Andrew Breitbart (H/T RS McCain) has an article up about the unfortunately common habit of elements of the Online Left to, well, lie:
Much of Mr. Obama’s vaunted online strategy involved utilizing “Internet trolls” to invade enemy lines under false names and trying to derail discussion. In the real world, that’s called “vandalism.” But in a political movement that embraces “graffiti” as avant-garde art , that’s business as usual. It relishes the ability to destroy other people’s property in pursuit of electoral victory.
Hugh Hewitt’s popular site shut off its comments section because of the success of these obnoxious invaders. Breitbart.com polices nonpartisan newswire stories for such obviously coordinated attacks. Other right-leaning sites such as Instapundit and National Review Online refuse to allow comments, knowing better than to flirt with the online activist left.
Speaking as a site moderator for a popular conservative website, this is not actually hyperbole. I’m not entirely in agreement with how effective the tactic is – the average practitioner is hampered by both a fundamental lack of empathy for his (it’s usually his) targets, and an overestimation of his IQ by an average of about 20 points* – and I’m not sure that it’s quite that formally organized. A perusal of, say, the average YouTube comments section** indicates that there’s no shortage of people willing to sound like any flavor of lunatic that you’d care for; so it may simply be that the general idea resonates in a certain type of puerile mind. But it does happen; in fact, somebody reading this post right now is doing so with the smug awareness that he’s managed to get away with it without the vaunted (rolling eyes) Moe Lane catching him at it.All that being said, if you want to do counter-programming on this I suggest that a good use of your time would be for you to organize, camp out at Wikipedia, and start hacking away at some of the nonsense that gets insinuated into the narrative there. And keep at it. They have some real obsessive-compulsives over at that site.
Moe Lane
*There’s also the factor that the practice tends to reveal what seems to be a vast insecurity in his beliefs on the part of the faker, but I’m not really qualified to offer even pop psychology answers on the issue.
**Which is probably doing more to make the practice useless than any kind of comment enforcement, frankly. Once people get it in their head that online comments sections aren’t really representative of anything, well…
Crossposted at Moe Lane.
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E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:09PM EST (link)We have a number of commenters who ruthlessly and effectively sniff out mobys, to the point that sometimes innocently misguided people get caught in the current.
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I was accused here early on of being a Moby
peg_c (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 2:50PM EST (link)I was hurt and didn’t even know what a Moby was exactly. I think the innocent get caught if they are particularly fervent, which we former lefties tend to be. However, we are not misguided.
Rush calls these types on radio Seminar Callers. He’s pretty good with them but Mark Levin is phenomenal. Really, sometimes it’s like a hockey game or a NASCAR race – you tune in for the bloodletting.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
and we still have our suspicions
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 3:04PM EST (link)maybe you just are extra patient (long fuse) before going Lib-listic (that’s a cross between Liberal and Ballistic)…
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E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 4:04PM EST (link)I meant to differentiate that, and was thinking of a way to pose that, and hit that dreaded ‘Post Comment’ button.
I remember several others, through no fault of their own, got pretty rough treatment. Uma Richie and John Wayne come to mind, off the top of my head.
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SSSShhhhhhhhh!
Uma Richie (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 5:15PM EST (link)I was hoping that everyone had forgotten about the dead horse.
Not me
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, March 31st at 9:38AM EST (link)I always remember. You did yourself quite well in the face of some pretty crappy treatment.
Sister, my origins here were similarly inauspicious. That’s a little-known factoid.
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I don't think anybody
Steph C (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 8:37PM EST (link)has actually called me a moby but I think they still look at me funny most of the time.
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De-liberalizing Wikipedia is a good thought, but...
fishbreath (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:10PM EST (link)…well, they’ll ban you for it.
Personal agendas at Wikipedia go waaaay further than the rules ever do.
No kidding
Finrod (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:15PM EST (link)Just try to get any reference at all to William Ayres onto Obama’s page. Never mind that Ayres’s page is filled top to bottom with references to Obama.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Play the player, not the game.
Moe Lane (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:21PM EST (link)If they’re abusing the rules, get them on that.
Mind you, I’m just this blowhard writing on the internet.
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Re: Play the player, not the game
fishbreath (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 9:56PM EST (link)That’s the problem–as far as I’m aware, administrators have responsibility for enforcing the rules. There are two ways to stop them–have a friendly admin who’s willing to start a war in the halls of power, or go to the Arbitration Committee, which has its own problems: read Wikipedia: Arbitration policy as cynically as possible to get some idea. Next read http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2009/QBlog050109A.html–a good place to start on a saga about an (admittedly non-political) article-for-deletion which is nonetheless a great example of uneven application of the rules (due in part to a personal vendetta) and outright fraud.
