Reaganbook Facebook for "Patriots" fails Day 1

[Mr Bean]

Reagan Smash!

The launch of ReaganBook, a conservative-oriented social network, was overrun by trolls Thursday despite its attempt at a soft launch meant specifically to avoid trolls. RawStory reports that the site was flooded with several fake accounts, including ones for Vladimir Putin, Sarah Palin, and Manuel Noriega. Eventually the whole site was taken offline.

ReaganBook is the work of Janet Porter, an Ohio Republican and founder of "pro-life, pro-advocacy" group Faith 2Action, according to The Daily Beast. The site, pitched as "Facebook for patriots," officially opened Tuesday and attracted such personalities as "Ben Ghazi, "Al Zheimers," "Ayn Randy," "Zombie Reagan," and "Ronald Reagan" himself. Users also created group pages for the band Slayer, "Cut Dicks for Christ," and various types of pornographic content, wrote The Daily Beast.

As of Thursday, the site is nothing but a boilerplate message thanking those who (attempted to) participate in the soft launch. "Your participation is helping us build a more secure site. Thank you!" the message reads. "Please be patient while we make the necessary changes to keep the site free from obscenity, pornography, and those intent on the destruction of life, liberty, and the family… As Reagan taught us, trust, but verify." The post is signed "Management." Ayn Randy could not be reached for comment.

This was not a joke, it was a serious thing that took exactly .05 seconds of exposure to the real world to self implode.

[Purple]

How disappointing. Reagan would have done a better job.

[Ahriman238]

That's so precious. The problem is that most conservatives are simply not of the generation that uses social media or online polls, and every time they ask what "kids" below thirty want they don't like what they hear and so stuff their fingers in their ears and sing. Not everyone thinks you're not a "real" American if you're not a christian or don't venerate Reagen.

Like a prominent online poll that also asked youn connected people how the party could make itself more appealing to them, I seem to recall that had an entertaining meltdown too.

[bilateralrope]

That and they made themselves such an easy target for internet trolls. Chances are the people they ignored included people telling them that this is exactly what would happen.

[Pelranius]

What's wrong with Facebook? It already has a very high derp content.

[bilateralrope]

What's wrong with Facebook? It already has a very high derp content.

Facebook still has too many facts floating around it for their liking. They can't risk even the most remote chance that they run into one, because it could make them change their mind.

[Pelranius]

What's wrong with Facebook? It already has a very high derp content.

Facebook still has too many facts floating around it for their liking. They can't risk even the most remote chance that they run into one, because it could make them change their mind.

In that case, I give them two hours before it becomes the social networking Conservapedia after registration reopens.

[Simon_Jester]

The catch is that you can police a wiki and selectively remove all the content you deem objectionable. You can't do that with a social media site, unless the userbase is so pathetically tiny that it has no value AS a social media site.

[Jaepheth]

I thought ChristianMingle already had this base covered...

[Dalton]

What's wrong with Facebook? It already has a very high derp content.

Facebook still kinda polices against hate-based terrorist groups.