Topic: I hate autists
+NO !r84YpyJVao — 13.5 years ago #19,401
I will elaborate later
+Anonymous B — 13.5 years ago, 52 seconds later[T] [B] #237,735
Hi A-log.
·NO !r84YpyJVao (OP) — 13.5 years ago, 22 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[T] [B] #237,736
·Anonymous B — 13.5 years ago, 26 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[T] [B] #237,737
·NO !r84YpyJVao (OP) — 13.5 years ago, 10 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #237,740
·Anonymous B — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 13 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #237,741
·NO !r84YpyJVao (OP) — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 14 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #237,742
+Anonymous C — 13.5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #237,747
No you wont.
+Anonymous D — 13.5 years ago, 31 minutes later, 50 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #237,765
This thread, fucking loved it :)
+Negi Springfield !aeNZeP7XP2 — 13.5 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #237,850
+Anonymous F — 13.5 years ago, 11 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,011
OP here. Here's what happened:
Hello netizens of TC, today I bring you a story of how an autistic person annoyed me to no end. And took advantage of me (because I'm stoopid). Let me begin.
During my first semester of college I was extremely outgoing. I spoke with a lot of people and met a lot of friends in my dorm, in my classes, and was happy to become friends with anyone. Well, there was this kid who had a heavy accent and was from Thailand that came into my room one day because he hard my roommate and his friend playing FIFA. He loved FIFA. So I let him in, started talking with him, and he was super chill. He was pretty awkward, and his accent kinda sucked, but he was nice, and generally considerate. But little did I know how hellish he was until later on. (btw, let's call him Joe).
Skip ahead a few weeks, and I met him again in the hallway. We exchanged phone numbers and one of my friends took a liking to Joe. So we hung out with Joe a lot, but as classes started to get more intense I had to take time to study, so our friendship wavered a bit. A little later in the year he moved into the new dorms that were just finished being built that semester, and he had a wicked awesome lounge. TV, all the chairs were nice, and it was quiet, never reeked of weed or of throw up, like my dorm did. My friend and I hung out with him much more. I never suspected anything, although I knew he was a little off. Everything was good, and we ended the semester. I said my good-byes to everyone as I transferred to a significantly better school.
About two months in, things became hellish for him. A kid was bullying him at his dorms, and nobody was defending him except for one of the kids I had made friends with. Eventually he got extremely tired of Joe, but never told me why. He stopped the bully though, so all was good. Then, Joe asked if he could come to my school because none of the 11 kids he asked would let him stay at their house for spring break. Little did I know, he didn't need somewhere to stay during spring break. He annoyed me for about a week before I caved and was like "eh, Joe's a nice guy, why not let him stay?" So I asked my roommate if he could stay, and he didn't care, so I invited him to stay at my dorm. The beginning of my nightmare that lasted 5 days begins the week after my invitation.
Joe gladly accepts and he buys the train ticket and everything. He then probes me about parties. For whatever reason, he became a massive partier over the course of the winter break and the first 2 months of the semester, which I wasn't aware. I told him, "well it doesn't have the name zoomass for no reason". Which was mistake #2.
Upon his arrival, he probed me about parties. Non-stop. And he guilted me about it. He said I was a jackass for lying to him, and that I was wasting his time, and that I had no manners. I was like "whatever", and simply passed it off as being antsy from the train ride. After I couldn't find him a party he drinks from his Captain Morgan bottle and collapses. I finally collapsed too, and at about 2 AM my roommate comes in and falls asleep.
7AM the next morning I woke up to the most awful sound I could hear. His snoring sounded like two baboons being raped by a wildebeast, the wildebeast enjoying it. A lot. It was so loud that my roommate looked at me and I was like "oh, fuck me". And had to wake him up. I snoozed off and only one hour later did his snoring wake me up, and my roommate, again. I was like, whatever, it's the weekend so I can sleep in. His snoring woke me up about two more times, and I was very irritable that day. He complained about no partying, and then said that I have to show him around the college town. I was like, whatever. I showed him around for about 6 hours the various places, and the mall. Joe was pissed when he didn't find a restaurant he wanted.
So, we go back to the dorms, I'm completely drained of any energy and he persists again with how I lied to him about not being able to find a party. I told him to fuck off and I did my homework, and went to sleep. He woke me up 3 times that night with his snoring. I was pissed, as I had class at 9am and so did my roommate. I put up with it though.
By Tuesday, I was done. After him being loud while we were sleeping, he coughed in my nutella, moved most of my shit around, had no manners, went to my classes and friends classes to hit on girls (he got a few numbers, but they were either fake or the girl stopped talking to him, which lead to him crying), and he had the most foul smell, of somebody who never washes their feet and eats ramen and masturbates all day, all combined into one human stink. The straw that broke the camel's back was when I caught him masturbating at 11AM. He didn't stop until I asked him what the fuck he was doing.
One of my friends suggested that I just say the RA found out, and that he had to leave by tomorrow (Wednesday), which is what I did. He got super sad, and it was then my friend told me he was actually probably autistic. Flipping through his facebook photos I could now see clearly and pieced it all together: he never looked at people in the eyes, couldn't register my facial expressions of extreme distaste and hatred, never understood any intonation, and didn't understand when people turned him down (he was extremely persistent in finding a girl's number). He was autistic.
After we informed him, he left feeling extremely sad, and he wished to see me again. I told him maybe. I hope I never see him again.
Joe, you tricked me, were a dick all week, and smelled like a disgusting pile of shit. Oh, and your snores were the worst.
Fuck you.
Autism: not even once.
Hello netizens of TC, today I bring you a story of how an autistic person annoyed me to no end. And took advantage of me (because I'm stoopid). Let me begin.
During my first semester of college I was extremely outgoing. I spoke with a lot of people and met a lot of friends in my dorm, in my classes, and was happy to become friends with anyone. Well, there was this kid who had a heavy accent and was from Thailand that came into my room one day because he hard my roommate and his friend playing FIFA. He loved FIFA. So I let him in, started talking with him, and he was super chill. He was pretty awkward, and his accent kinda sucked, but he was nice, and generally considerate. But little did I know how hellish he was until later on. (btw, let's call him Joe).
Skip ahead a few weeks, and I met him again in the hallway. We exchanged phone numbers and one of my friends took a liking to Joe. So we hung out with Joe a lot, but as classes started to get more intense I had to take time to study, so our friendship wavered a bit. A little later in the year he moved into the new dorms that were just finished being built that semester, and he had a wicked awesome lounge. TV, all the chairs were nice, and it was quiet, never reeked of weed or of throw up, like my dorm did. My friend and I hung out with him much more. I never suspected anything, although I knew he was a little off. Everything was good, and we ended the semester. I said my good-byes to everyone as I transferred to a significantly better school.
