Comments on: Blog Break

By: Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:38:11 +0000

Bleah – wordpress ate my ol and li tags…

By: Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:36:33 +0000

So… just to throw a cup full of gasoline on a fire that people have almost finally put out, I’m curious:

Various people have said that among Ann’s missteps was emailing the information about zuzu’s offline identity to Jill, and not to zuzu directly; that is, that the cloak-and-dagger involvement of a third party made the whole thing creepier.

So… how could this misstep be corrected under these conditions?

Suppose you:knew a pseudonymous blogger’s work email, which you had gotten because of something that may well be unintentional revealed in a post some months ago,knew that this blogger had recently expressed a great fear of being outted, and strongly suspected that this blogger’s employer was likely to read employee email on a regular basis, and that an email to her work address mentioning her blogging would have negative work consequenceshad no non-work email that would reach this blogger
What now? I guess if you could find a way to guarantee that a comment be held for moderation, that might work, but I can concoct scenarios in which direct email isn’t an option without getting into crazyland. Of course, that Ann hasn’t brought this up as a viable defense probably means that (4) doesn’t apply in this case.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:55:10 +0000

Nice pseudonymity you got here. Be a shame if somethin’ happened to it.

By: piny

piny — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:46:40 +0000

Ha!

By: orange

orange — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:29:30 +0000

I Know What You Did Last Internet

OLD GUY: I know what you did last summer !

TEENS: AIEEEE !

OLD GUY: No, no, it’s cool. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve seen the marks on your car and stuff, and checked you out at the DMV server, and got your hotel database records. I mean, if I could do that, anyone could do that, and then they could find out what you did last summer !

TEENS: AIEEE !

OLD GUY: Hey, don’t worry, we’re totally cool. I’m just going to clean this giant hook off in front of you, okay ?

By: Beatrice Divina

Beatrice Divina — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:01:51 +0000

Zuzu, I’m so sorry to hear about this.
Right now, I’m going through something similar. I’m active on a number of forums that support women who’ve terminated a pregnancy for medical reasons – either because of their own health, or because of a poor or fatal prenatal diagnosis. Unfortunately, there’s a number of unhinged people with (apparently) special needs children who interpret a termination for medical reasons as sitting outside their house with a knife waiting to kill their child. I am, sadly, not kidding.
Anyway, one of these women has decided I am THE ENEMY. She’s collected everything I’ve ever published online in any forum under two pseudonyms, recorded information from my website registrations, and tried to contact people who know me online to ask for more information about me. Like my name. She’s published all the information she can gather on a blog that I don’t even participate in, despite the fact that the owner of the blog has asked her over and over again to refrain. She, like Ann, has no reason to do this, aside from sheer mean-spiritedness and the tendency to want to bully people she doesn’t agree with.
My husband is an attorney, and I work for an ISP. I’ve tracked down her contact information and will be serving her with a restraining order. You may want to consider doing that with Ann. I’m not filing a restraining order because I care if she tells people who I “really” am – I’m doing it because no one should have the right to hold this sort of information over my head and threaten me with it.
It shouldn’t happen to you, either.

By: Nose goblins. « A Bird’s Nest

Nose goblins. « A Bird’s Nest — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:42:18 +0000

[...] ternet, people; chill the hell out. I find your recent behavior completely unacceptable. If this continues, you’re all grounded. [...]

By: j0lt

j0lt — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:07:10 +0000

Zuzu – I hope you come back soon.

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:23:08 +0000

Thanks, Ann, I hope we’re cool now. It would mean a lot to me if we were. (This is not me not sticking to my guns, folks, this is me being bigger than I am).

Zooze- miss ya already.

By: dob

dob — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:50:18 +0000

This blogging and other internet stuff can get you in a LOT of trouble.

Don’t put it out there if you don’t want it read.