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Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:48 am
by iii
Reflections on GamerGate and Encyclopedia Dramatica included.
Link here.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:27 am
by EricBarbour
Hmm, interesting. Thanks. He doesn't seem to mention which early ED user he was.
Even more "interesting", there is a Wikipedia article
Emmett Rensin (T-H-L). Created in January by an SPA that did nothing else.
(fuxed tag)
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:39 am
by The Adversary
EricBarbour wrote:Hmm, interesting. Thanks. He doesn't seem to mention which early ED user he was.
Even more "interesting", there is a Wikipedia article
Emmett Rensin (T-C-L). Created in January by an SPA that did nothing else.
That is
Emmett Rensin (T-H-L) ...not
Emmett Rensin (T-C-L).
Also, he writes that he started the article "Chronic Troll Syndrome" over there, if so he is
https://encyclopediadramatica.es/User:Unknown (who has some pictures of other EDrs on his user-page)
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:49 am
by EricBarbour
oops, wrong tag
I'll be damned. One of the photos features Hipcrime, aka a WO user.
Dude!
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:33 pm
by EricBarbour
Info courtesy of persons unknown:
The article was created 26 November 2005, by "Primenumbers", a .com user. When .ch/.se/.es formed, most articles were created by scraping Google and other methods which lost the histories. For the article mentioned, a history is available at archive.org:
link
This reveals that the article was created by .com user "Primenumbers", whose userpage (
link) doesn't reveal much. His contributions list as of June 2007 shows his last contribution was December 2006 (and that he had 21 contribs as of then).
link
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:05 am
by Zoloft
We have a small community of ED, 4chan, Reddit, and even one or two GNAA members here at WO. Gives us some needed grey hat talent.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:20 am
by Notvelty
Zoloft wrote:We have a small community of ED, 4chan, Reddit, and even one or two GNAA members here at WO. Gives us some needed grey hat talent.
I guess you gotta have an underclass.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:44 am
by Zoloft
Notvelty wrote:Zoloft wrote:We have a small community of ED, 4chan, Reddit, and even one or two GNAA members here at WO. Gives us some needed grey hat talent.
I guess you gotta have an underclass.
Ask most of the folks at WP..we are the underclass.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 3:02 am
by Vigilant
Zoloft wrote:Notvelty wrote:Zoloft wrote:We have a small community of ED, 4chan, Reddit, and even one or two GNAA members here at WO. Gives us some needed grey hat talent.
I guess you gotta have an underclass.
Ask most of the folks at WP..we are the underclass.
No. The editors are the underclass. We are the outcast. The unclean. The untouchables.
Fuck 'em. We have the guns.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:47 pm
by Notvelty
Zoloft wrote:Notvelty wrote:Zoloft wrote:We have a small community of ED, 4chan, Reddit, and even one or two GNAA members here at WO. Gives us some needed grey hat talent.
I guess you gotta have an underclass.
Ask most of the folks at WP..we are the underclass.
Yes. Except they are wrong and I am not.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:29 pm
by tarantino
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:49 pm
by Kumioko
Zoloft wrote:Notvelty wrote:Zoloft wrote:We have a small community of ED, 4chan, Reddit, and even one or two GNAA members here at WO. Gives us some needed grey hat talent.
I guess you gotta have an underclass.
Ask most of the folks at WP..we are the underclass.
And we say the same of them!
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:44 pm
by Randy from Boise
iii wrote:Reflections on GamerGate and Encyclopedia Dramatica included.
Link here.
Excellent long read, well worth the time. So I'm a few years late to the party...
RfB
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:49 am
by Kingsindian
I also read that article a long time ago and found it useful. I once
mentioned the author, Emmett Rensin, and this article in another context.
Btw, Rensin also wrote a long
article for Vox on MRAs, Gamergate etc.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:48 am
by Zoloft
A most useful article.
Re: Confessions of a former internet troll
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:44 pm
by Textnyymi
Are you aware of any trolls who are paying for stuff and then they proceed to leak it online in order to cause distress?
https://bonuslevelgamingsite.wordpress. ... ed-online/
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/11/magic ... arassment/
This is where piracy and outright malicious trolling intersect, and there isn't a clear solution in sight. One user can pay for content and then it may end up somewhere else on the net, with different reasons behind such actions.