Why do regulars to RKBA respond to spammers?

[pipoman]

I see complaints about posters in this group spamming and not personally engaging in their own threads, so why do group regulars participate in those threads at all? Why not repost a subject if it looks like a good topic, and let the spammers thread drop like a rock?

This has been going on since DU2.

[Duckhunter935]

1. If you are talking about a certain spammer

I understand and respond to maybe 50% I talked to our host on this and agree it ends up just making this poster look like a fool in in the long run.

Sometimes it gives me some laughs on what gets posted

[rrneck]

2. The spam that gets posted is generally

production boilerplate generated by political hacks and talking heads which sometimes deserves an answer regardless of its origin or who posted it. The bulk of dialogue surrounding the gun debate is spam anyway.

If the spammer could produce better spam he would merit more responses.

[SecularMotion]

3. Just because you disagree with a post doesn't make it spam.

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I realize that members who hold more conservative views on guns may be uncomfortable with the news items I choose to share on DU. Many times I have requested that those members simply put me on ignore, yet they continue to post thinly-veiled personal attacks in an attempt to derail any discussions.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. FYI

Discussion: the action or process of talking about something, typically in order to reach a decision or to exchange ideas.

[SecularMotion]

5. There is no requirement to engage in a discussion with every right wing gun nut who joins DU.

[Duckhunter935]

6. but it is part of the SOP

of this group that you always ignore but you are great a banning people in your group that you say violate the SOP.

Discuss gun politics, gun control laws, the Second Amendment, the use of firearms for self-defense, and the use of firearms to commit crime and violence.

can you say hypocrite

[blueridge3210]

10. What thinly veiled personal attacks? (NT)

[oldhippie]

7. I have a certain spammer on ignore ...

... which makes for a much more pleasant DU experience.

[Duckhunter935]

8. amazing

when called out in post 6, he goes and hides like he is ashamed that he has been caught again

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172144374#post6

[SecularMotion]

9. See post #5

[IronGate]

11. Just to clarify,

you're calling the poster a RW gun troll?
Be honest without any of your cute little innuendos that you so seem to love.

[blueridge3210]

12. It would appear innuendo is all he has.

Thus the lack of actual discussion regarding his ubiquitous Google dumps.

[IronGate]

13. It would seem so.

I'm wondering how much longer the host is going to put up with this kind of disruption of the group before he says enough is enough?
I really don't want SM blocked, his threads are entertaining if nothing else.

[Eleanors38]

16. Some of the 'thinly-veiled' stuff.

[Duckhunter935]

19. and nobody is asking you to

just "some " comment on what you post or a discussion with one or two people. That is part of the SOP. again "DISCUSS".

[S_B_Jackson]

14. Because allowing a liar to present their version of "the truth" unchallenged

only gives credence to the lie.

[pipoman]

15. lol...look who just banned me from

The mutual mental masturbatory group. ..

Automated Message: You have been blocked from a group

You have been blocked from posting in the Gun Control Reform Activism group by SecularMotion. If you believe this is an error, you may contact SecularMotion for more information.

[Eleanors38]

17. Neophyte.

[oneshooter]

18. Why? n/t

[pipoman]

22. I've been tempted for a while since even reasonable

Discussion is banned, I could never post there anyway. I've had the group on ignore since it was established.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=6408

[oneshooter]

23. "You and your kind"

Anywhere else on this board that would get a person hidden. But not there.

[NYC_SKP]

24. Called you "bubba"!

So courageous, name calling keyboard warrior on the one hand, while defending the purity of the SOP for that group.

No wonder they've lost all their hosts.

[pipoman]

25. How does one identify a true "bubba"?

If one uses the word "bubba" while calling names would be a pretty good indication. ...

[Duckhunter935]

20. took you long enough

shows how shallow they are over there that they have to block so many. They are scared of actual discussion. It is the hypocrisy of that host over there that blocked you for violating the SOP when he does the same thing here every day. I just do not know how he justifies it.

he is getting up there in blocked numbers again.

Number Blocked members
1 hack89
2 Eleanors38
3 Crepuscular
4 Bay Boy
5 ManiacJoe
6 bossy22
7 Straw Man
8 oneshooter
9 Duckhunter935
10 friendly_iconoclast
11 rrneck
12 customerserviceguy
13 ProgressiveProfessor
14 sarisataka
15 appal_jack
16 Travis_0004
17 geckosfeet
18 Hangingon
19 NYC_SKP
20 Jenoch
21 spin
22 shedevil69taz
23 SoutherDem
24 Lurks Often
25 ileus
26 Recursion
27 SQUEE
28 MO_Moderate
29 S_B_Jackson
30 HALO141
31 Jgarrick
32 Valakut
33 arst1
34 Nuclear Unicorn
35 TupperHappy
36 pipoman

[Duckhunter935]

21. see the thread

Doc is going to be right behind you being blocked

[geckosfeet]

26. I got the ban early on - for discussing. And the hypocrite tries to claim that people

actually discussing are derailing. Because the discussion presents an opposing viewpoint.

One sided "discussions" are not discussions. These anti-gun troll droppings are not "news" by any stretch of the imagination. They are propaganda. All manner of lies, inaccuracies and hyperbole that are posted for like minded haters to laud, salute and cheer as truth.

Sometimes when I see the boilerplate rhetorical anti-gun tirades that have been cut and pasted from low information blogs, articles and crap holes on the internet I feel obligated to discuss. The poster is aware of the weak ground that the posts are based in and hence refuses to support them beyond the OP - but that does not deter me from saying my piece.

But you are correct - some of that stuff is truly mindless drivel - troll droppings - ranting spam that does not warrant any kind of response.

[oneshooter]

27. "for like minded haters to laud, salute and cheer as truth."

Apparently there are 8 acceptable posters in all of DU.

[Jenoch]

28. It's chickenshittedness at its finest.

[geckosfeet]

29. Yep. Gutless wonder defined. Drive by crappers.