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.

Tags:   geek justice · jules verne · puppetry · telectroscope · trolling · wiscon2 Comments