On the other hand, I’m all for trying. I think there’s a WikiProject extant whose purpose is to develop a better system, but a quick look did not turn it up.
Perhaps you should read Conservapedia instead [nt]
aardpig Monday, March 30th at 12:36PM EST (link)“I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C and D. Just who do they think they are?”. — B.G.
Perhaps your compatriots should stop playing games with Wikipedia.
Moe Lane (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 2:55PM EST (link)If we’re going to be all in-your-face about it.
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Stop calling them *my* compatriots, please...
aardpig Monday, March 30th at 3:26PM EST (link)…I sail in a ship of one.
“I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C and D. Just who do they think they are?”. — B.G.
Guilt by association for thee and not for me ...? [nt]
Martin Knight (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 5:21PM EST (link)Not following you there
aardpig Monday, March 30th at 7:08PM EST (link)Where have I implied that RedState conservatives think as a single bloc? Or are you hinting at something else?
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Liar
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 10:03PM EST (link)Or is this a different aardpig who says (with emphasis added) “Kos is a focal point; but all of us are contributing (well, execept for me; I’ve been lurking).”
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Good catch, Neil, and a Noam Chomsky disciple's head
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 10:07PM EST (link)will look good on your wall!
In Vino Veritas
Congratulations...
aardpig Monday, March 30th at 11:31PM EST (link)…you’ve found one of my few posts to Daily Kos. You must feel very proud of yourself.
“I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C and D. Just who do they think they are?”. — B.G.
To The Pile™ you go then (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 11:32PM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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aardpig's still here - remarkable! nt
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 2:59PM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
To borrow from Moe S.
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 11:33PM EST (link)Not no more he ain’t.
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Yes, youtube is particularly telling...
azaeroprof (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:11PM EST (link)YT probably has the highest proportion of Obama supporters commenting, and the comments sections are incredibly worthless, looney, poorly written, and brainless (not to mention insulting and profane). Says something, doesn’t it. I have COMPLETELY stopped looking at YT comments, along with nearly-as-looney and nearly-as-Obamabot-filled sites as CNN and MSNBC.
Check out the ANC Daily News comments
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:19PM EST (link)on any story that can be even tenuously connected to Gov. Palin. Few of them are Alaskans or exhibit any knowledge at all of Alaska. ‘Course that last trait would include a fair number of Alaskans, too. Since the day she was announced, the ADN has just been mobbed by semi-literate (at best) Lefties from all over the World.
In Vino Veritas
You're definitely right there!
azaeroprof (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:29PM EST (link)I’ve seen your comments about this before and checked it out. The comments on ADN are closer to YouTube-quality than any news site. They are stunningly illiterate and hate-filled! The ONE thing that ClarkKent got right on his diary was that the left must be TERRIFIED of Sarah Palin. I don’t really agree that many Repubs are afraid of her, though. I think there are some, like you, who have reservations, but only the lefties show a total lack of rationality in dealing with the Palin phenomenon.
I've always said
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:39PM EST (link)I would support her for National office and did this last time. I’ve made no secret that my issues with her are about how she came to prominence here and some specific Alaska issues. I don’t think she really has the gravitas to be a National leader, but when the other side puts up an empty suit, she certainly outweighs that.
In Vino Veritas
So what does she have to do?
djemi (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:41PM EST (link)If you were one of her advisers that is?
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Some toothpaste can't go back in the tube.
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:46PM EST (link)My differences with her on Alaska issues are pretty much irreconcilable; she isn’t going to change and neither am I, so there’s no reason to start what usually becomes a flamefest here.
In Vino Veritas
Ok I get that
djemi (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:52PM EST (link)But I’m asking about what in your opinion does she have to do to have the seriousness of a National leader?
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And because Wikipedia has edited this out of Moby's page
Finrod (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:25PM EST (link)I like to repost this quote of Moby that defined the term every chance I get:
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
I've Seen Them Completely Ruin Websites
DavidSage (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:30PM EST (link)A “conservative” web site, TheNextRight.com has become so infiltrated with liberal mobys that most of the conservative commentators has simply left. The editors there just seem to not care.
I think conservatives need to start vandalizing liberal web sites. It’s just too bad most conservatives are busy with their jobs and families to have time to play these games.
