WHAT IS A TROLL?

This blog was created to expose Trolls.

What is a Troll?

 The Wikipedia definition states: A troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion, often for their own amusement.

Psychology Today published a study that confirms what I, and many other blog owners, already knew: Internet trolls are horrible people. 

This study also states there is no purpose behind a troll’s comments, except to try and upset everyone else. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.

What kind of person is a troll (other than them being horrible people, I mean)?

Canadian research conducted two online studies with over 1,200 people. They gave personality tests to each along with a survey about their internet commenting behavior. The researchers were looking for evidence that linked trolls with the “Dark Tetrad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. And there are links between those personality disorders and Trolls. 

So, in short, Trolls are worse than horrible.

In today’s times, it’s easy to harass others. You can do it from your basement or kitchen, behind a computer screen with a made up moniker. You can call other people nasty, disgusting names with no fear of getting caught. And that’s the very sad part. Trolls have no backbone. Not guts. No honor. They would never act in person how they act on-line. They are afraid, so they hide.

So, how do you combat a Troll? You don’t feed it. Put your web page or blog on comment moderation and as soon as you see a comment from said Troll, don’t read it, immediately transfer it to your spam folder. Don’t delete the comments; you may need them in the future.

And never take a Troll seriously. They name-call and project. If they are liars, they will call you a liar. If they are deceptive, they will say you are deceptive. They will even insult your appearance. They are very sick individuals. And in their warped minds, they don’t realize their opinion matters less than fly poop to you. But they have a very bad self-image, so they thrash out at everyone else in the hopes they’ll feel better about themselves.

It’s quite pathetic, really. Imagine having a life where you hate yourself so much you have to attack others. You lie so much that you actually believe your lies. You have no social life, no one who cares about you, and you have no loyal friends—that’s a sad, useless existence, to be sure.

So, don’t feed the Trolls. And certainly don’t pay any attention to what they type.

 Ignore them.

As I said, they matter less than fly poop.

THE TROLLS ARE BACK

We couldn’t get lucky and have every troll and fake blogger take a long walk off a short pier. That would be too easy, but certainly not as much fun!

Trolls think they are sneaky and can hide behind numerous blogger id’s and profiles. But I’m here to tell you, a few minutes of sleuthing and voila, you find this:

Get It Right, who posts a lot on a blog called Who’s Your Daddy, posted this comment which was spoofed from this website by someone named NAT4900.

Then there’s Anita Says It Right who posted on Who’s Your Daddy but the comment was taken from this website by ArKay99.

And again with Speak Your Mind who also posted at Who’s Your Daddy but the comment was found on Cynthia Sees It Right’s blog.

We have Get It Right, Anita Says It Right and Cynthia Sees It Right. 

See the pattern? And I’ve only just begun to sleuth!

FAKE BLOGGER UPDATE

Hello Honorable Bloggers.

I just wanted to touch base and let you all know that Professor of Life, Grey Wolf Attacks, and Grandma ZaZa have closed their blogs. Now, don't go getting all upset. I know how much you relied on those fake blogs for UNoriginal information—with all that copying and pasting going on, but you’ll just have to adjust. Maybe go visit the original sites from now on—ya know, and get it first hand from the real authors.

Oh, that reminds me! My blogroll on the left sidebar has a listing of the blogs that are proven plagiarizers. I haven’t written about all of them yet, but felt you should at least know who is not trustworthy, and I’ll add to it as I find others. I’ll get around to the posts when I have a chance, but they are pretty much the same—using the same MO in just about each and every blog, but some are actually quite humorous, so I’ll post them in case you are in need of some comic relief.

Also, if you know of any blogs that should be listed in my blogroll, but aren't, let me know. It’s actually a List Of Shame and if these fake bloggers had an ounce of decency, they’d shut them down, but we know they don’t, so we’ll just make fun of them. It is the internet after all, and open to scrutiny, so, let’s scrutinize away!

ANOTHER FAKE BLOG GOT IT WRONG

Well I’m back from my hiatus! I apologize for my absence, but even a Sleuth needs a break now and again.

So, without further ado, let’s get down to why we’re here shall we? And we’re here because of fake blogs! And yes, Get It Right is, well, fake, just like the others in our Fake Blog Series. Oh, wait, what number are we on now? Twelve, that’s right, this is number 12 in our series.

