Friendly Reminder: Be Alert for Disrupters

[BurtWorm]

A few weeks back, one of our colleagues posted a link to a right wing Web site that had been monitoring DU for sport and plotting to disrupt. I think it would be wise for all DUers of good faith to be alert to disrupters. Try not to swallow the bait they're laying out for you. One sign of possible disruption is the boiling rage you might feel upon reading a fellow "DUers" post. During this week of fund raising, it would be prudent not to allow yourself to fall prey to this game. Remember, DU, DUers, and the peacefulness of the community are the prey.

And to all good DUers, I might add, please try to refrain from goading others here who don't share your opinions about the candidates. You're just making it all that much harder to spot the real assholes among us.

[knight_of_the_star]

1. Kick

:kick:

[IranianDemocrat]

2. Do you have a link to the right wing site or the original thread?

I'm curious to see it.

[BurtWorm]

3. I've asked someone who referred to it in another thread for the link

and haven't got an answer yet. But I did go to the site.

Anyone here remember that warning about a month ago? Anyone have the link?

[NYC]

4. Link:

http://dumonitor.blogspot.com/

[LTR]

16. A big reason to be proud...

...They're watching us and talking about us.

The irony is, they talk about how crazy we are, but I'm sure Freak Republic is just a-ok with them.

I'll never understand the right wing.

[NYC]

Link to older satire:

http://www.megaone.com/bmovies/underground.html

Well done.

[charlie]

5. These guys?

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=20c5f8da67519142f82b777fd0e73165&threadid=33227

[Trajan]

8. Interesting post ....

Stetson_CO
Member
From 'Boats' :

Boats
Senior Member

Registered: Dec 2002
Location: At the back of the classroom in the Old School
Posts: 1038

Kicked off Democraticunderground for the 9th time
My wolf-in-sheep's-clothing act gets better every time out, but invariably I panic some blissninny into alerting the moderators about my non-liberal chakra or something.

Any advice for attempt number 10? My 2A evangelism is needed where it would do the most good.

BTW, I am running out of clever, but not too obvious, liberal double entendre screen names. Suggestions appreciated here too

-snip-

In response to Boats:

Stetson_CO

Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Posts: 51
Boats
Just be MrBenchleys mirror....syelhcneBrM and do what he does, from the other side....


c):{


__________________
TFL Alumnus #12549

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We HAVE a MrBenchley here at DU ...

Fascinating ....

[charlie]

9. No, no

If you're thinking MB's in cahoots, read on. If not in that thread, then in others you'll find that MrBenchley is a favorite target for their torment.

[Trajan]

10. Gotcha .....

thanks ..... but here are others ....

Moparmike
Senior Member

Registered: Jun 2003
Location: NW Ark
Posts: 484
Now I am intrigued. I feel compelled to go over there and educate, so long as my stomach holds up.

Anyone wonders who I am over there, I have chosen the name "Socialist Gun Owner" I wonder how long I will last on there.

Edited to ask: Anyone know how many posts it takes to get to start new threads?

-snip-

I have seen SocialistGunOwner post before .... I have argued with him .... and ....

MicroBalrog
Senior Member

Registered: Dec 2002
Location: The State of Israel - aka Gun Nut Hell
Posts: 1481
St. Johns. - I agree with you, but a few caveats apply:

1. Most American people gun people dislike "liberals", not because they're hateful, but because most "liberals" really, and I mean really dislike gun people, and have been responsible for some of the stupidest gun laws in the history of this country.

2. You would note that a large amount of liberals frequents The High Road, and we even have some incredibly anti-gun people here *cough* Agricola *cough*, we don't ban or flame people based on their opinion, unlike the people on DU.

3.I'm a liberal.

4.I used to post a lot on DU. I never trolled or flamed anybody, in fact, I fit in with the official rules of DU perfectly.


__________________
"Imagine government treated alcohol the same way you want it to treat guns... oh sorry, we already tried that." (c) MicroBalrog

"An armed citizen is likely to survive...
an unarmed citizen is a crime statistic."
Shatoga, of www.democraticunderground.com

-snip-

I suspect microbalrog posts as "Shatoga" ... another familiar nick here ....

[ima_sinnic]

19. "I am running out of clever liberal double entendre screen names."

Boy I bet you are, jackass! Thinking up screen names takes a whole lot of precious brain cells! These people are so stupid they're like fat bumbling houseflies that eventually let themselves get swatted down. They have DEvolved.

[BurtWorm]

22. Bingo!

Thanks for the link!

[acerbic]

6. What is a disruptor any more these days?

When DUers with thousands of posts call supporters of a different primary candidate evil nazis, what can the poor freepers do to top it...?

[witchbitch]

7. The Difference in Name Calling

My repiggy combatants call me a "scrawny tree hugging bitch."

A DUer insinuated that I would vote for Hitler.

