I had been a netizen for some time now and had yet to have a run in with trolls. This month the internet gods decided to grand me this experience. My one (1) user was being haunted by a troll who kept posting pornographic images (and not even very creative ones). So my user asked me to look into email registration. I wasn't very much into the idea, as email registration is either hackable or a pain for users.

My first script proved to be inefficient and Barry had to disable comments again. The images were as unimaginative as before. I improved the script and until now it seems to work. The user has taken to sending images over the puppy forum.

The other troll reached me over couchsurfing. I have taken over organising the weely meetup while Max is away. He send me a pm with this:

However, if after reading my profile, you think I am a "Racist", "Nazi", "Hater", "Idiot" then I would just as soon skip the meeting...

If I don't get a reply to this email, I'll take it as a "...not interested...", and will not show up..., that's pretty easy, no

I forgot the age old wisdom of don't feed the troll. I sent him a message back saying it is an open meeting and that I expect people to be respectful towards each other (He's an anti-Semite). The answer was the expected "I'm such a victim of intolerance towards my opinions" used by all bigots.

Ah well, no loss I guess