[Devil_Anse]

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.

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.

[netmilsmom]

Good job summarizing! You are great!

[I Am Not A Mod]

"If you don't mind my asking, where does Jim say that?"

He said it on the abuse report page for this thread when I started it.

[Devil_Anse]

Check out this thread. Some strange phenomena happening. The part I personally observed, I described in Post 38.

Freepmail to follow.

[Jackie-O]

Thanks for the ping to this thread!
Bookmarked.

[BOBTHENAILER]

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.

Great job. Exposing the trolls is always useful.

[Sloth]

Wow, you guys are observant. Good work.

[Freedom2specul8]

Glad you posted that! Others can now watch out for it too..

[walden]

I think the Dems are losing supporters so rapidly, and know it, that they're trying to create the illusion that there's a big flow in the opposite direction. And I've also read, and believe, that the Vietnam generation which is currently in control of the Democratic party contains a higher proportion of out and out socialists than any generation since the one that came of age in the thirties, which explains why they're losing support. Anyway, socialists have absolutely no compunction about lying-- they consider it a legitimate tool in achieving their ends. Hence, the mis-representation. I've seen leftists do this on other boards-- claim to be recently converted Republicans, or even, hilariously enough, conservatives. I see right through these claims, although I'm not sure someone younger and less politically aware would.