Harassment

[lynn]

Dear Bitch:

Why are you going back to San Melina dumb bitch when no one wants you there. You are very stupid ass young girl with your [REDACTED] Account. Bitch be original and make your own damn account. Me, Mizuki, Linnis and the others don't want to see a want-a-be-Brandi-bitch-of-a-loser-burn-in-hell-in-your-bloody-gasoline-pants. Goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bitch

Oh, Souljah, what we gonna do?

[e-mail] sent this to a member of our forum who, for the sake of privacy and it not being any of your business, was victimized here and will go unnamed. While we haven't tracked down who, if anyone, on this site sent the message, I assure you, if you're out there, apologize now in exchange for leniency, or I'll find you, and your rectum will be astroturf, capiche?

Well, such blatant and obvious harassment demanded an equally blatant and, in my artful style, effective response. Accompanied by the public beating that is airing this wonderful dirty laundry. Feel free to mock and belittle as you see fit.

One note, though. The email address of the sender was provided to warn you and protect you only. My site doesn't get held hostage, my staff doesn't get framed, and my members don't get this kind of treatment. If Souljah comes for you, or someone like it, please notify me IMMEDIATELY via PM with all pertinent details, so I might make them a public mockery as well. San Melina as a whole discourages any vigilante justice you might opt to use the email address for, and will wave a finger of shame at you should we ever hear about it.

Below is the administrative response to our lovely hip-hop icon Souljah. By all means, Melinaites, enjoy yourselves.

You know, the detriment of being such a truly public figure, as I tend to be among these sites with this group of people, is that there are folks who throw my name about, and I don't know who they are. So, I figured on getting this off to a good start by saying I'm the Linnis whose opinions you expressed.

And kudos, most people actually like to know someone's opinion before expressing it, but you, you rascal, were able to express an opinion for me, and me, good as I am, didn't even know I felt that way! I invite you to tell me how I feel about other people! Got my opinion on Shizuma? How about Setsuna? Do I really love her, or am I more into Dawn Cascada than I realize? Am I even gay? What a load off my mind, to have someone able to just express my feelings without the bother of me actually having to feel them.

And while you're rewriting reality to suit your own needs, am I even an admin of my site anymore? I mean, you seem to make the administrative decisions for me as to who is welcome is not. Who is protected and who is not. Who gets fair treatment and who doesn't. I mean, with you around, what's the role of Kat and I?

In case you ever get lonely in the world you've made, here are some facts to keep you company. The character of [REDACTED] was played at the request of the staff. Everyone is welcome at San Melina - well, provided they don' play cheap abusive stunts on the members and implicate the staff's cooperation, because that's insidious and plain evil in it's way - and lastly, a fact that warms the cackles of my cold, cold heart.

My people are protected.

Now, should you choose to join the real world, let me caution you - your antics are not going to fade quietly into the night. In fact, let the record show that the public beating has not gone out of style. Your harassment is going to be brought out of the darkness you revel in by not affixing your name to your hate, and into the light of day. Because I'm just that nice, I want to show the whole WORLD your artful fiction.

And lastly, you, my dear anonymous assailant, will know just who has brought you to this point, who it is that has seen it fit to strike you down with God's own thunder. Because unlike you, when I write something, I sign it.

Enjoy your long night.

L. Takasei

[loljake]

If you're going to insult somebody over the internet, you have to at least tell them who you are, or your insults have both no basis or strength... Though Linnis, while your response is brilliantly written, I think you spent a bit too much time responding to an e-mail that probably came from a fake account that won't ever be accessed again.

Still, props to you. As pitiful as this person's attempt was to hurt one of your members, you still took time out of your day to smite them. Kudos.

[lynn]

I think that the account might be fake, but it deserved a response. But here, my posting it, and airing this for our world to see, and know what happens to these sorts of folks. It's as much written for the email as it was for that post, and certainly, by my measure, any time spent defending the members of this site is time well spent.