Comments on: Nature abhors a moron*…

By: Devil's Kitchen

Devil's Kitchen — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:16:11 +0000

I hate to think how exposed I am, since my cover’s pretty much blown these days…

By: Tim Ireland

Tim Ireland — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:44:06 +0000

C4’s turn to play the victim next, then.

(waits)

By: tyger

tyger — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:05:42 +0000

Wavelength?

http://tygerland.net/2007/03/08/a-few-words-on-blogging-recklessness/

By: Bob Piper

Bob Piper — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:20:56 +0000

Leave him alone, he’s only a little boy… with a history degree, for christ’s sake! (Oh, that’s hons. by the way - I’ve never met anyone who finished a course who didn’t get hons though) More to be pitied than scolded. Just another prick.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:34:31 +0000

Um… I’m sure you know this, but if you did follow up on any of those pizza deliveries, unwanted goods etc. it would be harrassment. And writing a blog post about how you knew how to do it and were considering it?

Most people don’t write pseudonymously because they’re deep deep undercover, but because they want to very flimsy cover a nom de plume gives. Most can be bust wide open very easily. Why would you though?

By: Praguetory

Praguetory — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:58:56 +0000

Could do with some pizzas if you’re offering. The address is Praguetory Towers, Prague 1, Czech Republic.

By: Unity

Unity — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:41:30 +0000

Tim - If I were intending to send the guy pizzas etc. then the very last thing I’d do is blog about it, however tempting it might be as a very direct means of teaching him a lesson.

The point made is illustrative - yes, blogging pseudonymously does offer only flimsy cover, but it is still a measure of cover, and in any case, by far the best cover is simply having a very common name - if you’re a John Smith then its nigh on impossible to pick you out from the crowd.

C4’s problem is that he’s given way too much ancilliary information away on his blog - the kind of information that does make it easy to pinpoint him - and that’s what creates the vulnerability in this case.

I’ve made the offer to help him cover his track - it’s up to him if he wants to take it. In his position, I would, as he’s got this knack of going round and pissing people off and someone else might not be quite so sanguine about his juvenile antics as I am.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:05:42 +0000

Unity, fair enough. I guess the message should be that even if you don’t write under your real name, you should at least write as if you did. That might even mitigate some of the more unpleasant aspects of blogging.

By: C4'

C4' — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:24:36 +0000

Thank you for the free publicity Davey-Boy! perhaps you should be my publist?

Sorry to disapoint you TIMMMMY, but I don’t do victimhood, only empowerment.

Bobby, I think you’ll find that you’re the little boy, trapped in a man’s world. As much as would like to play games with you, I’m not a kiddie-fiddler!

By: Carl Eve

Carl Eve — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:59:19 +0000

C4 said: “perhaps you should be my publist?”

I think you mean “publicist”

Perhaps you should try my dictionary…

By: donpaskini

donpaskini — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:58:30 +0000

I’m not completely convinced about this, but I think ‘C4′ is actually an invention and is written by someone with a lot of time on their hands who doesn’t like Tories.

S/he has left a lot of comments on my blog over the past few months (I haven’t read the blog itself, but I imagine it is much the same), and it always reads more like a parody of what a particularly dim young Tory might write, rather than the more malevolent but realistic actual Tory blogs like, say, Praguetory.

By: C4'

C4' — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:41:45 +0000

I’ve had the exact same thought about you Donald!

By: archsceptic

archsceptic — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:48:52 +0000

If C4’s blog is a parody, he’s a genius.

Sadly I suspect it’s genuine, and that he’s a fuckwit.

By: C4'

C4' — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:34:42 +0000

You’re right archsceptic…. I am a genius!

By: Unity

Unity — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:27:01 +0000

So what you’re saying is that your blog is a parody, C4, you’re really a secret lefty who’s taking the piss out of the utter stupidity of Tory students?

By: C4'

C4' — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:10:44 +0000

No, I am right-wing genius who enjoys taking the piss out of the utter stupid and self-deluded hypocrites on the Left such as yourself!

By: Unity

Unity — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:22:59 +0000

So its ‘fuckwit’ then… thanks for confirming what everyone already knows.

By: C4'

C4' — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:40:18 +0000

Admitting that you are a ‘fuckwit’ Unity is the first step to your recovery. I hope that you get the help you need for your mental illness.