{"id":5503,"date":"2009-10-07T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2009-10-07T11:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T15:00:50","slug":"threadspotting-granny-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/07\/threadspotting-granny-gets-one-right\/","title":{"rendered":"ThreadSpotting: Granny gets one right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when a head asplodes, it&#8217;s for the forces of good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HalifaxTalk: <a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxtalk.com\/phpBB\/viewtopic.php?t=9970\" target=\"_blank\">Open letter to userfriendly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, we&#8217;ve poked and had multiple ThreadSpottings about <strong>granny<\/strong>, but she finally hits a home run (without Jason Parker stacking the team with his kid) by telling <del>Bob Meeks<\/del> <strong>userfriendly<\/strong> to shove it up his &#8220;statist&#8221; ass.<\/p>\n<p>Now, one can&#8217;t go running off one of HT&#8217;s favorite trolls, can one? Nope, it only takes an hour for both Ms. <strong>ras<\/strong> to remind her not to run off the <del>nutcases that are fun to point and laugh at<\/del> members. <\/p>\n<p>Four minutes later (how did they post just four minutes apart? Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!), Mr. <strong>dtalbott<\/strong> YELLS WORDS OF WISDOM IN ALL CAPS JUST TO BE LOUD and says that the right of free speech&#8217;s corollary is the right to freely ignore. <\/p>\n<p><strong>m<\/strong><del datetime=\"2009-10-07T04:16:57+00:00\">ill<\/del><strong>w<\/strong><del datetime=\"2009-10-07T04:16:57+00:00\">orker<\/del> buzzes in with his endorsement of He Who Lost To Kim White 26% to 74% in 2003, and now the scoreboard gets very confusing. We&#8217;ve got one vote for &#8220;Get out!&#8221;, one vote for &#8220;Not so fast&#8221;, one vote for &#8220;I think he&#8217;s quite rational&#8221; and one vote for &#8220;Ugh. Not this crap again.&#8221; Although we would clearly endorse &#8220;Not this crap again&#8221; in this election, we hate to not agree with &#8220;Get out!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those election results have been declared moot because none of the people mentioned have figured out that Mr. <strong>friendly<\/strong> is an internet troll who won&#8217;t even open the thread that has his name on it.  <strong>granny<\/strong> loses and <strong>userfriendly<\/strong> wins yet again. The circle of trollery shall continue. Hilarity lives on to ensue another day.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to the three readers who sent that thread in as a ThreadSpotting submission!)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE #1: Nobody will comment or even admit to this ThreadSpotting&#8217;s existence, but the referral logs show that lots of people are sending Not-So-Private-Messages about it. 14 click-throughs have came from NSPM&#8217;s from that message board.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when a head asplodes, it&#8217;s for the forces of good.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-threadcentral","category-updated","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-1qL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5601,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/14\/will-the-real-userfriendly-please-stand-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":5503,"position":0},"title":"Will the real &#8220;userfriendly&#8221; please stand up?","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Although some people may not believe this, I have no problem admitting that I was wrong. I was wrong. I detest trolls. Not the kind that live under bridges, but the kind that try and disrupt a useful message board. I detest sockpuppets. Not the kind that make cute commercials\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;OpinionCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"OpinionCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/opinioncentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5123,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/threadspotting-hello-im-nuts-goodbye-hello-im-nuts-goodbye\/","url_meta":{"origin":5503,"position":1},"title":"ThreadSpotting: &#8220;Hello. I&#8217;m nuts. Goodbye.&#8221; &#8220;Hello. I&#8217;m nuts. Goodbye.&#8221;","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"August 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Hello. I'm nuts. Goodbye.\" \"Hello. I'm nuts. Goodbye.\" Keep repeating until you think Tom Perriello cares. 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