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Zippy wrote in message
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>On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 11:55:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
> No, that site is doing well, but yes, the Moderator doesn't suffer fools
> and
> trolls so well.
>
> As I wrote earlier:
>
> The typical anonymous, unregistered stalking and libel-posting troll is
> not
> a new phenomenon on Topix Forums... the site has had repeated problems
> with
> anonymous, unregistered "flame trolls", who stalk and post what can verge
> into the territory of libel, for example:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/small-town-gossip-moves-to-the-web-anonymous-and-vicious.html
>
> "...a social media Web site called Topix, where they write and read
> startlingly negative posts, all cloaked in anonymity, about one another.
> And
> in Dee’s Place, people are not happy... called Topix a 'cesspool of
> character assassination.' [...] In rural America, older, poorer remote
> population lagged the rest of the country in embracing the Internet, the
> growing use of social media is raising familiar concerns about bullying
> and
> privacy... hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment
> in
> communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is a
> novel
> concept. 'Something about rural culture seems to make people want to have
> conversations in public,' Topix, a site lightly trafficked in cities,
> enjoys
> a dedicated and growing following across the Ozarks, Appalachia and much
> of
> the rural South, establishing an unexpected niche in communities of a few
> hundred or few thousand people..."
>
> And, of course, there's a difference between free speech and libel. The
> posts made here and elsewhere on Topix.com by the trolls you asked about
> generally tend to fall into the latter category ...
>
> Now you KNOW

That you're a sleazy, obsessed troll?

Yes, we know that.