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Anthony
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Date Posted: 08:32:26 06/11/01 Mon
Damn, I think that I've earned some sort of Internet "harrassment target" badge by now.
Since I started this site, it has been repeatedly visited by people I used to know and work with...for more on that story go here and here. Suffice to say they come to the site and cause mischief sometimes. The most recent form of this mischief involved dozens of pseudonyms under which they posted a flood of dross. My Forum’s archives were getting pushed to their limits thanks to the never-ending nonsense posts of just a few people. At least one of them means no harm, but the others get carried away...on purpose.
I am very busy with my life right now. I have many other things to do these days rather than monitor the Forum, waiting for them to start trouble so that I can nip it in the bud. Most importantly, I need to find a new job. That and a million other things that have come up since I lost my last job. So forgive me if I have better things to do than mess around with a couple of no-lifes looking to have a bit of fun at my expense.
Anyway, one of them (they always use very clever pseudonyms) came to the Guestbook this weekend under the name of "Trebble" and said:
"So people post things that you do not agree with and you censor them by taking down the forum?"
These people think that they're pretty clever. And to a point they are so. But they have this line that they won't let go of: every time that I take down the posts they leave, the ones that either attack me or others personally or only serve to disrupt or spam the site, they come back and say that I am censoring them. Like I have said before, I don't consider it censorship if I take down a slandering post or a post that has nothing to do with my site or current events or the subject matter of my site.
They also call me pompous and pretentious for enjoying the things that I write about and quote from on my site. They're very intelligent people. But in my opinion, they are the kind of intelligent people that use their intelligence for selfish reasons. They use it to intimidate and belittle others. They use it to make up clever, oh so clever nicknames and post to a site that belongs to someone they once knew and now have some mysterious grudge against. I keep saying "they" but just one might be the culprit. In the end, it doesn't matter.
To you people at the "Big F", you know who you are. We've played this game for months now. So you want me to change my site around and be more security-conscious, more paranoid? I don't know. I know that I believe that I never did anything to provoke you. Whatever.
You've come here again and again, and sometimes you attack me saying, when the personal arguements we have held in this public forum raged, that I should not be displaying such a personal conflict for all to see. But guess what? You've made this part of my life public. You've made this part of my Internet life a fascinating sociological occurance, as far as I am concerned. I want people to see what you and I have said. I want those that have been plagued by people like you that I've been through the same thing. As far as I am concerned, you are part of the Internet elitists and the "digerati", and you have been trying to project that image onto me, calling me pretentious and pompous
For every one of you, I have come in contact with people, the people that have emailed me and the people that have contributed to the site, that think I am one of them. Someone to be seen as a peer. Someone they did not find elitist just because he likes philosophy.
So okay, I have lost some of my Internet innocence and trust. I will be cracking down on the Guestbook and the Forum, looking for the disrupting ants. Like I have always said, honest discussion is welcome and "spam" directed at me or others will not be tolerated. Call it house rules, grafted from the rules of the chatrooms. Call it my pretention if you want, when I take down your never-ending posts that push my archives to their limits almost bursting, loading all sorts of clever pseudonyms into the deal.
I am thinking about open the Forum again soon, but in what way? Do I let the little ants that have been swarming over my site force me to make the forum a place that is password-protected forever? Do I now have to ask people that want to use the Forum to apply for passwords in order to use it? Or do I open it up and have to come in and clean house after they come in to spam? I am trying to keep the Forum open and easy to access, but there are people out there that are trying to prevent that, it seems. Like I have always said, all I want in the forum is real discussion, and not playtime where some people can attack others and cause a mess for me to clean up. I'm not your babysitter anymore, in other words.
Thanks for the memories. Go find somewhere else to play.
ACS
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