Get It Right started her blog in September of 2009 and only blogged for a month, but during that time managed to plop 15 posts onto her blog; 6 on Sept 25th; 7 on Sept 26th; 1 on Sept 29th; and 1 on Oct 2nd. Out of those 15 posts, 10 were plagiarized.

Get It’s About Me doesn’t say where she’s from, but it says she’s very proud to be the wife of a Vietnam Vet for 23 years. Hmm, now who else was in the Military or related to someone in the Armed Forces?( Recap: PSI Bond was in the Military, Suzy’s husband served and Bob’s so-called son is serving in Iraq.) Like I mentioned in a previous post, keep this Military info under your hat for future posts.


And speaking of posts, Get It’s first post was copied right from Breitbart’s site and of course she gave no attribution to the site and she manipulated the dates. It was posted on September 26th, but she chose to show it posted on August 25th, probably to trick her readers into thinking her blog was older than it really was. But who would even believe the August date anyway! We can see her blog was created in September for Pete's sake! (These fake bloggers must think everyone is dumber than a box of rocks!)

You just gotta love when these fake bloggers copy from blogs and in those blogs are other fake bloggers! Get It stole her 2nd post from Obama’s An Idiot's blog, whose followers include none other than Bob Knows Best and Dark Wolf Attacks (Fake Blogger Coming Soon!) These just keep getting better and better all the time. I don’t have to watch comedy shows on television when I have fake blogs to keep me in stitches! Oh yes, and the original blog, Obama’s an Idiot, posted it on Sept 18th, but Get It posted it on Sept 26th but switched her date to reflect August 26th—nothing like stealing the work and then trying to pretend you were the first! A thief and a cheat. Fake bloggers won’t ever be accused of having morals!
Here we are again with yet another stolen post! This one from Mark Schannon at Blog Critics site. No attribution to Mr. Schannon and of course the dates were manipulated to show that she posted before him, the real author!

I’m guessing Get It thought she was being ever so clever with this cutesie of a post. But sorry, posting words that are otherwise lined out on the original post still count as plagiarism. Switching a word or two still equates to plagiarism. You see fake bloggers, it’s all plagiarism, because you stole the work and didn’t give attribution! Get it? It’s intellectual work from someone else, which you borrowed, and are required to link. It’s not difficult, Word Press and Blogger make linking very, very easy. Just copy (you know how to do this very well) the link and put in into the hyper-linking box/gadget when you are posting and your fake blog won’t be fake anymore! Oh my, I’m so giving them credit, aren’t I? I’m thinking these fake bloggers actually want, and are able, to act like the Conservatives they preach about so much! (I just cracked myself up! Excuse me while I wipe the coffee off my computer screen.)

Get it’s You lie post should’ve been posted about herself, considering she pilfered the entire post from Eileen for Freedom/L from none other than Brietbart’s comment section. As we keep seeing, fake bloggers don’t seem to have an original thought in their little pea brains.

Get It decided to post about the foiled NYC terror attack twice, here and here. Both were posted on September 25th within one minute of each other, however, her posting dates for both are September 20th. She does show the word snip in the first post, which indicates something was left off, but failed to notify us, by way of link or hat tip, which news source she was actually quoting, and the other post she doesn’t use the word snip, nor does she link, hat tip or reference at all, which leads me to wonder if the snip was plagiarized along with the rest of the post, considering there are numerous posts on this particular event, so a flip of a coin would be just as good as a guess to figure out which one she pilfered!


Get It wants her readers to think she can see the future and so posts a prediction, however, it’s actually comprised of two comments at Breitbart’s site, Cowboy Logic (pg 1) and SAWB (pg 2). Too bad Get It just doesn’t, well...get it.

Get It complains in this post about how children are being taught to sing Obama’s praises, well, she complains in the second half of the post, the first half is actually stolen from a CBS news source. If you look at her post carefully you’ll see that she mentions a video at the left, but there is no video at the left, nor the right, the top, nor the bottom, for that matter! Also she cut and pasted the post right after the quote children -- notice the coma after children. She left off according to Fox News! If these fake bloggers are going to plagiarize, the least they could do is make it look authentic for Pete’s sake!

Oh, she just keeps on giving! This post about the UN speech was written by Nebraska Patriot (comment #5) on the Gay Patriot’s site, but Get It decided it would look much better on her blog as a post written by none other than--her! Just like American Yankee, PSI Bond, Suzy’s Thoughts and Voice of Reason, the Gay Patriot is the site to steal, pilfer and pillage when you can not think for yourself!


