The Blogging Equivalent Of Being Whisked Off To The Cornfield

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by Smitty

#UPDATE `wp_comments` 
 SET    `comment_approved` = 0 
 WHERE   comment_author='gg';

#522 row(s) affected. ( Query took 0.1370 sec )

So, that was a trifle drastic. I had hoped an earlier comment hint I left about opening his own shop on Blogger would have been enough. Then there was this email from Stacy:

GG has just gotten too damned annoying, jumping on every new post to add distracting crap, sometimes tying up posts with lengthy and irrelevant nonsense. Compare and contrast GG to Y4E — an outspoken liberal, but always on-topic and concise.
Therefore, all future comments from GG should be marked as spam and/or sent to trash. Please feel free to put up a post this evening (suggested title simply “GG Is Banned”) explaining my executive decision, and quote this e-mail. I try to be inclusive within reason, but there are limits to my patience when it comes to trolls. If GG wants to create the “GG blog,” fine. But hijacking our bandwith with purposeful distractions is unacceptable.
— RSM

gg, your posts are not gone-gone: if you’re interested in the content, let me know. I can package it up and send it to you with just a tiny bit of Stupid Question Language (SQL).

Also, note that there is no chip on the shoulder. You’re welcome to comment in the accepted internet fashion.

But those three lines of SQL can also be re-run in cases of future post-jacking.

If I could only re-write this to handle Progressives. . .

58 comments

  3. Thanks, Stacy and Smitty-I enjoy your blogging and the comments by most of the readers, but I was getting tired of scrolling past gg’s interminable, trolling comments.

  4. Thanks, Stacy and Smitty-I enjoy your blogging and the comments by most of the readers, but I was getting tired of scrolling past gg’s interminable, trolling comments.

  7. No 1st Amendment Rights here, gg. This is
    a private blog, paid for by others, and
    they can run the ship anyway they want.

    Bye bye, and DLTDHYITAOTWO,
    IYKWIMAIKTYD! LOL.

  8. No 1st Amendment Rights here, gg. This is
    a private blog, paid for by others, and
    they can run the ship anyway they want.

    Bye bye, and DLTDHYITAOTWO,
    IYKWIMAIKTYD! LOL.

  9. Thank you! It’s about time he went away.

    gg, please note. You have a First Amendment right to Free Speech. You do not have a right to use someone else’s stage and microphone to proclaim your version of it.

    Buy your own bullhorn, get your own soapbox, and proclaim whatever stupidity you want to. But don’t expect someone else to fund your sound and fury.

    I’m going to miss him, but that would be in the same way that I miss an attack of Hemorrhoids when it goes away. Thank God and Greyhound, in other words.

  10. Thank you! It’s about time he went away.

    gg, please note. You have a First Amendment right to Free Speech. You do not have a right to use someone else’s stage and microphone to proclaim your version of it.

    Buy your own bullhorn, get your own soapbox, and proclaim whatever stupidity you want to. But don’t expect someone else to fund your sound and fury.

    I’m going to miss him, but that would be in the same way that I miss an attack of Hemorrhoids when it goes away. Thank God and Greyhound, in other words.

  11. I wanted this done when he took a cheap shot at Stacy and his Daughter and her Husband.

    That’s why I usually went hammer and tongs at gg ever since.

  12. I wanted this done when he took a cheap shot at Stacy and his Daughter and her Husband.

    That’s why I usually went hammer and tongs at gg ever since.

  13. Only problem is, is that any responses or even mention of have disappeared as well on previous posts.

  14. Only problem is, is that any responses or even mention of have disappeared as well on previous posts.

  15. @#7 Jeff Weimer

    It is not any notable loss. Beating Stupid with a big stick is about as pointless as reading it has been.

    None of us refuted him in any way that was so eloquent that losing the refutation wasn’t worth losing the idiocy, I don’t think.

  16. @#7 Jeff Weimer

    It is not any notable loss. Beating Stupid with a big stick is about as pointless as reading it has been.

