Poison Letters

[netmouse]

Hi folks.

It seems someone who, um, really really dislikes me is writing poisonous anonymous comments on LJ. A couple months ago there was one posted to my LJ about how I was cheating on Bill (which I'm not). On September 30th, it was a more elaborate post on Bill's LJ about how this person hopes he falls in love with this girl he's hiking with because I am actually a professional whore who isn't good enough for him, etc. etc. That's not true either. Well, the whore part anyway. Whether or not I'm good enough for Bill is up to Bill and I can make no assertions on that point.

Anyway, this is obviously a person who hopes to break up my marraige and/or ruin my and my husband's reputations. I don't particularly like that.

Anonymous posts are now screened on both of our journals.

However, I can't do anything about your journals, and my friends list is of course public, and for all I know this person is also badmouthing me at cons - there was mention in the last post of having worked on cons I've worked on. I thought I would go ahead and say that if you read or hear something poisonous about me, I hope you will a) doubt it, b) feel free to talk to me about it, c) delete it if it is an anonymous post - and send me the IP address if you track them. (And if for some reason someone posts this sort of thing in a non-anonymous way, well, I'd like to hear about that too.)

Comments

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the nuthouse. I had to make a similar post back in July (which you can see since it's f-locked). I notified the mods of the communities that I belong to in order to give them a heads up in case my troll decided to spam them too. You might want to consider that if you think your troll will try to get their jollies elsewhere once being blocked from your LJ.

You can also use a stats tracker to see how often this IP reads your journal even if they don't post. I did that and discovered that my troll read me daily - sometimes multiple times in a day - which just seems bizarre. Why read the LJ of someone you dislike? Oh, wait... troll=no real life. I forgot. ;-)

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

. troll=no real life. I forgot.

Exactly. It amazes me that some people have nothing better to do.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Where do you find the LJ stats tracker?

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

You can use the code generated at statcounter.com If you put it in your user info page where HTML is allowed, it works fine (you can't track individual entries). I just needed an idea of how often a certain IP hit my various sites. It works in more detail on my own website. LJ limits what info is returned, but it was enough to let me see how obsessive the freaky neighbor is. :P

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

Though it is no longer active, using Component I had a free stat counter on -all- of my LJ pages for a good year or two.