You've been a member of this Message Board for a few
months. You have been active, making many posts.
Suddenly, there is a change.
Maybe Trolls have taken over the MB, maybe the Moderator
has allowed it to become an S/M hangout, maybe you've
become the target of every attack. Whatever the reason,
this is no longer "home."
Your first impulse is to log off and never log back on.
Bad idea.
You have already posted quite a bit of personal
or semi-personal information. You need to erase
that data. You need to do it quickly and quietly.
If you betray yourself, others might start quoting
your posts, the moderator might freeze your controls,
and your data will remain.
Your very first action is to give the appearance
of no action.
Go into your Control Panel. Alter or remove personal
information, take down your avatar. Shut off "alerts"
so you will no longer receive email from the Message Board.
Don't change your email address yet. The Moderator might
have one of those "all member" spam fests, and your copy
of her email bouncing back will be a give away.
Starting from the oldest, find your posts and delete
them. Where you can't delete, edit to gibberish.
Try to begin in "dead" threads where the "latest" post is
a week old. You want no one aware of what you are doing.
It takes effort, but you don't want "come backs." You
don't to be on another Message Board and a Troll pops
up spewing personal details you left behind.
It is worth the time spent deleting and changing your
posts for when you leave that Message Board, you leave
nothing behind.
It might take days for you to complete this task. However,
remember, you are dealing with the lowest form of humanity,
a Troll. You don't leave crumbs behind.
Once you have cleaned up "dead" posts, carefully wend you
way through the live ones. Stop editing before you reach
your most current.
Every post up until your last two should be destroyed on
every thread.
Now that you have only the most recent remarks still alive,
you must deal with them in one sitting. This is to prevent
the Mod or Owner or Troll from "catching" you.
Log on using a Proxy Server. That is, not your ISP. Each
time you log on your IP is captured. By logging on from an
IP not your own, the new dotted quad replaces the old one.
For those who have no idea what I'm writing; every site
has an address made up of a dotted quad. That is four
series of numbers separated by a "dot".
Your ISP might be 121.34.28.10. And a search will resolve
that to a name, so one can tell if you log on in California
or Wales by the ISP you are using.
You may think that by not using your user name and just
lurking on a site, no one knows it is you. Untrue. It
is "your" ISP which has identified you.
By using a proxy server, that is a computer someplace
else in the world, the ISP that will be captured will
be of that proxy.
Although you have always been 121.34.28.10, when you
go through a proxy, the IP might be 78.34.23.19. This
means your old (and true) ISP will be replaced by the
new one.
Log on with your user name and password via the proxy
so that you will now have those other numbers attached
to your account.
Move quickly. Where you can't delete, turn your posts
into slop. For example, "take this sentence; change it to;"
"rex ampe, tkthi sntnce; chngtto"
Once you've completed, get to your control panel. Change
your email address to noone@nowhere.com. If you can change
your nick before you leave, do it. Change your sex, your
age, any information, change or delete it. Once you log
off, you are off forever.
There will be no way to contact you. Your email is non-
existent, your IP address puts you in Bulgaria, and
nothing you posted during your sojourn on that Message
Board can be used against you.