About two months in, things became hellish for him. A kid was bullying him at his dorms, and nobody was defending him except for one of the kids I had made friends with. Eventually he got extremely tired of Joe, but never told me why. He stopped the bully though, so all was good. Then, Joe asked if he could come to my school because none of the 11 kids he asked would let him stay at their house for spring break. Little did I know, he didn't need somewhere to stay during spring break. He annoyed me for about a week before I caved and was like "eh, Joe's a nice guy, why not let him stay?" So I asked my roommate if he could stay, and he didn't care, so I invited him to stay at my dorm. The beginning of my nightmare that lasted 5 days begins the week after my invitation.
Joe gladly accepts and he buys the train ticket and everything. He then probes me about parties. For whatever reason, he became a massive partier over the course of the winter break and the first 2 months of the semester, which I wasn't aware. I told him, "well it doesn't have the name zoomass for no reason". Which was mistake #2.
Upon his arrival, he probed me about parties. Non-stop. And he guilted me about it. He said I was a jackass for lying to him, and that I was wasting his time, and that I had no manners. I was like "whatever", and simply passed it off as being antsy from the train ride. After I couldn't find him a party he drinks from his Captain Morgan bottle and collapses. I finally collapsed too, and at about 2 AM my roommate comes in and falls asleep.
7AM the next morning I woke up to the most awful sound I could hear. His snoring sounded like two baboons being raped by a wildebeast, the wildebeast enjoying it. A lot. It was so loud that my roommate looked at me and I was like "oh, fuck me". And had to wake him up. I snoozed off and only one hour later did his snoring wake me up, and my roommate, again. I was like, whatever, it's the weekend so I can sleep in. His snoring woke me up about two more times, and I was very irritable that day. He complained about no partying, and then said that I have to show him around the college town. I was like, whatever. I showed him around for about 6 hours the various places, and the mall. Joe was pissed when he didn't find a restaurant he wanted.
So, we go back to the dorms, I'm completely drained of any energy and he persists again with how I lied to him about not being able to find a party. I told him to fuck off and I did my homework, and went to sleep. He woke me up 3 times that night with his snoring. I was pissed, as I had class at 9am and so did my roommate. I put up with it though.
By Tuesday, I was done. After him being loud while we were sleeping, he coughed in my nutella, moved most of my shit around, had no manners, went to my classes and friends classes to hit on girls (he got a few numbers, but they were either fake or the girl stopped talking to him, which lead to him crying), and he had the most foul smell, of somebody who never washes their feet and eats ramen and masturbates all day, all combined into one human stink. The straw that broke the camel's back was when I caught him masturbating at 11AM. He didn't stop until I asked him what the fuck he was doing.
One of my friends suggested that I just say the RA found out, and that he had to leave by tomorrow (Wednesday), which is what I did. He got super sad, and it was then my friend told me he was actually probably autistic. Flipping through his facebook photos I could now see clearly and pieced it all together: he never looked at people in the eyes, couldn't register my facial expressions of extreme distaste and hatred, never understood any intonation, and didn't understand when people turned him down (he was extremely persistent in finding a girl's number). He was autistic.
After we informed him, he left feeling extremely sad, and he wished to see me again. I told him maybe. I hope I never see him again.
Joe, you tricked me, were a dick all week, and smelled like a disgusting pile of shit. Oh, and your snores were the worst.
Fuck you.
Autism: not even once.
+Anonymous G — 13.5 years ago, 2 hours later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,056
This is an expansion of a comment I wrote on another thread. Here I'd like to try and explain (if only for myself) my enjoyment of what I intellectually know to be horrific and abhorrent trolling.
I suppose it is an issue of desensitisation. I enjoy watching autistic people suffer, especially the emotional torture of Matt Miller. I suppose a part of it is that it is at a very safe distance from me. In a way it is a confirmation of how I live. I am wasting my life and my talents and if I can believe that the world is a Godless, uncontrolled and indifferent absurdity it helps me to not go crazy. I have inside me a lot of frustration and guilt at what I have made of my life. I was an excellent student at school and university, everybody expected me to go on to great things. I did not. For me, seeing the absolute lowest that humans can slump to (and with nothing to intervene, nothing to help the victim) it makes it easier for me to slowly decay, safe in the knowledge that everything is worth nothing in the end and that there is not right or wrong, no good or bad, I will become the same pile of putrified dust as Shakespeare and Beethoven. This all sounds pretentious I know, it sounds like I am reaching for a reason to be a troll. But I assure you that isn't what I'm doing. I am still quite young, I have a girlfriend, a fairly decent job, and so on. But I have made less than 1 percent of the mind I was born with, and I am almost too old to do anything about that now. Actually, that's not strictly true. I'm too fucking lazy to do anything about it. It is so much easier to slide down into the mud. After some time, you learn that being down in the mud can be a thrilling place to be, a sick and safe and secretive place, outside of all the expectations and pressures of society.
When I watch Matt Miller being very obviously tortured I feel a mixture of sickness and great arousal. The odd thing is that if I ever met that man who did those things to him in life I would murder him without hesitation. I would also never do anything to harm anyone; least of all an autistic. A week ago I was walking home from the supermarket with my girlfriend and a little retarded girl was crying. I felt sorry for her and wanted to help her. But paradoxically I enjoy watching Matt Miller being trolled. Because when I read those threads they always seem like fantasy to me. Intellectually I know, somewhere in the back of my mind, that the abuse I am watching is very real, but when I open those threads and drop my trousers I am in a different world; a very detached world which shows a real-life version of my deepest and sickest fantasies (where those come from is another issue and is best left to Freudian analysts). When I first saw the heavier of the Matt Miller threads I felt sick. Physically sick. But they aroused me nonetheless. That one thread where he is posting updates about GHOUL and several anons repeatedly tell him to die in a fire made me sick to my stomach; but it also thrilled me. Such an absolute destruction and corruption of innocence. It mirrors what I have done to myself. There is another thread (mentioned on this site before) in which Matt Miller gets trolled in the anus whilst bawwing about sK. Again, it is just about as horrific as the human mind could imagine. But it is thrilling. The thread about Matt Miller being violently fisted is by far the absolute zenith of the degree of evil the human mind can conjure and act out (at least that I have seen). But after the initial feeling of nausea has passed, there is that very strange - almost ethereal - joy at having confirmation that we live in a a completely uncontrolled and Godless world. To see something which goes against every single inherent moral fibre of our being. To see innocence destroyed before our eyes. It is a very powerful, primal, sexual feeling. And over time it destroys your conscience. When you start down the road that I took a few years ago there is really no limit to how deep that bar can get lowered.
