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Let Obama be Obama

Jay Wye Wrote: Nov 22, 2012 5:38 PM
a POX on the morons who keep feeding the trolls here on TH. You're HELPING the trolls divert and clog up the discussion and comments. Does anyone here -want- to HELP Sybil? Or the other trolls? just flag them and pass them by. DON'T give them the attention they seek. STOP trying to show how much smarter you are than them. it doesn't work. (and it keeps them coming back for more) every TH regular ought to be able to recognize Ancel's newest pseudonym,flag it and pass it by,WITHOUT commenting and giving the troll the attention it so desperately seeks.
jmg11 Wrote: Nov 22, 2012 6:16 PM
All good as proposed, but anytime a new reader comes along he will not know about the plague of AncelTrolls. He finds out by experience and/or by comments like yours.

A related -- evidently unaddressed -- issue is whether and when TH admins will do something about the Ancels of this world.

Isn't it time to definitively ban the zonk? Why does this not happen?
Cleombrotus2011 Wrote: Nov 22, 2012 7:19 PM
I'm all for closed registration with bans on IP addresses for abuse.
Richard1664 Wrote: Nov 22, 2012 7:38 PM
And add on CAPTCHA so the auto-bots can't operate.

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