By Catherine Haig.
blogger www.bonjublog.com and writer.
Last week I was at home sick and had time to utilize my Facebook experience to a level of satisfaction not quite seen by ordinary users. I got 3 illegal pages and 2 troll pages off of their site with the help of unseen Troll Hunters and friends. On Friday the boom was lowered on the famous CS whom I shall not completely name because he does not deserve the highlight.
What are online TROLLS? They are a disease that infiltrates a site using spam, memes, curse words and a method of attack called “swarm” on other pages that do not share their issues. They steal people’s videos that are not nailed down, songs, stories and put them on their own pages and comment viciously on them. You would think these people had better things to do with their time since the old addage is “you only live once” but Trolls are a different kind of species that even pesticides and Norton Anti-Virus finds it hard to control.
Last week, I and my lawyer ensured that Facebook would know of these sites once and for all and deactivate them. In two days one of the female trolls page was absolutely gone; either FB pulled that page or she, out of fear of being outed more, removed herself. Then on this Friday, 3/9/13 – the big cheese or the main rat CS was removed and was he chagrined. His followers lead by the lone female troll left standing SB (her troll initials) launched a final attack on my site deactivating my posting privileges based upon lies that they sent to Facebook to warn me to “decease and desist” “trolling their site” which is laughable to say the least.
So I am without posting privileges for 1 month which is no big deal since I have other Facebook site on which to launch the Bonju Blog from and post on my old page. My lawyer however, is incensed that I was banned from posting for a month based on lies from trolls in which Facebook acknowledged as such and banned also. It makes little sense but in the whole picture it makes tons of sense.
This is what happens to a large company whose main governing body has gone away to do more advertising and motivate their sales than pay attention to content on their site. My lawyer cleverly wrote to FACEBOOK via their FEEDBACK LINK with explicit details outlining, screen shooting and sending FB tons of messages sent by the trolls themselves essentially shooting themselves in the feet.
FACEBOOK is very much like a large government entity that has lost control over it’s departments. Like an newspaper who is so busy making money they forget about their readers and spew content that is trash. Content is very very important to readers today because they need interesting and compelling content that will keep them occupied for years to come especially since they are confronted by crap online and in newspapers as a daily occurrence. My lawyer’s argument was to compel FACEBOOK to remember it’s users and think about their incoming advertising revenue, which is what they did and also comparing what was being written (hate speech, anti-gay propaganda and the rape and killing of animals and children, I shit you not!), to give them the reason to oust these 5 trolls sites off line.
What I learned was that it was possible to offline these cowards to a place of obscurity even as sick as I was everyday I, my lawyer and four of our staff from the BONJUBLOG took it upon ourselves to launch these “feedbacks” to FACEBOOK with the goal of having these pages removed. Finally they were but unbeknownst to us there were other forces who disliked these pages, too, working to dislodge them off their “embedded” FB sites. It’s all good and sometimes you have to ignore and be forceful elsewhere to achieve the desired goal which is what I did all week with the help and prodding of my fantastic attorney.
Lastly, and perhaps the most important issue that resulted from this TROLL invasion is that the BONJU BLOG had phenomenal views all week long in the thousands. One day it was up past five thousand views in one day and IF we were being paid on this blog by the viewer we would be rolling in it. Sadly, this is NOT the case and last August we were afforded 47,000 plus hits over a terrible Facebook picture concerning animal abuse which got the trolls pushing that picture also off of FB with the help of so many people. Facebook is fierce when it comes to users paying strict attention to their Terms of Service (TOS) rules and if you do not pay them any mind; you are done for.
To sum up; I am now not only a ghost hunter (if you didn’t know that it’s something I did in the past). I am also a writer, blogger, musician, screenwriter, playwright and TROLL HUNTER.
