• keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    It was apparently people spamming things about John Kerry, who was the democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential election (I think). There is actually a local Labor politician that lives 3 doors down from me (well, used to) called John Kerry who is trying to get a new homeless shelter built here, but the local city council is blocking the state government. Apparently these are not the same people.

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      They didn't really post about John Kerry. Mostly they did spam posts of photos of John Kerry and made comments that consisted of nothing but his name repeated over and over so the comment took up a huge amount of the page.

      I'm sure it sucked for the mods at the time, but it was (and still is) pretty funny to me that this was our big issue, that people wouldn't stop posting this loser's face all the time.