3 posts tagged “internet stalkers”

A quick Google search turned up the following on our Dr. Rogowski: He was suspended from practicing medicine recently for being hooked on morphine and methadone.  I guess that explains why he's got so much time on his hands for irritating people over the Internet.

I've recently, much to my chagrin, begun an Internet correspondence with one Vox member by the name of Dr. Janusz Rogowski.  It started when he commented on a picture posted on CupCate's blog.  He stated that he found the language she used to be inappropriate.  I should have minded my own business and let CupCate handle it, but being the proactive guy that I am, I suggested to him that clicking the "Flag as offensive" link might be more effective than posting a comment saying that you're offended.

That was in July.  Then, earlier today, someone named "PureMedic" with a shell account commented on the thread, rambling on about how women are inferior to men and other misogynistic crap.  Rogowski posted immediately after, responding to my comment, asking me how he could remove his comment from the page, and that he was asking because I had given him Vox advice before.  He was upset because the page was coming up in Google searches of his name.  I told him that I didn't work for Vox, but that the only person who could delete comments was the blog owner, so he would have to ask CupCate. 

I then followed up in a separate comment by calling the misogynistic spammer "PureMedic" an idiot.  It's not very mature, and also a statement of the obvious, but I felt like saying it.

Now, this evening, I have received the following private message from Dr. Rogowski:

Paxton,

Your 'effort' at calling me an idiot was ineffective at penetrating my ego. This is a personal message so nobody else but you can see it. This Vox thing seems to be for USA people mainly and is not personal. You did not answer my question about the google page - SO FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My response:

I didn't call you an idiot.  If you look again, you'll see that my comment calling someone an idiot was directed at the comment above yours, written by someone going by the name of "PureMedic."  His comment was ignorant, rambling, and misogynistic.  If you are "PureMedic," then yes, I would be calling you an idiot.

As for me not answering your question about the Goggle page, you'll have to forgive me for not caring.  I don't work for Google or Vox.  I am not your tech support.  Despite this, I did answer your question - the only person who can remove your comments is the blog owner, CupCate.

As for Vox being mostly for people from the USA, the majority of the people in my neighborhood are from outside the US.  It is geared toward people who are somewhat Internet savvy.

As for fucking me... I think I'll pass, but thank you for the offer.

Shortly after receiving the first message from him, I then received this one:

Re: Steinerts

So you live in some kind of motel? I call that white trash, as no half-decent person 'lives' in a motel. Maybe you own the business; it seems there are only two buildings, and they're small. So you captured a satellite view - woohoo - aren't you clever!

Paxton, you're a gaping vagina and have nothing of substance to say, so why not shit the fuck up?

Oh - did I say something offensive? Nah, the words convey my meaning exactly.

 

JRx

This is a private message so ..... just don't think about it, cretin.

Where the hell did he get the idea that I live in a motel?  The title, Steinerts, tells me that he sent me this message from a pic I had on my page from the hot air balloon ride I took a few years ago.  Here it is:

Steinerts

Do you want to tell me how anyone can think this is a motel?

Here's my response:

I do not live in a motel.  I live in a house.  The picture you are referring to is of a greenhouse nursery... you know, trees?  I took the picture from the basket of a hot air balloon.

Your opinion of which portion of the human anatomy I most closely resemble is entirely your own, so I will not argue.  I would be happy to "shit the fuck up," if I knew how.  Perhaps you could demonstrate and put the video on YouTube.

At any rate, I've blocked him, not that that always stops people.

Is it conceivable that he actually holds an advanced degree of some sort?

So Strix sends me a link to her Flickr page, saying that I apparently have a new fan.  She's noting that someone had favorited a picture of me that she had taken, wearing my Renaissance garb, at an SCA even that we had attended last winter.  She noted that the quality of the photograph wasn't among her best, so it must have been the, ah, content (i.e. me) that made the person favorite the photo.  Here is the incriminating evidence:

Pax in Leather

So I follow the link, and sure enough, someone had favorited it.  I follow that link, and it shows me the user name of the favoritor, and I have never heard of this person before.  So I follow another link to see other things this person has favorited, and I find seven pages of men of various sorts wearing leather, many of the kissing each other, and most of them in homoerotic situations.

I don't consider myself homophobic, but I am disturbed that someone has categorized a picture of myself in a purely non-sexual context along with dozens of pictures of other men kissing and groping each other and wearing chaps but very little else.

So, should I be disturbed, infuriated, flattered, fearful, or none of the above?