236 posts, largely OPs, in an hour and ten minutes from that troll.

[highplainsdem]

That many since joining earlier this evening.

Admins, in case this is tried again, do you have a way to limit number of posts per minute?

Or at least the number of OPs per minute, since the intent seemed to be to fill up pages of the board?

[leftieNanner]

1. And we have another new one

Probably the same troll

[underpants]

3. Those are a joke.

Renew Deal has been here for 17 years. 76,000 posts.

[JoeOtterbein]

4. +1 nt

[leftieNanner]

5. Thanks

Nt

[Ilsa]

6. Who is the new one? nt

[Dream Girl]

2. Wat are you talking about?

[MustLoveBeagles]

21. RW trolls

A poster who just joined today called InnocentOne spammed the board with hundreds of OP's early last evening. I and many others were summoned for jury duty because of his/her antics. After about an hour MIRT revoked their posting privileges and all the spam posts were removed. There were some other smaller scale attacks too. Many here think this is the reason: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13567141

[peggysue2]

7. Just looked at the poster's profile

Posting privileges revoked. Bye-bye.

[zak247]

8. Russian troll

There will be a sinister plot to rile up the sore spot in America's racial divide, bet on it.

ProbabalyRussian trolls helping Trump.

ecilop eht dnufed

They see this. Trump probably has messaged them to get it going.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, its known Russians think they can bring on racial civil war but Russians don't understand black

... people like America like a sports car that keeps skipping second gear randomly but fun as all get out when it engages.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Randi Rhodes said today that the Russians were pushing the "defund" nonsense.

It wouldn't surprise me if this clown was operating from some troll farm in St. Petersburg.

[uponit7771]

15. +1, the defund is bad wording since it needs to be explained. If you're explaining you're losing

[Initech]

11. Probably testing the waters for November.

[canetoad]

17. No, I don't this this kind of ratfuckery

Is in the Russian Troll playbook.

Start looking at a site that must not be named here but it begins with CON and ends in Cave. There is an ever diminishing cadre of bitter and bored ratfuckers who replace friendship, sex and all normal human interaction with obsessively watching DU and commenting on posts here.

One of them has obviously downloaded forum bot software (such things exist) and is learning how to use it. I suspect this same ratfucker was here under several different usernames a few months ago.

[demtenjeep]

12. jezuz. I don't think I could post 100

in an entire day. Wow

[zak247]

13. manipulation

It's easy for a psychological warfare expert to manipulate political extremists as they are going to try to manipulate organizations to advocate fanatical ideas out of the mainstream to help Trump.

They did it big time in 2016 and they'll try it again.


It's going to get ugly folks very ugly going forth.

In-fact its already ugly

[Maeve]

14. Admin is on the case

It was a hard and fast attack, but it has been shut down and Admin is on it.
We shall overcome

[Polybius]

16. Damn, I missed it

Any links? What was his/her content like?

[canetoad]

18. Yeah, go back a page or two in

The GD pages. Start halfway down here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1002&page=2

[ecstatic]

19. lol! What should the limit be? nt

[TheBlackAdder]

20. There seemed to be upwards of 20 posts a minute. A simple fix is to allow 1-2 posts per minute, max.

[Sugarcoated]

22. Wingnut style

of disruption.

Bullies gettin kicked out of the schoolyard poor wee l'il mentally disturbed flakes❄❄❄

[Rhiannon12866]

23. I agree with the opinion that the increase in disruptors is because Discussionist is shutting down

Apparently, they're very angry and majority right-wing and are taking it out on DU. However, MIRT is on the job and has dispatched the worst of the influx. Don't hesitate to alert since that serves to alert juries - and MIRT.

I'm sure that the admins are aware of this, but questions to Skinner can be sent through Ask the Administrators:

Ask the Administrators
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=ata