Posted on 03/04/2008 8:16:23 AM PST by PurpleMountains
An honest disagreement is one thing, but there is a phenomenon going around the internet, mostly at the expense of conservative bloggers like me, known as baiting.
These are liberals who get some kind of perverse pleasure by visiting conservative blogs and trying to harass them or tie them in knots. Their favorite technique is to seize on some trivial point or side issue and argue with it, completely disregarding the main point of the article. Another technique is to hunt for some reference that disputes something you have said – easy to do in a world where the liberal press is publishing lies daily and where situations change rapidly.
The reason I bring this up is that, over the past few months, this blog has been subject to this kind of harassment, almost on a daily basis, by one or two liberals who spend hours researching and writing baiting comments. They visit my site 5 – 10 times a day looking for responses they can turn into new baiting comments and articles they can attack. They also often resort to name-calling and character assassination, bringing to mind what happened to Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas – and what happens on a daily basis to President Bush, for his efforts to defend this country.
If I have the slightest suspicion that a comment is from such a liberal baiter, it will immediately be deleted without explanation.
They are called Trolls.
And FreeRepublic has been infested with them of late.
FR has quite a few. Theories abound as to why they are allowed to continue posting...
FR is an equal oppurtunity playground if you play nice, else you get the ZOT.
Ain’t new. The Weasels on alt.politics and Ash et alia on FR. That’s prehistoric blog-wise.
Such baitings been around since speech came to humans. In my last — we are talking 11 years ago on the web.
“These are liberals who get some kind of perverse pleasure by visiting conservative blogs and trying to harass them or tie them in knots.”
What else would a person do to kill time when they’re 47 and still living in their mom’s basement?.....:)
Easier yet to find revisionist history by some Liberal Phd., who is quoted as an "expert", which is what was done to push the Global Warming panic.
Whenever it is argued from the socialist/liberal/leftists, I disregard their "experts" who have an agenda and are not objective whatsoever on facts....they create their arguments from whole cloth, as a way of their foolish lack of common sense and socialist utopia agenda promotion.
The key to avoiding liberal trolls is to be an obscure blog that nobody reads. You are a victim of your success. :-)
I am afraid it is fair game as we go on DU and “troll” around... it can be fun! I went on as “dumbliberal”, but only lasted about 5 posts..lol. Also shows up in PJ Comix...
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