tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78327805829283986552012-02-10T17:09:57.434-08:00Skewering our favorite right-wing dead-endersYLBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16074467077360773101noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832780582928398655.post-21214507209329092292011-11-15T23:59:00.001-08:002011-11-16T00:00:58.329-08:00

His philosophy of aesthetics reminds me of a quote that went something like this: “Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.” Steve always aspired to make beautiful later. He was willing to be misunderstood.

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The Montana "friendo" (right) and his leetle sidekick, you-know-who! The "friendo" from Montana hungers for the flesh of an occupier. The zombie cretin reaches for a "happy meal". Mmmm yum! Leftist! The asshat troll in his "natural" state. The asshat troll again, taking a "breather". The asshat troll (hat off) having a screwdriver at happy hour. Yikes! What a headache the next

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See this thread. The moron begins: I know you’ll neva do it but you could tell ekim where I’ve been in the world for the last three months since you know how to tell where everyone posts from on this blog. Me: Nope you silly dope I don’t know where “everyone” posts from unless “everyone” (meaning here right wing dopes) is REALLY REALLY STUPID and tells me!Puddydope: Second you were the one [

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This code is actually from another project. I'll eventually use it in the troll project. It's kind of simple but it's just so damn awesome to me from a geek perspective: Click the picture above to see it better. What does it do? Answer: Anyone who has been around long enough to have suffered through writing a report in COBOL may remember the ancient concept of a "control break" - simply the

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of tehchickenshit troll.. Quite a limited worldview to be sure..

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In the last installment we looked at some code that implements the "added view column" (ac) feature of my column search program. I demoed it in the comment threads here. The column search (hacols) is the program whose output I often post in the comment threads. One day I needed a convenient way to assemble a url to a specific comment from parts I had already been collecting and thus the "added

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I once read in a detective novel that solving mysteries is simply a matter of learning, over and over again with each mystery, to see what is right in front of one's face. In this post, the mystery I am reporting to have solved, is the last name of Puddybud. We know his true first name - Darrell. We've known it for a long time. He signed one of his early comments with it: 149. Puddybud spews:

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During the back and forth in the comment threads over the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (among others), Puddybud went off on yours truly: You wasted all those unemployed months telling the unemployment office you were looking for a yob while writing BULLSHIT code!Bullshit code??? Hey those are fighting words! Can Puddybud or anyone else tell "the world" what this does?

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Again: Puddy was the recipient of name calling WAY BEFORE Puddy called people names. Ok forget that Puddybud, in his very first comment, called Goldy a "butt" (which he has flat out denied) and a "HorsesAss", which we'll set aside - after all, Tim Eyman got that from Goldy, right? It's only right Goldy should expect that from Eyman supporters, right? What about this "WAY BEFORE" stuff? What

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monomania/mɒnəˈmeɪniə/ ▶noun obsessive preoccupation with one thing. – derivatives monomaniac noun & adjective, monomaniacal adjective. The world "monomoniacal" appears, as of the end of November 2010, in 238 comments. Let's see who's used the word over the years: Puddybud shows up quite prominently. In fact his various handles account for 222 out of the 238 usages. Since this series is about

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Short answer: Puddybud did. Proof: First, a quote from old #2 himself: Puddy was the recipient of name calling WAY BEFORE Puddy called people names.Yes he's said this many times. We liberal leaning folk started name-calling him. He was provoked into being such an OCD name-calling troll. Sorry Puddybud. This is not true. Let's look at your very first comment at HA.org (as Puddybud, anyway),

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Enjoy.. Blow it up to full screen to see it better. Update: small bug found in the snapshot code. As of my last run, the db has 238 comment records over 8 articles in August. Before it was just importing the same 168 records.

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This post will begin a series on HA's most obsessive and unrepentant troll: junkshot, my name for the troll you all know as Puddybud. We'll start at the margins and move in deeper. This will be an occasional series touching on stuff I find mostly laugh out loud hilarious, otherwise I'm sure you'll all agree that junkshot is a pretty tedious character. Focusing on individual trolls is somewhat of

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The 319 handles in the "between 100 and 999 comments" bracket have been tagged. Learned many interesting things. About a third of the handles were pretty obvious names that were familiar to me. They took about as much time to tag as the over 1000 group. However the remainder were kind of forgotten to me and I had to flip between my tag file and a little query script to scan their comments to

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Over the weekend I took the most comment-prolific 81 handles, grouped the contained aliases under a single tag (e.g. all of Puddybud's various handles under the tag "junkshot") and categorized the tag as troll or non-troll. Remember that those top 81 handles have contributed 1,000 or more comments each and in total account for over 62 percent of all comments. Conclusion: 30 percent of those

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“If your faith conflicts with reality, ignore reality.” A distilled teabagger and HA troll maxim. This blog cannot be about just the trolls. It should also from time to time salute the heroes. Thanks to relative newcomer, Deathfrogg.

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Been a while since the last post. Still tagging handles, still removing warts from my code. The latest code is almost where I want it. I could do a bit more factoring, removing some repetition but it would be more for aesthetic purposes. The code does what I want with satisfactory performance. Test coverage as is usually the case could be much better. On a more relevant note, April and May 2010

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Tagging handles in earnest indeed. In the meantime, I may tweet a few eureka moments about code or trolls. While I was at it, I added an rss feed. Ciao..

