Back then, we used to hang these saboteurs and spies if we caught them. Or maybe send them back to who sent them, in pieces, as a sort of birthday present and warning.

All glory to the Golden Age created by the United States. It has rendered an excuse to get out of the dark ages. Although it doesn’t get rid of the problems, it just gets rid of the symptoms.

Aww, does this mean that I have to reign in my alternate egos?

I’ve been seeing a lot of commenters that I know from other blogs. Like Zhombre, Synova, and Grimmy. Sometime ago, they started coming in regularly.

BTNet is currently having its feet held to the fire on another case similar to this one and will soon run out of choices. Fortunately, there are those who recall a previous “situation” involving BTNet when they did take action and cancel an account and ban the user. Since records of that case were archived subsequent ones will be harder to avoid especially where identity morphing is involved.

It is not as simple as “disagreement” but is as simple as following rules. Notice the common left wing “victimology” being applied here.

IP blocking doesn’t work against those who feel they are on a mission from Marx and have a Marx given right to comment.

Most troll spray solutions are variants of anti-spam tools and make it difficult to control the “semi-pro” troll, especially one “on a mission”.

I saw a demonstration early last year of an interesting “proof of concept” app based on the way commerical spammers turn whole groups of computers into “zombies” for spam runs.It was much more sophisticated and very hard to detect at insertion and in use. The app had a very large feature set including one that set a random delay in bringing up, say a web page. Eventually, the delays would increase and the user would conclude that it was traffic or a technical problem and stop going to the particular address. This is a variant of a method that used to be used on the server side but was now insterted into the users side.

The whole demo was pretty scary since it showed a computer behind a firewall with several examples of anti-virus software, multiple browsers and all the major flavors of op systems being infected undetected. It had two modes called over the shoulder real time and phone home. It was remotely configurable, invisible to all virus scans currently in use and required an advanced packet sniffer to detect and the sniffer had to know what it was looking for. It was like having a little ‘bot inside your computer with a telephone.

When I got home, I immediately wrote a script that checked the common areas for insertion on my OS for size and flagged any growth.

But, think of the advantages for troll control? You’d train the user to stay away and they’d never know.

How to Spot a Trollhttp://latticesofbogosity.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-spot-troll-updated.html

You’ll note that post attracted a Troll in the comments who I suspect had a different name elsewhere.

About the level of maturity Ive come to expect from the un-hinged tantrum throwing left.

You have been banned on more than one site, as I recall and you fit Neo’s definition to a “T”. You morph and spoof and use proxies to avoid doing what you have been asked to do; leave by the site owner.

You remind me of the ancient Usenet troll, ace agincourt; also a rabidly anti-American left wing spittle flinger. As I recall he eventually wound up down at his neighborhood cop shop “helping them with their inquiries” when he went over the line once too often. He eventually wound up doing a jolt in the slammer and had to take a court ordered “vacation” from computers.

I’ve had some pose as me posting pornographic material on other peoples sites.

Then there was one of the Daily Kos freaks who got made that I banned him and posted what he thought was my address, phone number and a map to my house. Got the wrong me, but it was the intent that is troubling.

These folks call Bush a Nazi but then go around behaving like the Gestapo.