I stopped trolling Matt Miller a few months ago, simply because I moved in with my girlfriend and she uses my computer. But there is still that sick and poisoned aspect to my character. There are times, when we are having sex, when I remember some of the more brutal threads from Minichan I have seen.
In conclusion (and now that I have finished I do not think I have understood anything more about myself than I did before I began, but anyway, I've come this far so I'll go ahead and post this) I troll Matt Miller because I need to believe that I am part of an accidental species which was born from dust and will return to it. It makes it easier for me to live with the abomination that I have made of my 'soul'.
This has been very pretentious, I know, but it's the best I could do.
I suppose it is an issue of desensitisation. I enjoy watching autistic people suffer, especially the emotional torture of Matt Miller. I suppose a part of it is that it is at a very safe distance from me. In a way it is a confirmation of how I live. I am wasting my life and my talents and if I can believe that the world is a Godless, uncontrolled and indifferent absurdity it helps me to not go crazy. I have inside me a lot of frustration and guilt at what I have made of my life. I was an excellent student at school and university, everybody expected me to go on to great things. I did not. For me, seeing the absolute lowest that humans can slump to (and with nothing to intervene, nothing to help the victim) it makes it easier for me to slowly decay, safe in the knowledge that everything is worth nothing in the end and that there is not right or wrong, no good or bad, I will become the same pile of putrified dust as Shakespeare and Beethoven. This all sounds pretentious I know, it sounds like I am reaching for a reason to be a troll. But I assure you that isn't what I'm doing. I am still quite young, I have a girlfriend, a fairly decent job, and so on. But I have made less than 1 percent of the mind I was born with, and I am almost too old to do anything about that now. Actually, that's not strictly true. I'm too fucking lazy to do anything about it. It is so much easier to slide down into the mud. After some time, you learn that being down in the mud can be a thrilling place to be, a sick and safe and secretive place, outside of all the expectations and pressures of society.
When I watch Matt Miller being very obviously tortured I feel a mixture of sickness and great arousal. The odd thing is that if I ever met that man who did those things to him in life I would murder him without hesitation. I would also never do anything to harm anyone; least of all an autistic. A week ago I was walking home from the supermarket with my girlfriend and a little retarded girl was crying. I felt sorry for her and wanted to help her. But paradoxically I enjoy watching Matt Miller being trolled. Because when I read those threads they always seem like fantasy to me. Intellectually I know, somewhere in the back of my mind, that the abuse I am watching is very real, but when I open those threads and drop my trousers I am in a different world; a very detached world which shows a real-life version of my deepest and sickest fantasies (where those come from is another issue and is best left to Freudian analysts). When I first saw the heavier of the Matt Miller threads I felt sick. Physically sick. But they aroused me nonetheless. That one thread where he is posting updates about GHOUL and several anons repeatedly tell him to die in a fire made me sick to my stomach; but it also thrilled me. Such an absolute destruction and corruption of innocence. It mirrors what I have done to myself. There is another thread (mentioned on this site before) in which Matt Miller gets trolled in the anus whilst bawwing about sK. Again, it is just about as horrific as the human mind could imagine. But it is thrilling. The thread about Matt Miller being violently fisted is by far the absolute zenith of the degree of evil the human mind can conjure and act out (at least that I have seen). But after the initial feeling of nausea has passed, there is that very strange - almost ethereal - joy at having confirmation that we live in a a completely uncontrolled and Godless world. To see something which goes against every single inherent moral fibre of our being. To see innocence destroyed before our eyes. It is a very powerful, primal, sexual feeling. And over time it destroys your conscience. When you start down the road that I took a few years ago there is really no limit to how deep that bar can get lowered.
I stopped trolling Matt Miller a few months ago, simply because I moved in with my girlfriend and she uses my computer. But there is still that sick and poisoned aspect to my character. There are times, when we are having sex, when I remember some of the more brutal threads from Minichan I have seen.
In conclusion (and now that I have finished I do not think I have understood anything more about myself than I did before I began, but anyway, I've come this far so I'll go ahead and post this) I troll Matt Miller because I need to believe that I am part of an accidental species which was born from dust and will return to it. It makes it easier for me to live with the abomination that I have made of my 'soul'.
This has been very pretentious, I know, but it's the best I could do.
+Greg !IAlkWJShig — 13.5 years ago, 17 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,067
·Greg !IAlkWJShig — 13.5 years ago, 50 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,068
·Anonymous B — 13.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,070
Not really. I might be committing political suicide by saying this, and be accused of selling out, but here it goes: I want to get away from the Kimmo stylesheet altogether. I want to get away from the idea of being a chan altogether. I want to create a discussion board that is more like a social network than anything else. It would be like Facebook, with the focus being on the board and real discussion rather than it focusing on groups, likes, wall-posts, pokes, games, etc. It would give you the option to post anonymously rather than forcing you to register, but registering and having a profile would be an option. It would be like twitter, but would encourage intelligent conversation rather than 100 character "tweets" that seem to be dumbing down the nation. It would be like a blog, but people would actually care about it, because rather than being a blog in the sense that it's a single website about you, it's interactive and everyone is tied together through the social network. You could have a "friends" list, but it would be more like a list of favorite posters where you watch for their posts/threads, rather than a restrictive list. It will be like Facebook WAS, back when people actually joined groups and went into the discussion tab to have actual discussion, before they started putting ridiculous restrictions on groups and encouraging people to just "like" corporations instead and have you play mindless games so they can sell your information to advertisers. You'd still have the same freedom of speech, and be able to post anything from chan bullshit to legitimate reporters using it as a medium to post their news articles or blogs. It would be like youtube, but the focus would be on discussion rather than video, but the idea of it being user generated content is the same. Privacy would never be an issue, because you'd still have the option to post anonymously and no logging in would be required.
I warned you it was political suicide. I know some of you must think I'm joking and that I just don't get it. I know I probably sound like Kimmo several years ago, posting about stuff where it was obvious to everyone but him that only he thought his ideas were a good idea. The difference is, I'm not a sociopath, I don't want to do this because I think I deserve a billion dollars, I don't think it's guaranteed to be the next big thing, and I understand that it's not for everyone, so I have no intention of spamming my site all over the god damn place trying to attract attention from people who will obviously hate it. I just know there are a lot of people just like me out there who miss the old youtube, miss the old facebook, hate the teenage drama of myspace, and are sickened by the watered down content and pointless updates of twitter. There are people out there who love the free speech of blogs and chan sites, but hate the meaningless shit that fills most chans and the fact that most blogs are just people who only want to talk about themselves or think they're real reporters because they have a website. I know the internet market is already flooded with so many social networking and sharing sites that I might just be insane. Maybe I really am like Kimmo and I'm trying to reinvent the wheel just because there's not a site out there that's not EXACTLY what I want it to be. If that's the case, just say so. If there's a social networking site out there that's ridiculously close to what I'm describing here, just say so, and I'll leave you alone and I'll go there instead. I'm not going to be like Kimmo and go ahead with an idea when everyone tells me it's lame and refuse to take any advice and call anyone who disagree with me a troll, but if you read this and you feel the same way, if your're like me and feel like there are millions of people out there who feel the same way we do, if your're sick of settling for what's already out there and feel like the internet needs a new niche for everyone who is like us...