In her Nancy Pelosi post, Get It pilfers part of Eamon Javer’s article from Politico and comment #5 from Ann&Mitt. We’ve seen this type of behavior before. We’ve come to learn it’s common for these fake bloggers to steal bits and pieces of articles and various responses from the comment sections and pass them off as their own. A lot of work for one measly post. It would be so much easier to write your own post, but hey, that would require thinking! My bad, I forgot they don’t have but a few brain cells to rub together.


So, there you have it. Get It Right has got it wrong, because she steals intellectual work from others and passes it off as her own. And no matter how some try to spin it, that is not flattering and it’s not a way to spread news that you might like. Linking is the appropriate way to do that. Period. The next time I hear spin I’m going to answer with “POFP”, which means, “Pants on fire, Plagiarizer!”

CHEERIO FAKE BLOG

Our 11th blog in the fake blog series is Ciao Baby. I’d much rather tell him bye-bye, however, we might as well get this shyster over and done with. Let’s see, he created his fake blog in August of 2009, and, like the other fake blogs, plopped down 7 posts for 2009: 2 on Aug 3rd, 1 on Aug 4th, 3 on Aug 6th and 1 on Oct 13th. CB doesn’t post again until almost a year later when he plops 2 posts onto his blog, 1 on Aug 15th and 1 on Aug 19th, and then like the others, completely abandons it.

CB has no About Me, however, he has a banner that reads: Born in Brooklyn, in his side bar, so we can safely assume he lives in none other than the great state of New York, along with Yankee, little Suzy and good ‘ole Jake! Wow, by the time I’m done that state is gonna be crowded!

CB has the same rantings as the other fake blogs and this post is no different; he went to the LA Times to pilfer a comment from Delaware Bob, then switched the sentences around a bit, but it’s still plagiarism, as I’m sure CB is well aware.

CB is all TRANSPARENCIES when it comes to plagiarizing! He pilfered from none other than Pajamas Media’s comment section, #1 by Pragmatist and #5 by David Thomson. The ironic thing here is there is a suspicious blog which was opened this very August--wait for it-- The Pragmatis! Oh, forgive the spelling, these fake bloggers, as we’ve seen, so suck at that! Check out this fake blog, who would spell attack like that? I mean even if the URL is taken, wouldn’t you like add a number or something? But the URL wasn't taken, he used darkwolf101, (another little tactic with the 101 that I'll get into soon) the fake blogger spelled attack correctly on his profile, well in one spot he did and the other he didn't, and then again incorrectly on the blog page, the dolt! Oh, it’s like a comedy show, that’s for sure, I get so many giggles doing the research for these fake blogs! Anyway, is it a coincidence that CB stole a comment from Pragmatist (spelled correctly) and then out of nowhere another fake blog appears with that very name? I’m just throwing that out there, folks, it seems awfully strange that there are just oh so many coincidences with these fake blogs.

CB calls Nancy Pelos (sic) the outrageous liar in this post, but what about him being the outrageous plagiarizer, and ghastly speller! I know, I know, but it’s just too much fun taking jabs at these goons. Anyway, he stole his wrongly spelled titled post from Media Matters! No one can ever accuse these fake bloggers of being partisan!

Hey Ciao Baby, it’s about original work and he certainly didn’t demonstrate that here! Nope, he jumped on over to Politco, another fav for the fake bloggers, and stole comment #135 by nntktr and #128 by JohnDDBCC.

So, there you have it, the 11th fake blog in our series, who lives in New York and steals from Politco, Pajamas Media, and the LA Times just like Yankee, Bob, good ‘ole Jake, Lulu, American, ‘lil Suzy, Grandma and Con16! Hmm, another coincidence? I think not.

BEING WRONG

Our 1oth fake blog in the series is Being Right, who created his blog in May of 2009, plopped 5 posts onto it; 3 on May 14th and 2 on May 16th, and then abandoned it. His profile picture is of Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor, and have a gander at where he lives! No, not Jake, you sillies! We know he lives in LA, I meant Being Right! If you said New York, you can advance to Go and collect $200 dollars--of course it’s fake, just like this blog!

Good ‘ole Jake, let’s call him that because I kinda like the name, k? Anyway, Jake’s About Me doesn’t say anything; however, he has a sidebar on his blog that was lifted straight from the Angry Patriot’s site, which was created way back in December of 2007! It ought to be interesting to see if the Angry Patriot really is angry once he receives my email on the plagiarism and copyright infringement of his blog, or if those little tidbits set him off.

