So far, the running tally of accounts set up to spam the Daily Kos with the "446 is" post is over three dozen:
pandadan, pelosi rulz, CaptianPlanet40, wildefan, karaepps83, Pose, fredmincks, jal369, CaptianPlanet40, Ruggy, wildefan pandadan, Feeling The Pain, planteater425, yankeeinkensington, ds letter, Elastic Tuna, Captain May, Feeling The Pain, jluz1974, Ruggy, yankeeinkensington, ds letter, Elastic Tuna, karaepps83, Arthur Grove, hilaryrodham08, rbrocks2006, itrafalgar, bh1787, Jmalfideles, Geronimos
(Check the hidden comments section for the post, I am not repeating it here)
If anybody has a problem with me keeping a tally and reporting them here so they can be banned to put an end to this, say so. I am not 'outing' or 'calling out' anyone who is a member of this community, so I don't think this is a violation of the rules. But so far, the way this is being handled is silly (troll rating one at a time).
They are one shot and done posts, by accounts that were obviously set up for this stunt, and then the other accounts are used to uprate the previous spamming as a part of the plan to 'see what happens'.
Please stop wasting troll ratings on these posts.
Post the account names here as the posts appear so that the powers that be can check for themselves and take action, and please check the name of the account's history and ratings so that no innocent Kossack gets pinched.
I don't know if this is just one IP with a million accounts, or some kind of 'performance art' spam connected with Slate's 'The Fray' posse, but I do know this... you aren't going to help the frontpagers kill this spam attack one post at a time.
To the Front Pagers or Kos:
I'm not dumping a dime on this in your mailbox, because this is a little site disruption with the potential to be a heck of a lot more. Who the hell sets up dozens and dozens of accounts besides pathetic people with no lives? People who want to screw up the site at a later date during something important to the community.
This may have been a cutesy little gag with a few trolling accounts, but it's obvious that -with dozens and dozens of accounts... this has the potential to be a little more than some punk or a few punks trolling to see what can be gotten away with. In my opinion, the only people who put in this much gruntwork to 'poke the fence' are either pretty much the biggest no life having losers ever, or the type of asshole or assholes who are only setting the stage for far greater site disruptions in the future.
(Like, say, during the Daily Kos' election coverage in a few weeks?)
Trolling rating a spam attack of this size is a waste of time, and is, of course, the object of this exersize in assholishness.