They seem to have underestimated the speed at which trolls can ruin everything.
This, of course, is why we can't have nice things.
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#12"A 'teacher' told my child in class that dolphins were mammals and not fish!" a third complains. "And the same thing about whales! We need TRADITIONAL VALUES in all areas of education. If it swims in the water, it is a FISH. Period! End of Story." wow
If you believed that was a real comment then You Have Been Trolled.
And here was I thinking "Man, these trolls are way too obvious, they should have gone with something more subtle".
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#13I have a sneaking suspicion that Poe's Law is in full effect here.
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#14They seem to have underestimated the speed at which trolls can ruin everything. This, of course, is why we can't have nice things.
After reading some of the comments on their website I have hard time distinguishing trolls from republican talking points.
Also Poe's Law: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poes+Law
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#15"Winsome" is not an adjective I have ever heard applied to the design of a website. I need to use that more often.
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#16The article is amusing but unfair - it's mostly just selected quotes from contributors to the new site. One could write a similarly far out (and amusing) story about HN or any other social site, by judiciously selecting from amongst the troll comments.
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#17They seem to have underestimated the speed at which trolls can ruin everything. This, of course, is why we can't have nice things.
I'd have more sympathy, except that attempting to establish policy by soliciting on a public, unmoderated website is a ludicrous idea to begin with.
It's got about the same validity as Fox News running a radiobutton poll on their website on "Is Obama really a citizen?"
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#18Although the troll comments are funny, the seriously-meant ones are even funnier:
"both dems and repubs need to gain the trust of the american people both sides have lied to us robbed us and i think both sides are about the money not freedom most of them dont know or care what is in the constitution im not saying all of them but most of the politicians"
Especially the attempts at rhetoric:
"my grandfather told me if you could lie and steal you could be a politician they were write"
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#19I can't tell if this is real or a satirical article. "Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who created the program, said that to get software for the site, 'I personally traveled to Washington state and discovered a Microsoft program that helped NASA map the moon.'"
Upvotes to whoever writes "The Ballad of McCarthy" commemorating this epic quest.
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#20I spent only a few minutes on the site, and after trying to sort "Ideas" by Total Votes, I got this lovely, classic ASP.NET error page:
Server Error in '/' Application.