Don't cut the trolls any slack, they are ruining this place.
I love this site! Nothing like troll hunting on a slow saturday. Shouldn't there be awards for freepers who catch trolls? After all it is a skill that takes patience and the right amount of patience. Usually the blinding light of truth found on FreeRepublic is enought to stune a troll temporarily while his beeber goes off.
> Don't cut the trolls any slack, they are ruining this place.
Doesn't seem to be much more of a problem than ever.
In any case, there are simple strategies to deal with it
should it become so, like:
* newbies have full mail capability, but are read-only
on articles/responses for the 1st 24 hrs after new account
* then are limited to 3 Responses per day for a week
(no new base articles)
* then, after 8 days, have full capabilities
Or something like that. Many other approaches exist.
Attention also needs to be paid to "sleeper" accounts
set up long ago, but never used for posting.
If a problem is going to arise, it will be a few days
before the election, just as some bogus "surprise"
appears from the opposition. They will want to deny
this site the ability to respond. I presume that
contingency plans exist.