False Associations

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-09-04 21:21:10 UTC
Modified: 2009-09-04 21:21:10 UTC

Summary: Please help us spot and deter the fakes (personal or affiliation)

WE PREVIOUSLY dealt with the issue of people who pretend to speak on behalf of this Web site. There was also the issue of people (trolls) who are leaving comments under my full name or surname, usually cursing people whom I know or making self-defeating statements under fake identity. One possibility is that the former type -- much like the latter -- is trying to piss people off and incite people against this Web site and against yours truly.

As explicitly stated some months ago, I no longer leave comments in other Web sites for precisely that reason, except for a few where I have a registered (and long-standing) account or places where I PGP-sign my messages. If people spot fakes (messages with my name where they don't belong), please raise the issue. It seems like some sort of a smear campaign by impostering. Some people are leaving comments with BoycottNovell.com as their homepage, but I have no idea who these people are. ⬆

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Bluewashing: IBM Replaces Red Hat With IBM (Bobby Leibrock) at the Top: Based on his education, Bobby is just some suit; he thinks of money, not tech
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