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Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby VikesFan1 on Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:20 am

FWIW, message I received today from GunsAmerica

A Warning to All Gun Bloggers and Forums – Boston Marathon Explosions
Please be aware that there are what we call "Bloomberg shills" lurking in the comments of gun blogs and forums at present. It has been going on since before the election, and we first noticed it as far back as our January 8th, 2012 article "2nd Amendment Voters Should Vote Ron Paul." At first it seemed like fun because they got a lively discussion going, and many of our articles have over 400 comments just because of a few anti-gun comments peppered in by a shill here and there. But as more and more of them have come in, we have begun to realize that it is better to delete them. The anti-gunners have a plan, and that plan is to make gun people look stupid, heartless, and separate from the values of mainstream America. A recent "whistleblower" post about the Boston Marathon explosions is especially troubling. If you are part of a gun blog or forum, please don't allow this post to spread, and beware that more attempts to make 2nd Amendment defenders look bad are coming.(Click Here to Read More)

Clickable link: http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/a-warning-to-all-gun-bloggers-and-forums-boston-marathon-explosions/

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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Heffay on Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:39 am

This was a difficult decision, but we only did so after calling out several of the commenters and directly accusing them of being hired Bloomberg shills. None of them defended themselves, and we believe that this is exactly what they are.


Their evidence is tenuous at best.
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby sansooshooter on Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:42 am

Heffay wrote:
This was a difficult decision, but we only did so after calling out several of the commenters and directly accusing them of being hired Bloomberg shills. None of them defended themselves, and we believe that this is exactly what they are.


Their evidence is tenuous at best.



So , Its their web site and they can ban who ever they want.
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Holland&Holland on Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:44 am

If we truely banned trolling would we actually even have users on this forum?
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Heffay on Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:46 am

sansooshooter wrote:
Heffay wrote:
This was a difficult decision, but we only did so after calling out several of the commenters and directly accusing them of being hired Bloomberg shills. None of them defended themselves, and we believe that this is exactly what they are.


Their evidence is tenuous at best.



So , Its their web site and they can ban who ever they want.


Of course they can. However, the argument being put forth is that the gun control proponents are paid to do their trolling. The evidence they use to support that is circumstantial at best.
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby scarletvw on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:14 am

Holland&Holland wrote:If we truely banned trolling would we actually even have users on this forum?


The forum would die in a matter of days...
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Heffay on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:16 am

scarletvw wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:If we truely banned trolling would we actually even have users on this forum?


The forum would die in a matter of days...


Trolling isn't what most people think it is. So many people think expressing a different opinion is trolling. To actually identify it, you have to know what the motivations of the poster are, and that's not an easy thing to determine.
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby VikesFan1 on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:17 am

Holland&Holland wrote:If we truely banned trolling Bloomberging would we actually even have users on this forum?

Fixed. Get with the times, man. ;) :lol:
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Holland&Holland on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:23 am

VikesFan1 wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:If we truely banned trolling Bloomberging would we actually even have users on this forum?

Fixed. Get with the times, man. ;) :lol:


Got it. :P
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Holland&Holland on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:24 am

Heffay wrote:
scarletvw wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:If we truely banned trolling would we actually even have users on this forum?


The forum would die in a matter of days...


Trolling isn't what most people think it is. So many people think expressing a different opinion is trolling. To actually identify it, you have to know what the motivations of the poster are, and that's not an easy thing to determine.


Trolling is what we can't do right now up here in MN because the ice is still on the dang lakes...
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Back In Black on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:40 am

Heffay wrote:
scarletvw wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:If we truely banned trolling would we actually even have users on this forum?


The forum would die in a matter of days...


So many people think expressing a different opinion is trolling.


A lot of people think expressing a different opinion is racism, homophobia, ignorance, and intolerance.
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Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby Erud on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:55 am

Back In Black wrote:A lot of people think expressing a different opinion is racism, homophobia, ignorance, and intolerance.


Don't forget hate, you ignorant racist homophobe.
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby DoxaPar on Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:58 am

Heffay wrote:
Trolling isn't what most people think it is. So many people think expressing a different opinion is trolling. To actually identify it, you have to know what the motivations of the poster are, and that's not an easy thing to determine.


This
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby VikesFan1 on Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:26 pm

DoxaPar wrote:
Heffay wrote:
Trolling isn't what most people think it is. So many people think expressing a different opinion is trolling. To actually identify it, you have to know what the motivations of the poster are, and that's not an easy thing to determine.


This

... I would just add to it, how said opinion is presented has a fair amount to do with it as well.
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Re: Increased Gun Forum Trolling

Postby sansooshooter on Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:56 pm

Heffay said
Of course they can. However, the argument being put forth is that the gun control proponents are paid to do their trolling. The evidence they use to support that is circumstantial at best.[/quote]

And your proof that its not going on is?
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