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).
The WisCon 32 trolling prize goes to…. Rachel Moss of the Graduate Student Program (Inorganic Chemistry) University of Wisconsin. Among these links you can find more info about her, including, probably, her last known e-mail address. As others and I have remarked in the past few days, this is what happens when you unsuccessfully troll folks. They out you.
Anyhow, to avoid having you jump through two hoops to each link I provide, I’ll just copy/paste the linkings I did over the past few days.
May 28th: Things 1 and 2:
- …a good summary link about the person involved in the initial trolling report on Wiscon.
- 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.
May 28th: More interesting coverage on the WisCon troller (includes advice from me to the troller about underestimating your targets and un-heartfelt apologies):
- Jezebel (more interesting for the comments than for the original article)
- Angry Black Woman is really pissed off (reader comments also interesting)
- Troller herself, said recently to be sorry, is not (unfortunately both links I intended to link to are now dead/screened). But I can attest to reading one comment where she appeared to sort of apologize (in that way people do when they don’t really mean it but someone is making them) and then about a day later she posted a longer comment where she made it clear that she wasn’t sorry at all, except maybe about involving someone’s child in her original Something Awful post and comments.
- A response to being targeted, by one of the targeted.
- Later comments (starting around 30 and going down the page) in the widely-linked Alas, a blog blog entry, where Kate Harding of Shapely Prose and Sheana of the Seeworthy blog post comments, are interesting in that at least Sheana seems to think the troller was quite intentional about her betrayal of trust built with Sheana in a similar fashion, sort of befriending in order to get troll-worthy material.
- At Seeworthy, there’s a post that includes the troller’s e-mail address. Go geeks!
May 29th: But what do you do about trollers? (own post)
May 29th: More coverage of the WisCon troller:
- 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.
May 31st: this post:
May 31st: More WisCon Troller links coming in:
- A Secret Chord: WisCon and Rachel Moss
- ~366 Megahertz: Evil Rachel Moss and Okay, Rachel Moss *Is* Kinda Wacky (this appears to be a politically conservative blog)
- There is now a rachel-moss tag on wordpress.org
- Modern Mitzvot: Rachel Moss
- LJ coffeeandink: Tempest on the Rachel Moss/Something Awful imbroglio
- Jennifer Pelland: Rachel Moss, asshole
- Blogging While Feminist/Plan(s)feminist: Rachel Moss and WisCon
- ocker zeal: Reblogging: Rachel Moss, Mark Pesce + others
- LJ jlassen: Rachel Moss is a bad person
- LJ mucking: Another reaction to Rachel Moss
- The Sable Verity: Rachel Moss: WTF Award Recipient, per the Angry Black Woman (Looks like a reposting of the Angry Black Woman’s blog post from prior with a little bit of intro)
- Kuro5hin: Wiscon - SA/SASS Drama (warning: unkind wording from a non-sympathetic source, including patently hostile, kneejerk comments)
- Bastante Already: Rachel Moss and “Women with a fear of fat, hate fat. Period.” (there’s potential in this post for nasty triggering reading - it’s about someone with a history of EDs deconstructing how this kerfuffle and attendant language hakes her feel, and she’s not wholly fat friendly, though she is definitely careful and respectful)
- My Fat Spouse - some discussion of Rachel Moss/Wiscon (another site with a philosophy different from my own, so be careful)
- The Isthmus - The Daily Page - The Forum | Madison, Wisconsin: File Under Bizarre: That WisCon “fat hate” blogger (discussion starts out sympathetic to fat acceptance, but there are one or two SASS/Moss supporters in there)
- LJ seperis: this is not a test case
- LJ wombat-socho: more control and discipline, plz
June 1st: Yet More WisCon/Rachel Moss activity
- Not Be Televised: Newton’s Third
- spacedcowgirl: Downfall of humanity staved off temporarily
- Some links from the Amptoons post of previous examples of Rachel Moss’s trolling/griefing (warning, some of these are Google cached and may not last):
- Queer Geek Theory, and Related Wanderings: WisCon, fanacademia and internet drama
- Feminocracy: Guiltless snacks
- Fat Girl on a Date: Non-Headless Fatty
- Somehow missed: The-F-Word: Putting heads back on the headless fatties
- wickedqueen.net: And lo, I have returned, with the startling news that there is asshaberdashery on the internets.
- (NSFW) Viviane’s Sex Carnival: links for 2008-05-31
- A Flight of Ideas: The personal touch of Rachel Moss
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[...] Rachel Moss, you are a huge douchebag. Not only because you spread the hate around, but because you ought to have known better, and because your “apology” afterwards was suckage, warp factor five. Your tally of wankbaggery and douchebaggery stands at hating people who claim ethnic minority status, hating fat people, hating trans* people and dehumanising everyone you saw there who wasn’t like you. Some people have said in the meantime that you have had previous issues with bulimia; while you have my sympathy, you don’t get off the hook for this. I don’t get to beat up people in wheelchairs and then blame my arthritis. You did a horrible, shameful thing, and what’s worse is that you did in what should have been a safe space. [...]
Hi Mal!
Thanks so much for posting all of this. I didn;t make it to WisCon this year and heard that there was an “incident” and I am still trying to catch up.
Yowza. O.O
You’re welcome!
It’s a good way to stay focused and less at loose ends while I fret about house buying/selling/moving etc.