Craziness all right.... Dem defends their target symbols

[bemused_leftist]

A person known to be mentally disturbed easily buys a gun that shoots 31 bullets -- and what is everyone talking about? Chain store logos vs viewfinder marks.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/gabrielle-giffords-tim-pawlenty-2012-presidential-race-/1
“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, for example, used red bull’s eyes on a map to show the GOP candidates in its sights. Ryan Rudominer, a spokesman for the DCCC, told the Palm Beach Post over the weekend that the Democratic map was not threatening since it used an image that is also associated with Target, the national retail chain.”

Comments

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Looks like that particular troll post got overlooked (or maybe other trolls are reposting it). Must be millions of troll posts coming in to deal with.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Why do you assume it was a troll post, rather than a legitimate opinion? It's an idiot opinion, from my point of view, but it's one that many of my neighbors legitimately hold.

Why do you assign it the status of "troll"?

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Walks, quacks. Therefore treat like.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

No, no.

I don't know where you live (except that I don't believe it's Tehran, and never have; I don't know what your LJ information is supposed to convey except "I don't tell the truth"; for one thing, your IP address is out of Washington DC) but I'm pretty sure it's not in any conservative part of America.

Dude. When I said that my neighbors hold those opinions, I meant it. They're not unintelligent people, but many of them believe that I, and people like me, *are the enemy*. When they say things like this, they're not trolling; they're expressing legitimate doubts.

They're scared.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

It's a trollish, offensive comment, which I'm sure the staff will delete when they can. I'm surprised their server is even still up, with all the flak they must be getting. Oops, another military term.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

*shrug* They were deleting (what they considered to be) trollish, offensive comments just before and just after that.

This is one that just didn't get deleted.

If a comment comes out that says "hey, we're trying our best, but we're overwhelmed, and we're sorry about missing comments X, Y, and Z" then I'll take it at face value.

In the meantime, given that this comment came in at a time when trollish, offensive comments were being quickly removed, there just isn't a reason to believe that this one was left up merely by accident.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Iirc, the comment didn't have the usual markers that anti-troll or anti-spam software would look for (such as all caps, !!! etc, insulting words, etc). So it would take a later pass with careful reading to catch it, and they're probably overwhelmed already.

Imo it's ridiculous to think that it was deliberately left up in an editorial decision. At what level would that decision be made, and with what motive?

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

These decisions weren't being made by anti-troll or anti-spam software. Stop this BS argument, OK, unless you're really prepared to explain how "Peace and Justice? That's a new concept for you isn't it?" got deleted by anti-spam software.

And whatever argument you're making, please STFU; because the software you're talking about deletes things before, not after, they get placed on a website.

The fact that these comments went live and then got deleted says irrevocably that there were *people* making each, individual, decision, and that people get to bear the brunt of those decisions.