JOIN ME
Or don't because I realize that was a little over the top.
I warned you it was political suicide. I know some of you must think I'm joking and that I just don't get it. I know I probably sound like Kimmo several years ago, posting about stuff where it was obvious to everyone but him that only he thought his ideas were a good idea. The difference is, I'm not a sociopath, I don't want to do this because I think I deserve a billion dollars, I don't think it's guaranteed to be the next big thing, and I understand that it's not for everyone, so I have no intention of spamming my site all over the god damn place trying to attract attention from people who will obviously hate it. I just know there are a lot of people just like me out there who miss the old youtube, miss the old facebook, hate the teenage drama of myspace, and are sickened by the watered down content and pointless updates of twitter. There are people out there who love the free speech of blogs and chan sites, but hate the meaningless shit that fills most chans and the fact that most blogs are just people who only want to talk about themselves or think they're real reporters because they have a website. I know the internet market is already flooded with so many social networking and sharing sites that I might just be insane. Maybe I really am like Kimmo and I'm trying to reinvent the wheel just because there's not a site out there that's not EXACTLY what I want it to be. If that's the case, just say so. If there's a social networking site out there that's ridiculously close to what I'm describing here, just say so, and I'll leave you alone and I'll go there instead. I'm not going to be like Kimmo and go ahead with an idea when everyone tells me it's lame and refuse to take any advice and call anyone who disagree with me a troll, but if you read this and you feel the same way, if your're like me and feel like there are millions of people out there who feel the same way we do, if your're sick of settling for what's already out there and feel like the internet needs a new niche for everyone who is like us...
JOIN ME
Or don't because I realize that was a little over the top.
·Greg !IAlkWJShig — 13.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,071
+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 13.5 years ago, 14 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,072
·The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 13.5 years ago, 18 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,073
·Greg !IAlkWJShig — 13.5 years ago, 47 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,074
·Anonymous F — 13.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,077
itt: dogbears
·Anonymous B — 13.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,078
This is a personal, informal manifesto, intended to be read by all Internet users.
Hello. If you are reading this, there is a definite possibility that you regularly use services such as Facebook or Twitter. Or maybe one or more forum where you use the same nickname or your real name. It probably seems perfectly reasonable, and you probably wonder where this is going. Please give me a few minutes of your time to attempt to convince you, and please rest assured that this article is not some kind of joke/satire; every word of it is meant perfectly seriously. There are no exaggerations in this text.
Most people have a basic, general understanding of what "privacy" means. They wouldn't go outside naked even if the weather allows for it and nobody is around at the moment, and they wouldn't use a public bathroom with the door wide open. This is simply common sense. However, the moment they sit down behind some kind of computer screen, it's just as if most of that common sense vanishes instantly, they let down their guard and do things that seem extremely careless to somebody like myself, who has experienced how things work online and what kinds of people there are out there. In many cases, this can be explained by the fact that the "online" world is full of pitfalls, most of which you may not even think of. I'm not talking about sending all your money to some bank account in Nigera, but far more subtle things, such as your programs and files leaking small pieces of personal information in very non-obvious ways, or not properly understanding that bots and certain individuals constantly save and archive material, even if it's removed from the original location, to be used later against the author's wishes.
First of all: although there are exceptions to this rule (usually pure luck and fortunate circumstances), one must always assume that once something (a text, a picture, a video or anything else) is posted online, it will stick there indefinitely in one form or another, completely regardless of how embarrassing, false and illegal it may be. Laws and morals have no bearing on the Internet's many respectless and downright evil individuals, and many shady companies won't lift a finger to help you, whether you threaten or beg them. This may sound cynical, but it's absolutely crucial to realize this in order to stay safe. Even if you control the content and posted it yourself, and then "deleted" it, nobody knows for sure how many people stored it on their computers and how many robots saw it and archived it automatically, perhaps without instantly re-publishing it, to appear later. These things really do happen, all the time. You'd better believe it, because it has ruined countless lives and will unfortunately continue to do so.
Note that this isn't just about "leaked naked pictures", but, for example, somebody collecting information about an individual by searching for their nickname/real name, finding thousands of posts, reading through them and using them against you. Many established users on Wikipedia, for instance, have been harassed and embarrassed by people looking through all their edits, which are permanently recorded in public with your handle attached to them. You think you never said anything awkward? What about a few years from now? Maybe you know of something you wrote and want to forget, but surely it's gone now, right? Think again. It's most likely still right there, live and directly searchable, unless you actively was able to have it deleted (difficult) or the site it was written on died at some point. But even then, there are archives...
Hardly one single day goes by without some really disturbing news popping up about this or that company doing this or that to violate your privacy, usually without any such "angle" to the article. Countless sites and services of all kinds not only encourage, but force you to "sign in" using your Facebook/Twitter/whatever account. Oftentimes, you don't even need to sign in because you are already using it, and they simply embed a page from those services on their sites, and have you commenting on their articles and whatnot in an oh-so-convenient but truly dangerous manner.
I've personally witnessed it over and over and over again, in all kinds of different places around the Internet, big and small. This isn't just in my head. This almost perverse willingness to actively or passively violate people's privacy, including your own, truly baffles and disturbs me. Most of the time, it's not even maliciously intended, yet the end result is the same. Not many years ago, I created services which didn't have this in mind at all. I can see why established services don't want to realize this problem and change, just as I realize that (virtually) all new ones are created completely lacking this understanding.
Let's not even get into the problems of allowing anyone to enter a handle/real name but not verifying it in any manner (which is next to impossible online), enabling anyone to tarnish anyone's reputation by writing nasty stuff in their name.
It is very important to realize that you don't have to be a paranoid, insane, delusional, tinfoil-wearing criminal in order to care about your own and others' privacy. It's not about doing shady/illegal things; it's a simple matter of protecting yourself and other people, controlling your future as far as it's possible and being safe all around. I hope this doesn't come off as empty words and scare tactics intended solely to promote this service, because I really care about this on a personal level and see it as my duty to protect people and give them something great and safe to use.
Don't get me wrong --- I definitely see why one would feel the need to use their real name. One example is running a business selling things or services. Trust is often important there. However, most people don't run a business and have little or no reason to post all/any of their personal information online, outside of the cases when it's forced or in some niche situations. Clearly, this is tempting/natural to a lot of people, for whatever reason, which is why we at PlainBoards.com force anonymity among our users. You will thank us later, years from now, rather than cursing yourself. Trust me.
So... did I manage to convince you? Perhaps this made you at least think about it. If you start using our service, which is truly the only one on the planet which genuinely cares about your privacy, and you follow our recommendations, you will be able to interact with nice people in a friendly atmosphere without having to expose yourself and them to the entire world and perpetually being searchable by anyone who wants to harm you for any reason. You will definitely not be able to sign in with your Facebook/Twitter/DISQUS/whatever account here!
Hello. If you are reading this, there is a definite possibility that you regularly use services such as Facebook or Twitter. Or maybe one or more forum where you use the same nickname or your real name. It probably seems perfectly reasonable, and you probably wonder where this is going. Please give me a few minutes of your time to attempt to convince you, and please rest assured that this article is not some kind of joke/satire; every word of it is meant perfectly seriously. There are no exaggerations in this text.
Most people have a basic, general understanding of what "privacy" means. They wouldn't go outside naked even if the weather allows for it and nobody is around at the moment, and they wouldn't use a public bathroom with the door wide open. This is simply common sense. However, the moment they sit down behind some kind of computer screen, it's just as if most of that common sense vanishes instantly, they let down their guard and do things that seem extremely careless to somebody like myself, who has experienced how things work online and what kinds of people there are out there. In many cases, this can be explained by the fact that the "online" world is full of pitfalls, most of which you may not even think of. I'm not talking about sending all your money to some bank account in Nigera, but far more subtle things, such as your programs and files leaking small pieces of personal information in very non-obvious ways, or not properly understanding that bots and certain individuals constantly save and archive material, even if it's removed from the original location, to be used later against the author's wishes.
First of all: although there are exceptions to this rule (usually pure luck and fortunate circumstances), one must always assume that once something (a text, a picture, a video or anything else) is posted online, it will stick there indefinitely in one form or another, completely regardless of how embarrassing, false and illegal it may be. Laws and morals have no bearing on the Internet's many respectless and downright evil individuals, and many shady companies won't lift a finger to help you, whether you threaten or beg them. This may sound cynical, but it's absolutely crucial to realize this in order to stay safe. Even if you control the content and posted it yourself, and then "deleted" it, nobody knows for sure how many people stored it on their computers and how many robots saw it and archived it automatically, perhaps without instantly re-publishing it, to appear later. These things really do happen, all the time. You'd better believe it, because it has ruined countless lives and will unfortunately continue to do so.
Note that this isn't just about "leaked naked pictures", but, for example, somebody collecting information about an individual by searching for their nickname/real name, finding thousands of posts, reading through them and using them against you. Many established users on Wikipedia, for instance, have been harassed and embarrassed by people looking through all their edits, which are permanently recorded in public with your handle attached to them. You think you never said anything awkward? What about a few years from now? Maybe you know of something you wrote and want to forget, but surely it's gone now, right? Think again. It's most likely still right there, live and directly searchable, unless you actively was able to have it deleted (difficult) or the site it was written on died at some point. But even then, there are archives...
Hardly one single day goes by without some really disturbing news popping up about this or that company doing this or that to violate your privacy, usually without any such "angle" to the article. Countless sites and services of all kinds not only encourage, but force you to "sign in" using your Facebook/Twitter/whatever account. Oftentimes, you don't even need to sign in because you are already using it, and they simply embed a page from those services on their sites, and have you commenting on their articles and whatnot in an oh-so-convenient but truly dangerous manner.
I've personally witnessed it over and over and over again, in all kinds of different places around the Internet, big and small. This isn't just in my head. This almost perverse willingness to actively or passively violate people's privacy, including your own, truly baffles and disturbs me. Most of the time, it's not even maliciously intended, yet the end result is the same. Not many years ago, I created services which didn't have this in mind at all. I can see why established services don't want to realize this problem and change, just as I realize that (virtually) all new ones are created completely lacking this understanding.
Let's not even get into the problems of allowing anyone to enter a handle/real name but not verifying it in any manner (which is next to impossible online), enabling anyone to tarnish anyone's reputation by writing nasty stuff in their name.
It is very important to realize that you don't have to be a paranoid, insane, delusional, tinfoil-wearing criminal in order to care about your own and others' privacy. It's not about doing shady/illegal things; it's a simple matter of protecting yourself and other people, controlling your future as far as it's possible and being safe all around. I hope this doesn't come off as empty words and scare tactics intended solely to promote this service, because I really care about this on a personal level and see it as my duty to protect people and give them something great and safe to use.
Don't get me wrong --- I definitely see why one would feel the need to use their real name. One example is running a business selling things or services. Trust is often important there. However, most people don't run a business and have little or no reason to post all/any of their personal information online, outside of the cases when it's forced or in some niche situations. Clearly, this is tempting/natural to a lot of people, for whatever reason, which is why we at PlainBoards.com force anonymity among our users. You will thank us later, years from now, rather than cursing yourself. Trust me.
So... did I manage to convince you? Perhaps this made you at least think about it. If you start using our service, which is truly the only one on the planet which genuinely cares about your privacy, and you follow our recommendations, you will be able to interact with nice people in a friendly atmosphere without having to expose yourself and them to the entire world and perpetually being searchable by anyone who wants to harm you for any reason. You will definitely not be able to sign in with your Facebook/Twitter/DISQUS/whatever account here!
·Greg !IAlkWJShig — 13.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,080
+Beebs !CwGIngerQo — 13.5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,082
·Anonymous B — 13.5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #238,085
PlainBoards.com Challenges All Existing And Potential Forum Owners
STOCKHOLM, June 01, 2012 - With only days until its solid "three months online" anniversary, the PlainBoards.com founder says that the service has proven to be very stable and that he is more than eager to see exponential growth. Having received almost universally positive feedback from real users, with comments such as "great interface", "spectacular anonymity" and "nice minimalism", he has identified the main problem to be the lack of sufficient exposure to a large audience. Now, he attempts to attract many more communities and people to try out PlainBoards for all their message board needs.
"I'd really like to see a large number of people and businesses try it out as I know for a fact that they will simply love it. Frankly, it's a shame that it's not more known yet, not just because of the enormous amount of work that's been put into researching and developing it, but, primarily, because it has the real potential to fundamentally and seriously improve the Internet experience for a lot of people while not introducing anything too confusing that they cannot quickly grasp and take to their hearts."
With nearly 150,000 actual verified indexed pages on Google, and many more content pages which grow in numbers all the time, there is now a substantial base to build on. "I can't stress enough how I'd like you all to just try this out. It must be experienced. Getting heard in today's world is incredibly difficult, regardless of the quality of the product. What we are offering is a stable and truly useful service for you and your community to use and take advantage of. A really clean, easy to use/set up and robust forum that was built from scratch to provide real privacy, security, ease of use and to be as pleasant to use as possible for everyone involved."
The service is waiting for you at http://plainboards.com/ and questions may be sent to contact@plainboards.com for quick and personal support by the creator himself. You will not be dealing with any outsourced/low-wage workers, promises the founder. "We actually practice what we preach."
# # #
PlainBoards.com: "Un-Facebook" Service Declared Stable And Ready For Serious Production Use
STOCKHOLM, April 23, 2012 - A few weeks past PlainBoards.com's quiet launch, its creator has announced the site to have gone "sharp". Calling it the "un-Facebook", it's a truly unique way of socializing anonymously in a clean, registration-free, forum-like environment. The default visual design has been described as beautifully simple, although some people mistake its minimalism ideal for a "retro Web" look. The creator had this to comment: "Anyone who dislikes it simply lacks taste. Besides, it can be freely modified/replaced."
He goes on: "There is an unbelievable amount of utter junk out there. The Internet has taken many wrong turns and ended up in a situation where most things frankly suck. Nobody except for us take your privacy seriously at all, and they just have no desire to make something beautiful and thought-through. Nearly all of today's generic, bland sites look just like the next. Our design- both visually and philosophically - pays no attention to the rest but does its very own thing, perfect for its intended usage. It would be a huge mistake for the media to keep ignoring this. The journalist who finally dares to speak up for real privacy and against the current oppression from Google, Facebook and the other big boys should be applauded."
The time from launch up until now has largely been spent polishing and fixing things behind the scenes. The main guy, who still wishes to remain anonymous for personal reasons relating to one of the primary reasons for creating the service to begin with, had this to say about that: "While the service was already solid at launch after extensive testing, a huge deal of work has been done since, mostly small non-security fixes here and there. There are yet a number of things to add, too, but PlainBoards is now without a doubt ready to be used by site owners, businesses and users in a 'production environment'."
One needs to know that the "quality assurance" at PlainBoards is truly taken seriously in order for the insanely high requirements of security to be fulfilled. Thus, "solid" really means "solid"; it's not just empty marketing speak, as unfortunately is very common today. PlainBoards specifically points out that nothing is outsourced or relayed on third parties in any way in order to remain in full control security-wise. Its proprietor is really a control freak and perfectionist on par with the late Steve Jobs, and we all know what kind of products result from such a mind.
The site and all the information you could possibly want is available at: http://plainboards.com/
Even so, don't hesitate to e-mail contact@plainboards.com with any further questions. (Please don't call.)
# # #
PlainBoards.com: Why Everyone Except for the Baddies Benefits From Privacy Done Right
STOCKHOLM, April 10, 2012 --- The founder of PlainBoards.com, who has been busy working on improvements since the recent launch, was asked to list the top-five reasons for why anyone would want to use this service instead of some existing one. As can be read in more detail at http://plainboards.com/why, these points were specifically highlighted:
1. Visitors don’t have to register or log on in any manner to post or use the many features. This is of course very convenient for users, and for board owners. It means that more people will participate.
2. Complete public privacy makes it impossible for malicious stalkers to map and harass contributors. This gives users peace of mind and board owners more honest and comfortable users. Even registered users are given every chance of remaining fully safe.
3. Beautifully simple design. Rather than piling on clutter for the sake of making it look complicated, as is unfortunately the norm, nothing in the proprietary PlainBoards interface is displayed without a very good reason.
4. The Liberal Terms of Service only prohibit posts that are actually illegal, violating somebody’s privacy, harassing by nature or content theft. This lack of forced “random morals” allows each board owner to decide their own specific rules and atmosphere. One board owner may require all posts to contain perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation, while another may refuse any posts that mention Justin Bieber.
5. Since everything is pre-screened in an efficient management system, spam and junk post attacks just don’t happen. At first, this concept may seem very frustrating, but once you get used to it, the advantages become obvious.
“Other attractive selling points include full encryption, currently no advertisements (pioneers will be rewarded with free-for-life ‘plus’ accounts later), no monetary cost, global accounts which only require you to register once (if you want to register) and let you use any board, and much more which simply must be experienced. It’s all in the little details which make up a polished and robust product.
“The fact that no handles or identifiers are displayed in public (instead, an alphabetic letter is assigned to each person in the thread) cannot be stressed enough, as it eliminates countless problems, ranging from irrelevant remarks based on earlier posts, to impostors, to serious harassments through ‘profiling,’ sometimes going as far as death threats. The few downsides, primarily the perceived loss of ‘brag points,’ are nothing compared to the many genuine benefits,” concludes the PlainBoards.com founder.
Please take a look yourself by going to: http://plainboards.com/
# # #
PlainBoards.com Publishes Privacy Manifesto, Urges Internet Users to Take Online Privacy Seriously
STOCKHOLM, March 26, 2012 --- Nothing is ever really deleted online, and even seemingly innocuous photos or information one posts on blogs, discussion boards, Facebook and Twitter can have far-reaching, unintended consequences socially, financially and even in terms of personal safety. That’s the message PlainBoards.com (http://www.plainboards.com) is trying to spread to as many Internet users as possible with today’s publication of its Privacy Manifesto (http://plainboards.com/manifesto).
PlainBoards.com (http://www.plainboards.com) is devoted to providing and promoting online privacy and safety. The site allows any business, organization or individual to create a free discussion board --- as long as they remain completely anonymous. In fact, PlainBoards.com actually forces anonymity among its users.
The reasons are detailed in the Privacy Manifesto: Most people would never think of violating their own privacy or safety in real life, yet they let their guard down as soon as they go online. Posts, photos, videos and discussion board conversations all tend to expose small details of people’s lives. Unbeknownst to many Internet users, “bots” archive just about everything published online, creating a permanent record. Worse, there have been many documented instances of people being harassed online and in real life by individuals or groups who saved the information they posted and used it against them.
Scare tactics? Unfortunately, no. In spite of the comfort millions of people feel using Facebook, Twitter and other similar sites openly, says the founder of PlainBoards.com, the Internet is still, for the most part, a place where laws are difficult to enforce, privacy is often an illusion, and justice is seldom realized.
“Companies have no vested interest in protecting Internet users’ privacy,” stated the PlainBoards.com founder, who, for obvious reasons, prefers to remain anonymous. “In fact, it’s just the opposite. Corporations often capture and store bits of information on the people who visit their sites, and they turn around and monetize that information. It’s been said that Facebook users are not the consumers on that site, they’re the commodity --- and that’s not uncommon online. It should give anyone pause before openly sharing anything about themselves.”
Given that, it’s not surprising PlainBoards.com has gone in the opposite direction in terms of privacy and safety. No registration is required to use the site, although users who opt to register can use that registration across all boards and have an added layer of security. Individual board owners are unable to violate PlainBoards.com users’ privacy in any way: no user names are ever displayed in connection with any posts, and it is impossible to search for other posts any user, registered or unregistered, has made. Board owners and PlainBoards.com can block disruptive users without ever seeing any identifying information or IP addresses of those users, because the proprietary PlainBoards.com software handles those details behind the scenes.
Why the strict adherence to privacy standards many Internet users haven’t thus far chosen for themselves? The PlainBoards.com founder has spent many years dealing with online privacy breaches. No one, it seemed, was stepping up in any meaningful way to stem the tide --- so he did.
“The Privacy Manifesto is intended to help educate people about online privacy and safety,” he stated. “It is not an exaggeration to say PlainBoards.com is the only Internet service on the planet that genuinely cares about your privacy. We’re dedicated to doing what’s right. If we have to stand alone, we will.”
Learn more about PlainBoards.com and try out a demo board at http://www.plainboards.com.
# # #
PlainBoards.com: Facebook/Twitter Killer Gives Anyone Real Privacy
STOCKHOLM, March 13, 2012 --- The brand new Web service PlainBoards.com offers a unique kind of privacy-minded forum service for businesses, groups and individuals for free. Available in an increasing number of languages, its main features include real anonymity, no requirement to register and log in to an account, and a very simple, logical and pleasant user interface.
As its founder states in its description, "In a world full of companies of all sizes and individuals who have absolutely no respect whatsoever for your privacy, we take it extremely seriously, because somebody has to."
The intention is for virtually any business, group or individual currently using services such as Facebook or Twitter to communicate with their customers and other people, to adopt and try out their own no-nonsense forum with PlainBoards. Whoever claims a board owns it and has full control of every post published as they are all pre-moderated in a thought-through management system. Users of any board can easily navigate between their favorite boards and even watch interesting threads "globally," across multiple boards. The service combines the concept of isolated communities with a unified account system (for those who wish to use it), resulting in something with unmatched inherent safety measures for everyone involved.
The boards can be created by anyone with their own special rules, with very liberal global guidelines dictating few restrictions on the kind of discussions that may take place, while at the same time having the most strict rules on the Internet when it comes to privacy and harassments of individuals. This service may be used by everything from big companies wishing to get honest feedback and thoughts on new ideas, to small special-interest groups or projects where knowing everyone's identity does not matter. Which is usually the case.
The service is also available in a secure, encrypted version. At PlainBoards, safety and privacy truly are cornerstones rather than hollow marketing gimmicks added on top. The aim is for the service to be regarded as the standard for anonymous and clean discussions among Internet citizens in the same manner as Wikipedia is heavily relied on for encyclopedic articles.
STOCKHOLM, June 01, 2012 - With only days until its solid "three months online" anniversary, the PlainBoards.com founder says that the service has proven to be very stable and that he is more than eager to see exponential growth. Having received almost universally positive feedback from real users, with comments such as "great interface", "spectacular anonymity" and "nice minimalism", he has identified the main problem to be the lack of sufficient exposure to a large audience. Now, he attempts to attract many more communities and people to try out PlainBoards for all their message board needs.
"I'd really like to see a large number of people and businesses try it out as I know for a fact that they will simply love it. Frankly, it's a shame that it's not more known yet, not just because of the enormous amount of work that's been put into researching and developing it, but, primarily, because it has the real potential to fundamentally and seriously improve the Internet experience for a lot of people while not introducing anything too confusing that they cannot quickly grasp and take to their hearts."
With nearly 150,000 actual verified indexed pages on Google, and many more content pages which grow in numbers all the time, there is now a substantial base to build on. "I can't stress enough how I'd like you all to just try this out. It must be experienced. Getting heard in today's world is incredibly difficult, regardless of the quality of the product. What we are offering is a stable and truly useful service for you and your community to use and take advantage of. A really clean, easy to use/set up and robust forum that was built from scratch to provide real privacy, security, ease of use and to be as pleasant to use as possible for everyone involved."
The service is waiting for you at http://plainboards.com/ and questions may be sent to contact@plainboards.com for quick and personal support by the creator himself. You will not be dealing with any outsourced/low-wage workers, promises the founder. "We actually practice what we preach."
# # #
PlainBoards.com: "Un-Facebook" Service Declared Stable And Ready For Serious Production Use
STOCKHOLM, April 23, 2012 - A few weeks past PlainBoards.com's quiet launch, its creator has announced the site to have gone "sharp". Calling it the "un-Facebook", it's a truly unique way of socializing anonymously in a clean, registration-free, forum-like environment. The default visual design has been described as beautifully simple, although some people mistake its minimalism ideal for a "retro Web" look. The creator had this to comment: "Anyone who dislikes it simply lacks taste. Besides, it can be freely modified/replaced."
He goes on: "There is an unbelievable amount of utter junk out there. The Internet has taken many wrong turns and ended up in a situation where most things frankly suck. Nobody except for us take your privacy seriously at all, and they just have no desire to make something beautiful and thought-through. Nearly all of today's generic, bland sites look just like the next. Our design
The time from launch up until now has largely been spent polishing and fixing things behind the scenes. The main guy, who still wishes to remain anonymous for personal reasons relating to one of the primary reasons for creating the service to begin with, had this to say about that: "While the service was already solid at launch after extensive testing, a huge deal of work has been done since, mostly small non-security fixes here and there. There are yet a number of things to add, too, but PlainBoards is now without a doubt ready to be used by site owners, businesses and users in a 'production environment'."
One needs to know that the "quality assurance" at PlainBoards is truly taken seriously in order for the insanely high requirements of security to be fulfilled. Thus, "solid" really means "solid"; it's not just empty marketing speak, as unfortunately is very common today. PlainBoards specifically points out that nothing is outsourced or relayed on third parties in any way in order to remain in full control security-wise. Its proprietor is really a control freak and perfectionist on par with the late Steve Jobs, and we all know what kind of products result from such a mind.
The site and all the information you could possibly want is available at: http://plainboards.com/
Even so, don't hesitate to e-mail contact@plainboards.com with any further questions. (Please don't call.)
# # #
PlainBoards.com: Why Everyone Except for the Baddies Benefits From Privacy Done Right
STOCKHOLM, April 10, 2012 --- The founder of PlainBoards.com, who has been busy working on improvements since the recent launch, was asked to list the top-five reasons for why anyone would want to use this service instead of some existing one. As can be read in more detail at http://plainboards.com/why, these points were specifically highlighted:
1. Visitors don’t have to register or log on in any manner to post or use the many features. This is of course very convenient for users, and for board owners. It means that more people will participate.