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In the last post I was all jazzed about an opportunity to make the data collection from my "select sources" run much faster. Well, I'm pretty much at the other end of it and I'm quite happy about it. I did a major rework of the code. It's much better than before and my only regret is that I wish I'd thought of this speedup sooner. The old code base accomplished the collecting (almost 8,000

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One goal of this project was to  minimize data collection as much as possible directly from HA.org itself. I would have been a lot farther along much sooner if I didn't care about this. Why is this important? I not only want to slice and dice troll behavior but I also want to learn all these awesome cool ruby-based software libraries. They've been a total joy to learn about and work with. The

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To kind of, sort of check on the quality of the data collection process, I whipped up a report of the most commented articles of each month of HA's existence. Then here and there I went to the well to see if what I have and what HA has matches up.. I've found tiny variances in, strangely enough, both directions.. I'll definitely have to look more thoroughly at those months where I seem to have

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One half of one percent of commenter handles, 80, belong to an elite group. They are handles each associated with over 1000 comments posted throughout the lifetime of HA.org. I posted the top 10 a while back. Browsing the list of 80.. All the names are quite familiar to me, troll and hero alike, and as the picture above shows, they account for over 62 percent of the comments posted. They

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Trolls and Heroes adopt many aliases over the course of their on-line existence. To separate them from one another and make searching and analysis easier I'm going to stamp each comment with a tag. No not all umpteen thousands of them - just associate the 15,078 handles (and growing) with a more coherent tag e.g. puddybud for all the versions of puddybud's handle and that will in turn stamp his

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When bet-welshing troll Mark the Redneck arrived on the scene, he bragged he had a blog. I remembered him crowing about it and I had even read it once or twice but I forgot the url and could never find it again through google searches.. Well here comes our database yet again to the rescue. The blog probably went quiet shortly after MTR's boast but its ghost haunts our dim memory through the

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I've collected all the data up to the end of February 2010 and had some fun running a few reports. Now what? There's the QA process. Do I really have all the data or do I just think I do? How do I exclude what I don't want, i.e. spam? How do I separate the HA.org heroes from the trolls from the spammers? That's the most important question because this project is about troll behavior and having

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Here we see a screenshot of a pivot table I cooked up to summarize comments by handle in 2009. I looked for handles that had either "Roger" or "Rabbit" in them, i.e. Roger|Rabbit, not being confident that the bash command line interface would tolerate the space between the first and last names in one shot.. Well lookee there in the leftmost column.. (Click on the picture to super-size it.) A

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As of the end of February 2010. 7,680 articles over the 70 months HA.org had been to that point in existence. 414,965 comments. (Haven't filtered out the spam yet.) Whew! A mother lode of right wing inanity and foolishness. With some intelligent and fun liberal-leaning comment thrown in.. and last but not least: Out of 15,078 unique handle names! Top 10 # of comments by handle: 10 GBS @

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Today I'm going to study the Google API and try out a few experiments.In the meantime, Doofus shat out a little nugget last night in response to the gathering momentum against the Faux News Channel:Just more proof that liberals can’t handle the truth.Sorry doofus, the truth is that Faux News broadcasts lies, smears and RNC propaganda. Faux News is anti-democracy and cheer leads for a one-party

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Chime in with intelligence on your favorite trolls, suggestions, etc.

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Yeah, that's my name for him anyway. Status: Inactive Quick facts: One of the most fervent and repetitious purveyors of right wing lies on HA.org. Started trolling shortly before the GECT. Seattle native, hates public schools, practices the vote fraud religion. Aliases: RUFUS, Dan Rather, Al Gore, Jane Balogh's Dog, many others. Misc: Can't accept the simple fact that he's a total loser. Got

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Status: Active Quick facts: started trolling about 3 or 4 months before the WA goobernatorial election contest trial. First offensive words out of his keyboard I noticed were the words democrapic and moveon.pork. How endearing. Acquaintance of progressive, liberal HA.org star GBS. Aliases: Mike Webb Sucks, Reckless, Kingbud Misc: Believes the world is about 6000 years old but admits he could

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I'm going to compile dossiers on each of the trolls. There'll be links on the sidebar to each dossier to make it easy for you to contribute items on each troll that I may have overlooked. You do this in the comments sections of the post.The dossiers will have the following sections.Quick facts - the quick and dirty back story on the trollAliases - This is important. Trolls often post with many

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Not only was it my birthday, it was the day Goldy deleted the content of two off-topic comments from two of HA's worst trolls: DOOFUS and MTR the braindead bet welsher. The right-wing BS of these trolls will be analyzed in future posts.Yes indeed, an excellent birthday present.Thank you Goldy! I love this new policy!

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Greetings fellow HA readers, progressives and yes, you trolls. Who amongst you loves to have fun with trolls? Raise your hand! All of you, good! Well, why am I doing this? Maybe out of some respect for Goldy's new commenting policy. To turn off my caps lock key. But also to brush up on my perl and ruby skills and learn the google API. Why you say? The HA.org comment threads are a priceless

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