Posted on 05/09/2005 5:54:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz
There is an internet vandal who defaces Free Republic with very gross pictures (homosexual sex and stuff from rotton.com) as well as posting "ALL YOU F***** N*****S & JEWS SHOULD BE LYNCHED".
He pings a variety of people to his post, ensuring that the trash is still in their My Posts lists.
To me, this isn't the milder form of harassment that Eschoir engaged in so many years ago. The very worst he would do is ask if you ever committed sodomy, and he once used the screen name "Paula Jones Tw*t". This is mild.
What this sick piece of work is doing is much more egregious. I believe it crosses the line into criminal defacement and restraint of trade. Are there any Free Republic lawyers (especially prosecutors) who can address this issue, and are there any private detectives with internet savvy that will help track the identity of this person down?
Brings a whole new meaning to "Card Battle Game" doesn't it?
"It seems that some FReepers were posting pictures of Kerry and Pelosi that were hosted on his website and he swapped the images on his own server because he didn't appreciate the bandwidth drain."
Hotlinking is never a wise thing to do. For one thing it is bandwidth theft and if it was done to me, I'd be screaming because I would be charged extra bucks over and above my allowed bandwidth. The other reason is because of the ability to swap images and mess with the person who's linking to them.
Case in point - a friend and I had our own websites and forums back in 2000. Some mutual friends got into a squabble with the VegSource leftwing activists and asked for my friend's help. He went to their forum and blasted the VegSource people. They retaliated by posting a copyrighted image which they'd grabbed from my friend's website. He switched images and altho it wasn't porn, it was very close. They complained to Tripod, which hosted his website and Tripod took his site down. We wrote a lot of letters explaining what happened and they did restore his site, but we went through a real hassle because of this.
So a word to the wise - Don't hotlink!
What is "leech protecting"?
Use small words and speak slowly.
I am sure that the mods are collecting info!
Time will tell and we have to be patient!
As I noted in my post at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399442/posts?page=1072#1072 this guy didn't claim to have posted the images here ... just to have replaced ones that were being hot-linked from his server with them. another thing I would have done.....only with something a lot less 'graphic' to be sure.
As a webmaster I am able to track & view exactly where any of my site's visitors came to my site from ...
LOL.
Hope your floundering around doesn't cut into your house cleaning time!
Truth be told ,I am afraid of floundering around the Internet and coming across more hideous pictures, as posted by the troll!
Keep floundering and you will come up with something!
Yes, it does.
Rather twisted too.
He was speaking not only of linking, but site hits.
lol! If you didn't see my post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1399442/posts?page=1162#1162 go read :)
Yes, am aware of that.
But he was saying that not only the hotlinking, but people looking at his site were shwing up as FR.
Like I said, you would be surprised.
A lot of activity takes place just beneath the radar. For example, there are many newer posters (date ranges from today-90 days ago) who frequent threads that are about specific racial issues. These posters are slick. They'll only say enough to where it won't genereate an outrage, but it's still heated comment(s).
I say this to demonstrate that people are not stupid. You can't come out and spew overtly racist speech here, so what do they do? Multiple user accounts.
Think about it.
Whoever this is I don't think is your average troll. This person or persons have been here for a long time. A long, long time. What gives this away? A true newbie, even if they lurk for a while, still has to get the lay of the land as far as posting threads and replies. If you have a straight up newbie coming across as experienced, what does that tell you?
The Smut Posting Troll who has been agrivating our FRiends.
Check out post #882-883. continue up the thread.
Pay attention to posts by Jet Jaguar, mhking, Mineral Man and Darksheare
Then there is another manifistation of an interesting person...
Not sure we've got it, but it's VERY interesting.
I sure hope so.
I want this clown busted.
But you see them as 'road runner' and their ISP/IP addy.
They don't show up as "FR".
You can see where they navved from, but they don't show up as being the site.
Like i said: clean house. (Got a plan for dinner, too!)
And OH YES!
I have floundered into some really amazing and disgusting things while investigating this!
:-)
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