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There is a terrible and wonderful thing about Facebook: Its security settings are supposed to give you lots of control over your account, but you have to be careful, especially if youre running a group, about who you give administrator access to. Like for instance if youre running a pro-Confederate flag group, and you are won over by a charming person who talks a lot about his southern heritage and how much the flag means to him, and he turns out to be a liberal with a wicked sense of humor who, once given admin privileges, kicks out all the other admins and renames the group LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama and Judaism. And what follows is a beautiful thing, possibly even better than the people who throw goats all over rightwing Facebook pages. Or at least as good we dont want to stir up discord, so well just say both are excellent.
Slate identifies the merry prankster as Vigil Texas, a Brooklyn-based professional funny person who got himself into a Confederate Pride group, messed around with its header pictures, and then volunteered to help the groups administrators clean out all the trolls if theyd just let him have access to all the sites settings. And then the real fun started. Heres a sample of screenshots (there are more here):
After a few hours, the original admins managed to revoke Virgil Texass admin privileges. But before they kicked him, hed approved some 50 other new administrators, who continued to wreak havoc. The pages subject kept changing from the Christopher Dorner Memorial Page to General Sherman: Wonderful General to Islam is the Light, which left some of the original users even more puzzled, especially when the trolls started using Treason Flags as their own avatars:
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Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)So happy to kick and it needs a ton of recs to share with all here.
Finally, someone brought back a good old flag with diagonal bars on it, at least:
image:
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Conor Tripler is one of my heroes along with Virgil Texas.
And the funny part is that "Davie" called it the "BRITISH flag????", apparently ignorant of the fact that the correct name of this flag is the "Union Jack", ironic given that the Rebels are constantly reminding everyone that the Rebel flag is not the "Confederate Flag" but the "Confederate Battle Flag." As if getting the name wrong somehow matters in whether it should be displayed.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 2, 2015, 10:34 AM - Edit history (2)
by getting them to send money under the pretense they wanted to join them in Syria.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)But I'm going with this, since it's focused on dullards in America.
Closer to home...
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)who can barely recognized they are being trolled is time well spent.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)years ago. Don't even get me started on the "Rich Oil Baron" scam! LMMFAO! I used to tell them to send me pictures of them holding a chicken in one hand and that days paper with the date visible. Those were the mild ones! I've asked them to send me pictures of their wives in bikinis, or have someone take a picture of them both standing in water, topless. up to their waists. I would ask them all kinds of personal questions, and if they started to get hesitant I would remind them that "You contacted ME, and want ME to trust you with MY Bank Account, so YOU have to SHOW ME that I can trust you, too! What the heck, I'm getting $80 MILLION DOLLARS, right? I will give you each a half of a million dollars just to indulge me some!"
I ran them around more than they ever thought of running me around! I would email them each morning as soon as I woke up and asked if they got my banking info i had sent earlier?
Fun Times!
Peace,
Ghost
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)lucidamente 7 hours ago
Hoping something similar happens to Donald Trump fan sites. (Say, "Short-fingered vulgarians for open immigration and rent control."
The possibilities are endless.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)demmiblue
(36,898 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Ingenious!!!!!!
The wheels of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly FINE!!!!!
Skittles
(153,193 posts)"glad to hear it, Dane. It takes a while to come to terms with your sexuality but I'm glad you've come to this point."
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Also, I want a goat with guns. My life will not be complete until I get one. Or several.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Oneironaut
(5,525 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)They're just not that bright.
DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)You know, the one with the dildos and butt-plugs?
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Even with a Camarillo Brillo.