Tuesday, May 24, 2005
(3:51 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Spurious Comments
Reportedly, The Weblog's resident troll is visiting various blogs and commenting under my name. His style is quite recognizable -- for a lot of samples, click here.We've tried everything to get rid of him. Banning his IP doesn't work, because it's easy to change one's IP. Recently I gave Anthony administrative rights to the comments, and he has taken special joy in editing Mr. Troll's comments to make them positive and even fawning. The indignity of having positive comments about me attributed to him was evidently so great that now he has gone on the offensive.
If you are infected with this embittered young man's comments, I apologize. I have not made any comments since 12:00 Central time (GMT -6:00) today, and I will make no comments on any other blog for the next week, to allow you to identify and eliminate him. This is a major sacrifice, since I just mentioned that I need to go comment-whoring, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for the greater good of the blogosphere.
UPDATE: I think it's humorous and ironic that he is now universally known as "my troll." His claim to fame is that he harasses me and my friends. He should be leaving complimentary comments about me, since I made his reputation! Anthony's editing jobs are doing nothing but bringing the "is" in conformity with the "ought."
UPDATE [2]: Anthony points out in comments that Mr. Troll often puts "theweblog.com" as his URL. Don't tell him, but that's not actually the URL of this site.