You're advocating that conservatives become vandals?
aardpig Monday, March 30th at 12:37PM EST (link)Moby!!!!!
“I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C and D. Just who do they think they are?”. — B.G.
Gotta be more subtle
Finrod (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:47PM EST (link)Vandalism just isn’t cool. What I do is whenever I’m on a site that allows me to flag comments without having to register myself, and I have a bit of free time, I’ll go through and flag every moonbat comment as ‘offensive’ or whatever appropriate option is available.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
As is always the case,
BAW Monday, March 30th at 12:58PM EST (link)They will do things we simply will not. Conservatives, as a group, don’t stoop to the ever lower levels of the people who hate them.
I’m a member of a discussion board about a particular, single topic which was constantly attacked, as you say by trolls and mobys and was ultimately crashed. The good folks running it got it back up but years of information and discussion were lost. They can’t stop the effort when people are determined but they can make it harder and frustrate some into giving up.
On the other hand, when they cross the line (which they always do) I’m all for going full throttle after them legally. (How’s the case about Palin’s emails going? Note to self, need to check.)
Palin's email case
JoeG Tuesday, March 31st at 1:40AM EST (link)They just tacked on a few more Federal Felony charges. I think he’s going to be doing some time.
You are correct
Bill S (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 8:36PM EST (link)and that’s a shame, as there are some very enlightening essays on TNR, including some by a RS contributor or two. But the trolling on the comment threads there make it utterly impossible to hold a conversation. I think they should just do what The New Ledger has done and disallow comments completely.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
I don't know Moe.....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:37PM EST (link)I’m not sure if it’s organized or not, but I wouldn’t be surprised. As you know, this weekend, my diary that was on the rec list was bombarded by around four different incoherent trolls in a little over a 24 hour period of time (and they were all using the same catch phrase, “Linkage Institutions”–whatever that means). In fact, two of them continued to post there even after my diary was no longer on the rec list (the link to my diary is below). I must say that I found it all to be a wee bit strange. I mean, I’ve never had that many trolls (spouting the exact same nonsense) posting on one of my diaries in that short a period of time.
http://www.redstate.com/susannah/2009/03/23/why-the-media-coverage-of-the-2008-presidential-election-sucked/
Do you mean
djemi (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 12:56PM EST (link)vulpix, rkrgldr, vang123, govnpot and govnpot
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Yeah, that would be them....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:01PM EST (link)They’re pretty easy to spot aren’t they? They were a real classy bunch, huh?
Yeah
djemi (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:04PM EST (link)loved the smack downs
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Have to admit
djemi (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:06PM EST (link)I enjoyed reading your diary so much that I posted a link to it at the912project as soon as I finished reading it. Hope you didn’t mind.
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Thanks, I'm glad that you liked it....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:17PM EST (link)….and the smackdowns.
By the way, I’m totally flattered that you posted a link to my diary on the 912 Project. I’ll go look for it. Thanks for the publicity and for the heads up.
Of course, they were absolutely mistaken, too
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:40PM EST (link)We don’t need these “linkage institutions” to see connect us with our government, we have the first amendment! right to petition the government and all that. That the MSM performs part of this function is nice and convenient, but we don’t necessarily need them for it. The press, the “fourth estate” is an entity that freely sprung up to perform that service – there is nothing in the Constitution organizing it like the three primary branches – and it is only mentioned once in the first amendment, only to ensure the government stays away from the press. Of course, that doesn’t mean the press can’t voluntarily cozy up.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
I agree with you....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:49PM EST (link)And, I think that I pointed that out, in so many words, in one of my comments to one of them yesterday. I believe that I said something along the lines that,”It sounded socialist for the MSM to LINK us to our government, and that, instead, they should just objectively REPORT on our government and let us make up our own minds”.
When I heard, "Linkage Institutions" I thought bacon
aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, March 31st at 12:21AM EST (link)No idea why…
OK, that was shallow of me. Back on topic: I have noticed that on many sites, there don’t seem to be enough people w/moderating privileges to censor stupid/inappropriate/spammy posts. Thankfully, Redstate does a good job of keeping trolls out, and kicking them out in a humorous way when they do come in. Other sites, unfortunately, aren’t nearly as well-maintained… *shudders*
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
well,
Kate_Shanahan (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 8:12PM EST (link)I linked your diary on Facebook and Myspace. Hope that didn’t cause an influx of disease here. Some of my “friends” have quite a following, and there may be a few too many Obamabos.
