The Round Mound of BeClowned has become fascinated, as of late, with the Twittergulag. He admits to regularly sweeping the hashtag for material for his blog and mocks conservatives for “suspecting him of being an evil genius in a plot to silence conservatives.” If any of you can infer from people’s musings, one might assume CJ revels in this status.

His minions that participated in the #gulag remain fairly silent, and CJ’s done a little finking around his account, carefully deleting incriminating comments and associations.

One thing CJ didn’t count on, though, is something that will now add to his legacy and cement him in with underhanded internet trolls; further diminishing his reputation as a “news aggregator” to “internet troll with a script.”

This all started around April 3, 2012 when Chunk made a new buddy on the internet.
Chuck later went on to delete all of this association (one can only speculate why the blogosphere’s Captain Eunuchorn would do such a thing) and to deny, repeatedly his involvement in the #Twittergulag. However, there are more ways than one to document his behavior change post Apr 3, 2012.

Friendly blog, the trenches recently posted a piece on Johsnon and his involvement in setting “reply traps”, a technique where you’re goaded into, or enter into someone’s time line by hitting the “reply” button. I won’t go through the whole thing just peek at the article (http://thetrenches.us/2012/06/the-reply-trap-a-twittergulag-tactic/) Chuck not only denied this, but mocked the idea that this could be possible.

Now, let’s revisit the tweet heard around the world here. The pecker trample of all pecker tramples, that @Lizardoid can never live down.

Aside from what it physically states, the time stamp is really important here. Around this time, Twitter announced that they had modified their spam filters to catch a “new type of spam” involving replies. CJ actually commented on this (will put it here when I find screen cap) and then modified a behavior of his.

Remember the days long #brasnapping episodes with @Liberty_Chick, @Dloesch and the general pants wetting replies to @patterico (with new pal btw). well, that all seemed to change after he #twittergulaged mighty Xcitizen10. Don’t take my word for it, let’s look at some numbers!

Here’s the numbers by the week:

wk beginday REPLIES RTS TWEETS
14 2012-04-01 206 172 127
15 2012-04-08 119 159 273
16 2012-04-15 43 42 173
17 2012-04-22 47 66 186
18 2012-04-29 74 146 219
19 2012-05-06 10 30 104
20 2012-05-13 16 30 146
21 2012-05-20 34 33 139
22 2012-05-27 27 41 157
23 2012-06-03 42 31 163
24 2012-06-10 25 29 150

Notice any behavior change after Fatty got Xcitizen10 sent to the #Twittergulag? I do. Right around that day (April 11), Bozo, for all intents and purposes stops replying (lines 14-16 show an almost 50% drop, week over week). No reply trap, eh?

What really happened is the big fat clown is so busted he might as well be the poster boy for the #Twittergulag, and as we got closer and closer to busting him, he thought he would mock his way out of it. Kinda like that uncomfortable answer you get from a thief when you ask, “hey, did you notice my money was gone off the table?” “Heh, no. Why?” is pretty much how CJ’s been acting about the whole affair. Coupling this with his deletion of association with Rauhauser, we’ve got CJ squarely lined up to trample his pecker. AGAIN!

Now let’s look at the April numbers by day to see some more information:

day(time) beginday REPLIES RETWEETS TWEETS
3 2012-04-01 0 1 1
4 2012-04-01 23 10 13
5 2012-04-01 49 46 47
6 2012-04-01 35 28 20
7 2012-04-01 99 87 46
8 2012-04-08 32 46 38
9 2012-04-08 34 19 41
10 2012-04-08 4 12 47
11 2012-04-08 12 24 52
12 2012-04-08 20 32 45
13 2012-04-08 15 18 33
14 2012-04-08 2 8 17
15 2012-04-15 7 3 14
16 2012-04-15 19 13 33
17 2012-04-15 1 9 26
18 2012-04-15 4 5 29
19 2012-04-15 2 2 25
20 2012-04-15 3 5 19
21 2012-04-15 7 5 27
22 2012-04-22 9 7 19
23 2012-04-22 6 5 28
24 2012-04-22 11 7 20
25 2012-04-22 13 13 29
26 2012-04-22 5 12 33
27 2012-04-22 0 7 32
28 2012-04-22 3 15 25
29 2012-04-29 4 13 30
30 2012-04-29 21 33 49

Interestingly enough, we can see CJ’s reply count plummet to almost nil (with the exception of a couple days-remember replies to friendlies are possible in those two instances). I first noticed it for myself after reading through Johnson’s TL. I saw that when you expand his comments, they rarely (nay, never) expand to show the conversation. They just look like little one offs, cryptic messages between people and him. Well, that”s because he’s being careful to not reply to people, but to cut the respondees out of the tweet and make a new tweet, thus telling twitter that this is an original comment.

Now let’s compare to March, before CJ met Rauhauser who taught him how to cyberbully:


As you can see in green, there are some #brasnappin’ spikes in replies, before CJ met Rauhauser. At the height of his trolling here in April (right around 1st week):

CJ was #brasnappin so much that his fingers were raw. Then poof. The rest of the month shows a dramatic decline in CJ’s replies to Breitbarts and other political superiors. Heck, he wouldn’t even reply lesser tweeps who probably couldn’t give him the stick to the ass.
Then, along comes May, where we can adjust to show CJ’s corrective behavior.

Here we see CJ is moderating his tweeting habits, trying to be careful not to tweet too much, and he’s only replying now to “friendlies.” Check it out:

As we can see by contrast from the March graphs, CJ’s done a 180 on #brasnappin replies and now just carefully responds to people he believes will not block and report him. All this time, of course, CJ denies the #Twittergulag and maintains that #Gulaging is done by a human moderator after you are reported (tsk, tsk, LOL).

As you can see by the dates attached, CJ was not only fully engaged in the Gulag, he was given a complete tutorial by Rauhauser on how to do it.

CJ, you’re too stupid to be sneaky. Just stop.