{"id":32417,"date":"2013-02-02T22:48:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/anti-feeding-the-trolls.html"},"modified":"2013-02-02T22:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:48:56","slug":"anti-feeding-the-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/anti-feeding-the-trolls.html","title":{"rendered":"Anti-feeding the trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi addresses a problem with someone who waves around his name in a socially unacceptable fashion.<\/p>\n<p><i>As has been detailed recently, there\u2019s a Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit out there on the InterWeebs who likes to use my name to whip up his gibbering followers, who then often come over here to troll the comments. Whether I ignore him or not doesn\u2019t matter, so fine. I might as well get something productive out of it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Here\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do: From now until the end of 2013 (and backdating to January 1st) when the Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit in question posts an entry on his site in which he uses my name (or one of his adorable nicknames for me), I\u2019m going to put $5 into a pot. At the end of the year, I\u2019m going to tally it up. All the money, up to $1,000, will be donated equally to the following organizations:<\/i><br \/><i>* RAINN<\/i><br \/><i>* Emily\u2019s List<\/i><br \/><i>* Human Rights Campaign<\/i><br \/><i>* NAACP<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Lovely. \u00a0And people have already pledged another $26K to the cause. Almost makes me want to encourage the RSHD to keep up the unintended good work.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2013\/02\/02\/solving-my-racist-sexist-homophobic-dipshit-problem\/#comment-433897'>Solving My Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit Problem \u2013 Whatever<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Jr5MBUUNpEo' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi addresses a problem with someone who waves around his name in a socially unacceptable fashion. As has been detailed recently, there\u2019s a Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit out there on the InterWeebs who likes to use my name to whip up his gibbering followers, who then often come over here to troll the comments. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/anti-feeding-the-trolls.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-feeding the trolls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":562,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/19\/huh.html","url_meta":{"origin":32417,"position":0},"title":"Huh","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Sep-01 9:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Doyce passes on today, via Xkot, et al., that Rush Limbaugh, of all people, has lambasted Falwell & Robertson for their finger-pointing comments last week. 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