Troll magnet, definitely

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Today's awakening, though less unpleasant than yesterday's, was still attended by a nasty sockpuppet. Someone calling itself atropaxbeladona (appropriately, a compound of the mispelled names of two poisons) thoughtfully provided a link to a couple of articles (from those celebrated sources of unbiased news, MSNBC and the New Jerk Dimes) which stated that the two women who were killed or killed themselves in the pet market at Baghdad, killing about a hundred innocent people who were there just shopping for pets (and I don't think anyone has even counted the slaughtered and still more innocent animals), were not in fact Down's Syndrome victims. And your point is? Apart from the fact that this does not make the butchery any less heinous, it is well known that terrorists used or tried to use Down's victims, little children, or even babies, in the same way, in Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan and even Pakistan. Even supposing the news were false, it was still credible. That is the sort of thing terrorists do, sockpuppet.

The interesting thing about the atropaxbeladona sockpuppet is that it was set up with some deliberation. According to its user info, the blog was still established in late January. There is only one post, which is basically an "eff-you" to anyone reading. Fairly clearly this is a shit-stirrer of the same kind as jezreelite, probably the same person. (The IP address is different, but that proves nothing.) I almost feel I could put a name to it. But imagine someone who goes to all that trouble, and spends weeks of its time waiting, purely in order to make life a bit more unpleasant to someone else!

In spite of what I said, the creature will not, for the present, be banned. Just so that everyone can contemplate what an elaborate job of sockpuppetry has been carried out here. Jesus, don't you people have a life?

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And you spend weeks setting up unpleasant sockpuppets just for that?

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Maybe they aren't sockpuppets.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Two different persons set up accounts that are, as we say, as alike as two drops of water. (They both, for instance, start with an outrageous and insulting post.) They both visit my account within a day of each other, to say the same kind of things. The first of the two is indubitably a sockpuppet, and they are alike in character, attitude, and eloquence. What are the odds? You are an intelligent lady, Rebecca, you tell me.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Does having two accounts on LJ equal sockpuppeting, anyway? Do you feel assaulted because someone uses two different fake names instead of one fake name?

Actually, let's have the IP addresses. Now I'm curious.

Anyway, I kind of have limited sympathy for you in this particular case because you know that you attract trolls, and yet you don't restrict posting to friend's-only or take any of the various precautions that you could take.