{"id":183936,"date":"2012-09-28T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/28\/paid-trolls\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:40:00","slug":"paid-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/28\/paid-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;sh%$ty little blog&#8221; doesn&#8217;t rate them, but  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/deploying-shock-troops-against-blog-posts\/\">Barry Ritholtz problems<\/a>, particularly in his posts detailing Megan McCardle being a stooge of the Koch brothers, is something I&#8217;ve seen before.<\/p>\n<p>I do believe that there are people being paid to troll his comment section.<\/p>\n<p>I believe this because I am an alumni of <i>Netslaves<\/i>, where the sysop Patrick &#8220;Splat&#8221; Neeman was getting web design business thrown his way by Lauren &#8220;Uncle Meat&#8221; Bandler, and so was allowed to troll with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>It destroyed the board and the community.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s their goal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2XLUt.png\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>H\/t for the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/810\/\">xkcd<\/a>&nbsp; for the cartoon, which does not obscure the naughty word.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;sh%$ty little blog&#8221; doesn&#8217;t rate them, but Barry Ritholtz problems, particularly in his posts detailing Megan McCardle being a stooge of the Koch brothers, is something I&#8217;ve seen before. I do believe that there are people being paid to troll his comment section. I believe this because I am an alumni of Netslaves, where &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}