Comments on: Nanny Goat Gruff and the Internet Trolls http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/ We don't need no stinking subtitle Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: A Daughter's Mother http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-93 A Daughter's Mother Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:45:55 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-93 What an inspiration! I think I'm going to try to be your kind of nanny goat next time I have to cross a bridge. What an inspiration! I think I’m going to try to be your kind of nanny goat next time I have to cross a bridge.

]]> By: the real actual me http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-37 the real actual me Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:27:48 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-37 Abused and conflated. It really needs an updated definition, because it is the internet equivalent of calling someone a nigger, or any of a host of other dismissive othering words. Sure, controlling the debate is important in important debates, but the wonderful democratic nature of the internet is sabotaged when the old lady in the back of the church says hallelujah instead of amen when she is told to shut up; or the kid who draws Mantovani singing a yellow song in sidewalk chalk is told they should be drawing hopscotch lines instead, or to go play somewhere else. Keeping narrow parameters reinforces static and exclusionary ideology. Abused and conflated. It really needs an updated definition, because it is the internet equivalent of calling someone a nigger, or any of a host of other dismissive othering words.
Sure, controlling the debate is important in important debates, but the wonderful democratic nature of the internet is sabotaged when the old lady in the back of the church says hallelujah instead of amen when she is told to shut up; or the kid who draws Mantovani singing a yellow song in sidewalk chalk is told they should be drawing hopscotch lines instead, or to go play somewhere else.

Keeping narrow parameters reinforces static and exclusionary ideology.

]]> By: Stephanie Zvan http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-34 Stephanie Zvan Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:19:49 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-34 You're so sweet, C. I feel much better now. I agree that the term is abused. Part of the reason I wrote this in this form is that I'm trying to highlight the difference between having the debate and trying to control how the debate happens and among whom. Meadows and bridges, dude. You’re so sweet, C. I feel much better now.

I agree that the term is abused. Part of the reason I wrote this in this form is that I’m trying to highlight the difference between having the debate and trying to control how the debate happens and among whom. Meadows and bridges, dude.

]]> By: the real actual me http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-33 the real actual me Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:25:01 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-33 I think the term troll is outdated and conflated into everything from " this poster doesn't agree with me" to" this poster has valid points that I am ill equipped, or too biased to address",or this persons commentary flies in the face of my sanctioned and status quo perspective, so I better diffuse it before it takes on legs; most bloggers are such cowards, as a rule(PalMD, Isis, Zuska, Feminfisters, etc.) not mention YOUR JUST AN ASSHOLE STEPH GO F@%k YERSELF..... I think the term troll is outdated and conflated into everything from ” this poster doesn’t agree with me” to” this poster has valid points that I am ill equipped, or too biased to address”,or this persons commentary flies in the face of my sanctioned and status quo perspective, so I better diffuse it before it takes on legs; most bloggers are such cowards, as a rule(PalMD, Isis, Zuska, Feminfisters, etc.)

not mention YOUR JUST AN ASSHOLE STEPH GO F@%k YERSELF…..

]]> By: Stephanie Zvan http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-32 Stephanie Zvan Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:06:14 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-32 Thank you, Ana. I do love writing this sort of thing. It's nice to see that people enjoy reading it too. :) Thank you, Ana. I do love writing this sort of thing. It’s nice to see that people enjoy reading it too. :)

]]> By: Ana http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-31 Ana Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:52:32 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-31 Delightful! Here's to goats, bridges, and meadows - to carefully chosen crossings and more noisy troppings! Thanks, Stephanie. Delightful! Here’s to goats, bridges, and meadows – to carefully chosen crossings and more noisy troppings! Thanks, Stephanie.

]]> By: Stephanie Zvan http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-9 Stephanie Zvan Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:20:12 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-9 Do you know how hard it is to convince people I'm not a nice person? They seem very attached to the idea for some reason. Do you know how hard it is to convince people I’m not a nice person? They seem very attached to the idea for some reason.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-8 Mike Haubrich Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:02:29 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-8 Any more from you like this bud, and you will be disemvoweled. Any more from you like this bud, and you will be disemvoweled.

]]> By: Concerned http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-7 Concerned Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:59:56 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-7 I think you should be worried that people will think you are not a nice person if you write posts like this. I think you should be worried that people will think you are not a nice person if you write posts like this.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich http://quichemoraine.com/2009/01/nanny-goat-gruff-and-the-internet-trolls/#comment-5 Mike Haubrich Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:58:50 +0000 http://quichemoraine.com/?p=67#comment-5 I just kind of wonder if the nanny goat might someday run into a "Concern Troll." They're the sneakiest kind, because they dress in goat fur and wear goat horns. They worry that the goats may be putting out the wrong message by eating. I just kind of wonder if the nanny goat might someday run into a “Concern Troll.” They’re the sneakiest kind, because they dress in goat fur and wear goat horns. They worry that the goats may be putting out the wrong message by eating.

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