No, I Do Not Have Russian Troll, Racist, Trump, Stupid Etc Bots Advertising My Rentals - Get a Clue!

Today the "spambot" and annoying asshole bothering groups is HopeforBelarus -- there's a history there.

And yesterday it was EstonianSovietSocialistRepublic

These bots pretend to be "from Prokofy Neva" and mention Ravenglass Rentals or my name. I have nothing to do with them. They are not mine.

They are impersonating me to harass me, and get people riled up to hate and harass me and even spam me, too -- works great as a griefing technique, wouldn't you say?

Sometimes it's "RavenglassConcierge" or "Mohamed" or some other theme related to my rentals, racism against other people such as blacks and Muslims, chicken themes, Russian and Soviet themes -- it's like a Russian bot holiday on Twitter -- and comes from some of the same ideological worlds if not actual Russia.

Needless to say my rentals are open to anyone of any race, creed or colour, absolutely immaterial -- fairies, elves, BDSM, furries -- this is a tolerant and equal-opportunity rentals system on SELF service so I can't "pre-clear you" by race or creed or costume. You join my OPEN group and pay OPENLY. That OPEN system is sometimes exploited by idiots like this, but the overall convenience to my tenants and their friends overweighs that.

I have nothing to do with Trump, the alt-right, MAGA, or anything of the sort: I voted for Hillary Clinton, I'm a registered Democrat.

Yes, there's another round of them and I assure you:

1. These are griefers, impersonating me. They are unrelated to them. I have abuse reported them for weeks.
2. I remain in Second Life, and those day-old alts impersonating me are gone, so do the math -- they are not me
3. I do not use bots in my business at all, nor any agents or helpers with my name, the Ravenglass name or Soviet-related themes in them.
4. PS these spammers aren't bots -- have  you considered how it is that a scripted device can autonomously enter a group and then draft chat? Bots can't do that. Bots also can't collect calling cards or pick people out of a group and make a group chat with them and spam them. Griefers do that. Not bots. And not me

 

What you do in these cases is you Abuse Report the name of the day-old or new alt doing this -- not me. That is, sure, AR me, too, the Lindens will figure it out.

But if you would like to be helpful, AR the griefers impersonating me, not me -- as I and my tenants have done this week.

I'll point out that people who think I "deserve" this kind of attack because...why? Because I have a blog? I criticize someone on the forums? really ought to consider what that means and what kind of cruelty and havoc they are encouraging in SL.

Yes, your abusive speech to me will be publicized on my blog outside of SL because I live in one-party New York State. Your notion that the Lindens can reach out of Second Life's servers, and California, and police my speech in real life anywhere, must less my home state, is severely misguided.

So get over your rage star turns, AR the party that is doing the griefing and move on.

I'm thinking one way the Lindens may curb this is to put permissions on friendship cards such as "Allow group chat from calling cards" or something.

But that may not be enough.

Comments

[Malte Maas]

The lady protesteth too much

[Arabella Steadham]

Prokofy, why do you invite these people to your lands? You've monotonously interacted with them for something like -- 11? years now, you both play the same game, with yourself as the villain and the others as the children teasing the big troll. If you ever had wanted to end it, you could just have changed your land settings. But you don't want to, for some very odd reason. Instead you use it as a source of alleged victimhood, a coveted status in today's society (Rachel Dolezal comes to mind). Do you care to explain why you keep going on like this?

[Henry Hutchence]

HAHA This is hilarious -- these idiots think they can spoof the account that my son uses. Ridiculous.
No apologies to these fools who are destructive griefers who were quite properly banned from SL.

-- Prokofy

I admit my griefing and sincerely pray Prokofy abstains from all this drama in future...this is not the way to healing, mother...hold me..let us confess our sins and emerge as responsible residents. Sincrest apologies to Tizzers and Ed Clift for the pain we might have caused.