Maybe I’m the only one, but I’ve found the history of this blog’s trolls to be an interesting example of Darwinian evolution.
In this blog’s early days, smug, obnoxious, truly unpleasant, self-important, smarty-pants jerk-offs dominated this blog’s troll scene. But as these first-wave trolls consistently got handed their over-confident, not-quite-ready for the Darwinian prime-time doom-butts, “The Team” adjusted.
And there then ensued a second-wave assault on this blog by a new breed of troll–greenshirt “living-dead” types–littering this blog with hundreds of non-stop, zombie-bot comments utterly lacking in wit, interest, or worth. But this last contingent, used to performing their relentless, zits-for-brains, wear-you-down stunts within the context of lefty controlled, censorious, protected speech forums were totally unprepared for the Darwinian rigors of this blog. And, so, through some world-class, satirical rough-and-tumble, “The Team’s” second batch of creep-out weirdos were sent packing, just like their evolutionary loser predecessors, by this blog’s worthies.
Which brings us to “The Team’s” latest flash-mob tactic–flood this blog with “smiley-face” trolls. And, by that I refer to the this blog’s recent infestation by squirrely, goof-ball, screw-lose, overly-friendly trolls modeled on those persistent, unwanted, can’t-take-a-hint, tag-along pests we all remember from childhood; those annoying, whiny, little dorks the teachers always made us other kids play with because they felt sorry for the little suck-ups; and those nerds with really serious personal hygiene issues who used to always stand way too close to you when they breathlessly related their latest, stupid, filthy little jokes that no one laughed at but themselves.
So I don’t have any real point to this comment, except, like, to say that I hope it adds to the discussion of Darwinian evolution in this sub-thread.