"One, two, five!"
"THREE SIRE, THREE!"
(see, even Arthur didn't know...)
Posted on 12/14/2004 2:45:50 PM PST by rva333
I see fr is being sued for Scientology/Civil Rights. Apparently Jim Robinson is involved in a Lisa McPherson style assault and battery.
Anyone know anything?
Don Henley knows.
What's A ZOT?
Apparently, Tarpaulin knows something about some dude named Einstein. Do you know him? Or do you know Tarpaulin?
"And the Lord spake, saying: 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
A cutie for sure!
How have you been, Sandy? Long time - not zots!
;-)
Oops, looks like someone else doesn't know...
The history of "Zot". (from the Admin Moderator profile)
There are one or two individuals who, for whatever reason, enjoy signing up new accounts here every single day to post leftist drivel. Sometimes they are vanities from DemocraticUnderground. Sometimes they are articles from other far-left sources. Sometimes they are nothing but vile doctored images or profanity laced tirades. Sometimes they are from legitimate sources but happen to strike the eye of the poster as being something that would infuriate conservatives.
The posters in question always post the articles, and then don't reply. They then post other articles, again not replying. This was going on for months. Jim would confirm by looking at the IP addresses and other aspects of the user's 'footprint' that it was the returning troll, and we would nuke the accounts. This went on for months.
Then some of the opportunists who wanted to harm the forum started a whispering campaign, complaining about articles being deleted. They would play off of the fact that the trolls' articles were being pulled to complain that there was some sort of agenda of squelching legitimate conservative postings going on by the moderators.
One day I decided to try something new. I decided, instead of letting the trolls get what they want and have their posts up as flame bait, and instead of pulling the threads outright, I would move their post aside and replace it with something that hopefully others would find humorous. I would do this out in the forum for all to see. The original piece would be available through the history link for the curious, who could see if there was some sort of censorship campaign going on. And the freepers could have fun mocking the troll if they so liked.
It so happens that the way I did it the first time was using a screen shot from Caddyshack, where the pastor gets hit by a lightning bolt. Being a bit of a fan of the comic strip "B.C." I captioned the photo with the lightning bolt sound that Johnny Hart used in his strip- ZOT! That is where the term Zot originated.
Now, sometimes we "zot", and sometimes we simply pull it. It depends on a number of factors, including how busy we are at the time. But whenever you see a Zot, you can be sure that the user was a 'newbie' who was doing their hit-and-run posting, and that if you as a well-established freeper thought the article would have made an interesting discussion, then you could probably post the same piece yourself without incident (although the most vile of the stuff probably would get pulled, and Jim reserves the right to remove anyone who he feels is constantly trying to push leftist propaganda on the forum). Anyway, that is the history and background behind zotting.
I've been good! You?
Must run now and catch a train...
Later, all! I'll try to know something by tomorrow. :-)
"One, two, five!"
"THREE SIRE, THREE!"
(see, even Arthur didn't know...)
PUT THAT DOWN, OPPY!
BLOG PIMP
I'm on my way here, but I'm not optimistic about your chances...
I'm sorry. I've asked for help everywhere from the sewers of London to Uranus. No one in the solar system seems to know anything.
Must not be anything to know...
Ooop! My bad.
ZOT!, rva-triquad.
All your Nukes Belong to Us!!!!
ZOT!
Very cool hog.
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