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Biggest Problem at Adequacy:
Trolls 12%
Script Kiddies 12%
Linux Apologists 29%
Swarthy Peoples 4%
Communists 25%
Drugs 16%

Votes: 24

 Deletion Notice

 Author:  Topic:  Posted:
Sep 04, 2002
 Comments:
A diary entry by user "PotatoError" entitled "Why we should make all guns illegal" became so infested with trolling that it had to be removed entirely.
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Dear Mr. Script Kiddie, Sir:
We do not normally resort to throwing out good, controversial discussion in order to quash the trolls, but when the troll-posts exceed 100 in number, economics force us to implement our emergency triage system.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please feel free to use this diary as a forum for discussing the foul plague of trolling, and any attendant Free Speech or Censorship issues that need to be aired.

We at Adequacy do take your opinions seriously now and then, and this time, we will use this diary entry as an opportunity to collect any objections that legitimate, upstanding users of Adequacy might have.

Naturally, comments by trolls (you know who you are) and script kiddies (you too) will, as ever, be deleted.


On the poll (1.00 / 1) (#2)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Sep 4th, 2002 at 07:03:31 PM PST
I believe the entries "luniz apologists" and "Communists" are redundant, and for the sake of clarification, should be combined into a single entry to ensure the scientific correctness of the poll and reduce confusion for those who choose to vote for these options.

 
I confess, I am worried. (none / 0) (#3)
by dmg on Wed Sep 4th, 2002 at 07:13:40 PM PST
There seemed to be quite a lot of gun-fetishists posting in that particular diary. Whilst their immature cod-libertarian "philosophy" grates like fingernails on a blackboard, I can't help thinking that its better they spend their time writing masturbatory pro-gun diatribes here at adequacy than wandering around the streets shooting.

Its like negotiating with any crazy person. The negotiator's role is to keep them talking, to prevent them from doing something violent.

RobotSlave, I hope you know what you are doing.

time to give a Newtonian demonstration - of a bullet, its mass and its acceleration.
-- MC Hawking

Don't worry. (none / 0) (#4)
by RobotSlave on Wed Sep 4th, 2002 at 07:18:37 PM PST
They've still got the poll to bash away at.


© 2002, RobotSlave. You may not reproduce this material, in whole or in part, without written permission of the owner.

 
ok I'll bite (none / 0) (#5)
by johnny ambiguous on Wed Sep 4th, 2002 at 08:38:40 PM PST
Ahem.

How dare you inhibit Mr. Error's freedom of speech?

Please feel free to use this reply as a forum for discussing the notion that a privately owned web log, operated at no cost whatsoever to the general public, is obliged to publish any and all submissions in perpetuity.

But you know. Mr. Error has been for a while, I think, a valued member of the Adequacy community! Technologists of Adequacy! Couldn't you have simply frozen submissions, in some sophisticated technical manner, so that people (legitimate readers that is, not tr*lls of course) could enjoy the record of the lively controversy, just that they could not contribute any more to it?

Not because you're obliged or anything silly like that, but out of respect for your friend Mr. Error.

Yours WD "Bill the Galactic Hero" K - WKiernan@concentric.net


Getting into my Chevrolet Magic Fire, I drove slowly back to the office. - L. Rosen

 
"We" (none / 0) (#6)
by jvance on Wed Sep 4th, 2002 at 08:48:45 PM PST
The incessant use of that pronoun makes you sound like someone else.
--
Adequacy has turned into a cesspool consisting of ... blubbering, superstitious fools arguing with smug, pseudointellectual assholes. -AR

 
Grind (1.00 / 1) (#7)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Sep 4th, 2002 at 10:11:41 PM PST
Since you changed your costume from 'droll poster' to 'jackbooted censor' your efforts are not so interesting.

Get a job.

 
Mr. RobotSlave Sir, (1.00 / 1) (#8)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Sep 4th, 2002 at 10:16:16 PM PST
I just wanted you to know that you're the best Adequacy Editor ever. I'm sure you're also devastatingly handsome and a real tiger in the sack!

