I agree banning is more effective from the point of view of adjusting the behavior of the troll. (Although I think they notice other things such as the ridiculing that Making Light does with the disemvoweling even more.)
This script is more for those cases when the moderator/owner of the blog is too lax on certain types of trolls for the taste of the reader; e.g. I saw it claimed about a month ago on one of the feminist blogs I read occasinally (feministe? Pandagon? I can't remember) that the blogs of certain generally pro-feminist men (Ampersand and hugoboy, I think) no longer felt like safe places to comment because the owners of those blogs were not banning blatant anti-feminist men.
I was inspired to create this script because someone created one for pharyngula, and it was greeted with great cheer, and many requests that it be extended to Panda's Thumb - P Z Myers may enjoy watching silly creationists arrive with their arguments again and again, but several of the commentors clearly wished to avoid the whole thing. (Although the existence of that script did inspire me to learn greasemonkey and to create my script, there's no code shared)
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Well, yeah, if there's options to choose from
Date: 2006-04-30 02:04 pm (UTC)This script is more for those cases when the moderator/owner of the blog is too lax on certain types of trolls for the taste of the reader; e.g. I saw it claimed about a month ago on one of the feminist blogs I read occasinally (feministe? Pandagon? I can't remember) that the blogs of certain generally pro-feminist men (Ampersand and hugoboy, I think) no longer felt like safe places to comment because the owners of those blogs were not banning blatant anti-feminist men.
I was inspired to create this script because someone created one for pharyngula, and it was greeted with great cheer, and many requests that it be extended to Panda's Thumb - P Z Myers may enjoy watching silly creationists arrive with their arguments again and again, but several of the commentors clearly wished to avoid the whole thing. (Although the existence of that script did inspire me to learn greasemonkey and to create my script, there's no code shared)