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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Attack of the Seminar Commenters

A not-so-new but aggressive defense mechanism has been unleashed in the blogosphere. Say something bad about Islam, scientology, Al-Goreble-Warming, and other things and you will get comments like this: A boilerplate Scientology response which came in here a couple days ago.

And some pro Al Gore global warming proponent posted here.

Both of these are long, well written and comprehensive. How come? These are people who attended a seminar on how to do this. Seminar blog commenters have these things in a file. They troll the blogosphere using Googles Blogsearch and post these comments in an attempt to deal with whatever the issue was.

That is their right, I guess, but they are long winded and not on topic many times. And, it’s not really debate.

I am going to find a half dozen things I give a darn about. I’m going to prepare a general comment defending whatever that is. Then I am going to troll the blog search engines and find people who are critical of or incorrect (according to me) in their opinion.

So should you.

Turnabout is fair play.

Comments

Avatar for Steve

Why not just delete the comments?

Steve on June 20, 2006 at 09:52 am
Avatar for Sphagnum

So should you.

Turnabout is fair play.

No thanks, I actually HAVE a life… I got better things to do than randomly post comments on random bits of the web…

Why not just delete the comments?

We at SA only delete comments that are excessively obcene, spam, or threatening…

Sphagnum on June 20, 2006 at 03:23 pm
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