Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:45 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
This is the crazy shit I deal with on my message board
I run a football related message board for the vikings. Like many message boards we have an off topic section and and even more restricted one for "sensitive topics" like politics and religion.
Below is the text of one such reply in it. These people are deranged. I mean these people are seriously out of their minds. How would you deal with this? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LOL ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Author | Time | Post |
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SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | OP |
dem4decades | Oct 2019 | #1 | |
TheBlackAdder | Oct 2019 | #2 | |
SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | #3 | |
TheBlackAdder | Oct 2019 | #4 | |
True Dough | Oct 2019 | #5 | |
SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | #7 | |
Unbelievable | Oct 2019 | #6 | |
SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | #8 | |
emmaverybo | Oct 2019 | #20 | |
BSdetect | Oct 2019 | #9 | |
SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | #10 | |
TwilightZone | Oct 2019 | #11 | |
SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | #12 | |
milestogo | Oct 2019 | #13 | |
oswaldactedalone | Oct 2019 | #14 | |
SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | #16 | |
FakeNoose | Oct 2019 | #15 | |
SlogginThroughIt | Oct 2019 | #17 | |
Takket | Oct 2019 | #18 | |
moondust | Oct 2019 | #19 | |
nolabear | Oct 2019 | #21 | |
salin | Oct 2019 | #22 | |
Celerity | Oct 2019 | #24 | |
ooky | Oct 2019 | #23 |
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:48 PM
dem4decades (10,105 posts)
1. Yeah i run into the same stuff on another board. Russian hoax is today's talking point
I guess
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Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:48 PM
TheBlackAdder (25,725 posts)
2. I would kill off that message section, as it causes resentment that would filter to other sections.
Response to TheBlackAdder (Reply #2)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:50 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
3. I have run it for 5 years I'm about to divest myself from it
I have run it for 5 years I'm about to divest myself from it as most of our public interaction is done via twitter, insta, and FB these days.
The best part is that I pay for all the hosting and handle the maintenance and I get called a baby killer and anti-American daily for being a Dem. |
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Reply #3)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:53 PM
TheBlackAdder (25,725 posts)
4. Before you divest, just close that section down to watch them cry and whine first. 😃
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:55 PM
True Dough (14,731 posts)
5. I frequent a couple of sports forums with "general discussion" sections
It's nutty how much support Trump and the right have among sports fans. I fought them tooth and nail on a previous forum but I was badly outnumbered.
When I joined these two latest forums, I vowed not to get into the political talk. I just stick to sports and try not to picture two-thirds of the forum as redneck mouth-breathers. |
Response to True Dough (Reply #5)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:22 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
7. Yep that sounds about right
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:08 PM
Unbelievable (84 posts)
6. Just
Leave it up to rub it into his face if he's wrong.
Deleting it would only serve as ammo for them that they are censored. |
Response to Unbelievable (Reply #6)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:23 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
8. This same guy still believes the pizza stuff
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Reply #8)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:41 PM
emmaverybo (8,143 posts)
20. They need and want to believe outrageous lies about Dems. When people need to believe
conspiracy theories, reiterating the truth has no effect. We can counter lies in the hope that reasonable people will not buy in to propaganda. Hopeless when people need lies to support their hatred, their illusions of superiority, or justify groundless fears.
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Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:25 PM
BSdetect (8,821 posts)
9. These "mindsets" are incurable.
Response to BSdetect (Reply #9)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:27 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
10. I actually a concerned that he might be dangerous
To be honest with you I have had to tell some of the more liberal members to disengage because these type of people seem like the ones that will take it way too are and start trying to locate people.
I'm not kidding there are some seriously deranged trumpers out there. |
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:37 PM
TwilightZone (21,570 posts)
11. Parroting right-wing social media.
They're not even original. It's the same stuff, in the same phrases, over and over again. Copy/paste/repeat.
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Response to TwilightZone (Reply #11)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:39 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
12. Right? I hesitated
Right? I hesitated to even share here but sometimes I need a reality check
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Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:49 PM
milestogo (14,216 posts)
13. For a moment I thought this was going to be about the Packers (Viking rival)
Like a crazy football conspiracy about Aaron Rodgers deflating footballs.
That would be too easy. |
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:52 PM
oswaldactedalone (3,408 posts)
14. Nuke that section
of your board. It’s just one more place the reich wing can spew their propoganda.
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Response to oswaldactedalone (Reply #14)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:05 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
16. yeah I am of the same mind
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:57 PM
FakeNoose (27,632 posts)
15. Is this a bot or a real person?
Do you have a way to verify ID when they join your message board? I used to see stuff like this on the Yahoo message boards, and many of them were bots. That was before I joined DU three years ago, so I don't know what's on there now.
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Response to FakeNoose (Reply #15)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:07 PM
SlogginThroughIt (1,977 posts)
17. a real person
This is a real live cookoo. there are several of them and I have known them for years. Lately they are getting worse and worse. Where as before they were just a normal run of the mill republican.
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Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:10 PM
Takket (18,254 posts)
18. he doesn't even know what his own party is doing......
"Durham and Barr are investigating treason for a reason."
there is no treason investigation. They are looking into the origins of the Russia probe in the FBI to see if any laws were broken. Has nothing to do with "treason". If he doesn't know what his own party is doing, safe to say his knowledge of the Democrats isn't going to be any more well informed. |
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:28 PM
moondust (18,920 posts)
19. Maybe you should ask them
why their superhero Dumpy the Clown doesn't sue all the fake news media for spreading fake news about him. Reporting that he has told more than 10,000 lies since taking office must be blasphemy or libel, right? He loves to sue everybody! That's what he does. So why not the fake news that he calls the "enemy of the people"? Save us, Dumpy! Save us!
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Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:58 PM
nolabear (40,688 posts)
21. That CNN expose crap is a James O'Keefe claim.
It was low level Twitter chatter. He’s promising some incredible exposé, to much laughter and abuse.
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Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 11:11 PM
salin (48,948 posts)
22. My response would be dismissive: "Cool story, bro."L
Response to SlogginThroughIt (Original post)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 11:22 PM
ooky (7,877 posts)
23. I was an admin on a college sports board for awhile. What a waste of time that was.
I spent so much time moderating trolls I was mostly just baby sitting. We had a rule against political posts and yet I was deleting them all the time. Most of them were started by right wingers, who then wanted to fight me for deleting their posts. It was not much fun.
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