Comment 58095

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted January 26, 2011 at 09:15:54

It wouldn't surprise me if that was their goal all along.

I really can't speak for anyone on RTH - but I've been around long enough to know that it does happen. There are whole websites, forums, and even an encyclopaedia for Trolls. Search long enough and you'll find "forum raids" discussed and planned at length.

The political use of this tactic can be basically summed up by the term "Freep" (a verb), because of the rampant raiding of forum members from the ultra-conservative Freerepublic.com. I've been on a forum that was 'freeped'...and from day one the claim from them was "censorship". Things did not go well on that board for the next few years - long after the freepers left there was a real lingering autocracy in forum management and even I was eventually banned for defending conservative regulars. This type of thing takes a real toll after a while.

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