What is the best trap to use to catch lurking freepers?

[kentuck]

Just curious? It seems that most are interested in topics that Rush or Hannity talk about and they are quick to jump in to give their two-cents worth, verbatim, of course. I've noticed that some posts attract them quicker than others. Any ideas about what topics or hot-button words are best to trap these sneaky little pests? :)

[Beetwasher]

1. Taxes and Guns

You'll always reel them in with posts about taxes and guns.

[judge_smales]

3. Yeah,

What is it about Freepers and guns? I don't get it.

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. Goddammit. Don't you communist hippy LIEbruls know that God, guts, & GUNS.

...is what made this country a proud White Christian American nation!!! :crazy:

/freep mode

[Momgonepostal]

35. Might be a phallic thing

An attempt to overcompensate for shortcomings, maybe? :-)

[CO Liberal]

45. And Taxes ON Guns....

:-)

[sniffa]

2. not too sure

but... i do have one tip for one and aLL: members who have 'darth' in their name are most LikeLy freepers.

the 'darths' are hannity fans (i don't know why they caLL themseLves that). so now you can at Least hunt down the 'darths' here. (darth vader = probLy not a freeper; darth reagan = freeper).

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Except Darth Kitten. She's no freeper.

[sniffa]

10. true

the name darth itseLf, doesn't necessariLy mean freeper... but if you googLe a darth name, don't be surprised at aLL the free repubLic hits.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Thanks for the tip.

[sniffa]

27. np

frankenweb was 'invaded' by the darths a whiLe back. they didn't stay too Long though.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. They often put up the 'supporting our troops' smokescreen

You can usually knock the mask off then.

[Zinfandel]

26. "Support our Troops" but never...Bring Them Home!!!!!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Bingo!

Support Our Troops...so long as they're doing what Republican Administrations want them to do.

[bif]

5. Budweiser and pickup trucks

Those are the hot topics.

[Zinfandel]

25. A beat up pickup truck with a Rush Limbaugh sticker on it....

with some beer and JD inside the pickup...Won't find any sissy Cabernets or "Zinfandel" wines, nor any good N CA organic smoke in them there pickups.

[catmandu57]

48. How about

ditchweed and Milwalkees best, doesn't take much to get a buzz when you have no brain.

[Hand]

6. Use these subject lines...

HOT ASIAN TEENS HERE!
UNDERAGE LOLITA PIX!!!
HAIRLESS MEXICAN BOYS!!!!!
CATCH THESE VIRGINS!!!!!

Umm... you get the drift. Gotta go, I'm grossing myself out...

:puke:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Raw meat.

They're very attracted to some ripe raw meat, being the maggots that they are.

[proud patriot]

9. Calling Oliver North a Traitor , a Coward and a Felon

:evilgrin:

[wicket]

30. But he is one!

And of course, where else can a traitor, coward and felon find a job but Fox News! :D

[catmandu57]

47. Lots of them in the whitehouse

Maybe using ollie's old desk.

[camero]

11. Socialism

Brings them out everytime.

[BurtWorm]

12. Reopen a historical wound, like the bombing of Hiroshima

I bet you can catch a few posting about reparations for slavery, too.

[OKNancy]

13. Bill Clinton was the greatest president of our lifetime

that gets them in here everytime. Almost as good is to put Hillary in the title.

[catzies]

33. Yeah. "Hillary for Pres. or VP!" Always started by freeper trolls.

I can't stand it when they do that.

[catmandu57]

14. Do you need a license to fish for freeper?

I'd use a spinnerbait, one with a big colorado blade to make more throb, that way they'll know food is coming. Just spin the pigboy, or any of his wannabe's that'll have them howling.

