Jour 4210
February 15, 2012
Blog Three
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Contrary to popular opinion, not all UNT students are so smart
UNT student posts class hashtag to reddit "calling all trolls", results in serious trouble.
- Once upon a time, on a Wednesday night actually, a student, believed to be an advertising major decided to be "funny" and post a widely used hashtag for a journalism class. Ironically enough, it was an ethics class that the hashtag was tied to. The silly student thought he could get away with what he had done, but little did he realize that when you post something on the internet, someone is ALWAYS watching, and in this case, numerous people were watching.
- “http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/prikl/attn_all_trolls_now_is_your_time/ One of your students is a straight-up idiot. #untj4470
- “@RyanMelson @AbigailGlavy someone posted our class hashtag on there and spammers have pretty much been abusing itreddit.com/r/funny/comment...
- ““@scottmale24: reddit.com/r/funny/comment... One of your students is a straight-up idiot. #untj4470” @Samjb this is the link some guy posted
- After numerous tweets from the spammers, the Denton Police Department stepped in...
- “If u r n @Samjb #untj4470 class follow her instructions. If u r not there's a chance either @UNTPolice or us will b contacting suspect soon
- “@Samjb can & will file a police report for Harassment if you continue to contact her after she has informed u 2stop calling her #untj4470
- “Contacting someone over & over after they told you to stop is harassment and is against the law. #untj4470 @UNTPolice
- Not only did the spammers fill the twitter feed up with random cat facts, they also crossed the line even more by tweeting out the professors phone number (which I will not share) which resulted in the police being involved.
- “In addition to pest control cats are capable traffic controllers. However they consider such menial work below them. #untj4470
- “Using a public hashtag on a public social network. SOME1 STOP ME, PLZ CONTACT THE CYBER POLICES!tinyurl.com/29a6p49 #untj4470
- “@steezballer I don't think using a #hashtag is harassment, besides this is an old inside joke of ours #untj4470
- “Cats are only capable of feeling two emotions, condesension and disdain. If a cat is content then it somehow caused you to fail. #untj4470
- “Cats come in varieties of colors and patterns. But these are physical properties and should not be confused with a breed of cat. #untj4470
- “#untj4470 the domestic house cat is a small carnivorous mammal. Its most immediate ancestor is believed to be the African wild cat.
- The spammer agreed to stop spamming the class if one of the students would agree to a date with the creep....
- Luckily her fellow classmates were there to defend her from the creep spammer so she wouldn't even have to respond to them...
- “leave @cat_pan12 out of this she doesn't want anything to do with you and she didn't do anything to you #untj4470
- “Obviously @cat_pan12 isn't interested CREEP so leave her alone and go find a hole to crawl into #untj4470
- On the bright side, at least the spammers knew quality when they saw it.
- The spammers tried to defend themselves,
- “#untj4470 We definitely didn't do anything wrong. Plus, you got to learn some fun feline facts!
- ...but when you go up against a class of educated journalism majors, you don't stand a chance.
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