Steve Clarke has JUDGED you all!

[wags]

Linda posted his PM? I missed it in the link for some reason.

...it doesn't surprise me in the least...whatever serves her purpose.

Your friend, if the friendship is true, it will weather this....storm. I hope it does for the both of you. True friends are a vastly disappearing commodity as we get older.

Mikado

Posting a clearly incendiary Private Message and from the moderator that just is not ethical from my value set. I am appalled that she did that, mind we do not know if the PM posted was accurate it may have been altered as the alleged author has not verified it.

It is that kind of behaviour that reveals the true character behind the mask.

Quite angry with her using by estranged friend in that manner.

Wags,
I do recall your posting a PM that I had sent to you.
and I took the blame, because I had trusted you with private information.
Nancy

That was agonised over as it was a public interest issue. As I said at the time, it was not done lightly I can assure you. It contained a ethical and legal dilemma that resulted in publication. It was not done to provoke a fight and run away and hide.

[FM No Static At All]

...the great Morgan...afraid of a 5' 8" Italian. He was thought by the great Chuck Norris so he should be able to kick my ass but good, after all, he was going to kick Fred's ass for talking to Karen Ann. I am upset, the coward lives 20 miles from me since he moved and he can't come to kick my ass but he was going to go over 3,000 miles to Fred's.

I am truly disappointed that he did not show up to 'kick my ass'! In the frame of mind that I found myself in at that time in my life, I am certain that my neighbors would have been thoroughly entertained with how I disposed of the problem.

For the record. I did not believe for a moment that the person I met in Las Vegas was remotely related to the fictional character known as Morgan/JD. And I did tell Mrs. Leach that her pursuit of what I saw as an obvious lie would hurt someone.

Poor Karen Ann. She was an unaware pawn and hence a victim of a vast conspiracy perpetrated by a delusional lady (I use the term lady for diplomacy not description) who lives a life of denial.

Joseph knew, and that is why he wanted no part of the family. Actions always speak louder than words.

I regret none of my actions nor my words.

[wags]

Useful for everyone:-
[Source: XX Dropping]
I found THIS today, which seems appropriate to the times:

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
What’s confusing you
Is the nature of my game

- The Rolling Stones

The reason that Internet trolls are effective is that people still don’t understand their game.

There are 15 commonly-used trolling tactics to disrupt, misdirect and control internet discussions.

As one interesting example, trolls start flame wars because – according to two professors – swearing and name-calling shut down our ability to think and focus.

And trolls will often spew divisive attacks so that people argue against each other, instead of bad actions and policies of the powers-that-be. For example, trolls will:

Start a religious war whenever possible using stereotypes like “all Jews are selfish”, “all Christians are crazy” or “all Muslims are terrorists”.

Yesterday, the alternative news site Common Dreams caught a troll using scores of different user names to spew anti-Semitic bile. (Common Dreams discovered that the same troll was behind the multiple user names by tracking their IP addresses. And the troll confessed to Common Dreams.)

The troll is a “a Jewish Harvard graduate in his thirties who was irritated by the website’s discussion of issues involving Israel”.

He posted anti-Semitic diatribes – such as Hitler should have finished the job and killed all Jews – using one alias. Then – a couple of minutes later – he’d post an attack on the first poster using a different alias, claiming that criticism of Israel is the same thing as anti-Semitism. (Note: Holocaust survivors and Israeli ministers say it’s not.)

Why would a Jew post vile anti-Semitic comments? Because normal people are offended by – and don’t want to be associated with – pure, naked anti-Semitism, and so they will avoid such discussions. If the discussion was originally criticizing a specific aspect of Israeli policy, the discussion will break down, and the actual point regarding policy will be lost.

Similarly, anti-Semitic posts weaken websites by making them seem less reputable. Indeed, Common Dreams says that the troll’s anti-Semitic comments drove away many of that site’s largest donors … dealing a severe blow to its continued viability. That’s exactly what trolls spewing anti-Semitic bile are trying to do: shut down logical discussion and discredit and weaken sites which allow rational criticism of policy.

It is well-known that foreign governments and large companies troll online. See this, this this, and this. For example, the Israeli government is paying students to post pro-Israeli comments online.

And American students are also attempting to influence internet discussion.

While the Common Dreams troll claims that he’s not sponsored by the state of Israel, government agencies have manipulated Internet discussion for years. This includes the use of multiple “socket puppet” aliases. The potential for mischief is stunning.

[kevin]

Wags,
Can't be bothered working out the time differencials etc.
Did You or fruitbat post that first?
Kevin

[LuisP]

Hahaha !
Hobbit, you're a mean hobbit .

Hell, You guys sure don't tire.
Awesome.

But hey ....

[kevin]

Hahaha !
Hobbit, you're a mean hobbit .

Hell, You guys sure don't tire.
Awesome.

But hey ....

I simply noted that fruitbat had posted exactly the self same post on the token.
I litterally don't know what You mean , Me been mean???
Kevin

[Mikado14]

Kim sent me this post in the AM.

All times on the Hut when you are not logged in are for Eastern Standard Time USA. On the Token when you are not logged in, the times shown are GMT so you will have to subtract 5 hours.

Fruitbat posted first.

Now I wish to comment on this post and make a point.

As one interesting example, trolls start flame wars because – according to two professors – swearing and name-calling shut down our ability to think and focus.

I persistently mentioned that when someone runs out of mental ammunition, they revert to name calling. To add something here, when the "flamer" has no ammunition, they will also tell "stories" based upon "confidential sources" and portray themselves as an authority while never giving a link or reference.

Yesterday, the alternative news site Common Dreams caught a troll using scores of different user names to spew anti-Semitic bile. (Common Dreams discovered that the same troll was behind the multiple user names by tracking their IP addresses. And the troll confessed to Common Dreams.)

Wow...sounds like the old "ttbrown" forum and what a certain person did. More personalities than Sybil.

While the Common Dreams troll claims that he’s not sponsored by the state of Israel, government agencies have manipulated Internet discussion for years. This includes the use of multiple “socket puppet” aliases. The potential for mischief is stunning.

Unless we learn their game ...

I believe the person meant "sock puppet". It would appear that fruitbat may have finally realized that Paul's dumping Linda was in part due to the numerous individuals who came from the same IP. Of course this was explained that those individuals were using Linda's to mask their actual location. Makes perfect sense, make the person whom you are trying to protect look like a psychotic puppet master and ruin their credibility.

Thanks fruitbat for this insightful post in exposing the working of Linda.'

Mikado

[LuisP]

Hahaha !
Hobbit, you're a mean hobbit .

Hell, You guys sure don't tire.
Awesome.

But hey ....

I simply noted that fruitbat had posted exactly the self same post on the token.
I litterally don't know what You mean , Me been mean???
Kevin

No big deal, Hobbit.
Me and my devious mind projecting intentions regarding the double-check timetable.
Sorry if you - or anyone - took that has something else, namely, your own intentions.

I'm just a jerk. Can't help it.
And I like to have some fun, so ... there you have it.

But hey ....

[DavidG]

Hahaha !
Hobbit, you're a mean hobbit .

Hell, You guys sure don't tire.
Awesome.

But hey ....

A Golden Mean, perhaps?

[kevin]

His lordship has now declared that...
All those people over there to be" WANKERS."
That He has "outed from a position of concealment "such as David and Myself
That He has "highlighted some of their poorer qualities"

Looks like He spends a lot of time looking at himself in the mirror.
Kevin