Your devoted fan

 
F1RST P0ST [n/t] (0.00 / 1) (#9)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 01:15:06 AM PST



 
Missing poll option (none / 0) (#10)
by The Mad Scientist on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 02:34:32 AM PST
(*) RobotSlave

I was thinking... (1.00 / 1) (#19)
by Anonymous Reader on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 03:02:16 AM PST
... editors.

 
Missing poll option. (0.00 / 1) (#11)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 02:43:52 AM PST
(*) RobotSlave

How is this possible? (1.00 / 1) (#21)
by Anonymous Reader on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 04:56:01 AM PST



 
But there were only 100 comments in that diary (1.00 / 1) (#12)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 02:45:02 AM PST
so you're implicitly saying that there was no good, controversial discussion (which I think there was) and that all the comments were trolls (which I think is not true).

I don't like your rhetoric.

PS: have all the adequacy editors forced you to do all their deleting and meta-comment work so they look like aloof saints and you get the shitty 'hatchet man / coal face' image?

 
!!!!Leave PotatoError Alone!!!!!! (1.00 / 1) (#13)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 02:48:20 AM PST
Youre mean deleting his diary.

:P

 
you are so manly and hard (1.00 / 1) (#14)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 08:21:12 AM PST
so got ne better to do in the weekend to come than jacking n sippin on a pint of peanut butter chocale cream and pepsi...

 
0 comments. (1.00 / 1) (#15)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 08:37:49 AM PST
Looks like everyone must be a script kiddie or a troll, or RobotSlave is using his janitor status to compensate for his social inadequacy. I wonder how high the comment ID on this comment will be? 30? 40? Only one way to find out... poast!

He's really messed up. (none / 0) (#20)
by walwyn on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 04:52:19 AM PST
Reinstating them too because as an AR I can see the 0 rated comments in here.



AR is just a user, (1.00 / 1) (#22)
by Anonymous Reader on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 05:27:35 AM PST
and AR's currently a trusted user due to AR posts being modded highly. Down-mod some AR comments until this goes away, if you don't like it.
adequacy.org -- because is isn't

Trusted vs. Zero Status (none / 0) (#23)
by First Incision on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 06:23:09 AM PST
You are confused. As has been previously discussed, Adequacy does not have "trusted users." It has "Zero Status" users. RobotSlave has explained this before.
_
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Do you suffer from late-night hacking? Ask your doctor about Protonix.

Tell that to (none / 0) (#28)
by because it isnt on Sat Sep 7th, 2002 at 02:40:49 AM PST
the editors and the superuser of this site.
adequacy.org -- because it isn't

 
Done [n/t] (none / 0) (#24)
by jvance on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 07:07:59 AM PST

--
Adequacy has turned into a cesspool consisting of ... blubbering, superstitious fools arguing with smug, pseudointellectual assholes. -AR

 
I predict (1.00 / 1) (#16)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 09:43:02 AM PST
About the same reaction to this snoozy post as to RS's last: utter disregard.

This person has decided that it is more empowering to delete uncomfortable posts, than to put all that effort into writing something droll.

Carry on.

Delete me, Tarquin.

 
snore city (0.00 / 1) (#17)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Sep 5th, 2002 at 09:58:36 AM PST
zzzzzzz

 
I have to agree with RobotSlave (none / 0) (#25)
by PotatoError on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 08:44:34 AM PST
My initial predictions were that no more than 3 people would comment on my diary. Even so, just to be on the safe side I allowed a "buffer zone" of an extra 2 more comments. I figured that after that it just becomes crazy.

I am glad that Adequacy has a emergency triage system to deal with the problem. Uninpendingly, in my opinion, the bilaterals of the decision were well made.

Less than one week before the anniversary of that incident, I think it is disrespectful to have any sort of debate on any topic in case we offend anyone by mistake.






<<JUMP! POGO POGO POGO BOUNCE! POGO POGO POGO>>

 
Lookie what I found (none / 0) (#26)
by PotatoError on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 06:54:52 PM PST
something which isn't there
<<JUMP! POGO POGO POGO BOUNCE! POGO POGO POGO>>

You're a genius, Potato. (none / 0) (#27)
by RobotSlave on Fri Sep 6th, 2002 at 09:10:14 PM PST
Can I have your autograph?


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