Blog of many Trades is devoted to blogging about ASDs. I am for ideas, not groups. I throw in with no one. Harassment, libel, and threats of legal action have put the blog on hold. Currently, this blog has enacted comment moderation. There is no guarantee that your comments will get through, and I check whenever I'm on, which is infrequent.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Comment Moderation

Recent Harassment, performed by a large group of people, with the intent to force me into silence by harassing me, dictated the introduction of Comment Moderation, and the subsequent closure of my blog. I will still be posting like this, but I won't be in comment threads for quite some time, lest there's something I must respond to directly.

I let through every comment, but I do not have to agree with them.

What happened on HA was between two people, arguing their views. That it has come to him getting his real life friends to engage in criminal harassment to force a teenager to buckle to his demands, and using a heated diuscussion between us to validate their criminal actions.

Links to the relevant articles on their activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coerce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassment#Types_of_harassments

I will not be forced against my will to do this. If I were to make such a promise, it would under duress, and it would not be expected by any moral or ethical individual to be kept.

I have some more things to do today, and I'll not be back on this blog often. In the very least, their attempts have driven me from what was a bit of a spare time activity to a chore, which will be gladly forgotten most of the time.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joeker, just think about this.

You've been fighting Phil for how long? Has it got you anywhere really? Can it get you anywhere?

I didn't like what I saw below, especially by that bastard Borisa or whatever - but they said they were friends of Phil's. Just how many friends does he have? Do we know for sure? He might have a whole army out there.

I'm scared for you, Joeker. Really. If you keep fighting you might end up doing something silly and no one wants that.

So please - as much as it seems that it's under duress, it might be better if you did promise not to mention Phil any more. For your own peace of mind, not to make him happy. You're in a corner, and it looks like there's only one way to get out. You don't know who these people are and you don't know where Phil lives, so you can't take him to court. What alternative is there?

Please understand. I'm only trying to help you.

MG

Joeker said...

Since he decided that someone who wasn't going to give an opinionon Baggs deserved becoming an enemy, over warning him about profanity and disagreeing on his wiki. But of course, I apologized for that. I was sincere. I was sorry he felt that way, but if that was the reason, then I was indeed sorry.

This is now a matter of threats and coercion. And I will not buckle to these criminal activities. To do so is unacceptable.

I'm not fighting Phil right now, I'm fending off his "friends." What kind of friend asks this of their friends? Let the army come, then. It won't matter if it's one or a hundred, I'm not going to let myself be coerced.

Phil wants it. He wants it badly. He wants me shut up, and I don't think he cares how it happens, be it willingly or if his friends can manage to drive me back to such a brink. I think the latter would please him greatly. He could laugh about it with his wiki members.

It's not about the right to say "Phil." It's about my freedom. If I let a bunch of bullies take my will from me, what then? What else will I have to lose? Choice is a valuable thing, and I won't let it be taken away. I've made my choice. I'll weather this storm, and perdition take those who try to break me!

I understand, and I'm grateful. But I can't let them take from me my will.

Ross Lumbus said...

Phil's a bully ands is getting his mates to go you. Do not stress.
They are jokes the lots of them.

John Best said...

Are Phil's friends real people or imaginary?

Anonymous said...

But Joeker, does one person really matter? ONE person? And it is just one person. He invited these other people in here. It's his doing.

One person being ignored and not spoken of isn't a restriction of free will. It should be easy to do. It would be much harder to keep it going because of the apparent consequences of continuing attacks that just may push you over the edge.

Please?

Ross did you see what that bastard Borisa said? That's not worth stressing about?

MG

Ross Lumbus said...

"Phil and the hot-tubbers" great name for a band I think. I can't take these guys seriously.

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Ross Lumbus said...

Borusa? Oh the leader of the Hot-Tubbers?

No I think they are at turns pathetic, irrational, spiteful, petty, nasty but, each is absolutely laughable.

Are they Phil aliases? No. I know the argument for them being such is a good one, but I honestly believe that there are so very strange individuals who would even put store in Timelord as a person.
There we have it the Hot Tubbers in all their glory and these posts are the best they can manage.

I told you Joker. They are as ludicrous as they are ineffectual.

Joeker said...

It's what he wants. It's what he's so fired up about coercing me into doing.

I can either let myself be bullied into submission, or I can stand for myself, for my values, my ethics, my morals, and say no, I will not be forced against my will.

If I were to promise, it would be broken, and it would be worth nothing. I refuse to make promises that I cannot keep. No one would, lest they intend to break them all along, and I am not that kind of guy.

Ross; Thanks mate. Jokes they may be, but their intents and actions are clear. Even a joke can be hurtful.

Anonymous said...

Gone? Gone where?

Joeker said...

Timelord, you are a liar. You don't deserve the pixels it takes to respond to you.

I am no more a fake than any Aspie. I learned things Phil, and the vision of your world seems to be one of a Disney Movie. I live my life my way, and because I fight and fight to make myself better than I am, does not make me less. I fought to control my stimming, my rocking. I make myself more able, more capable. And you have no right to speak down on me, to accuse me of being a liar about having Aspergers. You are low indeed, and my parents would find nothing but disgust in someone so callously dismissing of the struggles I've endured. I'd rather deal with a violent bully instead of you anyday. At least they're satisfied with hurting my body.

My section in the quotes is gone, and for that I'm glad. I almost thought you were being true to your word... Until I noticed they were right there, able to be reverted in just moments. Then I got curious, and checked your edits. What I found...

More AS Disappointment is not gone. You are a liar. So much for your vaunted reputation for truth. I've caught you in your lie, and you are well and truly caught. We must be careful, should we weave a web, not to be caught in it's sticky strands of silk.

I will not promise to a liar, lest my words be turned to ash in mouth.

I will do this no more than you would. I will no more say your name than you will make cause for it. HA is not your blog. I am free to speak my mind, as free as you are. You will not whinge, wheedle, whine, threaten, abuse, harass, defame, degrade, deface, demean, stalk, or insult me into anything.

AS long as you intrude into mine, as long as you want me not to speak at all on someone else's blog, then you will not get your wish.

I don't go on your wiki, or your blog, or anything of yours. If you incite people, you'll not find me sympathetic. If you insult Autistics who aren't part of your exclusive group of perfect people, then you'll find a voice rising in protest. Even were I to stop, another person would be there to reflect the morals and ethics of a soceity.

I am not an Aspie who knows themselves only as an Aspie. I'm a brother, a son, a friend, an Ex, a cousin, a nephew, a stranger in a crowd, a patron, a customer, that guy who held the door.

And I won't take any of your filth any more than anyone else should.