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*-Anti Space Nazi Brigades. This is my term for the trolls - they make up something about Ron Paul (such as that he's a Space Nazi), or hear something someone else made up, and then make it their mission to repost it incessantly on any remotely related thread. No facts or evidence are needed, and the proper response to any actual facts disproving the assertion is to make it again, only with worse punctuation and more second-grade namecalling. See above for numerous examples.

In my opinion it's not worth pinging the list to a thread where the ASNB* has already had its circle-jerk. I'm one of the (rare?) ones who actually reads threads in their entirety, and all the rehashed idiocy just hurts. I wonder if there's a way to send the list links directly to relevant news, maybe via private message, when the thread's been ruined before you get a chance to ping the list?

I agree. As the main Pinger on these threads, there are many I wonder why even bother. But then, the trolls win by default then. So we may as well force them to spend their time here on the RP threads, spewing away. And these threads do serve other purposes as well which I won't describe.

It is better to ask for a ping earlier in a thread, rather than later. But I'm not always available, our other pinglist holder even less so. We probably need to have a few more people doing the pinging with the list.