I see our august site is being infiltrated by Deplorables

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Don't you have a toxic waste dump you can play in?

Carry on...

[workinclasszero]

2. It sure does seem like it eh?

Spotted last night on DU after the great news for Hillary out of Florida....

[yardwork]

3. There's a deplorable site with lots of posters who have taken DU names.

I won't link the site - I think it's funded by Putin - but there are posters there with the exact same posting names as DUers

I feel like warning them that their names are being besmirched. This site posts horrible things about Hillary Clinton, calling her foul names, photoshopping images to make it look like she's incontinent, etc.

[TNNurse]

13. Are you going to notify those whose DU names are being used?

[EV_Ares]

16. You should at least give the site & what you are saying here to the operators here. I think

they should know so they can decide if people here need to be notified.

How or why do you think it is funded by Russia?

[Barack_America]

4. Mmm hmm. "Amateur hour", if you catch my drift.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. It is annoying to see a "Message Removed" response to your post.

BTW, it's good to be on the same side.

[bhusar]

6. I say...

....don't delete the message and give some back to them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. You have to be fast. MIRT is great & makes DU useless for deplorable trolls.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I know the new MIRT is busy has heck!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Note: DT stands for both Donald Trump and Deplorable Troll. . . . . nt

[Orrex]

17. And Delirium Tremens

All of them unpleasant.

[Coyotl]

10. One of the new species of trolls has been named Homoferus deplorabilis

Homoferus deplorabilis, a recently devolved troll species living in small groups in baskets, characterized by nationalism, misogyny, hatred, prideful ignorance, small groping paws, a loud mouth, inability to articulate complex sentences, and shitting their own nest.

To quote an old DU thread:

The Taxonomy of Political Trolls.

Unlike Internet trolls generally, the political trolls, a distinct genera (Homoferus), remain poorly described.
The genus name derives from the combined form of:
homo hominis : human being, man + ferus : fierce, wild, savage, untamed.
It would be helpful to have clearer descriptions and nomenclature to deal with these pesky ratf**kers!

If one more damn post on this starts, it will officially be over the cliff week.

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Blemming, noun, a blog lemming, a nuisance person or thread calling attention to and enthusiastic about a distracting topic

Blemming, verb. to distract from an important issue with irrelevancies, to blemish or inundate a reasonable discussion with extraeous issues

Usage: Blemmings often lead the herd over a cliff to drown in a sea of irrelevancy.

Synonym: Online ratf*cker.

Gooooogling blemming: I was surprised to see a usage for "blemming" online. And one so suited to what I thought would be a truly fresh neologism. This from Jan 25, 2004. - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blemming

1. blemming
To be a nuisance to;
To call attention to;
To be enthusiastic about;
To bring on a trip .....

Homoferus evanescens
Hit and run posters on DU.
I've noticed a few of those recently. The OP posts a really provocative statement and then vanishes, not responding to any DUers who have commented.

[Native]

12. +1 ❤

[MaeScott]

11. They have to make hay while they can...out of work come 11/9

[Demsrule86]

14. Yeah like we don't see them from a mile away.

[George II]

15. They're like cockroaches - turn the light out and they come out from under the furniture...

....time to turn the light on so they'll scurry back into the cracks.

Hopefully the light will be back on when the polls close on November 8.

[TonyPDX]

18. Not a problem-- they're LOSERS and they know it.

[nolabels]

19. Well, in actuality there many new prolific posters here that will disappear just after November

[Rex]

20. They are currently using every alt account available to them over at DI.

Thankfully that side sponged up a lot of the regular trolls that would frequent DU.

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R