To the girl disrupting this board and making threats about suing for stalking:

Stalking is someone physically following you around and threatening behavior, cyberstalking is threatening messages.

I went back over and read all these messages I could find in this scenerio and I do not see any threatening behavior by anyone other than yourself. All I have seen are replies to your posts. There was one post giving some information about you which you verified. The post may have been offensive to you, but as you stated the information it contained was no big secret. So where is the stalking behavior?

I have noticed you used this board and all the others in the county that I frequent for weeks as a free advertising medium trying to sell your house, you posted your real name and telephone number and email address. You should never put information like that out on a public board. You opened yourself up then made argumentative posts under your real name. Do you need to accept some responsiblity for what happened?

People who use a common board are not on that board stalking you. They are there same as you to participate in discussions. When they reply to your posts that is not stalking. It appears to me you were the one that kept it going by arguing back and forth and making disparaging comments about others, even to the point of trying to entice someone to call you.

You know what they say about the more you stir it the worse it stinks? If you want this to stop, then why not quit stirring it?

To the person who spammed a flurry of empty posts, in an apparent attempt to push the information about you to page 2, that sort of behavior could open that person up to charges by the board owner of spamming and defacing a public web site.


Some friendly advice:
There are a number of simple ways to guard yourself against unwanted information being made public about you on the internet. One of the most useful precautions is to stay anonymous yourself, rather than having an identifiable online presence. Use your primary e-mail account only for communicating with people you trust and set up an anonymous e-mail account, such as Yahoo or Hotmail, to use for all your other communications. Set your e-mail program's filtering options to prevent delivery of unwanted messages. When choosing an online name, make it different from your name and gender-neutral. Don't put any identifying details about yourself online or in your online profiles.

But, this person trying to sell the house did have someone who knows her following her from post to post and making snide remarks and she reacted.

Sometimes it is hard to let go but advice to this person would be to move on, ignore the person who is cyberstalking her, and stop posting under her real name.

She recently asked to be blocked from the clinchco board as well, said she didn't want anyone from her house posting there again.

An "Internet troll" or "Troll" is someone who purposely flames someone (posts things to provoke an emotional response). Flaming discussions usually end with name calling and a flame war.

What is a flame war? Well a flame war is basically an argument that is online. Someone voices an opinion that another disagrees with and the fight is on from both sides.

How does it differ from cyberharassment and cyberstalking? Well the key factor is that a flame war is two sided. Both parties are involved in the flaming and arguing. Both respond to each others posts. Flame wars are easy to get into and often difficult to get out of. You want to express your opinion, you want the person to understand your side. You "want" to win the argument. But as is the case in real life often "turning the other cheek" and walking away is absolutely the best path to take. You really don't "know" the person you are arguing with and can not predict how seriously this person will take the argument. So the bigger person walks away.

A cyberstalker has a much more malicious agenda. Being an old board user I have to say that unless there was something went on behind the scenes not on this board, all I've seen posted here is some trolling and flame war both sides participated in. I have not seen any cyberstalking or threatening posts, other than the lady's threats to sue. Just my two cents worth.

trying to play the roll of a Attorney? Sounds as though someone MIGHT be trying to practice law!! and if in fact; WITHOUT A LICENSES....I'm pretty sure that one is definitely against the LAW. Pretty certain that these 6 and 8 year law school graduates are not too "friendly" to those who pose to do their jobs for them; after all of the years and money it took for them to get through college and to complete the bar exam.

I Suppose that I am not alone in my conclusion: That there are more than one trouble maker on this board. The one person who THINKS they are so riotous and tries to pretend they are living a skeleton free life...Sorry, ALL dogs have skeletons! Nothing new to the one who had to have a ham bone tied around their neck just to get other dogs to play with them.

You just provided the best example of a post trying to flame someone (insult me and entice me into an argument). I couldn't have explained it nearly as well as you just did by example.

You are right, there is more than one trouble-maker on this board and I suspect you are one!

I was trying to add to a discussion, on a COMMUNITY DISCUSSION forum, information I gleaned from a website about cyberstalking. Common sense tells us the information is correct. You just provided a prime example of what I was talking about!

It seems that lately it is impossible to have a discussion on this board due to flammers like you. I hope you find a more productive way to channel your anger. It's no use flamming me. You won't get a fight out of me.

I've said all I have to say on the subject, and you have provided my example. I hope you have a good day.

Guys come on..argueing on the internet is like winning the special olympics..even if you win your still retarted.

What kind of "tart" does that make you? Don't bother responding to me, because on second thought, I won't be back to see what you said. You are not worthy of my time, I just hope that you don't deal with anyone with a disability, I don't think they could possibly recieve the care that they deserve.

Only a person with a little brain would say such horrible words about people with special needs.

Listen please do not use the word retarded. There are alot of people in this area that has special
needs. You are using this word just to start stuff, and you are hurting other people in the process. I have a child with special needs. You never know what you are going to go through in life you could end up with problems in the next hour. Just use another word for your little thrills
it would save alot of peoples feelings. And by the way my child is the most perfect thing in the world to me and his dad. And I am sure everyone out there with loved ones with special needs feels the same way.

people r sooooo heartless. They will one day wish they had never used such words. But til then Jesus will help you! And it sounds like you need to find the lord. People with such disabilitys have 100% more heart then half the so called normal people out here. I am not even from Haysi. Usually don't even respond on here, but this broke my heart. And i don't have any handicap people in my family, I just have a heart! MAY GOD BLESS YOU!

How did you gather that the person you responded to hasn't found the Lord? That really bugs me. I never read a thing from that person that would tell you one way or the other. I think you should apologize, as well as the poster who started this awful thing.

THEY CAN'T HAVE THE LORD AND SPEZK OF DISABLED PEOPLE LIKE THAT. YOU SHOULD TELL THE PERSON-- PROBERLY YOU-- TO APOLOGIZE TO THE FAMILY THAT POSTED THAT HAS A DISABLED CHILD WHOM THE PARENTS LOVE VERY MUCH!!!
EVADENTLY YOU DIDN'T READ ALL THE POST IN THE FIRST PLACE OR YOU NEED TO FIND THE LORD ALSO! SO I AM A CHRISTAAN AND YES I WILL PRAY FOR THEM BUT APOLOGIZE..... NO!!!!!

You responded to the person who said they have a child with a disability and was asking someone to please not use that word. You told that person you think they need to find the Lord. I asked how you know that they haven't found the Lord. Simple question.

We all know that using all caps on the keyboard means you are YELLING.