Bob Burd wrote:

mrchad9 wrote:har har. You are so clever.

You ever get a PM from me? About anything? Didn't think so.

Public whining is still Whining.
The thing is, you were quite sure the avatar was from a particular member you don't like. But it wasn't. This happens all the time.
Maybe it's human nature - we like to attribute malice to our enemies and good intentions to our friends. Sort of validates ourselves in our choice of friends and enemies. I'm not trying to bash you personally - just pointing out the sort of stuff that makes life hard on the elves trying to moderate.

I think calling five characters and an exclamation point whining is a bit sensitive. Regardless. We cannot see IP addresses. If we could we would have looked at that before making any assumptions. So people form a hypothesis based on the best information available. Doesn't really matter. If it is a troll they ought deleted, and if someone's avatar that should be determined and that person ought to be removed as well.

mrchad9 wrote:I think calling five characters and an exclamation point whining is a bit sensitive. Regardless. We cannot see IP addresses. If we could we would have looked at that before making any assumptions. So people form a hypothesis based on the best information available. Doesn't really matter. If it is a troll they ought deleted, and if someone's avatar that should be determined and that person ought to be removed as well.

Come on, you were posting similarly in other threads:

I'm posting this character in bad submissions. A half dozen troll posts in various threads after signing up two days ago.

I understand that you cannot see the IP info and that your hypothesis was a best guess. The problem is that we don't present it as guess, but as facts. And that does matter. In another post, not by you, the "guess" is even less obvious:

brabra is Lolli. Read her post, its obvious shes not from the U.S. and female.

It wasn't Lolli, the person WAS from the US, and probably not female either, but that last point was just *my* best guest. It has the signature of a troll we've dealt with in the past. And as a troll to stir up the membership, it was highly effective, wasn't it?

True, I did not make the last quote. Nor would I have. In fact when I first saw them I thought it someone else. Your second quote there shows I was only intending to point this person out, nothing more, so they could be dealt with quickly. And I don't think pointing out trolls to the elves is whining. If you see that differently then we will just have to disagree.

I wouldn't say it stirred up the membership as a whole, so much as one of the elves, and just one of the members.

Anyway, brabra is gone, for now. I think he is the same person I deleted a few days ago. The response to being called a troll was almost a dead ringer. Anyway, we'll see what happens.

I believe these two profiles to be of a merely commercial nature:

http://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=66737
http://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=66735

Spamming the summit logs with advertisement:
http://www.summitpost.org/users/yeye/67106

This one too:

http://www.summitpost.org/users/laiji/67137

Clearly a bot, expect many more.

http://www.summitpost.org/users/lyn/67133

http://www.summitpost.org/users/368871219/67136

Both signing summit logs by the dozen with ads for fake jewelery and knockoff handbags.

No point in listing them individually now--just go to what's new and look at the new summit log entries
"DDD" is the latest ...

The New member http://www.summitpost.org/users/iqbalasko/67199 is uploading photos of the others: two examples are hereunder:

1) Original photo is at http://www.summitpost.org/k2/290453
Member uploading the same photo after little crop at http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... 242#402242

2) Original photo is at http://www.mountain.ru/article/article_img/2365/f_9.jpg
Member uploading the same photo at http://www.summitpost.org/shipton-spire/681222/c-324762

advlov wrote:The New member http://www.summitpost.org/users/iqbalasko/67199 is uploading photos of the others: two examples are hereunder:

1) Original photo is at http://www.summitpost.org/k2/290453
Member uploading the same photo after little crop at http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... 242#402242

2) Original photo is at http://www.mountain.ru/article/article_img/2365/f_9.jpg
Member uploading the same photo at http://www.summitpost.org/shipton-spire/681222/c-324762

This member create a new profile again http://www.summitpost.org/users/iqbalasko/67272

http://www.summitpost.org/users/outfitternp/52552 (advertising)?

http://www.summitpost.org/users/suzi12/67393

PM-ing users with variation of the Nigerian scam

A good thing that this user - http://www.summitpost.org/users/deleted-user/30486 - has been deleted. Not only does he send spams (I received one this morning in my SP inbox) but he also usurps other people's pages, as I discovered with horror. One of these pages was gabriele's "Sass dla cruc - Heiligkreuzkofel" page. The other was Casey Bates' "Climate change" page. I wonder if there is a way to prevent this...