Hear Ye, Hear Ye. We now call this common court of man to session, the Honorable Mr. William F. Brasky presiding. Please remain seated, we are all equals here.
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Greetings gentlemen, and ladies. Thankyou for attending. I have called you together as concerned citizens to present you with an allegation and a list of evidence, some is verifiable fact, some is witness testimony. Witness testimony is understandably suspect of
malfeasance, and should be treated as such. However, the testimony is provided by me, and as a man of honor, I pledge to speak truthfully.
Lets begin, shall we? I will make this as brief as possible.
The allegation: Earthwormzim, the man you see seated before you stands accused of having a bot program he created for the purpose of bitchslapping board members who have angered him.
THE ACCUSED


http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?action=profile;u=2068
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Earthwormzim 10:02:22 AM Unknown Action
As you will note, his time last active on the boards is 8 am exactly. Over the last few days I had become suspect of his pattern of logging on to the boards, and the regular intervals of being bitchslapped. So, as he would come on-line I would investigate his whereabouts by using the page listed directly below:
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?action=whoIf you are unfamiliar with this page, take note of it later and you will see it lists each active member and the page they are reading or posting on. Mr. Zim would be listed, but the programming of the board would not recognize his location, so it would list him as being in an unknown location, which is unusual but not unheard of.
I then became more curious and observed the pattern of logging on, and it was
every hour on the hour, plus one minute to work the karma properly, exactly, and each time for a few minutes and gone. I propose the following scenario: Mr. Zim would leave the BBS page open, and his bot would log him into the system, and after the bot had done its dirty little business, it would remain inactive until the BBS timer logged him off for inactivity.
While it is possible he logs on each hour over an entire night for five minutes, bitchslaps me and leaves, I doubt it is manually done. It is too regular. You may also take note of his posts, he got flamed by me in his little anime rant, and became angered. He then posted a whiny diatribe about being slapped down to a negative karma for his behavior in Keti's "I'm in your wi-fi stealing your bandwidth" thread. Yet his posts are rather infrequent, often one or two posts, a day or two apart, then a flurry, then none for a week.
First the slapdown, then the anime argument, then the negative karma thread. Finally, the bot.
This boy has some fucking issues. So, is he capable of writing such a piece of script? Possibly...
Holy crap. I didn't think Google Video would/could show nudity. Shit. I'm in the fucking computer lab at school, and there are boobs flashing all over the screen. Fuckin' shit!
I've never closed a window faster in my life.
Its also quite possible he just has a set of hacker toolz, faders and chatbusters, that sort of shit. But, it's a short step to using devices to snake your IP address and do other unscrupulous things. Either way, not cool. There are many here who post from work and having someone sniff around your firewall in a corporation is serious business.
I propose that Mr Zim cut his fucking bullshit, grow the fuck up, and use the appropriate responses in a forum. Speak your mind, defend your opinions if you feel it to be necessary, or leave if you dislike the participants in a forum you voluntarily choose to attend.
Maybe I'm out of line and this is a non-issue. I dont particularly care about the bitchslaps, thats kid stuff. Its the bizarre behavior and obsession, and acting out of line with general expectations of social interaction.
To be accepted as a peer in a community, it is generally expected you will respect the unspoken rules. When you are expecting to be treated as an equal, it leads to reason you will behave as an equal. Often people color outside the lines, and they will fall into a little cadre of similarly minded peers, and so you get the jocks and geeks and stoners, its perfectly natural. Not everyone gets on perfectly with everyone, but there are some who stand on the fringe and dont get any satisfaction from their subset of equals, instead they seek to use things against people who pay them no heed. These are the columbine types.
Mr Zim, you may go. You are not expected to participate in any deliberations, although it is your right to speak freely in your defense. The verdict, if any, will be delivered in due time. Until then, you know and I know, and you must answer only to yourself. I have formed the opinion that you are a cunt, and you must deal with your issues in your way. I feel sorry for you that you must resort to using a little device of code to extract some sort of malformed revenge upon a person (or people) who disagree with you.
So, any thoughts? The floor is open.