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Off Topic / Re: Actitivity on that MLPArena
« Last post by Taffeta on Today at 01:03:32 AM »I watched a documentary on YouTube yesterday about a guy who murdered over ponies. There are dangerous people everywhere.
WHAT?! Oh my!
Was that the Fedex case with the creepy Applejack letter or another one? Please don't tell me there's been more than one.
I only use FB and I never actually post on my profile anymore, though I am in a couple of groups. Facebook are going to learn very little about me really, but yes, that stuff is creepy.
Mind you, I had that experience in around 1999-2000, when the internet was a lot more basic. You'd be amazed how easy it was for people to create multiple new AIM accounts, and use all their friends to create a 'stalking' situation. One of the ponypeople I mentioned above threatened to send her partner (who was stationed over here at some military base) to see me because she 'knew where I lived'...and so on.
That was the most terrifying time I have ever had in the pony community, hands down. Which is why I abandoned the TP because when I tried to get help, the mods there then took HER side and said I'd written all the transcripts myself and was making it up. Because she was an influential customiser who was popular for her artwork and nobody wanted to upset her.
A lot later more stuff came out. I'll leave it at that.
I'm afraid I've seen the same untouchable behaviour from some other customising people in the years since who are treated as deities because of their craft and thus allowed to behave like monsters in other areas. This is not an indictment of most customisers, I hasten to add - but it has happened and continues to happen whereby people put up with, or even validate nasty in order to get a particular product.
Ways for people to do online nasty - and a lack of people doing anything about it - has unfortunately characterised the internet from the point of start to now. It's easier to attack people now, true enough. But if someone is determined, they will still do it.
I dislike social media particularly because I had that experience at age 18 and I learned very quickly how trusting people online was risky and could hurt. The fact that we've gone more towards that model and less towards this one is very sad in my opinion.