[camero]

18. No, but you have to throw them back n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. (Might as well, they're inedible...) n/t

[jmowreader]

39. Freepers are like suckers; you don't need a license to fish for them

However, they're not worth eating because they have a thousand bones; most people chop them up and use them for fertilizer.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. Not the trap, just a tool

Logical Fallacies

Ad Hominem Argument
The person rather than the position is attacked

Bandwagon Argument
Assumes the popular position is almost necessarily the correct one

Circular Argument
The truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premises

Either/Or Argument
Two and only two options are provided when alternative positions are available

False Analogy
The two items compared are dissimilar

Hasty Generalization
The sample is too small to support the generalization

Non Sequiter Argument
A statement is made which does not logically follow from what has been just stated

Post Hoc Argument
Because one event follows another the first event is assumed to be the cause of the second event

Red Herring Argument
Argument which distracts the audience from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy

Slippery Slope Argument
A series of increasingly unacceptable, usually disastrous, consequences occur

Strawman Argument
Attacking an argument that is different and usually weaker than the opponent's best argument

[kaitykaity]

23. What a GREAT list!!

Sending this on to my favorite FReeper now.
"Here's why I beat you. I know all you tricks."

:thumbsup:

[Zorra]

37. Yeah, and the best thing about it is

it has too many big words for the freepers to be able to understand it.

So even if they read the post in order to try to figure out how not to get caught, they won't be able to understand it. .;)

[BrotherBuzz]

40. Yes, I've put them to memory, but

beware that some spinmeister stack them together in different combinations that are really hard to untangle. A strawman shielding a non sequiter argument wrapped around an ad hominem attack based on a red herring argument - you get the idea. Sneaky bastards.

[Zorra]

41. LOL.

[kaitykaity]

42. Yeah, but once I find one of these,

I don't read any further. I hammer him on it,
and move on.

He's learning, but it's a slow process. Sometimes
I get four or five sentences read before I get to
stop.

[Sandpiper]

17. Guns, Affirmative Action, and of course

The Clenis.

Saying anything positive about Bill Clinton gives them apoplectic fits.

[JayS]

20. Hi Guys! Wasn't Rush GREAT today?!?!

Oooops, wrong group. :)

[jpak]

21. Post a "Lurker Freeper Amnesty" thread in the Lounge.

Someone posted one of these a long time ago - it was a riot.

Every time a dumbass showed up, they got tombstoned.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. Actually, we should do that.

So long as the admins don't mind, of course.

[RandomKoolzip]

22. Hillary. n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

28. Hillary for President n/t

[DrWeird]

29. hit the alert button.

Besides that, point out that Jesus was probably a homosexual.

[Cleita]

34. Abortion, health care and SS. They're agin it.

I have notices some long time posters who only come in when these subjects are discussed. They are clever enough not to be tombstoned, but they will try to get you to say something they can alert on. I won't mention names because it's against the rules. Don't PM me either cause I ain't talkin but just watch out on those above mentioned threads.

[Texican]

36. Isreal

You could just make up a story with the mildest rebuke of anything Israeli and they will positively freep out.

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[Jacobin]

43. Put an open package of DingDongs next to a porta potti

They'll come swarming.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

44. Why bother?

If they break the rules or post obvious RW flamebait the mods will get it. Who knows, maybe, just maybe, someone from the other side might have a mind open enough to benefit from the exposure to different ideas.

[West Coast Democrat]

46. "Uh-oh! Kerry slides in latest _____ poll!"

"Should we be worried?"

[July]

50. Oh, yeah.

And "Rush/Drudge/Limbaugh/freepers are saying this about Kerry; is it true?"

And this is JMHO, but I believe the majority of those who post looking for partners in revolution are trolling for comments that can be used against DUers.

[slackmaster]

49. I always use the Alert button and let the Moderators take care of it

Works every time.

[Moderator]

51. Locking.......

Trying to catch lurking freepers sounds a lot
like a witch hunt. Looking for key phrases
can also be deceiving. I have found that the
best way to catch a lurking freeper is to hit
the alert button and let the mods and Admins
make the decision.

According to the rules of this site, this
is the proper action to take.


Thank you.


DU Moderator