What happened to RubyShoo?

[LearnedHand]

This discussion thread was locked by EarlG (a host of the General Discussion forum).

I haven't seen any posts lately.

[Prairie Gates]

1. LOL

[LearnedHand]

5. What am I missing?

I honestly don't know.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

18. "She" was served "her" Tombstone Pizza and banned.

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Thank god.

[LearnedHand]

21. I saw that the account was banned

I just wondered what happened. I see many are relieved but I don't exactly know why. I was uncomfortable with the account myself, but it was hard to out my finger on why.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

25. I was suspicious from day one because of the amount of posts on the first day,

I served 2 terms on the MIR team a couple of years ago and this was a red flag of a troll.
If you ever get the chance to serve on the MIR team, I urge you to do so, it's an eye opening experience.

[LearnedHand]

27. Whew that's a relief

I couldn't put a finger on it.

[mitch96]

52. She was in that crowd of june,july 2024 bunch of newbees that came on board.. I was like wtf? nt

[moonscape]

67. Curious how you found yourself

in this thread 30 min after joining DU and making this banning inquiry?

Agree on the likely getting paid part!

[debm55]

82. Like you?

[ProfessorGAC]

63. What MCE Said!

I'm on my 2nd term right now.
The number of trolls & spammers is astonishingly high. Much higher than I would have thought, which I suppose, speaks to the effectiveness of MIRT. If one is not on MIRT, one has no idea of the volume and how quickly these intruders are dispatched.

[Jack Valentino]

45. Posting that many OPs is just rather rude,

like she was trying to take over the board. I got tired of just seeing her name.
And of course, usually nothing but Twitter links and little or none of their own content.

I didn't realize there were so much bad information coming from them, but I tended to just ignore the posts after a while.

[obamanut2012]

2. Banned

Thank God.

[Sogo]

4. Obviously, your opinion is showing, but is it true RS is banned?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. Yeah, it's true.

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[Indykatie]

12. How Do Manage to do 1959 Posts in Less Than 60 Days?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

13. Its called padding your "creds" without getting PPR'd or FFR'd,

she managed to bamboozle for a while, but in the end, it caught up with her and she was served the proverbial pizza.

[canetoad]

33. Using this?

[Jack Valentino]

47. That's unbelievable. Part of a 'bot farm', right?

geez

[obamanut2012]

14. "Your opinion is showing"

And then kinda accusing me of lying? Wtf

It was very obvious who"she" was.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

17. Obviously their opinion was wrong.

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[Sogo]

41. Not at all. I genuinely wanted to know if RS was banned for sure.

I didn’t encounter the “dark side” of her posts, as others have indicated, so your “thank God,” comment was puzzling to me. Sorry if what I said offended you. It was not intended that way in the least.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

48. It's all good.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. I dunno.

People show up. post a lot of interesting OP's, then disappear. It's always been the case....

[Bev54]

22. Mostly all tweets, like mining twitter

[usonian]

6. Banned. Interesting points but IIRC, too much misinformation posted just to get recs and not corrected.

Gee that sounds familiar. MSM?

[LearnedHand]

7. Oh hmmm

I actually wondered if the account was a bot, but I guess I missed the misinformation.

[ms liberty]

53. That's why exactly. There's an interesting thread in Community Help

Last edited Sat Sep 7, 2024, 10:21 AM - Edit history (1)

That was written a few weeks ago, just because of that member. It's about adding misinformation/disinformation as a choice in the alert system.
That member had a habit of posting untrue stuff and then refusing to edit or remove when asked to.

[yardwork]

65. Thanks for mentioning that. I'll go add my voice.

DU needs a "misinformation" alert.

[ms liberty]

72. Earl has an excellent post about it there, that actually makes good sense

Ultimately, WE have to be discerning enough to catch these trolls.

[yardwork]

73. I just read his posts there, and I think my issue is slightly different.

I'm going to start another OP in that forum. Thanks.

[True Dough]

9. If the Shoo fits...

[LearnedHand]

10. Oh that's bad

[MarineCombatEngineer]

15. You win the DUzy award for the day.

[MontanaMama]

35. I see what you did there...

[Skittles]

11. I had put them on Ignore

was tired of the breathless CLICKBAIT!!! subject lines

[LearnedHand]

16. I wondered if the account was a bot

I mean, I don't like to be suspicious of new members but the speed of the posting sort of raised my spidey senses.

[ornotna]

19. Amen sister

It was a veritable tsunami of shit.

[Skittles]

29. they posted some decent articles

but the sheer volume and !!HOLY SHIT!! nature quickly induced fatigue in me

[Tree Lady]

74. From the beginning I felt something was off

and wondered how long person would last. After being on this site 20 years you just get a feeling for when someone has a agenda they are trying to push.

[2naSalit]

20. Same here...

Didn't take long for me to do that either. Glad to see I wasn't the only one.

[MontanaMama]

36. Also same.

I put it on ignore when they posted provable garbage over and over and refused to edit or correct.

[Solly Mack]

23. She's somewhere over the rainbow. Way over.

[ret5hd]

24. i called it about the second post of hers i read.

obvious.

[LearnedHand]

30. I noticed your post

It was a little validating to think others were not quite so comfortable either.

[LeftInTX]

26. Yeah...oh well..she was banned last Saturday?

Her stuff was all clickbait and she felt like a troll, but she hadn't posted anything inappropriate, at least from what I saw.

People can get in like that and then try to take over stuff, so I'm glad she's gone. Maybe they matched her up with a previously known troll?

