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Kevin Frank Ealy (December 28, 1982 – March 8, 2005), more popularly known as Kevin Klerck or simply Klerck, was an Internet persona who was active as a troll on several popular websites, most notably Slashdot (Samples), Shacknews and Squabble.org. Some credit his page widening techniques as the primary reason Slashdot implemented the lameness filter, which checks pending comments for repetitive text or malicious formatting before allowing them to appear on a website. Most notably, his petition to "Rename The Two Towers to Something Less Offensive," regarding Peter Jackson's film The Two Towers, garnered international media attention.[1] [citation needed] ImageMetadata File history File links Klerck1. ...
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December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ...
1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Internet Troll In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy and antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion (see Anonymous Internet posting). ...
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Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website/Forum updated many times daily, with articles that are often short summaries of stories on other websites, links to those stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. ...
Shacknews, commonly referred to as The Shack, is a website offering news, reviews, articles, and forums for computer games and console games. ...
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Lameness filters are textbased filters used by SlashCode-based websites to stop junk comments from being posted in response to stories. ...
Ealy was eventually banned from Shacknews as a result of his antics. Some users found him to be very entertaining and uniquely funny and crazy; others felt he was harmful to the various communities he inhabited. A defunct account on Epinions may show he was once a reviewer on that website. He also made a few shock site images. Epinions. ...
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The Two Towers petition The text of the petition reads:
"Those of us who have seen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring know what an amazing director Peter Jackson is. When I learned that there apparently was to be a sequel, I was overjoyed. However, Peter Jackson has decided to tastelessly name the sequel "The Two Towers". The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World Trade Center. In this post-September 11 world, it is unforgivable that this should be allowed to happen. The idea is both offensive and morally repugnant. Hopefully, when Peter Jackson and, more importantly, New Line Cinema see the number of signatures on this petition, the title will be changed to something a little more sensitive."
The online petition sparked widespread controversy and voluminous flaming throughout the blogosphere as fans of the Tolkien novels created their own petitions attacking Klerck's. Eventually, a campaign to sink Klerck's petition succeeded in signing up thousands of (possibly forged) names, and petitionsonline.com removed it from their website. Flaming is the act of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting, usually in the social context of a discussion board (usually on the Internet). ...
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Death On March 8, 2005, he was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the day he posted a suicide note on his LiveJournal. To paraphase his journal entry, he stated he had a little bit of depression but he was mostly bored with life. From what he stated in his last chat sessions, he wanted to use a shotgun to kill himself instead of carbon monoxide as he once said he would use. He stated he wanted to make do with what he already had. Kurt Cobains alleged suicide note. ...
LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. ...
Carbon monoxide, chemical formula CO, is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, flammable and highly toxic gas. ...
Kevin's trolls and suicide were memorialized as the subject of Episode 8 in Season 2 of the l0de radio hour, an obscure Internet radio show hosted by a member of the Gay Nigger Association of America, who, like Kevin, were also trolls. The GNAA logo The Gay Nigger Association of America (better known by its abbreviation GNAA) is a self-aggrandizing troll organization that primarily targets Internet communities in an effort to cause havoc and disrupt their normal activities. ...
A log of his last (However, there is also a second IRC conversation linked below) IRC conversation is located at http://trolldb.com/klerck_finalchat.txt. Kevin's final words were:
[12:39:07] <klerck__> oh hell I can't find a pen [12:40:17] <klerck__> http://www.livejournal.com/users/klerck/ posted [12:40:24] <klerck__> bye LiveJournal has since suspended his journal so the suicide note is no longer accessible via the above URL. A mirror of the suicide note can be found here.
See also Brandon Carl Vedas (known as ripper on IRC) (April 21, 1981 - January 12, 2003) was a member of the Shroomery. ...
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Scott skOt Millett (September 27, 1978 – August 13, 1999) was a Newport Beach, California man who was electrocuted after attempting to cut the wires on a street light pole to reduce light pollution so that he could better observe the Perseid meteor shower. ...
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