Whatever happened to Wilki?

Reflecting on the post I made on my way to work, I was thinking about the assumptions it required. And there are assumptions there. But you know, it's a better case than was ever made against Fuller for The Reaction stuff. And it's a hell of a better case that the one for me hassling Richard about his Asperger's struggles, which was pulled straight out of his ass and rubber stamped by the wild bias of the world's shittiest moderator. So if one is a bad case, they are all bad cases.

How do you know said moderator was looking into your personal information?

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]
And it's a hell of a better case that the one for me hassling Richard about his Asperger's struggles, which was pulled straight out of his ass and rubber stamped by the wild bias of the world's shittiest moderator.[/QUOTE]

So let me get this straight, are you fucking saying that I am completely making up the fact that I have Asperger's, never mind dismissing my very real life struggles associated with it?
If that's the case, you are certainly in the running for QZ's asshole of the year. I am NOT lying about my Asperger's one bit. There have been a few QZ'ers that have met me IRL or who've talked to me over Skype/Mumble long enough that they can most certainly vouch that I am NOT making this shit up.

And btw you want world's shittiest moderator, try Archaic from Bulbagarden. That prick allows a lot of unethical behavior such as content plagiarizing (despite repeated requests from our lot as well as our affiliates to put a full stop to that), facts getting replaced with outright nonsense if not lies, harassment of staff who speak out against bad practices, and has been caught lying on an Australian ABC TV station interview about his website's rankings and stats.
Shall I go on?

[QUOTE] [b]inu-liger wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]
And it's a hell of a better case that the one for me hassling Richard about his Asperger's struggles, which was pulled straight out of his ass and rubber stamped by the wild bias of the world's shittiest moderator.[/QUOTE]

So let me get this straight, are you fucking saying that I am completely making up the fact that I have Asperger's, never mind dismissing my very real life struggles associated with it?
If that's the case, you are certainly in the running for QZ's asshole of the year. I am NOT lying about my Asperger's one bit. There have been a few QZ'ers that have met me IRL or who've talked to me over Skype/Mumble long enough that they can most certainly vouch that I am NOT making this shit up.[/QUOTE]

No. Of course not, and I'm sorry if my wording might have suggested that. I'm referring to the completely FALSE implication that I would ever in ten million years hurt or belittle someone over any physical, emotional or psychological affliction or condition. That's what's pulled out of your ass, and fashioned into a suppressive pity drum you've been beating ever since.

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]

How do you know said moderator was looking into your personal information?[/QUOTE]

What? I don't know what was being sought. I just know where the search landed. Which on my workplace website, directly on my contact information, title etc. It's the first hit after Facebook stuff when you google me by name. Not hard to get there.

Again, allegedly. It's a big old world and anything is possible. But given the facts it's a reasonable assumption. Reasonable enough in my mind for me to have decided to leave.

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b] [QUOTE] [b]inu-liger wrote:[/b] [QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b] And it's a hell of a better case that the one for me hassling Richard about his Asperger's struggles, which was pulled straight out of his ass and rubber stamped by the wild bias of the world's shittiest moderator.[/QUOTE] So let me get this straight, are you fucking saying that I am completely making up the fact that I have Asperger's, never mind dismissing my very real life struggles associated with it? If that's the case, you are certainly in the running for QZ's asshole of the year. I am NOT lying about my Asperger's one bit. There have been a few QZ'ers that have met me IRL or who've talked to me over Skype/Mumble long enough that they can most certainly vouch that I am NOT making this shit up.[/QUOTE] No. Of course not, and I'm sorry if my wording might have suggested that. I'm referring to the completely FALSE implication that I would ever in ten million years hurt or belittle someone over any physical, emotional or psychological affliction or condition. That's what's pulled out of your ass, and fashioned into a suppressive pity drum you've been beating ever since.[/QUOTE] Apology accepted there, however the long outstanding issue at heart for which you've been accused of psychological abuse was the use of "Alberta Urkel" at LEAST twice, which Barb did witness and she was upset to see you using that. No matter how you try and spin it, using that term with the intent to insult was NOT excusable, because you KNEW I had Asperger's which I've been fairly open about for YEARS here. And comparing me to a fictional TV character with highly exaggerated mental issues was going to bring about the appropriate response, because it was implying parallels between me and that Urkel character (who for the record I do NOT in any way act like in real life!). THIS is the issue that we will keep harping about until you issue that long overdue apology and retract that unforgivable insult. You will not live this down until that happens, GUARANTEED. I'll make you an open offer: Apologize now, and I'll agree in turn to not only stop harping you accordingly, but to also mutually agree not to discuss each other's involvement in the Fuller debacle that started all this bullshit. Does that sound fair?

When I hear the name Urkel, I think of a pushy, nosy arrogant, annoying, and irksome nerd ... definitely not Asperger's.

You're so vain, I bet you think this is about Aspergers.

Don't You?
Don't You?
Don't You?

