Uptick in Troll Posts - Can We Please Require Registration to Post?

[PolyesterTroll]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why an otherwise intelligent poster, who supposedly cares about not propagating fake news and giving a voice to the true trolls on here, would be antagonizing and threatening the owner of the site. Are you an intelligent woman who needs a wool sheath and a starter home, or are you some creepy-ass troll who overuses the devil emoji?

That's exactly the point. Without registration, it's very hard to tell who is who. Almost anything else can be spoofed using some basic browser tools, which makes trolls impossible to ban or out without inadvertently mixing in some real people whose privacy should be protected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why an otherwise intelligent poster, who supposedly cares about not propagating fake news and giving a voice to the true trolls on here, would be antagonizing and threatening the owner of the site. Are you an intelligent woman who needs a wool sheath and a starter home, or are you some creepy-ass troll who overuses the devil emoji?

That's exactly the point. Without registration, it's very hard to tell who is who. Almost anything else can be spoofed using some basic browser tools, which makes trolls impossible to ban or out without inadvertently mixing in some real people whose privacy should be protected.

So are you the person who started this thread, or not? And if so, why are you engaging in the behavior you want banned?

[PolyesterTroll]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why an otherwise intelligent poster, who supposedly cares about not propagating fake news and giving a voice to the true trolls on here, would be antagonizing and threatening the owner of the site. Are you an intelligent woman who needs a wool sheath and a starter home, or are you some creepy-ass troll who overuses the devil emoji?

That's exactly the point. Without registration, it's very hard to tell who is who. Almost anything else can be spoofed using some basic browser tools, which makes trolls impossible to ban or out without inadvertently mixing in some real people whose privacy should be protected.

So are you the person who started this thread, or not? And if so, why are you engaging in the behavior you want banned?

You should be more concerned about your privacy. Jeff is so easily socially engineered by some basic trolling and a emoji. Registration prevents witch hunts too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why an otherwise intelligent poster, who supposedly cares about not propagating fake news and giving a voice to the true trolls on here, would be antagonizing and threatening the owner of the site. Are you an intelligent woman who needs a wool sheath and a starter home, or are you some creepy-ass troll who overuses the devil emoji?

That's exactly the point. Without registration, it's very hard to tell who is who. Almost anything else can be spoofed using some basic browser tools, which makes trolls impossible to ban or out without inadvertently mixing in some real people whose privacy should be protected.

So are you the person who started this thread, or not? And if so, why are you engaging in the behavior you want banned?

You should be more concerned about your privacy. Jeff is so easily socially engineered by some basic trolling and a emoji. Registration prevents witch hunts too.

Yeah, I mean...even I picked up on the overuse of that emoji as a way to potentially seem like multiple users were just one poster. But registration wouldn't really prevent what you're doing here, no?

[Anonymous]

PolyesterTroll wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why an otherwise intelligent poster, who supposedly cares about not propagating fake news and giving a voice to the true trolls on here, would be antagonizing and threatening the owner of the site. Are you an intelligent woman who needs a wool sheath and a starter home, or are you some creepy-ass troll who overuses the devil emoji?

That's exactly the point. Without registration, it's very hard to tell who is who. Almost anything else can be spoofed using some basic browser tools, which makes trolls impossible to ban or out without inadvertently mixing in some real people whose privacy should be protected.

So are you the person who started this thread, or not? And if so, why are you engaging in the behavior you want banned?

You should be more concerned about your privacy. Jeff is so easily socially engineered by some basic trolling and a emoji. Registration prevents witch hunts too.

Why do I care if Jeff thinks my posts are someone else's?

[Anonymous]

Did this idiot ever come back? We made it to a week later and you aren't requiring registration, so was it just some deranged person?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Did this idiot ever come back? We made it to a week later and you aren't requiring registration, so was it just some deranged person?

I am not aware of her coming back, but I haven't been paying attention to check. I think she was just some weird person who thought she knew more than she actually did.