It seems that like Angry Exile, I have contracted a dose of the clap. It’s nothing that a course of antibiotics won’t cure, besides, eventually, he will tire of the game and go away but in the meantime, I am having to invoke some basic management. This particular blogroach thinks it is funny to impersonate others. Therefore, if you find that you are moderated, then it is because your identity has been spoofed. No problem, when I next log on, I’ll release your comments.For anyone coming here who has seen comments purporting to be from me and you are a teensy bit annoyed at what I may have apparently said over at yours, please bear in mind the following:
- I rarely, if ever, use the email account associated with this blog for commenting on other blogs. If this email has been used, then it is likely as not, not me. Also see the gravatar associated with it.
- Feel free to put this email on permanent moderation if you wish, I am not remotely inconvenienced by it.
- If you are on Blogger, I will always log in to comment. If the commenter is not logged in, it ain’t me.
- I do not comment from the Russian Federation, Macedonia or anywhere else outside the UK. That said, I don’t comment from Canary Wharf, Norwich or Colchester, either.
- I do not swear or make irrelevant comments on other peoples’ blogs as it is impolite.
- My comments will not only be relevant and polite, they will be literate – in particular, I use properly constructed sentences and capitalisation as appropriate.
Y’know, Bill Sticker felt that this troll has all the wit of a masturbating twelve year old. I think, on reflection, that Bill is being highly unfair. The average masturbating twelve year old is this cretin’s intellectual superior by a country mile… In the meantime, should any of doubledickhead’s arse dribble manage to slip through the net, please ignore it. I’ll deal with it when I log on. I am also making this post sticky for a short while.
Update: Well, a couple of updates, actually. Lacking imagination as well as intelligence, our troll is simply cutting and pasting a standard comment to people on my blogroll. So if you get this, then it isn’t from me:
hi,
I have decided to change direction with my blog , because of your previous postings on the blog .it’s obvious you will not meet the standard that i will require for a more hard hitting lobbying approach. i have decided to cull the weaker posters to give the blog a new look and to be more credible.
Thanks for your input in the past.
Longrider
Bear in mind the points I made above about style and literacy. Also, I never sign off with “Longrider”. Never have done and don’t plan to start. Clearly, he has not appreciated that we are all talking to each other and have been anticipating his comments. Consequently, if he is intending to cause me any disruption, he has failed, dismally.
Some of you have received emails from this cretin. If you get an email with a spoofed header from [email protected] then bear in mind that this account was set up purely for incoming traffic. If I send you an email from it, it is because you contacted me. If I initiate the conversation I will use my personal account and will sign off with my real name.
Update 29/03/12: As [email protected] has now been compromised, it no longer exists. So if you receive email purportedly from this account, it is definitely a spoof.
Sorry to hear all that. All sounds highly technical.
It’s a minor irritation, nothing more. Sooner or later, anyone who has a web presence gets infested by a troll.
The Likes of WordPress comes with enough tools to manage the situation.
I learn over at Leg-Iron that the oxygen thief has used my name as well.
He tried leaving a couple here last night. However, as he doesn’t use the correct email, WordPress flagged them for moderation, so they went nowhere.
This too will pass.
Well, the thought occurs that it needs to get;
a) A life outside the web
b) A relationship
Sadly, with the personality profile exhibited so far, both these simple human achievements may be beyond it. I wonder if mummy makes it tidy its room?
😈
Well, quite. Leggy, it seems, is enjoying himself in his own dark way.
Unfortunate, but one of the aspects of the freedom of the web that must be dealt with. We encounter insects in every walk of life; there’s no avoiding them. Just keep that DDT handy for when they surface. Like with cockroaches, eradication is nigh on impossible. All you can do is control their excesses, and you seem to be on top of the situation.
Indeed so. However, it is of no great consequence. He will eventually go away, they always do.
I’m really upset!
How come nobody ever wants to pretend to be me? I admit even I don’t like being me, but it’s so depressing you know when even infantile trolls spurn your personality (despite what everyone says i do actually have one! honest).
Bill Sticker, I too need both A) and B), I tried to get them at Tesco but they said they were out of my size of A0 and the lady at the checkout screamed and hit me with my baguette when I asked about B) – any tips?
All jesting aside, it is because he doesn’t have access to your email. He impersonates bloggers by harvesting the email address from their websites. However, he isn’t very good at it. He impersonated TT here the other evening, but used the wrong email address, so the comment went straight into the automatic moderation for first time comments. WordPress is good like that – it’s an anti-spam measure. I don’t have to lift a finger.
He tried to impersonate me over at OoL yesterday and that was a real hoot. Of the five attempts, the first four were trashed by Akismet as he was using known spammy IPs. The fifth got past Akismet, but as he managed to get the name, email and URL wrong, he succeeded in getting “me” put into the auto moderation on a site I administer. We had a chuckle about that one…
We are dealing with Mr Thick Cunt from Thicket Avenue, Thickford in Cuntfordshire here. As trolls go, this one is pretty incompetent.
Able, me old china, you’ll have to face up to the fact that there are some things Tesco don’t sell.
This will save you many baguette thrashings.
Thanks for this, Longrider — I, too, received a message on my blog purporting to be from you but in a style quite unlike yours. Fortunately, Akismet designated it as spam.
Churchmouse
Ah, you’ve had him, have you? I am assuming that because his impersonations are so dire – and he is clearly so thick, that folk will twig what is going on. This sticky is to confirm it for anyone not too sure.
Yes, crude language and typos — something for others to watch out for if they receive one of his messages.
If he thinks it will damage my reputation or cause me any difficulties, he is deluding himself. He clearly does think this and he is clearly of very low intelligence.
I got a dribbling email claiming to be from you.
This is part of what it said:
“i have decided to cull the weaker posters to give the blog a new look and to be more credible”
Considering I have only ever made one post on your site I was initially intrigued.
Glad you posted this post.
I could have been caught out and thought of you as rude.
Given that I discovered your blog from Underdogbitesupwards, and that I’ve enjoyed reading a good few of your posts, it did seem completely out of character.
Regards
Yeah, note bullet point five in that quoted passage 😉