The 15 Rules of Web Disruption

[Tunkamerica]

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/the-15-rules-of-web-disruption-2/

The 15 Rules of Web Disruption
by Washingtons Blog
How to Spot – and Defeat – Disruption on the Internet

David Martin’s Thirteen Rules for Truth Suppression, H. Michael Sweeney’s 25 Rules of Disinformation (and now Brandon Smith’s Disinformation: How It Works) are classic lessons on how to spot disruption and disinformation tactics.

We’ve seen a number of tactics come and go over the years. Here are the ones we see a lot of currently.

1. Start a partisan divide-and-conquer fight or otherwise push emotional buttons to sow discord and ensure that cooperation is thwarted. Get people fighting against each other instead of the corrupt powers-that-be. Use baseless caricatures to rile everyone up. For example, start a religious war whenever possible using stereotypes like “all Jews are selfish”, “all Christians are crazy” or “all Muslims are terrorists”. Accuse the author of being a gay, pro-abortion limp-wristed wimp or being a fundamentalist pro-war hick when the discussion has nothing to do with abortion, sexuality, religion, war or region. Appeal to people’s basest prejudices and biases. And – as Sweeney explains – push the author into a defensive posture:

Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule … Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.

[chalky]

1. Nice find. Bookmarking for later.

n/t

[.99center]

2. Trolls will be trolls

Discussion boards will always be be full of trolls trying to disrupt and all moderator's are just power hungry authoritarian's....what are you going to do? The only way to get rid of trolls is to make everyone who wants to join send in 4-5 forms of ID and tag their post with the info they provide. The side effect would be that trolls wouldn't be visiting forums and providing add revenue, then we would have no voice and society would fall into anarchy.

The article is from a kook website and is written by a "blogger" I'll take a pass on reading this one, I'm sure his only motive is money.

And to the poster, why post this drivel? Are you an anarchists??

[blogslut]

3. Ha! Ha!

Numbers 5 & 14!

[postulater]

4. Ha! Good one.

[myrna minx]

8. May I suggest a Che avatar?

[corkhead]

7. You might benefit from reading the entire article to help yourself become less obvious

[winstars]

5. If DU had Stickies, this could easily be one, especially these days... n/t

[Major Hogwash]

6. Hurricane Sandy killed people in real life, and President Obama acted quickly.

I have a dozen friends from this forum that live on the East coast, and I haven't heard from all of them yet.

Disrupting this forum is a way of life for some members of the DU.
But, some of the people that used to post here have lost their lives over the last dozen years.