PART 1 of?

Some of you know me as the one who exposed MFM and yes I am here dressed in different clothes but for a good reason. First let me address a problem that we all hope has gone away. That is “michellefrommadison”.

I have for now decided not to expose his full identity, e-mail addresses, phone number, roller hockey buddies e-mails etc, etc, etc. Reason, he has stopped messing things up in here for now. Continue or start up again MFM and I will finish what I started in putting a troll back under a bridge. Post on your kill NG page but if I run across you messing up other forums or blogs we will have a confrontation and daddy and grandpa will start getting e-mails and phone calls explaining what Jasen has been up to. BTW, the police and FBI are still working on him to see if he has broken some laws. I will get feed back in time.

What this blog is really all about is “we”, “us” being here and saying what we say. Most of us may not realize the privilege we have to just have this place to be. We don’t pay for it, we don’t have advertising at least I don’t but I have advertising blocked from my computer. It is free for us to talk and discuss all topics. We seem to sometimes have our bad moments and even I who try to avoid confrontation get dragged into it sometimes. We can express how we feel in the morning over a cup of coffee or our political views if someone is willing to listen or just lurk and read. Overall we get along and some feel better saying what they have to say and some learn while others dig in finding new angles on a topic to expose to all. This is what it is all about, a community of people moving moment to moment with news and new ideas.

Ok, it all sounds like one big happy family. Well it could change and often does. People, call them trolls, exist to disrupt. MFM was/is one of them. They are the low life of the computer world. (People who don’t have any real life) You all saw what MFM did on the blogs here and that is just a very small, small fraction of what he has done all over the net. He has made thousands upon thousands of post saying the same thing over and over disrupting wherever he could. However what he is doing is harmless as it does not rob you of things like your e-mail addresses or your photos placed on line for friends and family to see or your phone number, address and other information. Exposing your e-mail to certain places will overload you inbox to become useless and to other places where hackers hangout can have them attacking your computer in droves. I know that trick and have had to exhort to it to protect myself from trolls in the past. In fact my daughter was here last night, my “computer engineer” kid. She has had her fair share of trolls as she frequents tropical fish blog places as well as many more where trolls also go. She said, “dad, you have the knowledge to hack these guys computers, why don’t you do it”. It can be done but my brain says to me that that is against the law or at least my thinking of the law. However according to the FBI you won’t get caught and if you do, nothing will happen. Thinking about that one!

So what could change here? I was asked to help expose a troll on a forum and I exposed where he was from in a very quick time, I tricked him into disclosing his location. He got mad, real mad and started to throw what he had at me. For a while here on my blog it was like swatting flies off the walls and I had to lock down my blog. A few may have seen some of the post that got through. Jill from down under did. I would post them here but my blogs are “G” rated. I could see him watching me as I have tracking on pages where he went. Little did he know that each time he looked, he left a fingerprint for me to check out.

The next day I received e-mail after e-mail from his victims explaining what this character has done to people on the Internet and in blogs, one forum in particular. I had people asking me to call them, I had one woman call me at 7:45am and yes I was asleep. She was in tears and could hardly talk, as she was a victim of the troll. The blog where they chat was in shambles there was/is so much disruption and the owners of the chat do not get involved; you are on your own. That is also true of WordPress right here as I have contacted them and their comment was, “we never throw people off here”. That means we have no police here in this blog, as there is none anywhere on the net. It also means it could become in shambles just like the other(s) I have witnessed. None of us want this, none of us would stay here and no one would help. I guess it’s called “moving on”. Some folks came to me a few weeks ago and asked if I could set up a chat for them that would be completely private. Within an hour I had it set up and you can only go there if you have the address and you have to register. It is completely private and a good safe place to talk, not so here. Post a blog, it appears on Google in fifteen minutes for all to find. What you say stays on the Internet for years down the road. What we have here is like a large egg and we need to treat it gentle. Arguing attracts trolls, they feed on it, they play up to it so we needn’t crack the egg.

My new name means a lot to me as it is something I observe and practice every day, “Namaste” Look up the meaning and although it has it’s roots written in Sanskrit for me, it has many meanings all coming back to one idea of respect for others.

Enjoy what you do here, be understanding of others ideas, express your own, learn and be gentle of how you discuss controversial topics with others. Realize this may not be like it is forever as it can be totally disrupted and destroyed. For anyone who has gone through being attacked, if you want to post your story, I will copy and paste the story (It will be in moderation) but not your identity or any personal information. I encourage this so people can see what you have gone through. Let us try to keep what we have been so graciously given to use. Let us protect it as best we can and respect others ideas, don’t invite trolls.

One final word, protect your identity, lock your photo sharing, limit pictures of family members on line as you never know when the trolls will move out from under the bridge and there is no Internet police to help you.

Sorry but for now all post go to moderation.