Internet troll/stalker

topic posted Mon, June 25, 2007 - 2:04 PM by 
So on another message board I frequent, the message board is swamped, daily, by a poster complaining about his unfair treatment in family court. (He has twice been restrained by his ex-girlfriend.) [His complaints are the classic pro per bunk; I don't see anything abnormal about how his case was handled.]

Now his posts on the message board violate the board's TOU (repetitious, publishes personal information, stalking, etc.), but the board doesn't really care. (And he goes to great efforts to post...multiple accounts, etc.)

I think his postings actually violate his restraining order, but there's no indication that the ex-girlfriend reads that board, so she has no idea her dirty laundry is on the Internet.

I did contact the DA's office, who said they had bigger fish to fry, unless the ex-girlfriend wanted to file a complaint. I don't know her (or her stalker), so maybe her ignorance is her bliss.

So if nothing happens to this guy, my life will go on as normal (other than him spamming a web site I enjoy). And I doubt that this guy will physically harm his ex-girlfriend (he seems to get enjoyment from just publically humiliating her), so I don't think he'll be the headlines for her murder or anything like that.

But I would like him to stop. And I don't think his ex-girlfriend deserves this treatment.

Suggestions?
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  • Re: Internet troll/stalker

    Mon, June 25, 2007 - 3:47 PM
    Is she identifiable in any way~?
    • Re: Internet troll/stalker

      Mon, June 25, 2007 - 4:28 PM
      In additional posting all of the relational history, various private details about her medical history, my stalker "friend" has but of course posted her full name and address.
      • Re: Internet troll/stalker

        Tue, June 26, 2007 - 5:23 AM
        Full name and address??

        Ohhhhwwwoooeeeeeee.

        Well you could always snail mail a screen shot of the posts with the URLs to the chick.

        • Re: Internet troll/stalker

          Tue, June 26, 2007 - 1:19 PM
          I've thought about doing things like that.

          1. Is that a little stalkerish of me?

          2. Is her ignorance bliss? Is it my right to decide for her?
          • Re: Internet troll/stalker

            Tue, June 26, 2007 - 2:53 PM
            Well I think I might blow it off unless I were convinced that there was a potential for violence.

            One never knows what the other guy (girl) did to engage a person. Divorces are nasty things most the time.
            • Re: Internet troll/stalker

              Tue, June 26, 2007 - 3:22 PM
              Here's the thing: Not a divorce. Dated for a long time and then broke up. And no children involved, either. (And for the current restraining order: I've read the file...he didn't present any notable mitigating evidence.)

              As for the potential for violence: Right after the Virginia Tech shootings happened, some disturbing things were posted (as well all those newspaper articles about Cho's teachers seeing the signs), but lately no posting has been particularly chilling--just run-of-the-mill obsessively creepy.
              • Re: Internet troll/stalker

                Tue, June 26, 2007 - 7:14 PM
                ************I've read the file..*******************

                Which of course begs the question. Is she a stone fox?
                • Re: Internet troll/stalker

                  Wed, June 27, 2007 - 2:37 PM
                  Unfortunately, there no are pictures in the file (other than the window pane that he "accidentally" broke).
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                    Re: Internet troll/stalker

                    Wed, June 27, 2007 - 4:34 PM
                    That was a slant-wase way of getting at what is your profit motive. Is she so smokin' stone hot that you just gotta get next to her.
                    • Re: Internet troll/stalker

                      Thu, June 28, 2007 - 3:11 PM
                      I could say I'm a nice guy, trying to do right in the world.

                      But, really, I just want him off the site (and out of my way).
                      • Re: Internet troll/stalker

                        Thu, June 28, 2007 - 5:04 PM
                        Ahhh at last reverse trolling.

                        Well then rat him to the webmaster.
                        • Re: Internet troll/stalker

                          Fri, June 29, 2007 - 2:03 PM
                          The webmaster knows (and occasionally deletes) the posts, but has better things to do than play list cop for every TOU. Plus he uses disposable e-mail account, cycles his IP, etc., so if one account gets banned, he moves onto another.
                          • Re: Internet troll/stalker

                            Sun, September 16, 2007 - 11:34 PM
                            Follow-up: My friend the Internet troll/stalker has been posting a lot less lately (I guess it was getting boring, even for him). However, his posts did catch the attention of someone in the city's mental health department.

                            Now he blew it off with the typical I'm-not-the-crazy-one response. But it did get me thinking: surely there must be some liasons between the legal and mental-health systems. Would it be possible to sic the mental-health people on him, or get the mental-health people to light a fire under the DA/court's butts?
                            • Re: Internet troll/stalker

                              Mon, September 17, 2007 - 12:24 PM
                              In some states a lousy Social Worker can have you locked up for observation. I don't know the mechanism I am sure it requires that a judicial order issue.

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