LOL

Welcome back Grateful Fan, ignore the imbeciles :)

[QUOTE] [b]Panchgani wrote:[/b]

When I hear the name Urkel, I think of a pushy, nosy arrogant, annoying, and irksome nerd ... definitely not Asperger's.

You're so vain, I bet you think this is about Aspergers.

Don't You?
Don't You?
Don't You?

LOL
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Are you crushing hard on me or something, because your undying devotion to giving me all your, erm, special attention is quite something, but I don't swing your way ;-)

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]

How do you know said moderator was looking into your personal information?[/QUOTE]

What? I don't know what was being sought. I just know where the search landed. Which on my workplace website, directly on my contact information, title etc. It's the first hit after Facebook stuff when you google me by name. Not hard to get there.

Again, allegedly. It's a big old world and anything is possible. But given the facts it's a reasonable assumption. Reasonable enough in my mind for me to have decided to leave.

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I really do not understand. How do you know that someone ran a search for you? And if someone landed on your "workplace website, directly on [your] contact information", how can you possibly conclude that this was done by anyone from QZ, let alone the moderator? I mean, if it's your workplace website, I take it that you do get visits from people who are interested in that website for professional reasons, right?

[QUOTE] [b]Panchgani wrote:[/b]

When I hear the name Urkel, I think of a pushy, nosy arrogant, annoying, and irksome nerd ... definitely not Asperger's.

You're so vain, I bet you think this is about Aspergers.

Don't You?
Don't You?
Don't You?

LOL
[/QUOTE]

Is there a bullying-vacancy you are trying to apply for? Did you get a restraining order from your local primary school's playground or something?

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
How do you know said moderator was looking into your personal information?[/QUOTE]
What? I don't know what was being sought. I just know where the search landed. Which on my workplace website, directly on my contact information, title etc. It's the first hit after Facebook stuff when you google me by name. Not hard to get there.

Again, allegedly. It's a big old world and anything is possible. But given the facts it's a reasonable assumption. Reasonable enough in my mind for me to have decided to leave.[/QUOTE]
I really do not understand. How do you know that someone ran a search for you? And if someone landed on your "workplace website, directly on [your] contact information", how can you possibly conclude that this was done by anyone from QZ, let alone the moderator? I mean, if it's your workplace website, I take it that you do get visits from people who are interested in that website for professional reasons, right?[/QUOTE]

Maybe it's possible, if it's anything like how YouTube stats list the traffic sources for instance, MAYBE her company's visitor IP logs also keeps track of how that traffic is sourced, although at the same time still logically seems a bit far fetched there.

Would you please care to enlighten us GF?

Only other possibility too that I can think of would be the use of cookies that notoriously track users' web surfing habits...

The questions about the logs are interesting as the average surfer has little idea how closely their actions are tracked when they visit websites with analytics running. This is very standard stuff for medium and large sized businesses. From the moment you hit a website your activity is tracked. The analytics will know how you got to the website - did you directly type in the address? follow a link? perform a google search? If it was an unencrypted search, what did you search for? What page did you land on? Where did you go next, and how long did you spend at each place? What was your exit page? The intention is to maximize the effectiveness of your website and understand user behaviour, know how you are being found by users etc. etc.

The logs in this case were very clear. A google search from https://www.google.de/ was performed. It hit directly on my contact information - there is no other information on that page other than my name and title, work address etc. Unencrypted google keywords for that page always consist of some combination of my name or name and city. There is no other way to turn it up in a google search. The person hit only that page with my personal information and didn't explore anything else on the website. It was 2:15 am local European time, about 8:15 pm here. I was engaged in a discussion on QZ about my place of work (and the fact that it wasn't anybody's business) at the time, and the party I have alluded to joined the discussion to berate me shortly after that. The IP associated with the search and hit tracked back to the city as I've described it. The only people I know in Europe other than distant family in the Netherlands I know from QZ.

The last person who hit that webpage from a Google search had been September 2012. This happened the evening of May 23/24 2013, eight months later. Because I'm nobody I just don't get googled, so when I do, it's notable. What's your better theory about who is running a German google search on my name at 2:15 am in the morning, interested in only one page from the website, the one that contains my contact information and title and department, from the very city the moderator lives in? Nothing in life is sure. And there are of course other explanations. But it was enough for me to personally be convinced that somebody who has displayed an irrational bias towards me, who shouldn't have my name, or my personal information, had it. And declined to explain or acknowledge it when confronted. Bad combination for somebody who has had a terrible past experience with online animosity spilling over into my real life.

In fact, with some irony, the only reason I even looked at logs that night was because I could feel the same furious irrationality gathering against me that had precipitated the previous experience many years ago on another website. My exact thought was "This feels wrong. Very off. Very irrational. Just like it did before. I better pop on the logs and make sure nobody has been digging around." And wow. That very night, somebody had been. It was actually very upsetting and emotional at the time because I felt I had to leave. And love me or hate me, I wrote a lot of stuff here. Thousands of posts. Some awfully long ones many of you will remember. LOL. It was my forum, the only one I participated in. I was leaving a lot and felt I didn't have a choice if I wanted basic privacy in my personal life. I missed it for a long time.