[moonscape]

37. We can thank

highplainsdem for dogged fact-checking that finally brought about RS’s exit:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19410012

[LeftInTX]

44. Thanks! I saw both posts, but only skimmed them at the time.

I see that posts were removed in HPD post, so that must have been when RubyShoo lost it....

[moonscape]

58. The removed posts weren't hers.

[Mme. Defarge]

28. So, I was not alone.

She definitely set off my hinky meter.

[canetoad]

34. I put her on ignore

Very early on in her brief DU career.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

55. I did not have her on ignore but did not open any of this poster's threads

[sheshe2]

31. RIP

[consider_this]

57. Ok, that's punny!!!

[Mme. Defarge]

32. Did "she" ever reply to any posts?

[moonscape]

38. Rarely.

[MontanaMama]

39. Yes. I am not going to take the time to find its posts..,

but he/she got their undies in a bunch when they were called out on inaccurate posts. That was my red flag.

[Mme. Defarge]

40. I am intrigued. . .

[LeftInTX]

51. This was the thread. I noticed some posts have been removed. She was banned that day.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19410012

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. I saw that thread

[MontanaMama]

80. Thanks for this!

Yes. This was one I was thinking about. Honestly, it was starting to be a hassle to avoid the rapid fire posts of which many were just clickbait. I would click on an OP and realize who posted and get annoyed.

[obamanut2012]

75. It is obvious to some of us who "she" was

[consider_this]

59. One of their replies stood out, and in a bad way...

they were asked to correct or take down something that was egregious misinformation or disinformation - at the moment I do not recall which, but I called them out on it, and instead of correcting, started a new post with a huge rant about basically how they were gonna post whatever they want - hell be damned on correcting stuff.

I did later notice them fix something (credit where credit is due), so thought they were catching on, but I got to avoiding most of their posts due to the firehose of stuff, so I never kept a further eye on if the behavior actually improved or not. I did note they were riding on 2 hides for a long while, and surprised they lasted so long before the hammer/pizza delivery.

[ms liberty]

69. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I called that out. It was early on. n/t

[Think. Again.]

84. RS did the same to me when I suggested one of their posts was questionable.

But I didn't even realize they were banned until this OP.

[ProfessorGAC]

64. Yes, To Mine

I expressed doubt about something she wrote as having dubious mathematical basis, and she kept replying with cites that were merely opinion. Sort "Yeah, but look what this guy thinks." My thought was "So?"
This went on for 3 exchanges & I dropped it.
I was on MIRT during her 2 months, so there was a lot of discussion about her.

[betsuni]

42. An abusive GBCW post would've been fun, wherein the troll calls us irrelevant wealthy centrists so ancient

we still have land line phones (we're practically Amish!), doddering around the bingo hall mumbling about young people these days. How we DUers make the poor troll feel very very bad and experience feelings of dread and hate and so on. Heh!

[sheshe2]

43. *snort*

[yardwork]

66. EarlG, bring back the hate mail bag!

[Cha]

46. I don't know why Rubyshoo was PPR but I did notice

she had some issues admitting when a Tweet was a Fake Account and when there was Misinformation. So that wasn't good for DU.

Why not just Correct it and move on? And learn from our Mistakes.

[Jack Valentino]

49. "Corrections" weren't included in their programming?

LOL She had too many new Twitters to post to have time for that.

[Cha]

50. lol... Yeah, she didn't need no stinkin'

Corrections... she had more Tweets to post.

[mitch96]

54. I read this article on one of the many ways dis info on social media works.. very interesting...

Establishes pro democratic accounts on popular social media accounts
Then sets up pro democratic cross platform and buy followers to increase numbers
Starts with pro democratic messaging to attract legit followers.
Gradually add "constructive criticism" and then begins to attack legitimate pro democratic organizations.
The negativity increases.
Make up false allegations of corruption or malfeasance and attacks individuals who push back on false charges..
Responses are then magnified and unwitting followers amplify the negative messaging
Sew mistrust, chaos and recrimination.
wash rinse and repeat..

[Mme. Defarge]

68. Very helpful!

[Xavier Breath]

61. They'll be back.

Different handle of course, but the same flood-the-zone philosophy. You'll know them by their 47 threads per day with nary more than a twitter link for context.

[GoCubsGo]

71. Yeah, this one was likely a repeat offender.

I didn't notice that she/he was gone, because I had this person on ignore, just like I did with previous iterations. The name gets changed, but the M.O. does not.

[MineralMan]

62. She's now "Somewhere over the rainbow," I believe.

[haele]

76. Heels got tapped and she went back home?

Sorry, I awkwardly put my two cents in enough myself to recognize that constant posting of AI and questionably sourced stuff to create a single narrative is a tell of trying too hard to fit in. Or a bot.
We all have pet subjects, and then there's the wider range of opinions to throw our two cents in on. But there's always a tell when any certain poster is trying to drive a narrative; the primary tell being a poster constantly not following the rules of the forum, especially after being called on it.

Haele

[DBoon]

77. I blocked them after a few days

Huge number of posts that were just links to twitter. No explanations, just a link. Waste of my time.

[Alliepoo]

78. Huh. I thought she was

SuperSuperSuperDuper enthusiastic about posting. Had to wonder how she had the time to find and post as much as she did.

[malaise]

79. Only yesterday I asked a DUer if she gad noticed this disappearance

😀

[Beringia]

81. EarlG posted about this in Community Help

https://www.democraticunderground.com/125626466#post30

[sarisataka]

83. Crime scene photo

/
Police are not naming any suspects but are seeking a "person of interest" last seen headed west on Yellow Brick Rd.
Investigation is ongoing