Orcing

Orcing or orking is a term coined by Kathryn Cramer in a blog post on April 8, 2004 in the context of an onslaught of trolling organized in the comment section of Charles Johnson's blog Little Green Footballs. The controversey was over the death of four Blackwater employees in an ambush at Fallujah.

Cramer explains on 1/30/09:

I think I was the one who coined the term "orcing" in the context of organized trolling by the Little Green Footballs gang circa 2004. They went after me right after their group attack on the John Kerry campaign caused the Kerry campaign to pull all their ads from Daily Kos. I was the next target because I was anti-Blackwater. In essence it involves the use of online discussion boards and platform for organized attack on a blogger. . . . The incident in question (LGF vs. KC) was white-on-white politically motivated Internet aggression involving death threats, threats on children, rape threats, a claimed false report to Child Protective Services, etc. It was back before it was easy to turn off comments. It took a few days (maybe as many as 4 or 5) of serious 24 hr. gang abuse before I figured out that I could edit my Moveable Type template to turn comments off.

Her originial definition of the term read:

It was very unwise of Charles at LFG to attempt to launch a new attack on my site in reponse to criticism, given that he knows that the first round of attacks resulted in threats to me and to my family. My referrer logs can presumably be compared to the IP numbers of new posts of this nature. As one can see, this behavior from the LGF folks is so far beyond trolling that it needs a new name. Orcing. (Or should we spell it orking?)

Cramer unpublished the blog post some time around 2007.