Guest Post by Bob Tisdale
Link to More on Miriam O’Brien’s HotWhopper. Please add it to your favorites.
The following is a cross post of the introductory post at MoreOnMiriam’s:
You can call this new blog a spawn of a spawn, if you like. Miriam O’brien (also known as blogger Sou) was banished from WattsUpWithThat (WUWT) a couple of years ago for being a troll. Since then, her blog HotWhopper has acquired new focuses: authors of the posts at WattsUpWithThat and the visitors there.
In this post, I’m not going to express my opinions on the general debate tactics Miriam O’Brien uses at her blog HotWhopper. If you’ve made it here, you understand. But I will say…
In addition to arguing about the content of a WUWT blog post, Miriam O’Brien had amazed many people with her quoting the comments from the thread and then remarking about them.
But Miriam O’Brien has now reached a new level of rudeness by writing posts, not about the content of the WUWT posts themselves, but solely about the comments on threads. The following are two (archived) examples:
Please understand I’m not defending the comments Miriam has chosen, and I definitely am NOT agreeing with her. I simply find her tactic incredibly rude. It’s that new level of rudeness that prompted me to create this blog.
The comments are open here [at MoreOnMiriam’s]. I am not going to moderate each comment, but comments with 3 or more links will be held for moderation, so keep that in mind. In fact, there may be many threads on which I elect not to comment. Anyone is welcome to comment, but remember, if you have to rely on ad homs and rudeness, you’ve lost the argument. Not only are comments open to visitors at WattsUpWithThat, they’re also open to those who normally visit Miriam O’Brien’s HotWhopper. As I said before, anyone is welcome to comment.
Every day I will wander over to HotWhopper and I will prepare a very simple blog post. The title of my blog post will be the same as Miriam O’Brien’s at HotWhopper, but I’ll preface it with “Miriam O’Brien says”. The content of my blog post will then be very simple. I’ll list and link the WUWT blog post Miriam has chosen to argue about. Then I’ll provide a link to an archived version of Miriam’s post. Visitors here at MoreOnMiriamO’Brien’s can then read Miriam O’Brien’s post without sending her any traffic. Bloggers from WUWT can also see if Miriam O’Brien has chosen to attack their comments.
I will end each post with (in boldface):
The comments are open…there’s no moderation, except for comments with 3 or more links. Please refrain from ad hominem comments.
See the first post:
Miriam O’Brien says: Deniers are weird at WUWT. ENSO is a BoM conspiracy!
That’s it. A nice, simple format. A place is now open for people from WUWT and HotWhopper to communicate directly with one another.
Y’all have a nice day, now.
Bob Tisdale
What’s a troll? I mean, I’m pretty busy so I don’t post very often. But when something piques my interest I send out a string of comments. Am I a troll? What makes a troll?
Okay. I am quite dense here. Does the link go to her new second blog? Who’s link is it? And why is this important?
I don’t get it. I could care less what the two sides think about her less than interesting web offerings. The void of scientific content that is filled with puss is nothing but a boil on the buttocks of the world.
Lance-a-lot.
I did a search and found out she’s put up a few my comments. In one of her post (about logical fallacies or something) I even had the honor of being singled to close the post.
Unfortunately, she seemed to like what I said.
Time for a checkup from the neck up! 😎
If she edits her posts after the fact and does so with no indication and the reason for such edits….then archiving to have a record of what she actually said is a good thing.
The only way to deal with people like this is by doing something like this.
Anthony,
WUWT has promoted major traffic to this new blog HotWhopper.
It is well known that the brain dead still possess a form of physical life — but people like Miriam O’Brien fall more into the Zombie category. She possesses the ability to physically move coupled with very limited intelligence. And she wants to eat your face off.
By mentioning her blog on WUWT you have passively encouraged people to go there and read it. What could more cruel to her than that?
You have had your revenge while maintaining plausible deniability. Brilliant.
Eugene WR Gallun
LOL
I just noticed that Anthony has put a copyright text on the homepage of WUWT. (Well, I noticed it just now, but I am almost certain it wasn’t there before)
“Copyright Notice
Material on this website is copyright © 2006-2014, by Anthony Watts, and may not be stored or archived separately, rebroadcast, or republished without written permission. For permission, contact us. See the About>Contact menu under the header. All rights reserved worldwide. Some material from contributors may contain additional copyrights of their respective company or organization.”
That pretty much kills that ladies blog. So Bob will have more time for real issues again.
Problem solved 🙂
Not really, just an easy target that might draw out the larger forces.
This blog is likely to be seen as being as batshit crazee as http://tonyhellerakastevengoddardisnotasociopath.wordpress.com/ and the old sow’s blog. There’s a lot of angry people in the blogodome.
Here is a plausible mashup.
Miriam O’brien hates Scientists, and in particular people who are skeptical either by nature or by training.
For her a skeptical person must be killed at all costs and by any means.
Therefore she has given her identity away to someone with knowledge and skills to achieve her goal of killing all skeptical persons on Earth.
To achieve her ends, her provocateur, using her own web accounts, employes a flaw in WordPress XSS:
“The WordPress development team on Thursday released critical security updates that address an XSS vulnerability in the comment boxes of WordPress posts and pages. An attacker could exploit this flaw to create comments with malicious JavaScript code embedded in them that would get executed by the browsers of users seeing those comments. ‘In the most obvious scenario the attacker leaves a comment containing the JavaScript and some links in order to put the comment in the moderation queue,’ said Jouko Pynnonen, the security researcher who found the flaw.” from /.
Well well. Her “Old Girls Club” is raring and ripping to go now isn’t it.
Ha ha
Who says “whopper” any more? – decades out of date.
Kind of an embarrassing parent or grandparent quote.
Like Philip husband of Queen Elizabeth calling something “wizzo!” the other day.
The comments are open…there’s no moderation, except for comments with 3 or more links. Please refrain from ad hominem comments.
So, Bob Tisdale, why do I get blocked/moderated with one link, no ad-hominems and being on topic?
Could you not take a little gentle questioning on some of your pronouncements?
[Life happens. Live with it. .mod]