The A-Log Question - What do we do about it?

[WhoBusTank69]

A-Logging / Getting extraordinarily mad at a lolcow has become a more common and more acceptable occurrence with what are seen as either horrorcows or bad actors which has since extended to relatively innocent retards over time. This has been an evident net negative to the Farms in both morale and influencing aforementioned A-Logs to cowtip or otherwise interact with little to no punishment. Dear Leader has stated recently that joyless fucks have no place on this forum yet there is a push from members, high on their own farts, to be increasingly angry at ridiculous people for less and less reason behind it. Jannies partake as well, and users don't want to add to Null's troubles with what could be seen as small potatoes.
You already know or are at lease aware of these subjects as they are often discussed by other communities and are often punching bags for YouTube commentary channels.

We need to be more light-hearted, because getting mad at cows doing dumb things doesn't help. It normalizes considering retards as malicious scam artists, it sets up societal rejects as martyrs, and it potentially attracts glow-in-the-dark CIA Niggers to step in when their kin is involved.

So what do we do about this progressive acceptance and, by extension, evolution of A-Logging?
Negrates don't counter the updoots, pointing out A-Logging then brings on twisted views and opinions of what A-Logging actually is, and getting Null to step in causes the A-Logs to go on monumental spergfests.

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

Banning them.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Banning them.

I thought so, too, but the banhammer is inefficient against A-Logs. They don't learn from it, not that they want to.
I guess that's why Dear Feeder lessened his willingness to outright ban and instead try to, more or less, contain spergs to decrease the chances of them getting worse.

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

I thought so, too, but the banhammer is inefficient against A-Logs. They don't learn from it, not that they want to.
I guess that's why Dear Feeder lessened his willingness to outright ban and instead try to, more or less, contain spergs to decrease the chances of them getting worse.

You say banning them won't help Kip, but have we tried banning them again? I envision a campaign where we send wave after wave of bans, crashing into the enemy.
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[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Join them. In the end, one way or another, they are going to win.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Ban them. Pretty sure that some of Kefalls' A-logs were false flaggers just to provide them with ammunition against KF.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I thought so, too, but the banhammer is inefficient against A-Logs. They don't learn from it, not that they want to.
I guess that's why Dear Feeder lessened his willingness to outright ban and instead try to, more or less, contain spergs to decrease the chances of them getting worse.

In my experience, A-Logs thrive on attention. Ban them and ignore them.

On the other hand, if their opsec is poor, perhaps a halal thread is in order. If they want attention, give it to them- good and hard.

 

[Calandrino]

They certainly can't be allowed to feel welcome. This is a forum dedicated to loving one another and helping others, not hate.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

In my experience, A-Logs thrive on attention. Ban them and ignore them.

On the other hand, if their opsec is poor, perhaps a halal thread is in order. If they want attention, give it to them- good and hard.

There's another problem in that, and I'm not sure people realize it. A-Logging, as it was originally recognized, is becoming normalized. People have genuine hatred for cows like Ethan Ralph, DSP, Wings, or another Internet nobody - some asshole posted about snagging their unused Twitter @ and it was featured on the front page for whatever reason - and it's gradually being accepted, maybe not to the levels of the DSP/Wings fuckery, but even that was just left alone.
It fucks with the mood, and like Dear Leader says it's not funny if someone runs up and knocks the cow's legs out from under him, not when the entire point of laughing at it was because they're fucking up perfectly well on their own.

 

[Agarathium1066]

I'm honestly not so sure what can really be done here. Being at least partially angry or disgusted is understandable I feel but its the tipping into actual lolcow-adjacent action that is the real killer. Its that kind've horseshit that calls down psychopathic sorts that crusade against the Farms as well but.. ah well.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

nobody seems to actually be laughing at lolcows any more even though that's what everyone wants to claim they're doing. every page for every cow there's some obsessed faggot writing a two thousand word love letter that starts with "I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS!!" and these people need to be ridiculed.

 

[A-Stump]

The community used to take care of it themselves but if you call them out on it now you get 20 of their faggot Discord buddies on your back

 

[Press_Play2002]

The community used to take care of it themselves but if you call them out on it now you get 20 of their faggot Discord buddies on your back

Not really, it was normalised back in the early-Chris ops days (the Clyde Cash + Liquid period, where you had very lame and cringe people trying to prove that they're better than Chris or were trying to one-up themselves in the trolling Dildo Pyramid, because of the low-hanging-fruit nature of Chris' status). Then you had the Sons of Kojima, who are the biggest reason why A-Logging is normalised. Their success, particularly as a result of Fred Fuchs' own personal obsessions with E-Fame and getting several people to talk about Phil (including SomeOrdingaryGamers and even Jim/Metokur/James on their bland podcasts), is what's contributed to a series of waves and periods of A-Logging within multiple circles.

People have a tendency to A-Log when they're introduced to someone who is objectively a joke to the average layman. People love to hate. And when given any opportunity to prove that they're better than someone else, they'll take it. Discord, and in the old days, Skype and Chat Rooms are merely the tools of the trade. A-Logs also don't crave as much attention as you or I assume they do, they usually do this out of a deep-seated personal desire to hate things as a general way of managing their lifestyle. They A-Log because they want to feel good about themselves. That's why the OG Namesake of the term, Anthony Logatto did the things he did, and like Clyde and Fred Fuchs, he also cultivated a "community" of people around himself dedicated to targeting low-hanging fruit such as Chris to make themselves feel better. (Wonder why you had a ton of people from the Commentary "Community" with the same low-effort, shitty production values and anime profile pictures? Thank Anthony and his ilk for that!)

This is because Anthony was a sad, fat, furry autist from Staten Island who didn't want to be trolled himself, but got trolled and mocked anyway due to his own inability to handle both criticism and his own personal desires to harm people he dislikes.

It's a more developed form of troll-shielding. Join the people who are fucking with someone else so you yourself don't get fucked. This time, instead of joining the people, you create your own clique of people who think like you and hide in plain sight. And due to the nature of troll-shielding, it's always too late to take care of the problem and everyone gets fucked.

The real answer to the A-Log problem is that there's not much you, or anyone else can really do about it other than document it. Banning does NOT work on these people, they never learn, nor do they view themselves as guilty until many, many years after the fact if we're fortunate under a blue moon and a green sky because most of them never come to such a conclusive epiphany.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

it was normalised back in the early-Chris ops days ... nor do they view themselves as guilty until many, many years after the fact if we're fortunate under a blue moon and a green sky because most of them never come to such a conclusive epiphany.

That's a good point, you're exactly right and I appreciate your perspective.