As I’ve discovered, some customers don’t care about service. They only want to put you down.
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Once I rejected a guy because he was calling me “honey” and “darling” once too often. I told him I wasn’t and will never be on the internet looking for marriage because you don’t marry someone after just one or two emails, or several phone calls. The fact is, he doesn’t understand that the ones who are eager to marry may do so for ulterior motives.

He did not appreciate my honesty and he started stalking me to a free online text sms service and sent me nasty text messages. I told him I KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUT YOU DON’T SCARE ME. IF THERE’S ANYONE YOU’RE LYING TO, IT’S YOURSELF. I then placed his bloody “online dating profile” in my blog for all to see so they know what sort of a person he was.

Usually guys are either intimidated or they are attracted by women who have control. I never had any other problems.

I’ve never met any trolls YET, but if I do, I will ignore them. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to make them realise they aren’t worth my time nor response. I am expecting trolls, because afterall – I do not support unethical corporations that create harmful food and say otherwise. Eg. some children’s prescribed drugs still contain ingredients that are banned from tidbids and food.

Some people often forget that freedom of expression on the internet comes with responsibility. And sometimes they learn the hard way that no one wants to speak with a trouble-maker or one who acts like a drug addict.

You really got me talking here! Thank you very much for allowing the discussion!

Thanks, criticizers!

I do agree that the potential for misuse is there. But we, for one (or two, or three, depending on how many Pen Men you count), would prefer to give the benefit of the doubt and respond to the majority, which are good, decent people, rather than address the minority and make everyone pay.

However I want to point to another security threat in blog comments, which exists in this blog as well.

Here’s the trick. Bad guy wants to mess the reputation of a good guy up. He finds a third party popular blog post, enters the name and the website of the good guy in the comment form, and he leaves a messy but still acceptable comment there. The owner of the third party blog doesn’t know the email address of the good guy, so he doesn’t have any clue to verify the identity, and accepts the comment. A messy comment is published with the signature of the good guy.

That’s why this type of comment forms are not safe and better be avoided. There are two solutions. Don’t allow commenting but allow trackbacks. This is my favorite. At least the commentator has the full responsibility, since he leaves the comment in his own domain. The second solution: allow commenting to only registered users.

I hope this security flaw is addressed by blogging software like Wordpress soon, and all the bloggers take full caution.

PS: Please be good girls and good boys, and don’t use this trick:)
PPS: I accept no responsibility of the use or misuse of this information.

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I posted a link to an internet etiquette site in re caps & shouting and then I told him that I would be willing to discuss the matter further when he had identified himself with his full name, as I had. (His post showed that he knew me IRL.)

The person had insisted that he was “man enough” to call me down and I responded that he hadn’t been man enough to sign his name. That was enough to end it.

Anything that adds to the discussion can stay on my blog. Anything that detracts from it gets spiked. I am the Decider.

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