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09 October 2006

I got the weirdest e-mail today from someone trying to "protect" me from trolls...→[More:]I posted a comment on a gossip blog, that included a link to my personal site. I got the following e-mail:

I saw your post on (The Site)

You seem like a very nice girl. Be mindful the next time you link your site on (The Site), your getting involved with people who take ther job seriously. They love nothing better then to tear a niave poster down to nothing and not even bat an eye. It's one thing if they only berate you. If they get ahold of your friends and families info... you're through. If you are going to continue posting on (The Site), may I give you a couple of words of advice. Never say anything nice about the celebrity in question. Never puy down another poster, unless your ready for an argument.

Read the all the posts in the following link ........

Sarah-Jean was an innocent poster. She thought she was being kind. She linked her site on (The Site). She had everything on her site. Wedding pictures, family pictures, friends pictures, pictures of her peanut butter licking dog, you nami, it was there. They tore her up one side and down the other. It was so bad, her mom had to e-mail (The Site) and two other blogsites to ask them to stop posting pictures and what not on their sites. Her parents even threatened one poster with a law suit if he didn't stop using their picture as his avatar
Once again, this is just a friendly piece of advise, use it accordingly.

And you thought Metafilter was mean.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 15:32 | 24 comments

(The Site) sounds like the name of a sitcom about a struggling dot-com.

posted by jonmc 09 October | 15:34

If they get ahold of your friends and families info... you're through.

What does that even mean??? They're going to tell my family I'm addicted to the internet and celebrity gossip? Like they don't already know.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 October | 15:36

I thought it sounds like something Ricky Gervais would say in an episode of The Office...

posted by funmonkey1 09 October | 15:36

Really creepy. The person giving helpful advice sounds as creepy as the ones she's warning you against.

I bet I know which site is THE site. I've seen comments from you on a couple of them.

posted by iconomy 09 October | 15:41

I thought you meant this kind of troll...

≡ Click to see image ≡

(It does look menacing.)

posted by Pips 09 October | 15:44

Dude, if this is the site I'm thinking of, yeah, they can be a-holes.

posted by viachicago 09 October | 15:45

No kidding, right? I had to read the e-mail a few times just to be like, oh, ok, this person is trying to "help" me.

If you want to guess The Site, e-mail me. (I don't generally read the comments on The Site; I just read the main entries).

And really, in all seriousness, I only think it's possible to get your life "ruined" in an internet sense if you really care to begin with. I bet if "Sarah-Jean" had just walked away, she would have been fine.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 October | 15:45

I bet if "Sarah-Jean" had just walked away, she would have been fine.

Except that, in a world where prospective employers (and romantic partners) regularly use google, it is certainly possible for internet "ruination" to begin to spill over into real life.

posted by dersins 09 October | 16:22

I've seen comments from you on a couple of them.

Me too. It's always like bumping into a friend while you're away on vacation.

posted by jrossi4r 09 October | 16:23

STOP STALKING ME YOU GUYS @#(*$WERSFKDFSKDJF!

I guess, yea, the Google factor. But that would only be if somehow, they got a hold of your last name. I suppose there are losers with time enough to do that.... Scary.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 October | 16:27

I suppose there are losers with time enough to do that

Hell, every time there's a hint of a self-link over at mefi there's last names and phone numbers and home addresses all over metatalk. And that's a relatively nice neighborhood, by internet standards.

posted by dersins 09 October | 16:42

Ok, I just got another e-mail from the weirdo above. Creepo. ::creates filter to delete all mail from that address::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 October | 16:50

You really need to post ALL email from said creepo in this thread.

posted by cortex 09 October | 17:06

Also, pixplztia

posted by dersins 09 October | 17:08

Mmm, think I'm gonna pass (summary: he showed me another conversation to read, and asked if I'd send pictures of myself in clothes I mentioned buying in my blog). Unless he e-mails me again, in which case I'll "get ahold of HIS friends and family" and make him through. Bwa ha ha.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 October | 17:10

You really need to post ALL email from said creepo in this thread.
yes please.

posted by getoffmylawn 09 October | 17:12

Mmm, think I'm gonna pass

Well, at least post those pix, then.

posted by cortex 09 October | 17:13

Creepy e-mail guy, is that you?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 October | 17:14

Look, you don't understand what these people are like. Trust me, stay away from the bunnies. I can protect you, but first I need to see your unladen breasts.

posted by cortex 09 October | 17:16

At work the other day, we renamed two donglys "Laden Dongle" and "Unladen Dongle". Half of the engineers think laden isn't a real word. The other half thing it sounds dirty...

posted by muddgirl 09 October | 17:20

mmm...laden dongle.

posted by dersins 09 October | 17:38

Does anyone know the airspeed velocity of an unladen dongle?

posted by iconomy 09 October | 18:14

Blue. No, yelllloowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

posted by Doohickie 09 October | 23:31

This thread is useless without pictures.

posted by JanetLand 10 October | 10:00

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