who are plotting to come here to post racist remarks and radical, over the top, content in an attempt to discredit us, to get you, our members, fighting each other, and to just make it difficult for us to function as a community. This is not suspicion. We have irrefutable evidence!
We know who these people are through technological traces of where they are coming from (called IP Addresses) and other means. We have the website owner's information from the website from whence this conspiracy to vandalize our community. We have lodged a protest. And we fight on!
This invasion was detected early on by TeamSarah member Kelley S, who is working with me to protect our community from such misconduct. We are taking many active measures to suppress the invasion. Thank you all for your excellent advice and support in defending TeamSarah. This discredits the Liberal attackers, not TeamSarah!
Truth outs in the end.
It is now apparent that the earlier attack on our reputation blogged at The Huffington Post was of the same nature: send in agents provocateurs to say awful things, frame us for violations of our own high standards, and treat them as "real" in order to discredit us. The smoking gun? One of the HuffPo's claims against us is identical to what one of the website's posters gloated about posting!
Just a few samples (we have 15 pages of documentation!) of the conspiracy in the conspirators' own words:
Brown Moses - The idea isn't to troll, but to agree with everyone saying insane poo poo to reinforce their belief they are the ones who are the true supporters of Sarah Palin, and those people who attempt any sort of moderation are evil Obama supporting turncoats who need to be purged. You'll get so much insane poo poo posted then trolling will be irrelevant. __ this is a pretty good point i am trying to get them to admit to/feel more comfortable with using white nationalist rhetoric ___ Brown Moses -If Hillaryis44 is anything to go by the posters will eventually think they've pratically got direct contact with the Palin campaign thanks to the website, and anything they post will be considered by the campaign in a serious way.
With your help we are getting the situation under control. We are working, around the clock sometimes, to exclude potential invaders and to expel those who have sneaked past our defenses. The Invaders tactics resemble the arsonists who put the torch to Gov. Palin's church. They will fail, and fail in shame. TeamSarah is stronger, and more dignified, and together we are repelling these attacks.
Thank all those who have contributed whatever they can afford at the "donate here" button to allow us the resources to fight for our integrity. And if you care to donate to help us raise our defenses and fight for our integrity and reputation, thank you!
If you want to help move this story, I have posted it on RedState:
http://www.redstate.com/freedomist/2009/01/02/liberal-conspiracy-to...
GO there and recommend it, send people links, etc.
Also; DO NOT in any way attempt in ANY WAY to retaliate or anything of the sort. Help get the info. out, stay focused on what we do here, and RELAX! (As I said earlier)
Need to get the magazine sticking down in the drawing ... should give Diane Feinswine ‘apoPALINplexy’.
That’s absurd. So I guess “you” are a troll on an Obama thread if you don’t agree with Obama and make snide remarks. Or on a Supreme Court thread if they make a judgement that you don’t support but others do. Or you are against Jeb Bush for President but others support. That is not even near correct. A troll to me is someone who hates all that is Free Republic...not one thread. You need to reexamine your thoughts IMHO.
/completly and utterly lost on both part of the post
Which part of the magazine...
I’m sorry.
I mean which part is...
Maybe I didn’t express myself clearly.
I’ve seen people cling onto threads claiming that the topic holds no interest for them, is boring, useless, or whatever, and yet continually tossing turds into the punchbowl - not addressing the issues at hand but just tossing bombs. Such a person is just hassling either because they’re an idiot who likes to cause disruption for its own sake, or they have an agenda.
That’s what I meant. I didn’t mean that disagreeing or holding differing viewpoints = trolldom. I am not advocating an Amen Choir. Honest debate of the issue at hand is what makes FR the best site of its kind.
Making “snide” remarks belittling other members while not educating oneself about the issue or topic, repeating questions and never taking note of the answers, or asking questions (over and over) that have already been answered, ignoring factual evidence, and so on are all troll-like behavior, whether it’s someone with a hidden agenda or someone who just likes being an idiot because they think it “fun”.
And just to make myself clear - I am not saying you do this, I’m just thinking out loud about what makes a troll or disruptor.
I signed up here too. Same thing here.
I understand your point and I could see that discussing an important topic would be annoying if some put some nasty posts along with intelligent posts. I am not an innocent bystander on a Sarah Palin thread. However, even though it is after 1 January(New Year’s Resolution), I am going to TRY very hard to as many say the saying “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”....But just on the Palin threads. lol. Because I have taken things too far and I have to stop as 2012 is just too long from now to be doing this...Have a great weekend!!!
I will hereby publicly admit that I am not pure as the driven snow at all times myself!
Always trying to be a better person, setbacks and all, and having fun doing it.
Weekend? What are they? ;-)
That's it in a nutshell with the Palin 'worshippers', as I have come to view them. If you don't fawn every time Palin takes a breath, your opinion is dismissed and you are labeled as a liberal or troll. Thing is, with these people, the attention span will probably be limited and by the time an election cycle rolls around and their enthusiasm will have been spent.
I guess there exists that contingent of fans with every candidate. Like you, I would like to see a civil discussion of the candidate, good and bad ... strong points as well as the weak. The candidate would be so much stronger for the effort.
The magazine is in front of the right hand on an M16 like you’ve drawn. It holds the bullets.
I am so stealing that one!
Thank you. As much as I support people owning guns, I’ve never really learned anything about them other than, since I don’t know anything about them, I shouldn’t touch one till I do :D.
I’m a member as well.
Welcome to FR! Thanks, for doing all you can over at Team Sarah.
I just unsubscribed from Team Sarah after being swamped with e-mails. I’ll support Sarah Palin but that site is too sugary for me and makes me love Free Republic more than ever.
Love your sketch of Palin with the rifle. Is this the new “Palin Ping” logo? Awesome!
I found all the emails bothersome, so I clicked the 'NO EMAILS' toggle. It works!
Thanks, I’ll do that too.
Toki, I really enjoy your pings.
Great job on the pingie thingie.
Yeah, probably, after I fix a few things. Glad you like. I kinda didn’t know if her setting her sights with a rifle would be appropriate, but I really think it fits.
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