Good god that's fucked up. Jesus, people! Act right!
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Sep 25, 2012 6:54:09 am PDT #23380 of 30001
le nubian - Sep 25, 2012 6:59:21 am PDT #23381 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I did not sleep well last night and today I feel like death warmed over. damn.
good morning everyone!
Nora Deirdre - Sep 25, 2012 7:00:07 am PDT #23382 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I would not have been as forgiving, FFS. This kid went way over the line.
Consuela - Sep 25, 2012 7:06:54 am PDT #23383 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, yeah. And it makes no sense to me, because I thought that part of the draw of trolling was that they didn't really think of the targets as people like themselves. And here this kid is targeting someone he knows, someone he's probably had dinner with in his home.
But maybe that's the point: he can get an adult, someone presumably at home in the groanup world, to react to him. And that gives him power. It wouldn't be the same doing it to some random individual on the net that he didn't know.
In which case I don't see how confronting him with it changes the situation, except that he's been threatened with legal action. He might even be happy, because look how much effect he had, the guy was crying and worried.
le nubian - Sep 25, 2012 7:08:41 am PDT #23384 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
He had been doing it for like 3 years.
holy shit.
Burrell - Sep 25, 2012 7:31:58 am PDT #23385 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I woulda started with the legal action, son of a friend or no.
msbelle - Sep 25, 2012 7:32:21 am PDT #23386 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
McPhee is sick now too. poor sick us.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2012 7:47:27 am PDT #23387 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have just had some of the most amazing no longer passive aggressive pushback from the developer once known as incompetent.
She doesn't want to implement the websites the way we were told, because she thinks I made the decision. She wants to see the requirements document. I send her the requirements document, telling her that it's not going to help her, since it's what not how. She replies by saying she doesn't want to get fired for being part of rogue development, and she needs the architect to tell her how to do it...the architect almost hung up on me, he couldn't believe she was being so stupid.
She also wanted to know if my boss and the other developer knew I'd been talking to another programmer, and how they felt about it. She didn't think I should be talking to him, she said. She doesn't want me to be investigating the things I'm investigating.
I did snap at her. I feel good about that. Thankfully I remembered to remove my manager from the to: list.
Tom Scola - Sep 25, 2012 7:58:28 am PDT #23388 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
le nubian - Sep 25, 2012 8:00:16 am PDT #23389 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I woulda started with the legal action, son of a friend or no.
I'm trying to figure out what would have been the best course of action for this person. The main thing I would want to determine is my family was the only target of his behavior. I kind of think that probably isn't the case. So because of that I probably would want something to happen to him outside of dealing with it between families.
I think he also needs to have his computer use significantly curtailed and I would probably get him a burner cell phone too.
I would want to never have contact with him again and have an enforced restraining order, but beyond that, I'm wondering what would be "best" for the kid. He started all this when he was what 14 or 15? Jail doesn't seem right, but I'm not sure what does.