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eastforker

Posted on 11/05/2011 6:30:25 AM PDT by eastforker

What we need is an EASY Button. Every day, especialy early morning, we are invaded by trolls, especialy on the local boards who's only purpose is to sign up and disrupt. Even though we FReepmail the mods about them sometimes it takes hours to get them removed. Teddy WAlmat and the many variations of thet name and many other. It would be nice to have an alarm button where we could just flush these guys down the old tube in short order.


TOPICS: Free Republic Policy/Q&A; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: vanity
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To: napscoordinator

I was here first, my dear friend.


81 posted on 11/05/2011 8:04:47 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: napscoordinator

I posted it on the main board to ask if other local boards were having the same problem. Evidently they have. Also wanted to bring it to everyones attention what is going on with the disruptors. You are the one that brought up a candidates name to try and start a fight and here you are again still trying to start one.


82 posted on 11/05/2011 8:07:04 AM PDT by eastforker
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To: lefty-lie-spy
“...Mods is mods because they’s mods.
Bad vanity, bad vanity; go sit in the corner...”

Yep... Totally concur with you on this. I'm administrator on another forum (non-political, non-news) and regular members generally have no idea on the private chatter relating to problem members on what to do or to get second opinions on actions they took so they can be reversed or handled differently in the future. It ain't easy.

One thing though I picked up from other posts though is that some or all local boards do not have an abuse button or formal moderating? If this is accurate then it represents a hole in the armor against problem people and spammers. I have my forum set up with a designated mod on every board with a backup mod on most plus a very small number of super mods that have global authorization.

83 posted on 11/05/2011 8:09:00 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: eastforker

No. I brought up a candidate because it was a Texas subject. I brought up the candidate who is governor of Texas. Very valid to do so when it is on the main page. I could understand you being upset if I went to the Texas Board and brought up something that is not on the subject. But you brought this to me. I did not seek you out. Big difference.


84 posted on 11/05/2011 8:09:49 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: MEG33

Rats. I wanted to win. Seriously have a great weekend. I did not know this was just for the Texas board people.


85 posted on 11/05/2011 8:10:48 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

You are a troubled soul aren’t you and yes you did bring it to me with your post. BTW, do you think all Texans are Perrybots??? Hardly!Perry gets his share of comments on the Texas board, for and against, but we don’t go calling people names for their opinion!


86 posted on 11/05/2011 8:14:30 AM PDT by eastforker
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To: muawiyah
Used to sing with the Ditzy Witches or something.

Chuckle, chuckle

87 posted on 11/05/2011 8:17:31 AM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: MEG33
I never answer him.

That is key.

88 posted on 11/05/2011 8:21:21 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: MARTIAL MONK
Years ago some faggot decided to spam every thread with gay porn....

There were lots of warnings but they were down thread from the pics.

Yes, I remember hitting the "Report Abuse" button more than once when the bathtub gal or "my butt hole can stretch this big" were posted. I did it as soon as I saw it too, not wasting time alerting others of the pics. Someone told me that the owner of the hosting server would purposely change pictures to show up here.

89 posted on 11/05/2011 8:28:32 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: eastforker
"Hello! Did someone say troll?"

90 posted on 11/05/2011 8:35:53 AM PDT by TSgt (whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive...it is the Right of the People to abolish it.)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
Years ago some faggot decided to spam every thread with gay porn.

91 posted on 11/05/2011 8:38:40 AM PDT by TSgt (whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive...it is the Right of the People to abolish it.)
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To: BobL
Yea, we have to deal with the Perrybots spanning this site...posting article after article, puff piece after puff piece, even now, when Perry is a has-been

If Perry is a has-been (and I believe that to be the case) then why are you still obsessed with hating and attacking him? He's irrelevant now. Let it go.

92 posted on 11/05/2011 8:38:44 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: TSgt

I think he was in the pictures.


93 posted on 11/05/2011 8:40:13 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: eastforker

Why don’t you just man-up instead?


94 posted on 11/05/2011 8:58:33 AM PDT by stormer
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To: eastforker

Yes I am troubled by the liberalism that is creeping into the country especially by Perry. So there you go. You brought this thread to me. Thanks!!!


95 posted on 11/05/2011 8:59:53 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: al baby; eastforker
I miss Danny H

If you had given him the respect he deserved, maybe he'd still be here!

;-P

96 posted on 11/05/2011 9:04:14 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOs!!!)
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To: Jane Long
The same guy/gal has been signing up for weeks

Can you ban his IP address?

97 posted on 11/05/2011 9:31:02 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh
Can you ban his IP address?

We've been wondering that for several weeks, now. Another suggestion was to require an email confirmation link to sign up.

Not sure if any of those would do the trick. May be more trouble (to do the suggested solutions) than we know.

98 posted on 11/05/2011 9:35:28 AM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: MEG33

Good idea...ditto :^)


99 posted on 11/05/2011 9:42:50 AM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Jane Long

An email confirmation might be useful, and maybe a captcha to filter robots, but banning an IP address isn’t likely to be very effective. IP addresses are relatively easy to change if you’re minded to do so (turn off your cable modem or DSL modem for a day and your ISP will probably assign you a new IP when you turn it back on). Not only that, but if you run your posts through a TOR network the IP the freerepublic servers see will always be different and will bear no relationship to the poster’s actual IP address; to defeat that bugbear, you’d have to ban all of the IP addresses for the exit nodes on the various TOR networks - the list can be had (I think) but it puts a lot of work on the server and isn’t necessarily foolproof.


100 posted on 11/05/2011 9:42:57 AM PDT by Oceander (If Romney is the GOP nominee, then Obama wins in 2012, either directly or by proxy)
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