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« USAToday poll | Main | Op-Ed piece on 2nd Amendment »

The perils of trolling...

Posted by David Hardy · 1 December 2007 11:08 AM

Via Instapundit:

A commenter on a blog posts something attacking teachers, esp. unionized ones, as overpaid goof-offs, and ends by saying the Columbine killers knew how to deal with them.

Police are called (and I'd agree the post was not a properly criminal manner) ... and wind up arresting the poster, who turns out to be the president of the teachers' union. Ooops.

7 Comments | Leave a comment

Don Gwinn | December 1, 2007 3:01 PM | Reply

Sometimes, my union makes me weep.

Hartley | December 1, 2007 5:35 PM | Reply

Actually the FORMER president of the union..

John Foust | December 1, 2007 6:39 PM | Reply

The deeper and far funnier story, in a karmic or ironic sort of way, is that Owen had led an AFP-sponsored robo-calling effort against West Bend's school referendum a month or so ago. School officials might've been eager to pin a threat on a B&S commenter. Who knew it would turn out to be a teacher from a different school district?

It only goes to show you - on many conservative blogs, you'll have a hard time telling the difference between the real posts and the fake ones. This idiot teacher was merely trying to blend in by imitating the spelling, typing and logic skills of many other B&S commenters. Read a few comments to find other examples. I can't wait for other bloggers to find more examples of vaguely threatening or misanthropic rants on other Wisconsin politics blogs. I'd start at Texas Hold 'Em.

Sure, you don't have an expectation of deep privacy, but they've also abused this power for fun and profit. I've seen them "out" someone when they didn't like what they were saying. For example, B&S's Owen revealed that someone was posting from a governmental IP address in order to discredit the person's opinion. Nice, huh?

Yet in another case , they don't reveal their IP evidence when it would clearly prove or disprove their slurs against a commenter - me. I comment on B&S's comments on my blog.

dad29 | December 2, 2007 7:12 AM | Reply

teacher was merely trying to blend in by imitating the spelling, typing and logic skills of many other B&S commenters

"Many," John? Maybe 2 or 3, John.

Yes, for actual Conservatives this was a moment of schadenfreude which will be enjoyed for a long, long time.

John Foust | December 2, 2007 9:47 AM | Reply

If only I would be allowed by the B&S owners to read their fine blog, then I could point to the significantly more than two or three visitors who are well-known of their poor spelling, typos and shallow logic. :-)

Mark | December 2, 2007 4:29 PM | Reply

If only I would be allowed by the B&S owners to read their fine blog, then I could point to the significantly more than two or three visitors who are well-known of their poor spelling, typos and shallow logic. :-)

What about the ones that are well known of their bad grammar?

Oops, of should be for

You already read the B&S blog, troll, so why are you complaining?

Yet in another case , they don't reveal their IP evidence when it would clearly prove or disprove their slurs against a commenter - me. I comment on B&S's comments on my blog.

How can you comment on the blogs comments, if you can't read them?

Troll.

John Foust | December 2, 2007 9:40 PM | Reply

Trolling? No, that's why I put a smiley on it. Gee, I guess IP addresses aren't very useful for blocking people from blogs, are they?

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