Should you punish fraudulent bloggers?

Published on July 23, 2004 By Janders In Blogging

So most of you all are aware of the current joe user drama that has been unfolding.

I feel really upset by this situation, because I have spent emotion and prayer for somebody who alledgedly is only making up characters.

Does Joeuser have a policy against people who make up crap like this? Is this what we want our community to be? A bunch of lies, where "real" relationships can't be formed because there are psycho's out there that make up LIES?

I understand on the internet as in life things or people are not always as they appear. But taking advantage of peoples good will and faith is sick. What does it take for someone to get removed from Joeuser.

As I said in my previous article Lying is Disrespect. Don't mess with my trust. God and karma will find its way back to you.

Good luck when it finds you. You will get your heart hurt like you tugged at ours.

Any thoughts?

Comments (Page 2)

dharmagrl

on Jul 23, 2004

I noticed the font Ashlee uses in her blog is the same "emma" uses in her emails.

Yes, it was for a while back in July. Ashlee changed hers recently.

I cannot understand why she would start coemthing like this, and why she kept it going. All I can think is that it was an attention seeking tactic, and that she simply got carried away with it. Whether she took time to consider how many people were getting dragged into it emotionally or not, I don't know. She probably thought that she wouldn't get caught. She thought wrong.

Sir Peter Maxwell

on Jul 23, 2004

She probably thought that she wouldn't get caught. She thought wrong.

Yes lets lynch her, I say we raise a mob and burn down a village.

Some of you are treating this like an FBI Investigation, I respectfully say to you.... get out more!

Janders

on Jul 23, 2004

Sir Peter? Are you worried you are next or somthing?

Sir Peter Maxwell

on Jul 23, 2004

The next for what......... the next episode of Miss Marple starring Dharma? oh yes I'm very worried!

I think anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence realises why I blog, whether you enjoy my work or not. I certainly do not blog in order to get a few gullible people praying over a fictitious dying baby.

dharmagrl

on Jul 23, 2004

The next for what......... the next episode of Miss Marple starring Dharma? oh yes I'm very worried!

You know what....nah, forget it. It's not worth it.

And you should be worried.

Sir Peter Maxwell

on Jul 23, 2004

And you should be worried.

I will not be able to sleep tonight.

Amitty

on Jul 23, 2004

Ummm, once again, I am interested but don't know what is going on, and I would be interested in learning about it all...someone, please fill me in.

jillie bean

on Jul 23, 2004

Jo when you call and explain this all to me, please explain Mr Peter Maxwell also. I have always considered him a pretender from the start.

Remember guys part of why most of us feel a connection to each other is that we are truly compassionate and caring people, and when you share part of your self with others even in this format you do become real to others, and the feelings are the same and real as if we met in person. We feel we get to know you same as you would have gotten to know a new neighbor on the block with over the fence visits in the good old days.

It is always upsetting to realize someone you invested your emotional energy in wasn't worth your time.

Janders

on Jul 23, 2004

For those of you who are confused I think Dharma will be writing an article on everything thus far, and how she used her mad PI skills to verify her suspisions.

I feel like I only trust a few people on here now, which is to bad.

dharmagrl

on Jul 23, 2004

Mad PI skills...hehe, I like that!

I decided it might be coming close to breaching the terms of service to write a whole article about it, so I added it to a thread that was already running. I had a conversation with Emma this afternoon via IM, and I added that to the thread as well. You can read them both here: Link

Janders

on Jul 23, 2004

Just so you all know... you have to click on the 2nd page of the thread to see the convo, and Dharmas investigations.

Erk.

on Jul 24, 2004

I wish we could vote people off the joe user island!

Hehehe...

Sir Peter Maxwell

on Jul 24, 2004

You know what....nah, forget it. It's not worth it.

That's big of you, to not get angry at a comment that was obviously made in jest.

And you should be worried.

And people say I am deluded.

Janders

on Jul 24, 2004

Eric~ That is awesome. heheh!

stevendedalus

on Jul 25, 2004

I still think we should come up with a code of ethics for bloggers.

Good advice, dharmagirl. There's enough abuse without JU contributing to it.

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