Mike Bagnall, the head honcho at the LBMB, claims to have received death threats from members of this board. He said that he would forward these to TubaDiva.
I cannot think of a single SD regular who would even entertain the thought of pulling a stunt like this.
However, I have no problem entertaining the thought that Mike Bagnall is a liar.
How long does it take to send these emails to TubaDiva?
If I’m wrong about this I will apologise.
Right now I’m just ticked off that this jerk blackened the name of the SDMB without backing it up with proof.
Yeah right. How’s he even going to be able to prove they came from anyone here anyway? It’s not too difficult to make up a fake e-mail. I’m assuming of course that no one here is stupid enough to actually send mail from any machine they’ve posted here with. Wouldn’t that make it pretty difficult to track an IP address?
I think the best bet is he’s a lyin’ sack of shit.
Easy one-step assembly instructions.
Pour Beer A in Uncle B.
Wally, sweatheart…I did it, YES! thats right! It was ME!!
I sent all the threats to whoeverthehellit was.
See, I have finally cracked up, and tomorrow, I am gonna climb up a big tower and pull out a long range rifle…shit! I live in canada…ok, so a big bag of rocks, and I will pelt passeresby with them!
This place has turned into a fucking joke!!
The only death threats I believe happened are the ones I saw here, against
Guanolad buy LIZARDMAN or whatever
Against Konrad by the same looser
against DavidB by FORMERAGENT
Now we have the fucking fundies preaching all over the god-damn forums, poeple pretending to work for the govt. etc, etc…
What I want to know is Why the hell are we tolerating this shit???
Why not take a clue from the holy rollers and STOP NEW ENROLLMENTS!
Then weed out the freaks, and wait for things to calm down…and back to business.
On the bright side…Satan is back!
Who so ever quoteth bullshiteth to thine kellibelli shalt kisseth her big fat lily white asseth. This is from the Book of Hippocracy, chapter 4-69.
A message board is not the appropriate place to deal with threats.
If credible threats have been made from anybody to anybody, the sender’s ISPs should be informed, and the matter turned over to police.
Speculation, rumor-chasing, and character assassination will not make this all go away. I am as guilty as the next guy of now & then shedding more heat than light in some of my posts, but things have gone too far at this point. I am sure that neither the Chicago Reader nor the publishers of the Left Behind series want things to go any further, and I hope they will pursue the threat-makers, and put an end to this.
Let’s not insult our new members, who with rare exception have really tried to fit in with us, by maligning the LB board & it’s administrators. Let’s also not provide threads & posts which can be copied back to the LB board to further inflame this situation, or to which LB members who do not mean well here feel obliged to post in defense of their board & admins.
Sue from El Paso
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
I do not believe he should be allowed to make such an inflammatory accusation without being challenged as to it’s veracity.
But as UncleBeer pointed out, it’s no trick to fake emails, a possibility which didn’t occur to me. Had I thought of it, I would not have bothered to start this thread.
But here it is.
Unc, your wisdom, as usual, shines through.
Sorry Sue, with all due respect, this is the PIT, and I will be as much of a bitch here as I please.
I dont think wally’s OP was out of line either. We have been accused, (As a group no less!) of something and are we wrong to demand to see some proof?
We, (SDMB regs) are being threatened, publicly, and I HAVE complained about it! I dont know how to report stuff to ISPs…isnt that what the Mods are for? And all we want is to be kept informed.
I will be the first to admit I am a little messed up right now, and honestly, I am reeeeeelly pumped about this shit, but I dont see anyone here going too far yet.
Who so ever quoteth bullshiteth to thine kellibelli shalt kisseth her big fat lily white asseth. This is from the Book of Hippocracy, chapter 4-69.
MikeylikesIT, Mike Bagnall, Mike Wilson, Mark Waller, I may be getting suspicious in my old age, but I think someone thinks he can play the SDMB regs for saps. If we shouldn’t close the board down to new members entirely, we should at least close it down to new people named Mike, have the name Mike in their username, or have the initials MW in their real or usernames.
Gr8 “I think I’m paranoid” Kat
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
But I do think Wally has a point about Bagnall, though. It sounds like he (Baggins) hyperbolized a bit and then didn’t want to back down. I’d also like him to put up or apologize, but I don’t expect it.
I’m happy to see some of the LB folks here, and hope very much they’ll stay. But Bagnall can stay in his own world, thankya very much.
Death threats aren’t funny neither are annom. emails that spout all kinds of trash,
some of the regs here have gotten them, the nastys, as far as I know death threats have not been included. AFAIK
I believe and hope that ours have come from lurkers not posters on this board.
Ayesha - Lioness
There are two solutions to every problem : the wrong one, and mine
(Thomas A. Edison)
Games are games, fun is fun, jokes are jokes, even if some of those involved do not think those jokes are funny. Threats are another thing and are, of course, illegal, as well as being morally rephensible.
I call upon those who are responsible for this board to bring those guilty of making threats to the attention of law enforcement authorities.
How anonymous can they really be? Hotmail, for one, includes the sender’s I.P. in mail header. I haven’t experimented but I suspect others do as well. I agree that death threats should be dealt with by the police, not bulletin board admins. I know that every post I send does have my I.P. attached in some fashion, and my anonymity is based more on “security by obscurity,” than anything else. Who knows, UBB may store your I.P. for each post.
So who says you have to send email from your own computer? It could easily be sent from someone else’s in your office or even a public machine, like one down at the library or from a university.
{{I call upon those who are responsible for this board to bring those guilty of making threats to the attention of law enforcement authorities.}}
Ummmmmm, how? I haven’t seen any such threats, either first or second-hand. I can’t just tell the cops “He said that he’s getting threats!” and not have any evidence. Well, I suppose I COULD, but really, the cops need some evidence.
If someone’s getting death threats, then the person receiving those threats should take it up with the law enforcement authorities. MY authority is very limited, I only control what goes on in the SDMB (and that as little as possible), I don’t control what people do or write when they’re not in this area.
However, I think it would be a good idea to NOT send death threats by any means. My cousin Vinnie takes a dim view of competition.
