Here are my thoughts at this time:
- This is not a thread about cyberstalking, but rather a moderator discussions or personal issues-type thread with dmcowen playing the victim card again. It seems he made an earlier attempt in the mod forums and was summarily dismissed. That he was told in the open mic thread to please not make it a thread about him, but continued to do it anyway, and now has his own thread is proof positive that he is given absolutely all the leeway one could ever hope for. I imagine if the rest of us pulled such a stunt we'd be banned, as we should be.
- It's morbidly fascinating watching mcowen self-destruct over this matter. If there was ever a better example of why mcowen should be forbidden from interacting on P&N it's his juvenile rage expressed over the past couple of days here. He's even taken to baiting this morning in the gas thread and lashing out in the capitalism thread.
- Consistently getting the simply-spelled name wrong of somebody who you claim to be stalking you is noteworthy
- Although I cannot speak for lopped, since him and I share similar names I will try my best: If mcowned wants lopped to stop calling him out on lies, he need simply stop lying. It really is that simple. A two step process: 1) Don't tell a lie, 2) lopped won't quote your lie and prove with a link how it is a lie
- Mcowned has a storied history of calling people who accuse him of lying liars, even if they have proof of his lie--even if the proof of his lie was in the very link he provided in the post in which he lied (this has happened many times)
- The vast majority of posts lopped responds to mcowned are in P&N. The vast majority of those are in the gas thread, in which lopped has documented literally dozens of obvious lies. Main reason being they're so easy to do and take no effort. Conclusion: lopped's "stalking" is nothing more than mcowned being called out on lies.. Essentially, he is asking the moderators to be given free reign on lying and not having people call him out on them. The moderators have obviously denied this request and thus his fury grows.
- Again, I really cannot speak for lopped, but as I feel a certain connection with him, I'll go out on a limb and say that he has never so much as attempted to contact mcowned outside of AT. Further, he has never posted even an inkling of private information about mcowned not known by all on such sites as freemcowen.com. All evidence of this is viewable by thousands on the public AT forums.
- I have seen no examples in which lopped has made up "personal lies" about mcowen's wife. That's not to say there are not 1-2 posts (there may be, I have no idea, but will assume not unless they're posted (?)) in which surprise was expressed that somebody is married to him.
- Mcowned cannot be convinced of anything by anybody and thus I wrote the above for others in this thread, not for him. In my estimation his problems go far beyond this thread or AT in general, and looking for solutions to them here is a dead end.
Oh, and back to the thread title. Cyberstalking. With more surveillance of our lives and more information digitized and indexed it is surely getting easier for cyberstalkers. Many people voluntarily make it easy, too; look at all the things people share on Facebook, for example?