The first post is about the Fairness Doctrine and Jake altered his post date to reflect May 1st, when it was actually May 14th. He also lifted the entire post from Pajamas Media, comment #1 from D-Wah. It’s getting oh so boring right about now-- we could recite these patterns in our sleep!

Will Jake Apologize for plagiarizing from Pajamas Media, yet again? This time he lifted part of the article by John Rosenthal and comment #9 by Another Chuck. Oh, I highly doubt any apology is forthcoming, because we all know by now that these fake bloggers have absolutely no moral fiber whatsoever, let alone manners!

Jake’s 3rd post is rather strange, not the post, well yeah that too, but I mean how it all comes together. The first paragraph was lifted from Kevin O’Brien of the Cleveland Opinion, no big surprise there, as we’ve seen these fake bloggers lift from plenty of sites. The 2nd half of the post, however, was lifted from the comment section of Progressive Eruptions, a Liberal blog, but the comment was supposedly written by a Conservative blogger by the name of Beth. Now here’s where it gets strange, there is a Beth who has a blog called 5ft 3. Now, if you click the profile of this so-called Beth, who left the comments at Progressive Eruptions, there is no blog attached to her profile, which was created April of 2009. If you go to the Beth who has the blog called 5ft 3, there is the same profile picture, but the profile that is attached has a completely different blogger profile identity number than the so-called Beth who left the comments, and this Beth created her profile back in August of 2005. Many questions arise from this situation, but one fact is certain, this so-called Beth person plagiarized from our Jake here, because this Beth person deleted her comments, however, Shaw at Progressive Eruptions has kept the deletions intact in the comment section so you can see when they were initially posted, which was May 15th 2009 and our Jake wrote his blog post on May 14th 2009, according to the RSS Feed. So, is this so-called Beth a plagiarizer or is Beth really Jake? And what about the real Beth over at 5ft 3? How does she feel about this? Was her profile hijacked? Or is she really the same Beth that posted over at Progressive Eruptions, hence the one who plagiarized from Jake? Again, for those who think it’s no big deal about fake blogs, think again, because it's dishonest actions like this that can harm a person's reputation!

So there you have the 10th fake blog in our series. Being Right, or Jake, for the profile picture he hijacked. Whacha think, folks?

The 11th in our series is on its way!

BLOG, FAKE BLOG

Golly, where to start with PSI Bond. I guess I’ll start with when he created his fake blog. It was October of 2009 when he plopped 13 posts onto it; 3 on Nov 10th, 4 on Nov 11th, 4 on Nov 12th, 1 on Nov 16th and 1 on Dec 23rd. He didn’t post again until April 21st of 2010, and then he completely abandoned the blog. Good riddance, considering he stole his About Me from the Free Republic where St Louis Conservative posted: I'm tired of hearing the refrain...."the GOP is dead"....and "the country is going down the tubes the way of Western European socialist countries". I'm sorry, I won't accept that. And comment #2 wrote: The Republican party can come back in a big way, if they’ll just return to first principles. All PSI Bond had to do was add that he was a husband, father and proud soldier who served his country, because what else would he have served? Coffee? Your guess is as good as mine considering we have no clue what the PSI stands for. We can guess though, and it could be fun!

He said he was in the military, you know, like Suzy’s husband, so maybe PSI is an abbreviation for Platoon Sector Indicator, or Personnel Security Investigation. Oh wait, he has Bond after the PSI. Bond! Oh my gosh! Like 007! He could’ve been a Spy, but he can’t tell us that because it could place him and his family in great peril, so he’s gave us a clue! That must be it! He’s a James Bond and PSI means Pretty Special Investigator! And boy is he ever special!

Yeah, PSI is so special that he felt he could steal his profile picture from Father Charles Liteky, the 1968 Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Father Liteky was a Catholic Chaplin who served in our Army during the Vietnam War and received the Medal of Honor because of his exceptional valor for saving lives while under fire. PSI had the disgusting audacity to steal this honorable man’s picture and pass it off as his own! But to some it’s no big deal that these fake blogs exist. Oh sure, it's no big deal that some schmuck has impersonated Father Liteky, a man of honor, and this schmuck, PSI Bond, hijacked his identity for a fake blog where he stole other people’s intellectual work and wrote what he believed—not what Father Liteky believed. That is just repugnant! And anyone with an ounce of decency would see it exactly like that, unless it is the person who has pilfered, not only the picture, but the articles as well--meaning, the fake blogger!

