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[TheEarl]

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[ElizabethWest]

Good grief Earl. What a conundrum.

Shang? Where's Shang when you need good advice?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ask your friends to go back and delete their comments if they are able to- I know it's possible on livejournal.
Can you filter him so that he can't visit your journal? again at LJ, you can create a friends only journal, and people have to contact you to be able to visit it.

Post NO comments in return, and do complain to MSNspaces, who have a major stake in the "family friendly" thing, and spoofing and trolling aren't good for them.

DON'T FEED THE GODDAM TROLLS!

 

[Guest]

So, I've got a troll.

This person has decided to create an identical blog to mine, copying the front page of blogs, links and design and using them to mercilessly rip the piss out of me and what I've written there. Although my blog's mostly amusing bits of thought that I've had and random events from my life, it does also contain some high-quality maudlin moments and some blogs with are 100% dejection and depression and this is apparently what this person has taken issues with.

So he's basically built a copy of my blog, satirising my depression and making the point that I'm young, healthy and in a free country; what've I got to be depressed about? Thus, showing a complete ignorance of depression, but that's by the by. And then he posts a comment on my blog (with my own profile photo, no less, and a hilarious bit of spoonerism on my rl name that no-one's ever thought of before. Ever. Certainly not in year 3), offering a link to it.

What is my response? Do I delete his comment, leave a mildly sarcastic comment on his copy of my blog, and report him to MSN Spaces? Do I ignore him completely? Or do I act like I'm not bothered and find him hilarious by writing my next blog offering up his link as something amusing and thus feed his desire for attention?

Yep, you guessed right. For a smart person, I can be really stupid sometimes. Of course, all of my friends have looked and told him what a wanker he is. Of course, he's got loads of attention. Of course, he's posted a spoof comment on my blog saying that he's glad everyone cares and that he hopes 'we' can get through our depression together.

I am dumb.

Emergency backup plan will be to see if he posts again. If he does, then I'll say "You were entertaining at first, but now you're boring me," and then delete his arse, thus reverting to what I should've done in the first place, which was ignore him.

A more object lesson in, "Don't feed the trolls," you could not have.

The Earl

Earl, darling, first I offer my sympathy and a hug (more than one if you like).

Then I offer my 6 years of blogging past with a single bit of advice -- ignore him. Ignore him completely, and ask everyone you know, you see, and you might possibly meet to do the same.

You cannot stop him or do anything about him. He's after attention -- yours in particular. It's seriously demented envy. You can't fight him and you wouldn't win anything anyway (unless you could find him personally and run him over, and there are laws about that, karmic and otherwise). The absolute best weapon you've got is to deny him any attention whatsoever.

Eventually he will either make a giant sized ass of himself and bore everyone, or he will get bored and find someone else to bother. It's tough, what I advise, and I don't do it lightly. I say it from the point of someone who has been cyber stalked. The more attention I gave my doppleganger, the stronger it got. Once I ceased to look, it had nothing to do.

ALso, back up your good stuff from your blog -- cut n paste if you must. It's always possible to move a blog to some other site. You can disappear right out from under him and have your fun somewhere else, if you really need to.

But ignore him. Don't think about him (I know you will, bbut try). And keep in mind that one worm in your world doesn't have to spoil it all. I, for one, think rather highly of you. It might not balance out all his shit, but it's something.

 

[English Lady]

Earl love, don't rise to it. report it, delete the comment if you want, but don't let it know it's got to you. I am very firmly in the camp of "ignore it, and it shall loose interest and go away."

 

[Goldie Munro]

I can offer no better advice than those posts before me! Ignore - complain to the relevant authorites and get on with your blog - he'll get bored and move on somewhere else - hopefully!

 

[minsue]

You've gotten great advice, Earl, and I'd only repeat what you've been told. I'll simply offer you many *hugs* instead.

 

[TheEarl]

Thanks all. I can delete everything to do with him if I choose; MSN's quite good like that. However, doing that, given the position I've taken already of detached amusement, would be an admission that it bothers me.

So, now I can't do anything until they do something first and then I can pretend to be bored and delete them.

<le sigh> Brought on by my own stupidity, so I can't really complain. You would've thought all these years at Lit would've taught me something.

Thanks all. Appreciate the comments.

The Earl

 

[English Lady]

Bless your cotton socks, Earl *hugs*

 

[TheEarl]

Bless your cotton socks, Earl *hugs*

Thank you. Not quite sure what I did, but always nice to get plaudits.

The Earl

 

[English Lady]

Thank you. Not quite sure what I did, but always nice to get plaudits.

The Earl

I just you, thats it really

 

[rgraham666]

Bummer Earl.

I have nothing to add except my support.

 

[Guest]

Thank you. Not quite sure what I did, but always nice to get plaudits.

The Earl

If you chose to move, Earl, you might consider Live Journal. For all the stuff that goes on ther it offers the one wonderful thing -- control of who can access your writing. Control can be a lovely thing, don't you agree?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Earl, there's no reason why you should have to put up with any of his comments just because you want to keep up an appearence or anything. It's YOUR blog. If you don't like what he's posting, you can delete his rants whenever you want - and I think you SHOULD delete his arse to kingdom come.

Don't put up with anything that makes you feel less than the wonderful person we all know you are. Everyone here loves you.

Anyone who knows what depression is like, knows he's an even greater asshole than he himelf realizes.

*hugs*

 

[Carmenica Diaz]

I am a suspicious person – it’s my nature and I apologise in advance but this attack appears rather specific.

A person wanders past your blog, decides to copy part of it and spends time creating names, comments? I doubt it.

I suggest this person knows you! This was planned.

The suggestions about ignoring him/her still hold but be wary.

 

[TheEarl]

I am a suspicious person – it’s my nature and I apologise in advance but this attack appears rather specific.

A person wanders past your blog, decides to copy part of it and spends time creating names, comments? I doubt it.

I suggest this person knows you! This was planned.

The suggestions about ignoring him/her still hold but be wary.

I suspected that too, but I don't know anyone offhand who'd do it. The fact that they've now updated their blog to satirise my most current one lends credence to that theory, but sod it, they've just been reported, so what do I care.

Bored now. Deleted.

The Earl

 

[OhMissScarlett]

If you chose to move, Earl, you might consider Live Journal. For all the stuff that goes on ther it offers the one wonderful thing -- control of who can access your writing. Control can be a lovely thing, don't you agree?

I agree, you should absolutely come to Live Journal if you move, then you can hang out with all of us. Yay.

 

[elsol]

You let him know you noticed... he won.

Remember... YOU are a writer.

Not God nor evolution has ever put a creature on this planet who can do disdain better that us.

Nor has God even conceived how he could have possibly ever created a creature more attention-hungry than he.

I like the bad comments cause it brings more attention to my absolutely favorite subject... MOI!

I love trolls... they let me know that no matter how bad my day is going... fuck, seriously how bad could it be when compared to someone whose height of achievement will be slamming my work.

Think about that for a second... imagine how cloyingly desperate your life must be that creating a parody of someone's else blog is the height of entertainment.

I'd fucking shoot myself.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I love trolls... they let me know that no matter how bad my day is going... fuck, seriously how bad could it be when compared to someone whose height of achievement will be slamming my work.

That's the deepest thing I've ever heard about a troll. And well worth considering.