Special message from Katiana (Pittsburgh: home, restaurants, activity)

[Katarina Witt]

CD, like all message boards, has "trolls" from time to time, who harass members. There is one (or more?) who frequents some of the forums on CD that I visit. In the past, I disabled my DMs from all but friends, mods and amin b/c of nasty messages I received from this person/s. I left a post once on the Colorado off-topic thread that anyone who wishes to contact me by DM should send me a "friend" request. Anyone from Pittsburgh may do the same.

Another one of this troll's tactics is to give rep points with snarky messages. Several people on these forums have received these messages, including me. This activity increased in recent weeks, and then on Saturday, this particular troll tried a new tactic of sending nasty rep comments to other people and signing my name. I even got banned for a brief time for "inappropriate language", until it was discovered that it was not actually me who sent the message to one particular person. I know that several people on the Pittsburgh forum got these reps.

I spent a great deal of time working with the mods this weekend. I can't tell you any of the details, but for now, the problem is resolved. Since no one knows when this person, or persons, will re-appear, I will keep my DMs as they are now. Be assured that I do not use such tactics as sending nasty messages via rep points.

I want to thank several people on this board for having faith in me. I also want to thank moderator mrstewart for all she did to resolve this; also LadyRobyn for her suggestion that I put the comment "I didn't send any nasty reps, contact a mod" under my name, and for her other help, and to all the other mods that helped. markablue was able to delete all this person's messages, and the rep remained. If anyone has any questions about this issue, they may contact mrstewart via DM.

Katiana

[mattjd]

Originally Posted by Katiana

CD, like all message boards, has "trolls" from time to time, who harass members. There is one (or more?) who frequents some of the forums on CD that I visit. In the past, I disabled my DMs from all but friends, mods and amin b/c of nasty messages I received from this person/s. I left a post once on the Colorado off-topic thread that anyone who wishes to contact me by DM should send me a "friend" request. Anyone from Pittsburgh may do the same.

Another one of this troll's tactics is to give rep points with snarky messages. Several people on these forums have received these messages, including me. This activity increased in recent weeks, and then on Saturday, this particular troll tried a new tactic of sending nasty rep comments to other people and signing my name. I even got banned for a brief time for "inappropriate language", until it was discovered that it was not actually me who sent the message to one particular person. I know that several people on the Pittsburgh forum got these reps.

I spent a great deal of time working with the mods this weekend. I can't tell you any of the details, but for now, the problem is resolved. Since no one knows when this person, or persons, will re-appear, I will keep my DMs as they are now. Be assured that I do not use such tactics as sending nasty messages via rep points.

I want to thank several people on this board for having faith in me. I also want to thank moderator mrstewart for all she did to resolve this; also LadyRobyn for her suggestion that I put the comment "I didn't send any nasty reps, contact a mod" under my name, and for her other help, and to all the other mods that helped. markablue was able to delete all this person's messages, and the rep remained. If anyone has any questions about this issue, they may contact mrstewart via DM.

Katiana

What a waste of my time. I thought you were offering a special massage.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by mattjd

What a waste of my time. I thought you were offering a special massage.

With how stressed I've been lately I am in DIRE need of one of those "special" massages myself! LOL!

All kidding aside, I don't think ANYONE would have seriously taken those negative comments from you seriously, Katiana. You've proven yourself to be one of the more level-headed "regulars" on this forum, and even though I wasn't hapless enough to be chosen as one of this troll's "targets" I never would have given it a second thought. As some on here know I, too, was a victim of a troll trying to defame me. This impostor, "Scranberry," went running amok posting all sorts of inane material and even copied and pasted my status updates and home location. I had to head to the CA forum to do some "damage control" so that those members didn't confuse the two of us!

Katiana, I'd take this as a personal compliment. If someone wants to COPY you and I, then I guess we're trend-setters!

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by mattjd

What a waste of my time. I thought you were offering a special massage.

...same here, and with a happy ending.

Some people just like to cause problems. When I first got on this forum I received a profanity laced rep comment. I thought it was funny since the clown hyphenated mf. Only Spider-Man is hyphenated.

There are a lot of jerks out there.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by COPANUT

...same here, and with a happy ending.

Some people just like to cause problems. When I first got on this forum I received a profanity laced rep comment. I thought it was funny since the clown hyphenated mf. Only Spider-Man is hyphenated.

There are a lot of jerks out there.

I'm just glad there's no more negative reputation system to detract from our points. The folks on the NJ forum back in late-2006 through early-2007 most certainly were "liberal" with them! "I can't outwit you in a debate, so I'll just smack you with negative reputation!" LOL!

[raynist]

Originally Posted by Katiana

CD, like all message boards, has "trolls" from time to time, who harass members. There is one (or more?) who frequents some of the forums on CD that I visit. In the past, I disabled my DMs from all but friends, mods and amin b/c of nasty messages I received from this person/s. I left a post once on the Colorado off-topic thread that anyone who wishes to contact me by DM should send me a "friend" request. Anyone from Pittsburgh may do the same.

Another one of this troll's tactics is to give rep points with snarky messages. Several people on these forums have received these messages, including me. This activity increased in recent weeks, and then on Saturday, this particular troll tried a new tactic of sending nasty rep comments to other people and signing my name. I even got banned for a brief time for "inappropriate language", until it was discovered that it was not actually me who sent the message to one particular person. I know that several people on the Pittsburgh forum got these reps.

I spent a great deal of time working with the mods this weekend. I can't tell you any of the details, but for now, the problem is resolved. Since no one knows when this person, or persons, will re-appear, I will keep my DMs as they are now. Be assured that I do not use such tactics as sending nasty messages via rep points.

I want to thank several people on this board for having faith in me. I also want to thank moderator mrstewart for all she did to resolve this; also LadyRobyn for her suggestion that I put the comment "I didn't send any nasty reps, contact a mod" under my name, and for her other help, and to all the other mods that helped. markablue was able to delete all this person's messages, and the rep remained. If anyone has any questions about this issue, they may contact mrstewart via DM.

Katiana

LOL, I got a rep comment signed Katiana about a week ago that called me an idiot

Here it is:

'Nobody cares about German restaurants you idiot-Katiana'

[Katarina Witt]

^^^That is exactly why I posted this. Rest assured, it's not my style. Contact a mod. It will help them. You know, the funny thing is, I didn't even look at that thread about German restaurants!

[rubybelle]

Originally Posted by raynist

LOL, I got a rep comment signed Katiana about a week ago that called me an idiot

Here it is:

'Nobody cares about German restaurants you idiot-Katiana'

They HAVE to be able to trace all of those, at least you'd like to think so. There must be a way to see if where they are originating.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by rubybelle

They HAVE to be able to trace all of those, at least you'd like to think so. There must be a way to see if where they are originating.

I believe they can trace this back to the original user's IP address and then block that address from accessing this site. Unfortunately if that troll wished to go to the public library and continuously create a new account on each and every computer in there until his/her options were exhausted, then there's really not much that can be done.

[rubybelle]

Originally Posted by ScranBarre

I believe they can trace this back to the original user's IP address and then block that address from accessing this site. Unfortunately if that troll wished to go to the public library and continuously create a new account on each and every computer in there until his/her options were exhausted, then there's really not much that can be done.

LOL, well if they go to all that trouble, more power to them. However, they really need to get a life instead...