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"The game is never over until all the lulz have been had."

post #1 of 39
8/4/08 at 12:58pm
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The New York Times wants you to know they feel your pain.

Honestly, that picture at the beginning of the article is how I picture every cock jockey who starts shit on these boards.
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post #2 of 39
8/4/08 at 1:23pm
That was an interesting article. Thanks for the headsup on that one.
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post #3 of 39
8/4/08 at 1:31pm
I hadn't heard that term 'lulz' before...interesting article. There are far too many mean spirited people out there with entirely too much time on their hands.
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post #4 of 39
8/4/08 at 1:33pm
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And we've got an example right here ladies and gentlemen. Oh and this is connceted to 4chan? Well no shit.
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post #5 of 39
8/4/08 at 1:41pm
4chan never fails to elicit a laugh from me though. I know I shouldn't but I've found some funny stuff on there in the past. But some of these guys take it way too fucking far.
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post #6 of 39
8/4/08 at 1:43pm
No you're right. There are occasionally funny thing to be found. But that place is just a mountain of sick fucks and just plain cruel people over there.
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post #7 of 39
8/4/08 at 1:48pm
It's a shithouse now, though. I hope this NYT article finally kills it.
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post #8 of 39
8/4/08 at 1:57pm
It won't. The NYT may have bitten off more than they can chew. We'll see what happens.
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post #9 of 39
8/4/08 at 2:09pm
It's a fascinating article, if only for the way it sheds light on their juvenile misanthropy. Although I think 7 pages is probably giving them way too much credit.
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post #10 of 39
8/4/08 at 2:15pm
The idea brought up with the "green hair/bad journalist" analogy was spot on. You laugh it off and the power is gone, I learned that back in grade school when being made fun of for things. If you turn it around and take the power it doesn't matter. But the problem is that they end up taking it way too fucking far. Death threats? Destroying credit? That's ridiculous.
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post #11 of 39
8/4/08 at 2:18pm
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Originally Posted by reggie-wanker View Post
The NYT may have bitten off more than they can chew. We'll see what happens.
lulz
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post #12 of 39
8/4/08 at 2:20pm
Perhaps, but do these fuckheads seriously think they can fuck with the New York Times? I mean if Nixon couldn't break'em who thinks thess jerk offs can?
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post #13 of 39
8/4/08 at 2:23pm
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Originally Posted by Rob Hughes View Post
The idea brought up with the "green hair/bad journalist" analogy was spot on. You laugh it off and the power is gone, I learned that back in grade school when being made fun of for things. If you turn it around and take the power it doesn't matter. But the problem is that they end up taking it way too fucking far. Death threats? Destroying credit? That's ridiculous.
Bingo.

The entire subculture of trolls is basically the Internet's very own Fight Club, in that the principles are sound in that basic human drama, having been skewed and misused by our culture, should elicit a equal dosage of contempt, but the solutions and conclusions just make them look like fucking morons more than their targets.
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post #14 of 39
8/4/08 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Perhaps, but do these fuckheads seriously think they can fuck with the New York Times? I mean if Nixon couldn't break'em who thinks thess jerk offs can?
The Judy Miller Times is a pathetic shadow of the paper Nixon couldn't break. Stepping to Scientology is a bigger challenge.
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post #15 of 39
8/4/08 at 4:50pm
The line between Hacker and Troll seems to have blurred a bit.
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post #16 of 39
8/4/08 at 4:53pm
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Originally Posted by reggie-wanker View Post
The Judy Miller Times is a pathetic shadow of the paper Nixon couldn't break. Stepping to Scientology is a bigger challenge.
You are right. I can't think of a single domestic newspaper that hasn't been gutted to shit the past few years.
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post #17 of 39
8/4/08 at 5:24pm
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Originally Posted by jay f View Post
The line between Hacker and Troll seems to have blurred a bit.
Ditto.

It also seems like these guys want to feel important. Why else would some of these guys hassle someone they don't even know. Those that take it too far outside of a couple of forum posts are criminals. Plain and simple.


The problem is that they are going to step on the wrong toes, it's only a matter of time.
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post #18 of 39
8/4/08 at 5:47pm
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Originally Posted by New York Times
When Jason was 5, he said, he was molested by his grandfather and three other relatives.
What a fag.





lulz.



Am I doing this right?
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post #19 of 39
8/4/08 at 5:49pm
I actually don't know why they bothered printing that bit, it's obviously bullshit and an attempt to 'mess with' the reporter. Just goes to show that the kid who always got picked last for football has a 50/50 chance of either seeing The Dark Knight five times or becoming an amoral and misanthropic fuckwit.
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post #20 of 39
8/4/08 at 5:54pm
I thought his mother verified that though? Either way, if he's joking it's not funny and if he's not then he needs help.
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post #21 of 39
8/4/08 at 6:02pm
Perhaps it was that a good bit of the content and the message that one shouldn't trust what one reads, or perhaps it was the mention of a "Hacker's Conference" but that whole article gave me a distinctive Stephen Glass vibe.

Maybe I'm just paranoid.
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post #22 of 39
8/4/08 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by Matt Turner View Post
Perhaps it was that a good bit of the content and the message that one shouldn't trust what one reads, or perhaps it was the mention of a "Hacker's Conference" but that whole article gave me a distinctive Stephen Glass vibe.
Yep. Has an almost too unreal to be true vibe to the whole thing. The writer could have easily made just about all of it up. There's no accountability with the people the writer interviewed.
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post #23 of 39
8/4/08 at 6:19pm
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The writer could have easily made just about all of it up. There's no accountability with the people the writer interviewed.
The entire part about the Rolls Royce and driver seemed like complete bullshit.
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post #24 of 39
8/4/08 at 6:49pm
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The entire part about the Rolls Royce and driver seemed like complete bullshit.
On the part of the reporter or the troll? I should probably be more skeptical of the publication that brought us the work of Jayson Blair, but I'm giving the writer the benefit of the doubt. I suspect there's a lot of bullshit in that article, but it probably originated with the interviewees.

