Stalking on the Internet

[Paul Evans]

Just found this.................

Stalking and bullying including Internet stalking, cyberstalking, intimate partner stalker, vengeful stalker, delusional stalker, erotomania, erotomaniac, harasser stalker, cyberstalker, love rat and troll

What do the Massive think about this type of thing

I was put through this on another board.........Its not pleasant but I think very little can be done about it??

Is It right that people can do this type of thing on the intertweb with no recoarse??

Any View's?

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by Paul Evans

What do the Massive think about this type of thing

Well I was looking for a hobby for when I can't do diving anymore but I don't think that's it.

I can do obsessive but I don't do people.

[principia]

I know who you are and I am watching you.

[Moz]

Wheres the "How to.............." section?

[Howard Payne]

As long as ultimately it results in an exchange of bodily fluids - I'm all in favour of it. Your just attention seeking again Paul aicha?

[Depth-junkie]

Yo Paul, u recon i lower the tone

Im small fry compared to HP






Gaz

[Howard Payne]

Death box amateurs the pair of yer

[Howard Payne]

Jeez - I've just realised it's Gaz!!!!!!! - haven't you snuffed it yet dude? I'd picked out the suit for the funeral and even written the card to go on the flowers? You must have rolled a seven by now surely? We're even getting AP to make a six foot long yellow plastic box to bury you in...

[Scubee]

I actually think it is one of the worst things one person can do to another. To bully in person ins bad enough, but on the web, over cyberspace, where they may not even know who it is is appalling.

A few years ago, i set up a group - i can't remember now if it was an MSN or a Yahoo - but I guess it doesn't matter. One of the contributors was, quite frankly, off his trolley. He took offence to anything that anyone else posted, and went so far as to report another contributor to his employers, as he thought they guy was breaking some work regulation. It put the guys job at risk while they investigated. He hacked into peoples emails, made all sorts of threats to quite a few contributors. Several left the group as a direct result. As I was the group 'owner' (I can't remember the proper title now) I also became the subject of his attacks. He said (and i have no reason to think he was lying) that he knew where i lived, where my family lived and that if I didn't stop everyone posting what he deemed to be libellous comments, he would kill us all. It wouldn't have been hard to find us if he really wanted to, and i have to say, that given what i knew about him, I wouldn't have put it past him to move from cyber threats to in the flesh ones.

It was a scary prospect, and I was not prepared to put anyone else at risk - particularly my son who was about 5 at the time.

I became very wary of revealing my identity to anyone on the web, and even now, sometimes when my real name appears in a thread it rings alarm bells.

i am sure there are worse cases than mine (I know of at least one which makes mine seem like nothing, but it isn't nice.

As someone once said, and others frequently repeat - it ain't big and it ain't clever. It is nasty.

[Letz]

Originally Posted by Scubee

I actually think it is one of the worst things one person can do to another. To bully in person ins bad enough, but on the web, over cyberspace, where they may not even know who it is is appalling.

A few years ago, i set up a group - i can't remember now if it was an MSN or a Yahoo - but I guess it doesn't matter. One of the contributors was, quite frankly, off his trolley. He took offence to anything that anyone else posted, and went so far as to report another contributor to his employers, as he thought they guy was breaking some work regulation. It put the guys job at risk while they investigated. He hacked into peoples emails, made all sorts of threats to quite a few contributors. Several left the group as a direct result. As I was the group 'owner' (I can't remember the proper title now) I also became the subject of his attacks. He said (and i have no reason to think he was lying) that he knew where i lived, where my family lived and that if I didn't stop everyone posting what he deemed to be libellous comments, he would kill us all. It wouldn't have been hard to find us if he really wanted to, and i have to say, that given what i knew about him, I wouldn't have put it past him to move from cyber threats to in the flesh ones.

It was a scary prospect, and I was not prepared to put anyone else at risk - particularly my son who was about 5 at the time.

I became very wary of revealing my identity to anyone on the web, and even now, sometimes when my real name appears in a thread it rings alarm bells.

i am sure there are worse cases than mine (I know of at least one which makes mine seem like nothing, but it isn't nice.

As someone once said, and others frequently repeat - it ain't big and it ain't clever. It is nasty.

Same here I have been on the receiving end of the unpleasantness Scubee mentions above and stalking by an ex (although the forum stalking turned out to be the least of my worries from him!) It is a violation and very damaging.

I too am ever vigilant about my name appearing on the net and, coincidentally, have just PM'd someone asking them to change a reference to my real name in a post. Mal is always wonderful though and usually spots it before me and changes it Top moderation on YD and little extras like that too

I gather there are legal steps you can take but proving is difficult and the police will not/cannot invest the time and money