Not a problem. I genuinely think that there are better uses for your time (because the adage of "don't feed the trolls" is always applicable), but at least this puts your motives into a better light.
God bless, and may the Peace of Christ be with you.
Today's Troll Watch includes specific IP addresses that have sent traffic to and from Free Republic this past week. It's a huge amount of data that gets captured so it's a bit of a challenge to sort it all out and identify it but I've managed to identify the following IP addresses and they are absolutely from the Russian Federation . Memo to the trolls: I'm watching you . 😈 5.178.86*77 194.190.76*41 194.190.76*44 94.100.180*197 213.180.204*90 141.101.196*233 151.236.127*145 37.18.24*16 Caution to anyone trying to play with these IP addresses is that they may also host malware or other active defenses that can harm or compromise your computers. Thus I have replaced one of the octet markers with an asterisk to prevent casual or accidental connection to these IP addresses. That is all.
In the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year I started tracking troll activity on Free Republic. This is because of so many accounts having a noticeably synchronized set of narratives, buzzwords, insults, and tactics. All of which I have detailed in previous pages of this blog. And I started keeping a list of the accounts that 1) demonstrated the above characteristics and 2) did not give me any reason to exclude them from the list. It didn't mean they were a paid troll it just meant that I had no reason to remove them from my watchlist. Case in point is AAABEST (Since Mar 21, 1998). He's an asshole. Yes, he's pro-Putin and pro-Russia but he's also such an asshole that while the Russians might be thieving, raping, murdering ghouls I still won't blame them for the sheer assholery this cretin publishes every day. I don't think he's a troll, he's just an asshole. But back to my list. There's mostly accounts involved with Russi...
Let's get it started with this post by Jim Robinson today: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4140533/posts Please keep those donations coming in, folks. We need to bring in at least another $10K before the end of the quarter. We can do this! Let's get 'er done. [FReepathon] 03/24/23 | Jim Robinson Posted on 3/24/2023, 8:52:05 AM by Jim Robinson Please keep those donations coming in, folks. We need to bring in at least another $10K before the end of the quarter. We can do this! Let's get 'er done. Thank you all very much! God bless. Gosh, donations to FR are down by 20%? Well that's just sad. Damned shame that Jim/Chris has been banning some of the most active financial supporters of FR for daring to express opinions and observations that they don't like. It's so shocking that when you ban people from your site that they stop giving you money. Amazing how that works, isn't it? In the forums the number of old accounts with a sudden and passio...
Not a problem. I genuinely think that there are better uses for your time (because the adage of "don't feed the trolls" is always applicable), but at least this puts your motives into a better light.
ReplyDeleteGod bless, and may the Peace of Christ be with you.