If you know you're going to be interviewed by someone from the NYT and you thrive on getting a reaction from people, scoring a Rolls Royce for a couple hours probably isn't the hardest thing to do.
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post #25 of 39
8/4/08 at 6:53pm
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On the part of the reporter or the troll? I should probably be more skeptical of the publication that brought us the work of Jayson Blair, but I'm giving the writer the benefit of the doubt. I suspect there's a lot of bullshit in that article, but it probably originated with the interviewees.

If you know you're going to be interviewed by someone from the NYT and you thrive on getting a reaction from people, scoring a Rolls Royce for a couple hours probably isn't the hardest thing to do.
It seemed like bullshit on the part of the reporter. Maybe I'm just too skeptical after finally watching season five of The Wire. God damn reporters.
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post #26 of 39
8/4/08 at 7:03pm
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A lot of it did stink of bullshit, but I kept reading because I wanted to know just how these idiots would rationalize their actions. Maybe there's a swirlie to troll ratio someone should look into.


And am I the only one who looked at that picture and thought:
1: This guy needs a kick in the teeth
2: I wonder what the score is on that game....
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post #27 of 39
8/4/08 at 7:10pm
I'm all for giving some folks a smack on the internet when they are being stupid or annoying, but some of the shit they talk about doing really crosses the line. I wish the reporter would have gotten the real names of those trolls and printed them.
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post #28 of 39
8/4/08 at 7:14pm
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Originally Posted by Kent View Post
"The game is never over until all the lulz have been had."
Isn't this what Kevin Costner says at the end of The Untouchables?
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post #29 of 39
8/4/08 at 7:24pm
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Originally Posted by Kent View Post
A lot of it did stink of bullshit, but I kept reading because I wanted to know just how these idiots would rationalize their actions. Maybe there's a swirlie to troll ratio someone should look into.
That the answer is some kind of vaguely Objectivist crap about online Darwinism shouldn't have surprised anyone in the least.
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post #30 of 39
8/5/08 at 3:01pm
These people that are just too big of a pussy to tourture and kill a real animal. When they are done acting out on the internet they will move on to real people.
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post #31 of 39
8/6/08 at 3:56am
An article on the New York Times about 4chan trolls? No thanks. Just that board's mention brings to my mind images of blister covered dicks. I couldn't leave that shit hole fast enough.
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post #32 of 39
8/9/08 at 7:02pm
These people give sick senses of humour a bad name. It's one thing to callously laugh at a ridiculous news item or internet posting, it's another to harass the people involved.

EDIT: Wanted to add I've never been to 4chan. Sounds like the worst the web has to offer. I'm tempted to go in a car-wreck appeal sort of way. Should I even bother? What's the worst thing you guys personally have seen done on there?
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post #33 of 39
8/9/08 at 7:13pm
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Originally Posted by Smeagol View Post
These people give sick senses of humour a bad name. It's one thing to callously laugh at a ridiculous news item or internet posting, it's another to harass the people involved.

EDIT: Wanted to add I've never been to 4chan. Sounds like the worst the web has to offer. I'm tempted to go in a car-wreck appeal sort of way. Should I even bother? What's the worst thing you guys personally have seen done on there?
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post #34 of 39
8/9/08 at 7:21pm
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Originally Posted by Headless Fett View Post
lulz picture
That's really clever. Did you get that from 4chan?
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post #35 of 39
8/10/08 at 6:42pm
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Originally Posted by Smeagol View Post
EDIT: Wanted to add I've never been to 4chan.
4chan is a vast unwashed demon anus filled with some of the most unlikable people on the entire internet. People who'd get bounced from the Portal of Evil and Something Awful flock there.

That said, my My Pictures folder is stuffed with some of the funnier pictures from their non-/b/ boards.
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post #36 of 39
8/10/08 at 6:52pm
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/b/ is not all bad. 4chan has tried (with limited success) to police itself, using moderators to purge child porn
Bless them. They're saints.
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post #37 of 39
8/10/08 at 7:06pm
I visit 4chan from time to time but absolutely never go anywhere near the /b boards. They're so bad that other boards in that site absolutely want nothing to do with it. I've been told that from time to time /b will try and invade the other boards but are saged/deleted to hell and just as quickly told to go back to their hole by the mods.

There are a few individuals that are interesting in a non-troll way in there, for instance there's a member who's actually living in Iran. He gives an interesting look at the situation there from a normal everyday civilian perspective.
For instance, remember a few months back when the Iranian navy was running their speed boats at the US Navy in the Gulf to antagonise them? When someone asked him what the population thinks of the situation, he merely informs the board that the people are more worried about keeping warm since some of their fuel supplies from Russia got turned off again.
You certainly never got that impression from all the other news networks.
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post #38 of 39
8/15/08 at 4:02pm
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Originally Posted by Smeagol View Post
That's really clever. Did you get that from 4chan?
Go ahead, go there, you know you want to.

In soviet russia, rofl copter laughs at you!
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post #39 of 39
8/16/08 at 7:23am
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Originally Posted by El Thain View Post
Go ahead, go there, you know you want to.

In soviet russia, rofl copter laughs at you!

I actually have now. I saw a bunch of dumb racists posting, mostly.
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