Comments on: Bloggers Can’t Hide Behind Fake Names Anymore And Defame Others

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:25:59 +0000

Pretty irritating, isn’t it Rose? I can’t say that’s happened to me as far as I know, but I remember back in the late 90′s someone deciding to say all sorts of things about me and to me in the newsgroups. Moron left some info out there that allowed me to track him to his location, which was a college only an hour away from here, including the dorm he lived in. I posted all his info in the newsgroup except for the dorm and freaked him out. We wrote back saying I’d better never show up and he was alerting security; that was way before I had a picture online, so who was he going to warn about who to look out for? He ended up leaving the group, and that was that.

Otherwise, I’m usually fairly calm, though I will give what I get, no matter where it is. Hang in there, Rose; you’re doing good things with your blog.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:10:09 +0000

I’ve had a number of nasty untrue things said about me by people who hide behind fake names.
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By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:58:51 +0000

Thanks Ajith. Actually, some social networks are quick to yank things. Facebook hates complaints of any type. Twitter may take some time, but eventually they’ll get the bad players there also.

I’m sure my day will come, if I get as popular as I’m shooting for, that I’ll have to fend off some unwarranted attack by someone looking to make their bones off me. At that time, I hope I have the money to either ignore them or crush them. Yeah, I go for the jugular.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:56:44 +0000

I absolutely agree with you, Wil. No one deserves to be beaten up without a chance to defend themselves, or at least know who it is that’s berating them.

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:38:21 +0000

In the online world, it’s so easy for anybody, sitting in some timbukto behind a fake name, to tarnish popular people’s image. It has become a habit to become popular by damaging the image of popular people. This tabloid tendency in blogging is very very bad!

I see that many social netwoking sites do not do anything about it because they want themselves to be popular as well.

Well articulated post, Mitch.
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By: wilhb81

wilhb81 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:25:58 +0000

Mitch, honestly, I’m also hated those people who scolding other person behind the “Anonymous” nickname! In this case, I think they’re deserved for the punishment. That’s why, we should MIND of what we’re saying, no matter at online or offline world.
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By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:12:12 +0000

Exactly Andrew. There’s a major difference between “I didn’t care for the makeup Jenny had on” and “Jenny’s a slut, and looks like one also.”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:00:57 +0000

People tend to find themselves confuse between slandering or just giving their own opinion. In most cases, freedom of speech has been always an issue when discussing these matters. Still, they did a great job in penalizing people who ruin other people’s lives just to create foul write-ups to them.

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:22:59 +0000

So I did Oh well, it was late when I wrote that and I completely forgot about it.
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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:43:29 +0000

I’d normally go with “sneaky”, but you mentioned cheating. lol

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:40:07 +0000

Now Mitch, cheating is a bit harsh mate I prefer to think of it as being a little sly.
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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:01:53 +0000

I felt that it had already gotten out of control, Christie. Not sure if you remember Usenet, but many of the forums on there got corrupted once people knew they could hide their identity and post to multiple groups at a time. Racists and pornographers took over and ruined it for everyone else. And once that genie was let out of the bottle, it was lights out to decency.

By: Christie

Christie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:08:59 +0000

It really is a good thing this happened when it did, because we are getting to a point where some people think their blog has to be outrageous in a train wreck sort of way in order to get noticed. If there were no penalty for slandering people while hiding behind a fake name, it would definitely start to get out of control.
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By: Trade Show Guru

Trade Show Guru — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:15:21 +0000

Hey Mitch,
I agree with your logic on having a model represent you in court. I hadn’t thought about the potential benefits of that.
~ steve, the trade show guru
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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:30:57 +0000

Sire, I’d expect nothing less than you cheating. lol I’ve also made the first comment on it, I expect.