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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie: Internet Trolls, This Is What They Look Like!

Posted by Kelly O on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM

This episode of BBC's "Panorama" is so good I can hardly stand it.

Via Gizmodo

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Please punch the troll in the face. Please punch the troll in the face. Please punch the troll in the face.

Oh well.

Maybe The Stranger should do something like that: send some folks out with video cameras to confront the haters… never mind, the trolls would love the attention.

Posted by Allyn on February 9, 2012 at 12:27 PM

The current news paradigm is a troll.

cf. Huffington Post.

The truth is in the comments...except for the Barnacles.

Barnacles = 1/Trolls

http://yrihf.com/viewtopic.php?t=559&hig…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on February 9, 2012 at 12:29 PM

Looks identical to the guy tracking him.

Posted by chinaski on February 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM

@2 ironic that the link you provide cites a very narrow definition of troll as a verb. Common usage is both noun and verb.

Posted by Beetlecat on February 9, 2012 at 1:36 PM

Can we do this to SeattleBlues?

Posted by bgk on February 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM

Speaking of trolls, what happened to Dot-Boy? I haven't seen him here in days. (Not that I'm complaining, mind you.)

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on February 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM

@5: nimrod7 looks almost exactly like I picture SeattleBlues when I read his tripe. This was great.

Posted by gnossos on February 9, 2012 at 1:55 PM

Not to detract from the issue, but that right-sided bus blew my mind. "Why is he walking to the back of the bus to get on...wait...holy shit!!!"

Posted by teenage eagle on February 9, 2012 at 2:01 PM

Whatever happened to the troll who was the "reverse D. Savage?" "heart" or "bird" something?? Very pro-marriage, I recall. Very entertaining.

Posted by fARTing on February 9, 2012 at 2:11 PM

@7 Except this guy is apparently married to real human woman instead of a styrofoam wig mannequin with the word "wife" hastily scrawled with a sharpie on it's forehead. And Nimrod7 is infinitely closer to the mythical house in "Italy" than SB will ever be.

Posted by tkc on February 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM

tkc...true dat. All of it. And add in the fictional employees and renters.

Posted by gnossos on February 9, 2012 at 2:22 PM

I am so glad I don't know any curse words, racist slurs or hurtful statements!!! I was raised right!

Posted by Momma on February 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM

You know if this group has anything going for it, I would want to see if they can catch the troll/stalker who has been trailing me for more than five years across the Internet (starting in Usenet).

This person has misused my name, spewed garbage, gone around gainsaying everything I say. I can count on him"finding me" after a given amount of time.

At one point he started getting dangerous and did the old "send the guy 50 subscriptions to magazines".

I am serious about finding and prosecuting the guy.

I have contacted not only the postal service but also the FBI but was brushed aside (think they had their hands full in 2006...)

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on February 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM

trolling community?

this is.. ah.. fucking way too serious

Posted by aardvark on February 9, 2012 at 3:39 PM

@14

Eh, it's no worse than rattling on about the "gay community" or the "latino community."

I must say, my favorite part of the clip was the incidental music. The next profile should be of the fellow who composes and plays that stuff for the Beeb.

Posted by robotslave on February 9, 2012 at 3:59 PM