As one of the smaller, lower-traffic bloggers here, I don't have PZ's fame and fortune. But I also don't have his problems. Today, I'd settle for one of the problems. In classic lemonade from lemons fashion, PZ just found a solution to dealing with annoying commenters that makes me almost wish I had enough loons to try it out for myself.
Sadly, there just aren't enough irritating commenters who regularly appear here.
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Ask Pee Zed to alter the rules. Instead of banning whoever wins the vote (unless they are deemed to have reasonably answered the immunity question), have Pee Zed or the SciBorg autoredirect the troll to this blogâ¦
Oh, and eating babies helps too. Horns are optional, but useful.
I could be irritating if that would help.
Romans 6:12-16
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!
16Know ye not that to whomever ye yield yourselves as servants to obey, his servants ye become whom ye obey, whether of sin which leads unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
*I could have been more irritating if it was all upper case, but I don't know how to do that without retyping it with CAPS LOCK on, but that would go against the "copy & paste" method of this particular style of annoying comment. Hopefully it was annoying enough for you. ;-)*
If it would make you feel better, I could have a go at a few sockpuppets.
The Science Pundit: I don't know how to do that without retyping it with CAPS LOCK on
For the average user, the easiest way I can think of would be to copy the text into Word or OpenOffice, change case (probably under "format" or such), and copy back to post.
For turbogeeks, a small sed or awk script is doubtless possible.
ROMANS 6:12-16
12LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY, THAT YE SHOULD OBEY IT IN THE LUSTS THEREOF.
13NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO SIN, BUT YIELD YOURSELVES UNTO GOD AS THOSE THAT ARE ALIVE FROM THE DEAD, AND YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO GOD.
14FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE.
15WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID!
16KNOW YE NOT THAT TO WHOMEVER YE YIELD YOURSELVES AS SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YE BECOME WHOM YE OBEY, WHETHER OF SIN WHICH LEADS UNTO DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS?
Thanks abb3w! Now I can be really annoying!! (OpenOffice has a "ChangeCase" option in the Format menu.)
I stopped keeping track of PZ a few months ago. Not because of the wingnuts that comment on his blog but his cult like following was reaching somewhat disturbing levels.
(hmmm... does that make me irritating?)
echo text to convert | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"
works nicely -- or you can redirect to/from files.
Yoshi-- No one goes there any more, it's too crowded.
Yoshi - I tend to agree. At times it is too much like a feeding frenzy with the shrieks of 'concern troll' whenever anyone tries to see things from a different point of view. Some of the commentators are probably not that dissimilar to those they criticize.
Yoshi ("I stopped keeping track of PZ a few months ago. Not because of the wingnuts that comment on his blog but his cult like following was reaching somewhat disturbing levels.")
Me too! I visit scienceblogs to read about interesting science perspectives (and, occasionally, Isis' fun sense of humor). Lost interest pretty quickly in the weird PZ choir, even though I have no reason to doubt he's earned it.
I absolutely agree with Anon. It's too crowded.
I quit going there because by the time I saw a new post, there were already 500 comments. Half were fawning "PZ is always right" comments, and the other half were spittle-flecked Bible verses.
I'm sure PZ misses my visits terribly too.
The most interesting thing is the immunity challenge. So far, who has bothered responding to that are exactly who I would have expected.
Let's see how well I can simulate a troll:
TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL! EVOLUTION IS A LIE!! THE EVIL EVOLUTIONISTS JUST WANT YOU TO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION BECAUSE THAT WILL MEAN THAT EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY ISNT ABSOLUTE AND THAT WOULD MEAN THE SATANIC RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY MUST BE TRUE AND SO THERE WOULD BE NO GOD!!111!!ONEONEELEVENTYONE!!
ALL YOU SINNERS WILL BURN IN HELL FOR YOUR DEFIANCE OF THE NATURAL ORDER ORDAINED BY GOD!! ESPECIALLY YOU HOMOS! AND YOU ATHEISTS! AND YOU WICCANS AND JEWS ARE REALLY JUST OTHER KINDS OF HOMO ATHEISTS!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!! ACCEPT JESUS'S LOVE TODAY!!
How's that? Also note that I didn't make up thing about Euclidean geometry. In Underwood Dudley's "Mathematical Cranks" which chronicles all sorts of loonies there is a fellow who thinks that evolution is somehow connected to non-Euclidean geometry which he thinks is satanic.
I read Pharyngula for PZ's posts, but rarely bother wading through the hundreds of comments anymore. I have a job and a family, and can't afford to spend two hours browsing each thread.