trolls
Ok. Despite that fact that I am elated “It’s A Woman Thang” is at almost a half million views on youtube, we have three ever present trolls – Mariafem24, tinazboobz4u, and lacie21fem – all of whom emanate out of the same porn site – who are “watching now” literally 95% of the time and instantly put thumbs down on any positive comments that are made. We tracked and documented this for the last 24 hours and then reported it to youtube. Here’s the response we got back:
“This is an automated response to let you know that your message has been caught by our spam filter and won’t be read. Either the submit button was pressed more than once and this is in response to a duplicate message (which it wasn’t), or you didn’t check out any of our Help Center content (yes, unsuccessfully for about 3 hours.) Please don’t reply to this message — we won’t get your response.”
Are these people serious?! I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth as they did make us a featured video but that’s as offensive as the trolls are. I spent most of the 1990′s developing a prototype for the first visual social network in cyberspace. One of the main things preventing us from going any further was we couldn’t figure out how to prevent people from sabotaging other people’s efforts online. Yes, youtube has a “block user” function. Have you ever tried to use it?! It blocks for about 5 minutes and then the trolls come crawling back. BTW, I’m as outraged by ebay not taking any moral responsibility when people get screwed in their transactions.
http://www.bubblesandcheesecake.com/blog/2007/11/27/trolls/