Comments on: Banned: Sleeper Troll http://www.blogordie.com/2008/12/banned-sleeper-troll/ Thoughts and commentary on politics, technology, religion and current events Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: des http://www.blogordie.com/2008/12/banned-sleeper-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-52823 des Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:13:11 +0000 http://www.blogordie.com/?p=577#comment-52823 I remember the Freepers well, from the 2000 election. My brother and I posted statistical analyses of the Florida Election on my personal website. When that website got mentioned in an internet political discussion forum, it was subsequently "freeped" and my hosting company shut it down, because it far exceeded the bandwidth I had paid for. I moved it several times to different hosting services (keeping the same domain address, so that the analyses were still visible), and finally gave up... Analysis of the hits against the original website showed a steady increase in the number of hits after it was mentioned in the discussion forum. Then, hours later, within minutes after someone urged that it be "freeped" on FreeRepublic.com, it was inundated with an instant increase of many orders of magnitude in the number of hits. Reach your own conclusions about how many of those hits were people interested in the content of the analysis... I remember the Freepers well, from the 2000 election.

My brother and I posted statistical analyses of the Florida Election on my personal website. When that website got mentioned in an internet political discussion forum, it was subsequently “freeped” and my hosting company shut it down, because it far exceeded the bandwidth I had paid for. I moved it several times to different hosting services (keeping the same domain address, so that the analyses were still visible), and finally gave up…

Analysis of the hits against the original website showed a steady increase in the number of hits after it was mentioned in the discussion forum. Then, hours later, within minutes after someone urged that it be “freeped” on FreeRepublic.com, it was inundated with an instant increase of many orders of magnitude in the number of hits.

Reach your own conclusions about how many of those hits were people interested in the content of the analysis…

]]> By: checkitout http://www.blogordie.com/2008/12/banned-sleeper-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-52745 checkitout Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:12:39 +0000 http://www.blogordie.com/?p=577#comment-52745 Great new forum for all engaged in the battle against PUMA/Birther stupidity, come share your war stories! http://www.politijab.com Great new forum for all engaged in the battle against PUMA/Birther stupidity, come share your war stories!

http://www.politijab.com

]]> By: Truth http://www.blogordie.com/2008/12/banned-sleeper-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-52699 Truth Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:09:19 +0000 http://www.blogordie.com/?p=577#comment-52699 LOL, no but its darn funny you say that. LOL, no but its darn funny you say that.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.blogordie.com/2008/12/banned-sleeper-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-52698 Kevin Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:19:50 +0000 http://www.blogordie.com/?p=577#comment-52698 I wrote that before I found out what FreeRepublic.com is. If I knew then what I know now, I would NEVER have posted on that site. It is a crummy-looking web site, but it's also a very powerful one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRepublic.com Did you know Barack Obama was adopted, and his "mother" was a CIA spy from Lebanon? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2148751/posts?q=1&;page=1#1 I wrote that before I found out what FreeRepublic.com is. If I knew then what I know now, I would NEVER have posted on that site. It is a crummy-looking web site, but it’s also a very powerful one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRepublic.com

Did you know Barack Obama was adopted, and his “mother” was a CIA spy from Lebanon?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2148751/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

]]> By: TRUTH http://www.blogordie.com/2008/12/banned-sleeper-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-52696 TRUTH Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:42:12 +0000 http://www.blogordie.com/?p=577#comment-52696 sniffle sniffle.. I went there, crummy looking website anyways. sniffle sniffle.. I went there, crummy looking website anyways.

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