We’ve been blissfully troll-free in the month that the Blogthing has been live, but it was only a matter of time.
Notice: Trollish posts herein and henceforth will be disemvoweled. If you really want to see what has been posted you can figure it out, but you’ll have to put in a bit of work. People who have used this technique have reported that it has generally been successful.
With that, let me introduce to you our first disemvoweled poster: biggun. Biggun, your trollery and crudity and atrocious spelling bore us to tears, but it doesn’t bore us as much as listening to you and your confreres whine about your posts being deleted.
Link to online disemvoweling tool.
This article appears in Rural and Rebellious.
Thank You for sharing Hank. You may have given some of us newbies the very tool we need to turn the tide of our struggle.
-boy
Look forward to seeing how this works for you.
If you are talking about my blog “fans” H, I only have two trolls right now. I am sure Hank and Co. will have plenty more to deal with.
-boy
I was responding to Hank’s post and his disemvowling of the forelinked troll. Perhaps it will work for you, too, Boy.
Oh ‘ray! someone’s on it at long last.
Disemvowelment is nearly as good as defenestration, and you don’t have to let all the cold air in. I’ve loved it since I saw TNH doing it at Making Light.
Eric, are you watching? s Stphn bng pn th ss?
If the troll’s purpose is to annoy (as opposed to rant), you risk increasing the frequency of his posting. Disemvowelment turns a troll’s rant into spam. A few disemvoweled messages are amusing; a lot are annoying.
Nothing works better than good old-fashioned deletion and IP banning. Delete the spam and you erase his investment. Make it a competition. At the end of the week, the staffer who has deleted the most blog spam wins a Bon Boniere sundae.
Yes, repeat offenders will get the old-school treatment. Think of disemvowelment as a shot across the bows.
Think of disemvowelment as a shot across the bows.
Nice Hank, very funny! Combat tactics. Love it.
-boy
This will really make troll droppings hard to decipher when trolls misspell and then lose their vowels.
Yeah, that’s like double jeopardy.
Or Wheel of Fortune.
Ha!