    None of us refuted him in any way that was so eloquent that losing the refutation wasn’t worth losing the idiocy, I don’t think.

  17. @Jeff,
    The records are still in the table.
    I had hoped to get him to ease up more subtly, but, well, I’m not The Talent.
    Have your people contact mine regarding lunch, buddy.

  19. @Jeff,
    The records are still in the table.
    I had hoped to get him to ease up more subtly, but, well, I’m not The Talent.
    Have your people contact mine regarding lunch, buddy.

  21. Now are you going to figure out why when I use my real name and URL, my comments to go to the spam filter?

    Yours are doing the same here too. It’s odd.

  22. Now are you going to figure out why when I use my real name and URL, my comments to go to the spam filter?

    Yours are doing the same here too. It’s odd.

  25. Kinda reminds me of a scene from Casablanca, when Captain Renault sent his boys to pluck Ugarte out of Rick’s Cafe American.

    Everybody comes to Rick’s.

  26. Kinda reminds me of a scene from Casablanca, when Captain Renault sent his boys to pluck Ugarte out of Rick’s Cafe American.

    Everybody comes to Rick’s.

  31. gg, your posts are not gone-gone: if you’re interested in the content, let me know.

    I truly appreciate your generous offer. If i felt anything was dear to me, i should/would have saved the content already. Its not like i didn’t foresee the purging, with a single keystroke or an sql command by the moderator, of all comments posted under the gg id.

    Also, note that there is no chip on the shoulder. You’re welcome to comment in the accepted internet fashion.

    Maybe i shall try to keep up with the acceptable norms and when i might fail in doing so, at least until RSM throws another tantrum and requests an additional email or rather an ip ban.

    But those three lines of SQL can also be re-run in cases of future post-jacking.

    That’s too much unnecessary work if you ask me. You can do an ip ban. Either way a fair WARNING: Stacy McCain and his side-kick really don’t want to help create and motivate a joGGer in GoTOM.

    gg

  32. gg, your posts are not gone-gone: if you’re interested in the content, let me know.

    I truly appreciate your generous offer. If i felt anything was dear to me, i should/would have saved the content already. Its not like i didn’t foresee the purging, with a single keystroke or an sql command by the moderator, of all comments posted under the gg id.

    Also, note that there is no chip on the shoulder. You’re welcome to comment in the accepted internet fashion.

    Maybe i shall try to keep up with the acceptable norms and when i might fail in doing so, at least until RSM throws another tantrum and requests an additional email or rather an ip ban.

    But those three lines of SQL can also be re-run in cases of future post-jacking.

    That’s too much unnecessary work if you ask me. You can do an ip ban. Either way a fair WARNING: Stacy McCain and his side-kick really don’t want to help create and motivate a joGGer in GoTOM.

    gg

  35. DING-DONG, the witch is dead
    the witch is dead
    the witch is dead
    DING-DONG, the wicked witch is dead!

    🙂

  36. DING-DONG, the witch is dead
    the witch is dead
    the witch is dead
    DING-DONG, the wicked witch is dead!

    🙂

  37. I can’t concur that Y4Is is in any way concise, but her posts are generally on topic, or an invitation to go off topic, and never seem to attempt to hijack the threads.

    gg was 90% annoyance and 10% relevant and on topic. Good riddance.

  38. I can’t concur that Y4Is is in any way concise, but her posts are generally on topic, or an invitation to go off topic, and never seem to attempt to hijack the threads.

    gg was 90% annoyance and 10% relevant and on topic. Good riddance.

  47. This is ridiculous. Comment #20, #21 and #23 are not by me; Bob of the Camp of Saints.

    I though Charles Johnson, Andrew Sullivan etc sockpuppets were hilarious, but don’t pull this shit on one of your own. Thanks.

  48. This is ridiculous. Comment #20, #21 and #23 are not by me; Bob of the Camp of Saints.

    I though Charles Johnson, Andrew Sullivan etc sockpuppets were hilarious, but don’t pull this shit on one of your own. Thanks.

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