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Besides which, I doubt it is your fault. If someone approached me for an internet interview (hey, alliteration! :D) I wouldn't think to google their penname. I'd just sit down and do the questions, and tell them if teir was something I found offensive.

Besides which, you're not getting spam on your LJ account, so I doubt it's them. I might be demonstrating my complete naivety on the minds of badficcers here, but I don't think that it's your fault. Partly because I doubt they'd be this dedicated.

I assumed the 4chan livejournal page (i.e. 4chan(dot)livejournal(dot)com) was the extent of it all. I didn't realise there was more to it. *is an intarnetz noob*

Find your own thin skinned person to acid etch!

*hands over acid beaker* Would've been fun... *pouts*

I'm pretty good with stylesheets. Let me know what you need tinkered with.

If nothing else, I knew I'd get a sane, intelligent, reasonable response from y'all.

Put the acid away, Sedri. I see you holding it there behind your back, trying to pretend like you aren't! ;p

I didn't make it to the botanical gardens when I was there, unfortunately. Next time!

Because of my interviews of various authors for my university essay - I included a bunch of obvious badficcers (some of whom never responded), including a Legendary Badfic author (who did respond).

It wouldn't have been hard for any one of them to google my penname and find both my livejournal (which does link to the PPC, as I archive my missions there), my FFN account, and the Board, all three of which appear in the first two pages of a google search.

I don't think I said anything offensive to anyone, but the very fact that I went out and interviewed some *cough* 'Highly Sensitive' authors about their work, while being part of a community that so blatently mocks it, could have offended them. (I'm not inclined to suspect the Legendary Badfic author, though, as his tone in the emails was quite satisfied, but then again, I could be wrong.)

If this is the case... guys, I am SO sorry. I considered using a second (little used) penname to send my interviews to the badficcers and other random writers (as opposed to the people who know me by this name), but figured that it would be all too easy for them to be connected (how many people do the same project at the same time?), so I didn't bother.

Until now, I didn't really think it was connected, but from what you've said above, Dann... well, the timing is just too close.

I really, really hope I'm wrong. I'm even hoping that the offended spammer (if that is indeed the case) found this through another link just so I can stop feeling guilty. It wasn't even a foolish choice on my part, but if this is the result... damm, I'm sorry.

...Or near enough (Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border) Oxford is the name of the city, Oxfordshire is outside the city limits. There IS a very nice botanic garden in Oxford, but it isn't THAT big, and the only livestock are waterfowl who will come and mug you for food!

We're on your side. Comfort yourself with this thought: that thin skin of theirs won't hold out long. Eventually they'll be sorry. (Of course, acid may help speed the process...(

I'd be flattered beyond belief, and twice as much if the PPC went after the badfic.

As for reading the fanfic, it's hard not to remember what happened to MZB. I'd love to read what they wrote -- but I wouldn't dare. People like OTW would make me twice as paranoid as they already do, since it would be my work they'd be trying to stake a legal claim on.

Ah, yes, I misunderstood which logs you meant. I really should be doing my sleeping somewhat more horizontally.

If you want to discuss this out of view of the perpetrator, contact me via the Pit or GAFF and I'll give you my email. For obvious reasons I don't want to post it here; I'd rather not find it being used to solicit ypur pics in some other forum.

The first attack came from an IP belonging to a web hosting website, cyrtexhosting.com. I E-mailed their abuse line, and they agreed that flooding our forum was most definitely abuse worth terminating the account that was responsible, but they needed the logs from yourwebapps.com to work out who it was. I E-mailed yourwebapps.com's abuse line, and while they deleted the spam posts, they didn't send the logs to either myself or Cyrtex.

You are entirely correct, though, there is something about this that definitely does not add up. I'm still trying to work out exactly what it is...

You're not going to get the logs. 72.167.203.129 traces back to a proxy server. Several, actually, including unblockedspace.com. I don't have the IP from the previous attack, but I wouldn't doubt that it was another one. Kind of by definition, they don't have or won't hand over logs, and getting their host's logs will generally require a court order.

What's intersting is the binservices connection. That's the email address listed on binservices.com ... are they the targets of a joe job? Why are we getting flooded with something that is apparently trying to get them spammed or abused? If it's someone who has it in for us, which is certainly possible, why not flood us with some suitable PPC-targeted insults?

There's something about this that doesn't add up. Something missing.

We have you to thank for alerting Techno-Dann in the first place, July. We also have you to thank for helping spread the word so people could find this new haven.

May be that someone who got their fic sporked is taking it a little too hard...

Perhaps the author of C***b***n?

In an RPG I joined, one of the players started a post with this:

They're somewhere in the middle of Oxford and by the middle he means middle-of-nowhere, because there's nothing but countryside for miles. All lush green rolling hills and the occasional spectacle of grazing livestock.

I was confused at first because I've been to Oxford and it doesn't look much like that, and then it dawned on me the person likely meant Oxfordshire, so in the OOC post I said "Just a note: it's Oxfordshire, not Oxford". Tonight I check my email and I have two people jumping on me. One says "I think she knows what she was talking about when she made the post", to which I replied "Unless there's a part of Oxford I haven't seen before, then based on the description in that post, it sounds like she's talking about Oxfordshire, not the city of Oxford."

The other was downright hostile: "Just a note (and unlike the first gentleman, I mean this to completely be a bastard): Obviously your perception is skewed. This is not your journal and certainly not the place for you to come criticizing anyone. So, uh, kindly redraw that line and step behind it. Better yet, let me help you out.

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There you go, go on and step right on behind that. Thanks for visiting. Come see us again soon. :D

I'm out of line correcting a detail? MY perception is skewed? *twitchtwitchboom*

I tried to be polite when I replied with "No offense was meant and I'm sorry if it came off that way. I was pointing up a detail I noticed and I wasn't aware pointing something out in the OOC area was out of line. I didn't criticize anything she wrote or how she was portraying the character, I pointed out an error in a place name. Big difference. So sorry if people here mistake that for criticizing them."

I checked a map of England and when I looked up Oxford, it came up as Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Have I missed something and saying 'Oxford' goes for the city and the surrounding shire?

My anger at this thing knows no bounds.

Meaning that I can see a particular story or situation going several different ways. I also sometimes have the characters in one place at one time, and then somewhere else a week later, and I don't write what happened between.

So I'd be really pleased if people read my books, liked the stories, and then tried to write stories explaining what might have happened in the interim. Or if they wrote AUs of the books. Or if they wrote stories that could fit in alongside mine. It shows that they like the books and want to read/think more about the characters.

I'd hate badfic, though, because I'd be heartbroken to see the lack of understanding.

at people until someone knew how to fix it.

That counts as 'doing something'