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Good old Boris...

Dont just elide the text. Completely delete the article from all listings, including the headlines. Its that simple. He is simply posting the same links over and over. He is attempting to drown out the info here with repeated posts. This is an attack on the site and should no longer be tolerated. Like any mindless terrorist in the real world, the "ADL" poster should have his posts summarily, and without fanfare, eliminated. To do anything less is to encourage him. And if he has all these links, when Yahoo does its scan, being linked to from other sites increases the scoring - so not only is he abusing your readers, he is abusing your site to interject his demented standpoints illicitly to innocent parties. Time to treat him like the rabid opossum that he is - and put him out of our misery.

I've spent most of the day deleting Boris/ADL posts and I'm as tired of it as you guys are. More tired, in fact. His posts show about a dozen different IPs, all of which â to date â are banned. He probably posts from the library or something, or works in an office where he has access to a number of different computers. One IP looked spoofed, so he might be the source of some of those e-mails saying "Read the attached right away."

I've set up a separate "Trolls and Spam" category on the editor's page. The associate editors will have to move them there, but please just ignore them until they do or until I can delete them.

We've been lucky up until this point. The trolls have gone away after a day or two of mockery. Boris is more determined to be obnoxious than the average troll.

I'll probably have to explain that at my trial.

Posted by: OldSpook 2004-03-17

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