Variable 5 posted:

My favorite Derek Smart Internet Warlord moment was after he started posting and people made fun of him and he left upset, an admin got him to come back on the promise that Derek would be able to mod the forum and Derek's first moderator action was to (try to) give someone a 30 day probation for disagreeing with him.

No, wait, it's when people were discussing Ryan Archer's "art" too much so he threatened to not post.

No, wait, it's when he told Moma to doxx himself and gave him a deadline and also threatened other people in the thread that had made fun of him, because the only reason anyone would ever make fun of Derek Smart, PhD is because they're shills for Star Citizen and must be outed and shamed publicly.

No, wait, it's when he called a friend of his in the Defense Department to investigate a fake Vietnam War Veteran on twitter.

No, wait, it's when he got called out for not attributing goons for making images he used on his blog posts, and one of the goons he stole from said he didn't mind, so Derek twisted it to say that goons demanded they not be attributed.

No, wait, it's when he kept telling TheAgent that TheAgent was wrong about real-life conversations Derek was nowhere around for.

No, wait, it's when goons were literally saying they didn't feel comfortable posting in the thread because Derek was batshit crazy and was investigating everyone that disagreed with him.

No, wait, it's when he called goons "nazis" for suggesting that the Escape key open a menu in his games.

Contingency posted:

Maybe I started out on the Internet too early, but putting your real name right next to your username is pretty much a waiver against a claim of pseudo-anonymity. There's following a trail of breadcrumbs in whois and forum account profiles (unintentional disclosure), and there's publishing stuff online as Bob "xX_DogRaper_Xx" Jones (intentional disclosure). If you don't want people to know you are Bob Jones, don't say "I, xX_DogRaper_Xx, am Bob Jones" and act shocked when people tell Bob hi. The doxing aspect is dubious, and the criminality even more so without an intent to harass.

Hav posted:

My problem with the whole 'you inherit the stink of your company' is that us fuckers on the inside to try to change things for the good; we ask the awkward questions in all hands meetings that don't get reported to the press (they get a separate meeting with appropriately enthused 'employees'), we promote the standards and occasionally blow the whistle on bullshit.

Scruffpuff posted:

"immersive" game:

"non-immersive" game:

Zzr posted:

Star Citizen is none of these.

Morningwoodpecker posted:

Classy reference.

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I'm just sayin... This looks completely consensual. So.

But just in case, my job in the Verse is... well I'm a serial killer who has learned to channel his psychopathy. Anybody wants me to take out some trash, I'm at Grim Hex when I'm not out and about. You know how to reach me.

Beet Wagon posted:

Cool, so that's gross. But then also:


my job in the Verse is... well I'm a serial killer who has learned to channel his psychopathy.

*somewhere, quietly, Linkin Park's "Crawling" begins to play*

Beet Wagon posted:

Cool, so that's gross. But then also:

TheAgent posted:

whenever a gal is about to give me head I make sure to step all over her fuckin hands as I crouch walk on a nearby counter

really gets her in the mood

Mangoose posted:

Can you imagine being killed by that dude? Cringing and bleeding to death at the same time?

E: like use some god drat instagram filters or SOMETHING

Beet Wagon posted:

In fairness to that guy I think that picture was probably pre-instagram bust also in fairness to that guy

Beet Wagon posted:

Cool, so that's gross. But then also:


my job in the Verse is... well I'm a serial killer who has learned to channel his psychopathy.

*somewhere, quietly, Linkin Park's "Crawling" begins to play*

Hav posted:

Yeah, I just don't know how people do the translation from complaining about your order at Wendys to any other company. I certainly wasn't making a moral argument. The kind of people that try to exert external pressure are...odd.


There's the difference between public disclosure and the new fashion of simply pointing people incapable of doing a whois lookup at a 'target', given the lethal circumstances behind at least one _swatting_ (and the swatters seeming complete lack of remorse). It's _vastly irresponsible_ to disclose or other point to disclosure of information not the least because the loving golden rule, 'do to others as you wish done to yourself' is more basic than any fine discussion of the ins and outs of what 'doxxing' is. The internet includes a lot of people that are _outright disturbed_ that tend to draw very straight lines between perceived motives and actions despite the whole cause and effect thing.

I got doxxed back in the 90s, and it wasn't a lot of fun.

Likewise, although legal filings contain personally identifiable information, you're expected to practice some reticence over republishing the information out of context.

Also there's a public interest angle which is always, always a hard 'no' unless you have press credentials. Even in those cases, you don't loving do it without really good reasons.

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Thanks for the insight, Mr. HYMAN G. RICKOVER

Daztek posted:

Golli posted:

I am looking forward to Derek's next blog.

"The Permabanning of Derek Smart by the Coward Beet Wagon"

Beet Wagon posted:

Cool, so that's gross. But then also:


my job in the Verse is... well I'm a serial killer who has learned to channel his psychopathy.

*somewhere, quietly, Linkin Park's "Crawling" begins to play*

Lladre posted:

He is still reading this thread in his insane bubble sort algorithm, copying and pasting new names into his notepad of "People who will be blocked".


Everyone on his blocked list has been investigated by a private detective for dirt. The guy is mental. And not in a nice/cool way.

Daztek posted:

actually

Beet Wagon posted:

Cool, so that's gross. But then also:

Contingency posted:

I doxxed a guy

Golli posted: