Oy. I go off the internet for the afternoon, and I come back to find that LJ has exploded all over the place.
Apparently some nut posted a crazy "
ban list" of people she accused of hacking her account, stealing picture of her in a swimsuit, and posting them on child porn sites. My name was on the list, along with 167 others, about half of whom I know or know of. Nearly everyone has recognized that this is a troll, and there is no truth to these accusations, but I figure it bears repeating here:
I am not, nor have I ever been, involved in any account hacking/child porn schemes. Duh. This is one of more obvious trolls I've seen on my several years online. I hear that LJ abuse has been contacted, but I'm not sure what they're going to do about it.
Either way, there are now 44 new people I do not know who have friended me. Obviously I have no way of know if they are trolls themselves, or just people who saw my name on the ban list and figured I must be a cool, edgy, controversial person who posts a lot of porn on their journal. Now, I am almost ridiculously
uncontroversial, with no known enemies to speak of, so I'm endlessly amused that I've been targeted for trolling. So, if you've friended me with good intentions, please feel free to stick around. If you have nefarious plots against me, please do us all a favor and just leave, because I am really a very boring person, and annoying me won't be much fun for you.
Also, it should be noted that I have no plans at the present to make this journal friends-only. So no worries there.
Phew. This is the last time I leave the net for more than a couple hours at a time! You just never know what will happen....
Edited to add: If you are underage, please remove me from your friendslist. I've checked out the userpages of everyone who had added me, and if it says you're under 18, I've asked you to remove me. But in case some of you are minors and haven't stated that on your userinfo, please do defriend me. This journal sometimes contains adult material, and I'd rather not get blamed for exposing minors to porn. Okay? No hard feelings, feel free to come back when you're 18.