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?
Thanks!
You betcha!
Well your post # 1086 let me to believe you were hot on the trail!
My apologies guys!
Keep up the good fight!
:)
It's okay.
We hope we find something.
THAT is a wonderful tag-line!
So do I!
It looks like you all have some leads though!
I am not very computer savvy so I'll have to let you guys do all the work!:(
Yes.
He can be prosecuted.
Some teens recently found that out.
Students Arrested for Cyber Bullying
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315493/posts
And, a web forum I was a member of many years ago had a slime posting troll much like this one.
They had their internet access permanently taken away through legal means.
The catch was that we had to document their pattern of behavior, and show a pattern of harassment and stalking.
Took two months, but it worked.
Then that forum tanked.
*snort*
This has been happening long enough that we should be able to ddocument patternss.
It'd be easier if there were some IP addies to run down.
But the mods have that.
I somehow suspect they're holding out for a royal flush, which they will eventually get, but I was never good at poker.
Patience in this sort of matter is not my long suit.
I know exactly where you're coming from. I also look at the HTTP_REFERRER stats to see where traffic is coming from, and I can see where images hosted on my server have been hotlinked on other sites. Then I may visit that site to see if I approve of them lifting my graphics.
However you did make the claim that you swapped images that FReepers were hotlinking on your server with the same porn that was being spammed by the troll under discussion.
The troll did not hotlink your server. The troll hotlinked rotten.com and consumptionjunction.com.
Heck yeah.
The difference between that forum and this one, your ip addy showed up under your posts.
That made it leaps and bounds easier on us, especially since we were unmoderated.
The mods here have access to the IP addy info.
Eventually, like a high stakes card game, they will have a royal flush while our troll thinks he's playing go fish.
Oh don't get me wrong!
I'm floundering all over the place!
i just happen to have two things today:
1) A clean house
2) No car at the moment, because mine is in the shop...
SO I have time!
Couple of posting patterns have been mentioned:
Time of day for the posts
Specific Freepers
Good knowledge of specific freepers
Good knowledge of FR
First rule is: you don't play poker with percentile dice...
(just trying to help! )
;-P
yes.
Keep thinking!
;-)
LOL!
Now that would be a messed up card game.
"I attack your stamina and ego percentages!"
*swat*
"Dude, we're playing poker!"
*blink blink*
"Oh."
You need a cigarette in a long holder as well.
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