OK THIS MAY BE OBVIOUS FOR SOME!!!

POSTED BY: JenDandy
UPDATED: Friday, October 22, 2004 04:42
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DESANGRO

Monday, October 18, 2004 12:23 AM

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Originally posted by gojiro:
It was indeed tubgirl. :shudder:

And Signym, the jerk made it impossible to ignore. It popped up no matter what you clicked -- blogs, images, posts. Otherwise, I agree with you: ignore 'em.

gojiro

Yeesh. I remember that one; I first found it by mistake when I clicked on a link for an anti- Harry Potter site... At first I didn't even think that it was real; I looked at it and thought that it was a blow-up doll filled with... stuff.Why would someone degrade themselves like that? I mean, the woman who's doing that to herself... well, let's just say that when parents teach their two-year-olds to NOT make a mess on themselves, they do it for a reason. Can anyone else understand the mentality involved?

Furthermore, can Haken track this guy down and permanently bar him from the site? Why is the troll doing this to us?

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, October 18, 2004 1:35 AM

Geez, off the board for one day and all of my Browncoat friends have a troll run amok on the board.

Luckily I missed a very sick picture posted by this piece of go se from the sounds of it.

Keep flyin' Browncoats.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

KELLAINA

Monday, October 18, 2004 3:10 AM

I too am glad that I missed yesterday (I'm kind of glad I had to work and got to miss this stuff).

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to Haken for fixing everything and for running the site in general. You rock!!

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. -"Angel"

SOUPCATCHER

Monday, October 18, 2004 3:50 AM

As another person who missed the troll yesterday I'd also like to add my thanks to Haken and all those who were working to put out the spot fires.

There are three kinds of people: fighters, lovers, and screamers.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, October 18, 2004 4:42 AM

I disagree.

I am on the FIFTH forum of another, unrelated topic, because of that stupid, idiotic "ignore it" and "suck it up and move on" crap...

Ignoring it encourages them to try even harder, you don't believe that, go find a forum in the midst of self-destruction that way, there's plenty, it's the primary cause of a forums destruction, period.

First - you secure your site as far as humanly possible, and ban them in any fashion possible.

Second - you contact their ISP, and if they refuse to cooperate, you file against them in court.

More often than not, the ISP itself will kick them off, and if they continue to push it, then it becomes criminal harrassment and they CAN be grilled for it - there's no excuse for this behavior, and even less for failing to stand up to it.

I've seen no less than five forums come apart at the seams because people "let it slide" - don't, it's a dire mistake and encourages recidivism.

-F

SERENITYSRIVER

Monday, October 18, 2004 5:19 AM

11th.... your list of joyous imagery brought...well...joy...to my heart. I was tryin' for a more articulate way of beautifyin' my speech....but it just ain't coming. I think I need sleep.....

I shall sleep with happy Firefly images to replace the....well....other unmentionable one.

"Ten percent of nothin', well, let's see, that's nothin' add nothin', carry the nothin'. . . ."

SIGMANUNKI

Monday, October 18, 2004 5:24 AM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

First - you secure your site as far as humanly possible, and ban them in any fashion possible.

As I have mentioned.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Second - you contact their ISP, and if they refuse to cooperate, you file against them in court.

Unfortunately you must provide proof that a person with there ISP is responsible. They will *not* kick the person for one infraction. The only thing that this would do is start a paper trail (which is nessesary to do).

But then again there are spoofed IP's, etc. Read my above posts for more problems. After all, you have to find out who there ISP is before you can do anything about it.

Even then the "attacker" could claim that you got into an argument with them, found there IP and forged a log to make it look like they were responsible. It's hard to do anything against these people as the medium in which this happens favours them.

Basically, the only thing that can be done, is your first mentioned point, which I mentioned above.

Welcome to the real virtual world.

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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Monday, October 18, 2004 7:31 AM

Okay, so I hate trolls and trogs and all-around jerks who waste so much (time, energy, and most of all their misguided talent) as bad as the next person.

HOWEVER...there is one positive side to all this.

Not only has this community gotten to be so large (woo!) that it attracts the attention of those-who-freebase-CheezWiz, it has also proven how strong a community this is.

I am proud so many have reacted so quickly, dilligently, and with self-sacrifice (Go Haken!) to prove to this piece of go se, its kind will not be tolerated here, irregardless of where its withering sorry hide calls home.

This is our "Serenity" and we ain't leavin'.

TCM

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11THHOUR

Monday, October 18, 2004 8:53 AM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I've seen no less than five forums come apart at the seams because people "let it slide" - don't, it's a dire mistake and encourages recidivism.

-F

I agree.

Whatever is in our power to take action against this individual, we should pursue it.

That trog intentionally caused the normal use of this site to cease. "It" inserted code that caused an aggressively gross image to pop up, without warning, which was HIGHLY disturbing and obscene.

People need to do whatever can be done to find these kinds of perpetrators... those angry, loser, cowardly trogs who can't generate enough cognitive energy to use their keystrokes for something useful. To just put up one's hands and exclaim, "Well there's nothing you can do... that's the way it is... " IS passively assisting the anti-social behavior.

Tighten up the site security, fine... but also do what can be done to track that trog down. What "it" did was inexcusable and caused a great deal of upset to the folks here. In fact, it even upset people from other sites because I had posted a link to one of my wallpapers on another board. Some really nice friends of mine were assaulted with that perverted image.

That's the kind of thing you don't just let slide.

11thHour

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11THHOUR

Monday, October 18, 2004 8:58 AM

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Originally posted by SerenitysRiver:
11th.... your list of joyous imagery brought...well...joy...to my heart. I was tryin' for a more articulate way of beautifyin' my speech....but it just ain't coming. I think I need sleep.....

I shall sleep with happy Firefly images to replace the....well....other unmentionable one.

Glad the new imagery helped.

I'm working on my own "redirect code". Anytime the other "unmentionable one" pops into my brain, I have backup "wallpaper" that appears and wipes the other away.

Gonna "refresh" to some shiny Serenity imagery... mmmmm...

11thHour

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