2. Complete public privacy makes it impossible for malicious stalkers to map and harass contributors. This gives users peace of mind and board owners more honest and comfortable users. Even registered users are given every chance of remaining fully safe.
3. Beautifully simple design. Rather than piling on clutter for the sake of making it look complicated, as is unfortunately the norm, nothing in the proprietary PlainBoards interface is displayed without a very good reason.
4. The Liberal Terms of Service only prohibit posts that are actually illegal, violating somebody’s privacy, harassing by nature or content theft. This lack of forced “random morals” allows each board owner to decide their own specific rules and atmosphere. One board owner may require all posts to contain perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation, while another may refuse any posts that mention Justin Bieber.
5. Since everything is pre-screened in an efficient management system, spam and junk post attacks just don’t happen. At first, this concept may seem very frustrating, but once you get used to it, the advantages become obvious.
“Other attractive selling points include full encryption, currently no advertisements (pioneers will be rewarded with free-for-life ‘plus’ accounts later), no monetary cost, global accounts which only require you to register once (if you want to register) and let you use any board, and much more which simply must be experienced. It’s all in the little details which make up a polished and robust product.
“The fact that no handles or identifiers are displayed in public (instead, an alphabetic letter is assigned to each person in the thread) cannot be stressed enough, as it eliminates countless problems, ranging from irrelevant remarks based on earlier posts, to impostors, to serious harassments through ‘profiling,’ sometimes going as far as death threats. The few downsides, primarily the perceived loss of ‘brag points,’ are nothing compared to the many genuine benefits,” concludes the PlainBoards.com founder.
Please take a look yourself by going to: http://plainboards.com/
# # #
PlainBoards.com Publishes Privacy Manifesto, Urges Internet Users to Take Online Privacy Seriously
STOCKHOLM, March 26, 2012 --- Nothing is ever really deleted online, and even seemingly innocuous photos or information one posts on blogs, discussion boards, Facebook and Twitter can have far-reaching, unintended consequences socially, financially and even in terms of personal safety. That’s the message PlainBoards.com (http://www.plainboards.com) is trying to spread to as many Internet users as possible with today’s publication of its Privacy Manifesto (http://plainboards.com/manifesto).
PlainBoards.com (http://www.plainboards.com) is devoted to providing and promoting online privacy and safety. The site allows any business, organization or individual to create a free discussion board --- as long as they remain completely anonymous. In fact, PlainBoards.com actually forces anonymity among its users.
The reasons are detailed in the Privacy Manifesto: Most people would never think of violating their own privacy or safety in real life, yet they let their guard down as soon as they go online. Posts, photos, videos and discussion board conversations all tend to expose small details of people’s lives. Unbeknownst to many Internet users, “bots” archive just about everything published online, creating a permanent record. Worse, there have been many documented instances of people being harassed online and in real life by individuals or groups who saved the information they posted and used it against them.
Scare tactics? Unfortunately, no. In spite of the comfort millions of people feel using Facebook, Twitter and other similar sites openly, says the founder of PlainBoards.com, the Internet is still, for the most part, a place where laws are difficult to enforce, privacy is often an illusion, and justice is seldom realized.
“Companies have no vested interest in protecting Internet users’ privacy,” stated the PlainBoards.com founder, who, for obvious reasons, prefers to remain anonymous. “In fact, it’s just the opposite. Corporations often capture and store bits of information on the people who visit their sites, and they turn around and monetize that information. It’s been said that Facebook users are not the consumers on that site, they’re the commodity --- and that’s not uncommon online. It should give anyone pause before openly sharing anything about themselves.”
Given that, it’s not surprising PlainBoards.com has gone in the opposite direction in terms of privacy and safety. No registration is required to use the site, although users who opt to register can use that registration across all boards and have an added layer of security. Individual board owners are unable to violate PlainBoards.com users’ privacy in any way: no user names are ever displayed in connection with any posts, and it is impossible to search for other posts any user, registered or unregistered, has made. Board owners and PlainBoards.com can block disruptive users without ever seeing any identifying information or IP addresses of those users, because the proprietary PlainBoards.com software handles those details behind the scenes.
Why the strict adherence to privacy standards many Internet users haven’t thus far chosen for themselves? The PlainBoards.com founder has spent many years dealing with online privacy breaches. No one, it seemed, was stepping up in any meaningful way to stem the tide --- so he did.
“The Privacy Manifesto is intended to help educate people about online privacy and safety,” he stated. “It is not an exaggeration to say PlainBoards.com is the only Internet service on the planet that genuinely cares about your privacy. We’re dedicated to doing what’s right. If we have to stand alone, we will.”
Learn more about PlainBoards.com and try out a demo board at http://www.plainboards.com.
# # #
PlainBoards.com: Facebook/Twitter Killer Gives Anyone Real Privacy
STOCKHOLM, March 13, 2012 --- The brand new Web service PlainBoards.com offers a unique kind of privacy-minded forum service for businesses, groups and individuals for free. Available in an increasing number of languages, its main features include real anonymity, no requirement to register and log in to an account, and a very simple, logical and pleasant user interface.
As its founder states in its description, "In a world full of companies of all sizes and individuals who have absolutely no respect whatsoever for your privacy, we take it extremely seriously, because somebody has to."
The intention is for virtually any business, group or individual currently using services such as Facebook or Twitter to communicate with their customers and other people, to adopt and try out their own no-nonsense forum with PlainBoards. Whoever claims a board owns it and has full control of every post published as they are all pre-moderated in a thought-through management system. Users of any board can easily navigate between their favorite boards and even watch interesting threads "globally," across multiple boards. The service combines the concept of isolated communities with a unified account system (for those who wish to use it), resulting in something with unmatched inherent safety measures for everyone involved.
The boards can be created by anyone with their own special rules, with very liberal global guidelines dictating few restrictions on the kind of discussions that may take place, while at the same time having the most strict rules on the Internet when it comes to privacy and harassments of individuals. This service may be used by everything from big companies wishing to get honest feedback and thoughts on new ideas, to small special-interest groups or projects where knowing everyone's identity does not matter. Which is usually the case.
The service is also available in a secure, encrypted version. At PlainBoards, safety and privacy truly are cornerstones rather than hollow marketing gimmicks added on top. The aim is for the service to be regarded as the standard for anonymous and clean discussions among Internet citizens in the same manner as Wikipedia is heavily relied on for encyclopedic articles.
+fullmouthextraction !2CQezZ7g6I — 13.5 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #238,270
@238,080 (Greg !IAlkWJShig)
this crazy girl i used to work with was legitimately scared of this koala picture. she couldn't look at it when it came up on the screensaver
this crazy girl i used to work with was legitimately scared of this koala picture. she couldn't look at it when it came up on the screensaver
·Greg !IAlkWJShig — 13.5 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #238,318
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