🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 10:49:40 AM UTC-5, mydemon...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 11:44:22 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > "Peter J Ross"  wrote in message news:slrnm9dvu5.6qq.pjr@homeridae.org...
> > 
> > Hey PJR, your type is spreading to other parts of the internet... your brand
> > of stalking and libel-posting isn't just for Usenet any more... here's the
> > story from the New York Times:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
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> > 
> > I found this in my Drafts file, not sure what thread it will bright to the 
> > top, but it seems appropriate for the current scene here...
> 
> Topix ... that's the site you basically shut down with your incessant trolling, n'est-ce pas?

You must be crazy...….

Topix was loaded with truly malicious trolls.....

At least one of them followed Doc over here......