I was wondering what causes people to spam or purposely disrupt a forum.
In all my experience it has always been a hard right conservative and or a religious zealot.
I wonder if any liberals spam or if any atheists spam. I have never ever seen either one do so.
I leads me to believe that conservatives and religious people don't believe in free speech to the point that they will actually commit crimes to try and stamp out anything but their own ideology and mythology. I venture to guess that spamming is the least of it. I bet that they would engage in genocide if they thought that they could get away with it. Remember, Nixon, said, "It isn't a crime if you don't get caught." That is the mentality of these assholes. I remember the days of being on Liberal forums and thousands of aborted fetuses would magically appear because some nut job religious wingnut decided Liberals shouldn't communicate to anyone at all.
Then there are the corporate church attacks. Various large corporations posing as churches utilize dozens of people to do nothing but search for Liberal and or Atheist sites and then launch attacks against those sites.
Now have you ever heard or read where by Liberals or Atheists do such a thing? I haven't
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I have visited a few theist boards to get more immediate responses by theist on how they reconcile reasoning/logic contradiction flaws in their religion. I am rather used to getting banned pretty quick for asking uncomfortable questions or bringing up certain points.
For those that are familiar with me on these boards I think most can agree I do not get very combative and rarely, if ever, flat out attack other people. I am even more diplomatic on theist boards then I am here. I want them to address my comment, not my behavior/character, no matter how desperate they get to try and attack my character so they do not have to respond to the comment.
Sometimes I get annoyed when they immediately delete a thread/post. I put some effort into putting up before anyone can read and respond to it. Feels a whole lot like censor (and I always follow the rules the discussion communities put up.) So I will create new accounts repeating the same question/comment over and over as they delete/censor them until they decide it is easier to let the thread be and allow others to read and respond to it. Certainly have been called a spammer doing that.
Of course it is nothing like the spam "attacks" that has been occurring lately on this site, and it is just a repeat of my question/argument not trying to sell anything or be malicious. I will repost my question and verify everyone can see it with a 2nd account or guest browsing if available, and repeat the posting once if the post/account gets deleted or censored. And I always stop as soon as I get some discussion from the regular users of those boards on my posting I even recreate the threads as they were before the thread gets deleted.
I feel that I, and others like me have actually caused a couple of theist discussion boards to go private, (member referral invites only,) and/or remove their general discussion/debate boards because they do not want people like me asking their theist members the hard questions. Theist discussion boards and open discussion communities are getting increasingly rare on the net. Other than trash piles like 4chan where a large portion of all the discussion is simply flame baiting and trolling.
Theist do like their online echo chambers however, I have learned a lot about the theist mind sneaking in and lurking on those online discussion communities. (I follow the rules of those sites, even if I do not respect/agree with the rules.)
Censoring of the truth/difficult questions is very real in many religious circles.
@Mykcob4: "In all my experience it has always been a hard right conservative and or a religious zealot."
No. I think that kind of fungus grows right across the political spectrum. At political debates in New Zealand, supporters of left-wing parties (high taxes, state ownership and control, large-scale welfarism) would chant and stomp when opposing speakers tried to put their views across. They also selectively egged people and vandalized cars outside of the venues.
The anti-free speech syndrome is a symptom of low intelligence, not political leanings.
I have seen many 'liberals and atheists spam, just not here.
Doubtful Harry.
Attempting to defame a person by isolating him to a certain group and then defaming his entire group is a typical politically motivated cowardly act. It smacks of partisanship for the purpose of partisanship alone and is the very essence that spawned the current administration. When the partisanship bloats itself as important above and beyond its office of responsibility it becomes a god unto itself at the complete loss of its own credibility. Dwelling upon itself as an end unto itself it self-deceives and loses itself in a conjured up self righteousness. That produces all manner of super soldiering for its own agenda with all of its senses focused inwardly. Pretty damned petty, selfish, sad and wholly disloyal to the higher purpose.
Spammers are simply people who like the ride disruption begets. There's no design. There's no message. There's no goal. The ride is purely entertainment. For those who are shilling a product or service, they're simply blanketing every opportunity and the internet provides plenty of avenues for that. On a daily basis at work, even with firewalls, I put at least 250 messages into the junk bin. Most are legitimate products, some are services and others are the usual sexual solicitations.
@Pitar: "Spammers are simply people who like the ride disruption begets."
Next-of-kin to graffitti "artists" perhaps?
The spammer(s) here is probably just trying to get some page rankings.