As an archivist in this effort, I’m still taking the trouble. Otherwise, I think I would have quit by now. Anyhow, I’m posting new as well as updating the metapost.

Also, because I am linking to troller or almost-troller posts, let me remind the unwary reader/commenter about my policy on trolling on this journal (from the About page):

Generally I just ignore trollers, but on this journal it’s trivial to delete comments, and if you do troll me, it had better have some value. Be amusing or insightful or whatever. If you can’t be amusing or insightful and you troll me, your comment’s going in the trash. Consider this your fair warning.

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This post is for convenience of people still coming to the scene and wanting to know what happened, and because at the tail end of discussion, I just got a trackback from the Body Impolitic blog.

I’ll add more here if any more appears on my radar (as well probably in an additional post).

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I didn’t know this before, and it could conceivably help if you happen to be trying to track down a troller by incoming domain name or e-mail address and you find inaccurate WHOIS information.

There is a way of dealing with false WHOIS information. You can report it to the InterNIC and they will process it and try to rectify it.

You start with this form (the Whois Data Problem Report) and follow the directions there.

The form does require your real name and a functioning e-mail address, so it will leave a paper trail that could conceivably implicate you should someone track it back, but it’s a good tool to know about.

I’m copying/pasting the entirety of my answer here because sometimes comments are deleted from Ask Metafilter if they’re deemed “off-topic” by the moderators.

Anyhow, the original question is here. Essentially this straight white guy read “Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” and is looking for more resources to self-educate, having had eyes open a bit.

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Interestingly, all of these links were on the first three pages of Google results from the phrase “rachel moss wiscon”

• A post on SeeLight goes into a discussion of fat politics and the author’s emotional reaction.
• Seeking Avalon comes down in support of Angry Black Woman.
• Almost Diamonds rounds up articles read by this post’s author.
• popelizbet on LiveJournal talks about our troller in context with Mallorie Gareis’ passing.
• David Anthony Durham talks a little bit about the incident, and talks about Angry Black Woman’s post.

So now that most of us know who the troller from WisCon is, what do we do about her?

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Various developments in the saga (actual property of being interesting not guaranteed).

Extra bonus advice for our young, foolish troller included at end!

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Thing 1: Regarding the troller who took pics of WisCon attendees and contrived to have them posted (unsure whether this was intentional) on Something Awful and mirrored on various Something Awful radical splinter sites (along with sparkling commentary, real names and sometimes also the names of children also in attendance), I was remarking to my sweetie how unlike Geeky Slashdotters the victims behaved. On Slashdot this person would have been treated a lot differently.

In my experience in most Slashdot encounters with slimy people, within a few hours, that person’s identity and contact information is posted to the Slashdot thread. This posting is generally emphatically not posted with any exhortation to do anything with the information, just posted, in full, sometimes with Social Security Numbers and other sensitive information. Geeks seem to feel this evens the score.

Updated: Here’s a good summary link about the person involved in the initial trolling report on Wiscon.

Update 2: Apparently the troller has had previous issues with bulimia and anorexia, which inspired badgerbag to post a fairly sympathetic post about the troller’s behavior and deeds regarding WisCon 32. Interesting reading both in the post itself as well as in its comments.

Thing 2: The Telectroscope (official site) reminds me of the giant puppetry exposition that happened around Jules Verne’s birthday (a few years ago?). Like the crashed space vehicle that started one of the puppetry exhibitions, the telectroscope started with some drills coming up out of the ground in London and New York and went from there.

from garrity (mostly a locked LJ, unfortunately for you)

Very cool. Apparently a dust derived from pig can stimulate body part regrowth. Still in planning/testing, it’s being tested with a veteran who needs to grow a finger.

Or at least it feels like again, though maybe it isn’t actually again. Maybe only in my head. It echoes a lot in there when I think stuff like this because it should be obvious, and it never actually seems to be, so the echoing is usually due to the strident rage that’s incipient.

Unfortunately, I can’t even say this on Daily Kos or anywhere else that’s a collaborative blog other folks own, because they sensibly have anti-trolling rules, and this would probably count under those rules.

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