Somewhere in the namecalling, there is a difference.

[Must_B_Free]

11. I feel like I'm a disruptor

I've been here for ... seems forever, since selection 2000. Now I have nothing good to say and nothing positive to add. I'm far too bitter.

[DEMActivist]

12. Come on folks!

Don't let the good stuff get buried by the trash posts!

Fight for your community.

[Sweetpea]

13. It makes sense to me that there are people who are disrupters

because when i joined a couple of months ago, I remember this site being a lot more courteous. Only recently, has it felt this viscious. There must be some bored people out there.

[stewert]

14. It Was Me BurtWorm !

I made that posting, the website I was talking about is called.

http://www.protestwarrior.com

People from lucianne.com and freerepublic.com etc. are also disrupting the board.

-------

ProtestWarrior HQ - Fighting the Left... Doing it Right

http://www.protestwarrior.com/phpBB2/index.php

Liberty Forum:

http://www.protestwarrior.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2

Here is a great thread from the liberty forum:

No Need To Raise Taxes: JUST DEPORT DEMOCRATS

http://www.protestwarrior.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3559

Be warned though, if you spend too much time reading their insane nazi bullshit, your brain may quit working.
Democrats are referred to as the enemy, aint that special. These people are so stupid, I am amazed they can
even turn a computer on. It's basically a clone of freerepublic.com, just more nazi idiots who want every
american who disagrees with them to leave the country. I suggest you look it over one time, and then never go
back. That is what I plan to do, if I want to read racist homophobic nazi bullshit, I just go to the original source
for it, www.freerepublic.com.

P.S. Where was this posted ? In the "liberty forum" of course, lol. Get it, they posted that all democrats should
be deported, and they posted it in the liberty forum. I guess the people who disagree with you should just be
deported, it seems these nazis don't understand what liberty means.

[CWebster]

15. A quick glance

indicates a new organized Clark battle line.
Freepers are usually pretty easy to spot from the bad spelling of primary words like "no" and "yes" and they have handles like "Proud Liberty for Jesus" or "Stars, stripes and guns" or "Honk if you hate Fags".

[yeti]

17. Instant karma, or what?

I just realized that it was you who posted this thread.

Are you trying to start a war or what?

[BurtWorm]

24. Well, yeti, what do you think?

You think I'm trying to start a war? I'm trying to help win a war some abominable fuckers started. Want to join it?

[yeti]

26. I think I am already at war ...

... against the forces that work daily to keep us all blind to reality and alienated from ourselves and eachother.

And I'm worried, because I AM very vocally anti-Bush over there, and now that I have recently started posting here(among other places), I am concerned that I will be percieved as just what you recommended to me, an info-warrior working for Democrats. I'm not.

I see both polical parties as being equally corrupt and fraudulent, differing only in image and rhetoric. I registered here to begin spreading that truth on this forum in a small, non-disruptive way.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. jeez...

there's a few thousand peeps on these boards and it just seems like a major waste of time trying to infiltrate them. It's fun, all right, but I can't see it affecting an election.

Some asshole got kicked off of here NINE times and is looking for more? Does this guy have a life? And we got peeps doing that to them?

Vastly more productive and satisfying to forget about politics, go out, eat a good meal and get laid.

Anyway, the best defense against disruptors is to NOT fight with them. Stick by your principles in all discussions and if the discussion isn't going anywhere, just drop it.

Kill 'em with kindness and bore them to death.

[ArkDem]

21. I concur

!!

[meg]

20. Good point - espescially watch wedge issues

Disruptors like to separate us - divide and conquer. North or South, old or young we all need to get the fascists out of the white house and out of the congress.

[sangh0]

23. Good point about wedge issues

Suspect those who seek to exploit hatred against:

the South
the religious
the non-religious
liberals
moderates
the poor
minorities
women
GLBT's

[Changenow]

25. Kick.

The candidates they seem to be targeting for folks to flame about (names withheld for obvious reasons) must be the candidates they are most afraid of winning.

When we see a thread or post accusing a candidate of something God-awful it may be best to consider it a great sign, that we have them worried, and don’t respond.

[Syn_Dem]

27. Good call BurtWorm

:kick:

[Born_a_Democrat]

28. In that case I guess I'll put my Green sentiments aside

:-)

[Skinner]

29. You don't need to "be alert" for disruptors.

When people go looking for disruptors, they invariably find them lurking everywhere. And often the disruptors they find arent' disruptors at all. The disruptor hunts are more disruptive than the disruptors themselves.

If you think someone is a disruptor, just hit the alert link on one of their posts. The moderators are trained to deal with disruptors in the appropriate manner.

I am locking this thread.

Skinner
DU Admin

[CatWoman]

30. Yeah, and then what?

when one shows up, everyone piles on calling "freeper", etc.

it looks so stupid.