Comments on: Harassment Post Coming Monday

By: Radfem

Radfem — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:46:08 +0000

I have a sore loser who backed the wrong candidate in this week’s local election ranting on some internet site about how I have some sexual fascination with the politician and how creepy it is that I’ve blogged so much on him during the past several months (but doesn’t mention that there was an election cycle taking place during that time period).

Not to mention, I had a harassing comment a while back which sounded exactly like the politician himself. I wish the trolls at least could go on vacation once in a while!

But it’s a reminder, albeit a not nice at all one and not always much consolation, that it’s important to keep at it. Because for one thing, for all the trolls, there are many others out there who do get something positive out of blogs.

By: mythusmage

mythusmage — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:29:51 +0000

(Interesting, I provide a link to my hosting provider and it gets junked. i remove the link and the host’s name gets through. Somebody’s spam filter needs a talking to.)

By: mythusmage

mythusmage — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:26:40 +0000

ABW,

If the hits stay high I recommend switching to a pay host. I’m partial to Total Choice Hosting myself, but which you go with is your decision. Yes, they do offer WordPress via Fantastico Deluxe and cPanel.

Since you are on WordPress.com I recommend looking into the plugins WP.c provides.. Anti-spam, commenting, that sort of thing. You may find one called Ban, which lets you block specific IPs and host names.

I do have one contrary thing to say about you. You’re not angry, you’re justifiably ticked off.

By: Eric Stoller

Eric Stoller — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:35:08 +0000

Ugh... I've been linked from the SF site again :( Although, this time they gave me a great name if I ever want to start a rock band: Leftwing Fever Swamp.

By: richard

richard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:16:58 +0000

really looking forward to this new post, just got my first white supremacist troll. now i feel like a real blogger :)

and thanks for the update on the Carnival Of Allies ABW! :)

By: Quietus

Quietus — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:51:49 +0000

Nope, I’m thinking of Hal Turner. Apart from the fact that targeting a white supremacist clearly indicates anonymous has no developed racial agenda, the details of what happened to Turner very clearly demonstrate just how efficiently anonymous can fuck up your life. ABW might not attract such ott assaults if she did not post the details if minors as Turner did (which I believe she would not do, at least not deliberately) but anonymous could probably take down this site. There is nothing to be gained from trying to ‘take these people on’, because there is no way you can win. Really, just moderating the incoming posts and studiously ignoring the rest is probably the best thing you can do.

By: Yonmei

Yonmei — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:37:40 +0000

Quietus: That’s a warning from a concerned bystander who knows a fair deal about anonymous, not a threat. The last person who tried posting names and telephone numbers of anonymous people ended up with every single iota of information about him, including education, medical and criminal records, being crossposted to multiple forums accompanied by a google earth picture of his house with a target on it

You’re thinking of the man who posted an ad on craigslist claiming to be a young woman who wanted to have no-limits rough sex with lots of men? And a lot of men contacted the fake ad with their real names, addresses, phone numbers, and in some instances workplaces… and this guy then took the information they’d sent him and posted it in full on his blog?

And you think that situation is in any way comparable to the owner of a blog taking the IP addresses of trolls posting nasty crap on her blog, finding out who they belong to, and posting that information?

Quietus, you are out of your mind…

By: Meep

Meep — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:40:29 +0000

I second the ignoring suggestion.. as much as it would seem like a good idea, some of these people are serious black-hat hackers who will try to screw you over. Wordpress is not invulnerable to hacking, so be careful. I wouldn’t want to see a great blog go down because of more immaturity.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:06:22 +0000

I’ve been trying to convince advertisers to buy space on my site.

wordpress.com doesn't allow webads, though. They don't worry about things like the link to your merch store, or if people put up links to their ebay or etsy stores, but any webads that require javascript to enable sensitivity to keywords? Nope. WP.com has disabled javascript installing by free accountholders - can't be done. If they ever do decide to allow some limited webads like adsense etc it will be a paid upgrade. I wish you luck with dealing with the harassers, and I can totally understand why you want to, but take care of yourself.

By: Mighty Ponygirl

Mighty Ponygirl — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:27:28 +0000

abw — would you kindly shoot me a quick email before you start posting IP addresses?