Kate
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.” Henry Miller
Well, that might explain it....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 8:24PM EST (link)However, I am so flattered that you would put my diary on your Facebook and Myspace page, that I don’t care. The trolls were worth it then. Thanks so much for the publicity.
Your diaries are generally very good
Kate_Shanahan (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 8:30PM EST (link)and instructive. Trying to turn an Obamabots head is a challenge, so I try to put things that make sense over there. Collectively, there are 17000 people in the small group, so I’m sure some of them are trolls.
Kate
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.” Henry Miller
Thank you Kate....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 8:46PM EST (link)I appreciate it.
Whoa, 17,000 people–that’s a lot. Yeah, probably some trolls in a group that large. It’s unavoidable. But again, thanks so much for the publicity.
Wow, I totally missed it!
Erick Brockway (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 10:09PM EST (link)Been busy with a lot of reserves stuff. Great smackdown! Late Rec.
And the article you wrote and labored over so obviously long and hard was one I’ll link to endlessly.
Note to lefties;
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Thanks Erick.....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 10:59PM EST (link)I appreciate it.
Oh, and thank you for your service in the Reserves. My brother was in the Navy (on a submarine) for seven years and he’s currently in the Naval Reserves.
Thanks Erick.....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 10:59PM EST (link)I appreciate it.
Oh, and thank you for your service in the Reserves. My brother was in the Navy (on a submarine) for seven years and he’s currently in the Naval Reserves.
I've got a relevant question
RedFox84 Monday, March 30th at 1:06PM EST (link)And I know we normally don’t do Q/As but I’ve been here since ’03 (used to use another name until I forgot my password)…
I missed it… Why DO we call them “mobys”?
See Finrod's wiki comment above.
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:09PM EST (link)Moby (the musician) advocated this behavior.
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I thought it was a literary allusion
daves_not_here (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 1:52PM EST (link)Really. I thought it was a reference to Herman Melville’s classic novel as a way of keeping things just a little cleaner.
My bad.
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it is spelled out in the more in-depth older UnOfficial Help files
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 3:18PM EST (link)I think it is in BS’ “FAQ” one….
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Anyone who spends his time messing with blogs on the internet needs to be pitied. nt
Alitheia (Diary) Monday, March 30th at 7:59PM EST (link)I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never be forced to live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
All I can say is...
harlan Monday, March 30th at 8:47PM EST (link)It’s about damn time we’re having this conversation.
While RedState has been one of the best at combating the moby outrage, other important conservative sites have allowed themselves to be cuckolded.
Which is why I decided to join here about a month ago.
TNJim (Diary) Tuesday, March 31st at 12:30AM EST (link)Plus the regular diary posters such as Moe, Susannah, Erick (I know I’m leaving out many other good people}, all provide links to prove the points they are making, and no, not all links go to other RS diaries. There are many outside news articles, talk show hosts’ sites, etc. that are linked to. I’ve enjoyed many of the regular commentors here as well, some of who provide even more backup to the original diary entry. I hope the staff here can continue to keep the Moby’s to a minimum, although they sometimes can provide a laugh. Susannah’s “Linkage Institution” attackers yesterday were an example, but the way she handled it was great.
Nicely done, as was the diary entry itself. Well researched with links to back up her points that the Moby’s obviously never clicked on.
Can’t have their little dream world cave in on them now can we?
Thank you--I'm flattered....
Susannah (Diary) Tuesday, March 31st at 1:47AM EST (link)….that you would put me into the same category as Erick and Moe.
That “linkage institutions” thing was hilarious wasn’t it? I had no idea what it meant, so I had my husband Google it. It is actually defined as something that provides a link between the government and the people (see link below).
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_linkage_institution
Anyway, I could see how liberal trolls would see the MSM as a “linkage institution”. Not to mention, those trolls kept repeating the tired talking point, “We need to know our politicians dirt or scandals” (or something to that effect). However, the question remains, what politician’s “dirt or scandals” do those Obama supporting trolls want the MSM to link them to? Well, they obviously wanted to be linked to everything having to do with Bristol Palin or Levi Johnston–who, ironically, aren’t politicians. But, did they also want the MSM media to “link” them to John Edwards’ sex scandal or Barack Obama’s many scandals (Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Rezko, etc.)? Ah, probably not. Good thing for them, the MSM (particularly the JList) really had no interest in “linking” the people to those scandals either (at least until they had no other choice–and even then, they resisted).
Oh well, it’s getting late (even for me and I’m an insomniac). Time for bed. Good thing I’m off tomorrow. Oh, and welcome to Redstate.