Plus, Jim said that in the http logs he has seen a lot of newbie traffic coming from sites of which he was not really familiar but now he sees a lot of them here.
The Deanie Weenies have their seminar poster routines down.
If you don't mind my asking, where does Jim say that? I am very curious b/c I and some others have also noticed some new posters--and we suspect that most of them are the same person. These are not legitimate new posters; they are clearly disruptors.
So far, our list includes the following names, most of which have not been reported to the mods, that I know of, (b/c we're not yet sure what we could definitely tell the mods about these posters, whom we believe are pretty much all the same person.)
bbaby091
nashvilleguy
hicksmokey
Mystery2000
pris
afk
bravehearted1 (not sure)
SweeTY2004
banglanta
katia
BeBeATLsFINEST
Tony08540
KKRN
Stenson63
Hagitay
gigi6
Furhouse
cbfromgf
alwayshavesomethingtosay
Rick Shelton
sparkl
ANYONE ON THE ABOVE LIST WHO CLAIMS TO ACTUALLY BE A LEGITIMATE POSTER, FEEL FREE TO EXPLAIN THAT TO THE MODS. IT IS MY OPINION--OPINION--THAT THE NAMES ON THE ABOVE LIST ARE DISRUPTOR NAMES, OR ARE THE MULTIPLE NAMES OF ONE DISRUPTOR.
I haven't seen attacks on Reagan, but here's what I have seen:
A thread will be posted about some regional incident--a crime of some sort. Example: a little boy allegedly pushed down stairs by mother's boyfriend, or a teenage girl who kills two people while drag-racing, even the kidnapping and probable murder of the N.D. student, Dru Sjodin, and the threads about the murder of the Ass't. U.S. Attorney Mr. Luna.
All of a sudden, a brand-new poster will appear. This person will invariably launch a semi-literate, mostly lowercase, attack, on someone who has expressed a strong opinion on the horrors described in the article.
Sometimes the newbie will later be joined by one or two or even three other brand-new posters. In this scenario, they will then proceed to talk to each other, filling the thread with stupid crap which the disruptor obviously regards as a really great comedy act.
The most common theme this disruptor will impart is "who are you to judge?" This person always spells "judgmental" as "judgemental". Sometimes the disruptor manages to get in the lib-nut buzzword "hate", and if the critter is having a really good day, it will get in something about "you call yourself a Christian, but you are so mean", or something like that. A standard (yawwwwn) theme of jaded left-wingers.
The other hallmark of this disruptor is that it will usually claim to KNOW one of the persons mentioned in the posted regional news story. For this reason, the disruptor is called by some of us "the obligatory insider".
A legitimate poster, hellinahandcart, has started a ping list about this. That way, those of us who happen to regularly read such regional threads can be quickly shown threads on which this same disruptor has appeared. I'm sure hellinahandcart would put you on the ping list if you requested it.
I haven't reached any hard-and-fast conclusions about why this idiot is doing all this; just thought people here should know about it.