Internet Cancers

Hello folks and welcome to my blog.
Today I want to get in a rant that some of you may take exception to - so be it. I'm mad and I'm not going to take it anymore!
I have been an internet user for some time now. Overall I have enjoyed the experience. There are always going to be scammers and profiteers on the net oh so willing to take your money and leave you in the dust. Experience is the only cure for that. I am cured.
HOWEVER - there is another internet cancer that is SOOOOO prelevant and so ugly that it needs the attention of our legislators to find a cure for.
I'm talking about message boards, paid to post forums and ESPECIALLY a website called Mylot.
I was - note the WAS - a member of this site for some time. In the beginning, after I had built up a friends list, I enjoyed it immensely. As I became more familiar with the site and more comfortable spending time there (it's VERY addictive! lol), I became more confident in the responses I made. I was always very considerate of the people I responded to and those who responded to me. But the more I surfed and read, the more I became aware of a group of posters whose sole purpose seemed to be to flex their virtual muscles of ignorance, anger and delight in spreading pain and inflaming others into responses best left for playground bullies.
For some time I stayed away from those people. But one rainy day they had the nerve to pick on a particularly vulnerable user whose only crime was a dysfunctional life and poor grammar.
I lost my Irish temper. I responded to the abuser by simply asking why they felt it necessary or even nice, to be so abusive to someone. Well the war was on. That particular comment attracted every nasty member of a group, that up until then I didn't even know existed on site.
They called themselves the MLPD - mylot police department. Very few of their members started discussions of any value - rather they stalked the site reporting spammers, abusers (!) and other guildeline misuses. Ok fine. Noble concept - every site that depends on ad revenue needs to be carefully monitored. But to use their 'in with admin' to also be rude, mean, judgemental and just plain nasty and foul mouthed to people is NOT noble - in 'real' society it's not even acceptable. The thread where my war with these people began is I believe, now gone.
This group then began dogging every comment I made on other threads - that had NOTHING to do with them. They had simply put me on their hit list and were determined to get me off site. So I fought back. I started a thread of my own declaring war on them. It got deleted. I started another thread naming names (I was too new then to know that this was a major no-no) and outing the most abusive and foul mouthed members of this group. It got deleted. But other things were happening, which were the main purpose of my discussions. Other good users were becoming aware and asking questions. More vulnerable users were being left alone. The focus was on me and I was ok with that. But I undersestimated the world of the internet. I was still to new to it and too trusting of connections forged on it. Someone I thought was a friend, and on board with a group of us who wanted to see the mlpd gone or neutralized, was really a wolf in sheeps clothing. We had become (I thought) friends off line as well as on I had given her my address, my phone number, my email. I became so completely sucked into her vendetta against someone else, that I jumped on her bandwagon of nastiness and found myself behaving in a way that today still makes me ashamed of myself. That 'someone else' has since become a friend of mine. We worked our differences out, because I finally woke up to my 'other' friends total obsession with UNREALITY and made my peace with that 'someone else'.( It also taught me how easily it is to become the kind of internet user I am now so dead set against.) Well apparently, some people just don't know when to let go. My former friend has given me quite the education on internet cancer. She forwarded all my private emails, addresses, phone number - my IDENTITY on to the mlpd. She conviced them that it was me and me alone who was responsible for every negative thing that happened on mylot. It didn't matter that after the 'mlpd war' was over, I was staying away from the whole lot of them and concentrating on my own friends and my own life. No - I had made the fatal error of standing up for what was right, making friends with 'all the wrong people' (LOL) and no longer feeding into her obsession with her own narcissistic view of life. The end result of her obsession was the publishing on mylot of my email address, my private emails, my full legal name and twisted versions of the truth. The fact that my personal life was keeping me to busy to respond to their crap didn't stop the tide of libel, identity theft, copyright infringement etc. The end result for me, was being banned from the site.
So be it. I can still surf. I can still witness the continued abuse that now runs rampant on mylot.
So take note folks of these names on mylot and if you every join the site - STAY AWAY FROM THEM: MaxPower,Riptide,Dragonryder,,SKSouth,
AngryKitty, and others you will find on their threads.
Check out their threads - there are other names that will crop up on their threads over and over as they are all friends and when they aren't abusing others with comments, they are posting threads making fun of them, mocking them, generally whining and complaining about them.
Many good users have complained to admin. Many good users have been locked out of the site, caused to be banned by the false reporting of this group and many good users are being ignored by admin while this cancer continues to grow and spread. They even have their own website where they used to go to complain, to plot against, to brag about how they would take users down, to generally badmouth mylot users, mylot admin and anyone else on their radar. I had friends offer to send me copies of convos on this site, and when I had enough - I sent it all to mylot admin- at THEIR request - and suddenly the mlpd are 'on strike'. Now they are becoming bolder, fouler and nastier on site with impunity. It is disgusting and just plain wrong.
It is a cancer. A cancer I have been finding on other sites, other message boards, other blog sites. It is a sad indication of what our society has come to when evil like this grows and grows and NO ONE seems able to stem it's foul tide.
So I am serving notice here that I will continue to speak out against this filth and use every resource at my fingertips to fight it and educate others to it and to hopefully someday turn that tide against them so that they drown in their own nastiness.
Thanks for 'listening' and feel free to comment.