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[rm]

The case of Megan Meiers finally makes the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/us/28hoax.html

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

You've been banned. Thanks for playing.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

WTF? What the hell is wrong with people?

Referring to the post and the comment--give people a uniform or an icon to hide behind and watch the evil ooze out.

[40sw.livejournal.com]

a uniform?

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

Was (badly) trying to connect the anonymity of a soldier with being online.

[rm.livejournal.com]

For reasons at least marginally unknown to me, I tend to be a troll magnet. Probably because I'm unabashedly elitist, pretty successful and yet not reticent about my insecurities.

I was sort of expecting LJ Idol to bring a new spate of this shit (not from anyone _in_ LJ Idol, but it too is something of a magnet for nasty lurkers), and this is right on schedule.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I guess that's part of the price of being more out in the open. Still fucked up.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

Doesn't LJ have a TOS covering this sort of thing?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Only if they repeatedly comment by creating fake journals. Otherwise we're told we have the tools to handle it ourselves.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

Oh, but then they clutch their pearls over fanfic?

I don't get it...

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hence the months of my life eaten by my rage at 6A/LJ

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

It gets worse... (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/243697.html)

(Be sure and hit the little orange flag icon to tag that entry for "Explicit Adult Content" and/or "Illegal Activity", though.)

[fragiletender.livejournal.com]

WTF is he even talking about? Nothing in his post makes any sense except the screaming misogyny.

[marcmagus]

Errr...what misogyny? Do you know something about the troll which isn't available from reading the one comment?

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Extinct_Marsupial

Believe me, the troll in question has a whole host of issues...

[lilerthkwake.livejournal.com]

The second line in his comment seems to refer to the news story, though the first line hurts my brain with "WTF?"ness. I browsed his journal briefly, too, and it was just as random and head-scratch-y.