Now that I have had time to get over the impulse to rant murderously, I would like to explain what precisely transpired last week. As you may have noticed, many of my posts vanished, my Youtube channel vanished and generally an apoloclypse contained entirely within my online persona occured. It was rather unpleasent, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't still rather urked about it.
The thing is, this website operates on anonymity. That's the entire point of it. It is what allows us to discuss people and things without retaliation from the subject of our dicussions and complaints. Unfortunately, last week, a handful of our members saw fit to out me and this website directly to the subject of one of my posts. In some sort of attempt to troll up an Internet fight or some such. Of course, they are not the ones at risk for any blowback from such stupidity, I am. So to say I was aggravated, dissappointed and honestly feeling somewhat betrayed would be a bit of an understatement.
It was, to put it as nicely as possible ( Despite my impulse to do otherwise ), incredibly stupid of them. As it put me at risk. Had the subject not taken things well, it would have been really ugly. I, fortunately, dodged a bullet. However, the damage has still been dealt and it has forced me to re-examine that which I say here, as I had never really considered the possibility of anyone doing something like this before.
Of course every post related to the subject had to be removed. I was also forced to take down my own Youtube channel, so there will be no more Story Times or other podcasts. Which bothers me somewhat as it was something I was getting the hang of, and had, ironically, purchased better equipment for the day before this happened. Additionally, this persona is now isolated. I can no longer link this persona to anything else I might be planning to do on the Interwebs, such as launch my own ( non-work related ) comedy site that I've had in the pipe for a few months now. So my plans have been rather disrupted by this as a whole.
Thus is the price of risking the core function of this website: our anonymity. You could cost someone their piece of mind, their job and their safety. So think twice ( Hell, three times. Write yourself a reminder note in your iPhone. ) before you go blathering about someone or something on here and whom you're blathering it too.
The thing is, this website operates on anonymity. That's the entire point of it. It is what allows us to discuss people and things without retaliation from the subject of our dicussions and complaints. Unfortunately, last week, a handful of our members saw fit to out me and this website directly to the subject of one of my posts. In some sort of attempt to troll up an Internet fight or some such. Of course, they are not the ones at risk for any blowback from such stupidity, I am. So to say I was aggravated, dissappointed and honestly feeling somewhat betrayed would be a bit of an understatement.
It was, to put it as nicely as possible ( Despite my impulse to do otherwise ), incredibly stupid of them. As it put me at risk. Had the subject not taken things well, it would have been really ugly. I, fortunately, dodged a bullet. However, the damage has still been dealt and it has forced me to re-examine that which I say here, as I had never really considered the possibility of anyone doing something like this before.
Of course every post related to the subject had to be removed. I was also forced to take down my own Youtube channel, so there will be no more Story Times or other podcasts. Which bothers me somewhat as it was something I was getting the hang of, and had, ironically, purchased better equipment for the day before this happened. Additionally, this persona is now isolated. I can no longer link this persona to anything else I might be planning to do on the Interwebs, such as launch my own ( non-work related ) comedy site that I've had in the pipe for a few months now. So my plans have been rather disrupted by this as a whole.
Thus is the price of risking the core function of this website: our anonymity. You could cost someone their piece of mind, their job and their safety. So think twice ( Hell, three times. Write yourself a reminder note in your iPhone. ) before you go blathering about someone or something on here and whom you're blathering it too.
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