Okay, I think I’m finished with my tangent.

PSI's 1st post, ObamaCare, was actually posted on November 11th @ 5:39:23 pm, but PSI altered the date to reflect Oct 11th. He also didn’t write this post (no surprise there!) he lifted it from Cyber Geezer, who wrote it in Hot Air's comment section on November 11th @ 12:52 pm. It’s quite possible that PSI changed his posting date because Cyber Geezer (who also has a blog of his own) was the original writer and PSI wanted to hide his tracks—a tactic the other fake blogs used when they stole someone else’s work.

His 2nd post was plagiarized. Geez, I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. Oh, and it too was pilfered from Hot Air’s comment section! Guess PSI likes that site, eh? See comment page #2, comment by mtb on Oct 1st @ 10:01 am, and Jeanie @ 4:54 pm, then shoot on over to comment page #1, for canopfor on Sept 3oth @ 10:17 pm. Like, wow, lots of work for a whopping 6 sentences without proper sentence structure! Do these fake bloggers even bother to spell check? Heck, do they even bother to read what they’ve stolen? I’m going out on a limb and state for the record that PSI isn’t smarter than a 5th grader either!
It’s frightening how many posts have been pilfered from the American Thinker! They must have a list of favs and the American Thinker is in their top 5! Because PSI lifted the comments by Average Joe and JoeSwiss to create this post, in which he altered the date to reflect Oct 22nd rather than the original RSS Feed date of November 12th. If I had to go through so much trouble to hide what I was doing, I think I’d have to stop. I don’t believe it would be worth it! Especially considering they abandon these blogs after a few short months of creating them!

These fake bloggers just don’t stop with the disgusting theft and egregious actions. PSI’s Veteran’s Day wish post was…yep, you guessed it…stolen! Can you even believe it? Oh, now that was a dumb question, huh? Of course you can! I’ve been displaying theft after theft and dishonorable action after dishonorable action, why should Veteran’s Day be exempt from these thieves? PSI goes on about how Veteran’s Day means: Honor and Respect to him. He goes on to say that he’s retired now but would do it all over again if he could. Well, words are just that…words, especially if they aren’t yours! Check out this site where Debbie Taylor, retired MS1 from the Navy, wrote her feelings about Veterans Day: To me, Veterans Day means; Honor, Respect, and the price we pay or have paid to keep our country free. Those who serve have great respect for our country or they would have never volunteered to protect those who have been left behind. I myself am a Veteran of the United States Navy and I proudly served. I have been retired now for nearly 12 years. If I could do it all over again I would to help protect and serve our great country. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! and GOD BLESS those who have served and are now serving in our Armed Forces. HAPPY VETERANS DAY to each and everyone. -MS1 Debra J. Taylor (USNRET) ' How interesting. PSI Bond just changed Navy to Army and switched proudly served to served proudly. It’s still plagiarism and in the most disgusting form. He stole it from a Veteran! But Veteran’s Day means honor and respect to him? You’ve got to be kidding me! He doesn’t honor or respect a dog-gone person! He’s a thief and a schmuck! He’s also disgusting—stealing not only a Medal of Honor winner’s photo but now one of our honorable military Veteran’s memories and trying to pass it off as his own because he can’t even come up with something nice to say to our military men and women in his own words. Like I said—disgusting.
Sad, but true, but maybe it’s time to close this blog, PSI, since you stole it from the American Thinker, yet again. Except this time you took part of Michael Filozof’s article along with comments by Geoffry Britian, Sherry, DaveT and the last line in Ret. Marine’s comment. The entire post is how PSI is a hawkish, pro-military Vietnam Vet, but really it was Mr. Filozof’s personality, and how PSI thinks we should surrender in Afghanistan—does PSI even know where Afghanistan is located? I have serious doubts, considering I believe he’s dumber than a 5th grader with about as much decency as a snail.
Great Job, PSI Clown, who stole this one from the Gay Patriot! No new news there. But gosh, lots of work, comment #1 by Straight Aussie, #11 by Ted B, #21 by heliotrope, #5 by Anonny-nonny and then back to the last sentence in comment #1 by Straight Aussie just to create one post! Guess PSI isn’t such a Pretty Special Investigator after all! It didn’t take me all that long to peg him for a dishonest, lying, cheating, thieving fake blogger! How about you?