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The first version of Triond , a paying writing site, had a forum where those who contributed could relax and discuss. There were many great writers who began to complain about the lack of moderation and how people could post anything. On chap decided to test it and wrote "Johnny Depp Commits Suicide" .. obvious untrue. He got thousands, hundreds of thousands of hits for this obvious hoax. This, of course, increased the annoyance of writers that the moderators were non-existent. It also inspired the hoax of "Whitehouse Insider". This idea was discussed in the Forum and it was decided that Ulsterman, a chap from Northern Ireland would present under his name to wave the flag it was fabrication. He, along with a crew, noting how many people were upset having a black man in a white house, figured it would catch the eye. The articles were absolutely false, anti-Obama, and got millions of hits. So many, that Triond gave Ulsterman his own section, where he, and his team, could post his non-sense. They made huge amounts of money, and funnily enough, the Post newspaper carried one of his items as if it were fact, then retracted, when it realised the truth. Triond closed in 2015. Those of us who were there, who know how it came about, who know its purpose was to prove there was no moderation watched its rise to 'fame', amazed people were so easily led. The joke is that if any of us tried to expose the fact it was a hoax, were attacked by the mindless minions who wanted to believe the clear fallacies about Barack Obama.