are you a lurker or stalker and what's the diff?

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Going back to the Original Post and question

People throw the terms stalk and harass around a lot - often without realizing that the definitions are often vague, subjective and erroneous. In the following video I think it is crystal clear that the person both stalked and harassed numerous people using the following methods:

- Impersonated real people online using real photos and real names and avatars
- Contacted friends and relatives of these people under these impersonating accounts in an effort to ruin their real-life relationships
- Used sock accounts to make blatant racial slurs, and obvious hate filled rants involving accusations of incestuous relations using full pornographic text
- Used real photos of people and photo-shopped them onto images of pornography (not included in evidence for this video), then published them publicly.
- Used blackmail

Now tell me. The person who caught the perpetrator by doing some research and digging on the internet - is he the stalker? Or is the person who did these things the stalker and the harasser?

*Note on video - some "colorful" text and profanity is used and shown - so if you are super sensitive to such things, don't watch it. In fact, you shouldn't even be on the internet in the first place if this is the case, imho. :p

 

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Obviously if you are a victim online and you use what you can to track the perpetraitor then that is not stalking
 

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I don't think that some people realize how their online behavior is bullying. I have Christian friends who were bullying other Christians through name calling for certain beliefs so of course I had to call them out on it ;) Shut them up very quickly, it did.
 

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Many times things are misconstrued on the internet as well
 

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Many times things are misconstrued on the internet as well

That sir, is an understatement of all things cyber. Especially on message boards, where the primary means of communication is text.
 

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Yes it is good to examine one self at times to keepthings the way they should be
 

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iBot misconstrues all text posts to make it interesting.
 

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That sir, is an understatement of all things cyber. Especially on message boards, where the primary means of communication is text.

Yes, it happens more times than it should. I'm learning time and time again that people misconstrue things when they don't even bother to read a person's post or message. If they would take the time to READ it in full instead of beginning a rant, they might not need to rant.
 

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iam more of a lurker. i like lurking without logging in. and on some forums where they allow guest to post, ill post as anon.
 

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Not a lot of either
 

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iam more of a lurker. i like lurking without logging in. and on some forums where they allow guest to post, ill post as anon.

Oh! I did not know that forums had that feature.
 

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If you lurk my site, you miss a lot of features, and can't see a lot of content. I want people to register and post. :)
 

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You mean the math boards? You can post the link :D

I registered. I just am too tired to think when I get home from work :zombie:
 

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forums that allow guests to post have always run into them abusing the feature. but there are guests who post for legitamite reasons. so its a 50/50 situation. those who keep abusing it get their ips banned.
 

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forums that allow guests to post have always run into them abusing the feature. but there are guests who post for legitamite reasons. so its a 50/50 situation. those who keep abusing it get their ips banned.

I'm not at all in favor of allowing guests to post...if you want to post, then register. If you're too lazy to register, then you are likely not going to have much of value to contribute. :D
 

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Are you a lurker or a stalker?
I like to watch.
 

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Yes, I agree that they should register.
 

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Instead of guests posting, how do you feel about people posting anonymously (where Staff can see in order to curb trouble)?
 

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I think that posts should nto be anon, perhaps posting as guest wouldnt be so bad if there were a requirement to register after three or five posts, be locked out otherwise
 
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