The Trolls Among Us

Hi DeWayne here Dexx mentioned the NY Times articles on Internet Trolls and I believe this article is good way to launch a new policy. Kent's Alters George,Yves etc are getting repetitive and plain annoying. I have read enough of George to last a lifetime!

The new policy similar to the one other forums have instituted (when they allow him at all)

Kent may post as Damon or Kent Barclay.

No George, no Yves no Alternate personality's.

Kent uses his Alters to hide and parry while he maintains "deniability" or responsibility for his statements.

I will not use comment moderation I will just delete the alters as I see them. This includes all Alters! I am pulling the last post George until I clean up a bit. Thanks

Read this NY Time article Dexx Jones mentioned and you will see Kent Barclay a little more clearly.

The Trolls Among Us

Weev (not, of course, his real name) is part of a growing Internet subculture with a fluid morality and a disdain for pretty much everyone else online.

By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ

Published: August 3, 2008

One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents’ bedroom closet and shot himself in the head.

The next morning, Mitchell’s school assembled in the gym to begin mourning. His classmates created a virtual memorial on MySpace and garlanded it with remembrances. One wrote that Mitchell was “an hero to take that shot, to leave us all behind. God do we wish we could take it back. . . . ” Someone e-mailed a clipping of Mitchell’s newspaper obituary to MyDeathSpace.com, a Web site that links to the MySpace pages of the dead. From MyDeathSpace, Mitchell’s page came to the attention of an Internet message board known as /b/ and the “trolls,” as they have come to be called, who dwell there.

/b/ is the designated “random” board of 4chan.org, a group of message boards that draws more than 200 million page views a month. A post consists of an image and a few lines of text. Almost everyone posts as “anonymous.” In effect, this makes /b/ a panopticon in reverse — nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center. The anonymous denizens of 4chan’s other boards — devoted to travel, fitness and several genres of pornography — refer to the /b/-dwellers as “/b/tards.”

Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand.

Something about Mitchell Henderson struck the denizens of /b/ as funny. They were especially amused by a reference on his MySpace page to a lost iPod. Mitchell Henderson, /b/ decided, had killed himself over a lost iPod. The “an hero” meme was born. Within hours, the anonymous multitudes were wrapping the tragedy of Mitchell’s death in absurdity.

Someone hacked Henderson’s MySpace page and gave him the face of a zombie. Someone placed an iPod on Henderson’s grave, took a picture and posted it to /b/. Henderson’s face was appended to dancing iPods, spinning iPods, hardcore porn scenes. A dramatic re-enactment of Henderson’s demise appeared on YouTube, complete with shattered iPod. The phone began ringing at Mitchell’s parents’ home. “It sounded like kids,” remembers Mitchell’s father, Mark Henderson, a 44-year-old I.T. executive. “They’d say, ‘Hi, this is Mitchell, I’m at the cemetery.’ ‘Hi, I’ve got Mitchell’s iPod.’ ‘Hi, I’m Mitchell’s ghost, the front door is locked. Can you come down and let me in?’ ” He sighed. “It really got to my wife.” The calls continued for a year and a half.

In the late 1980s, Internet users adopted the word “troll” to denote someone who intentionally disrupts online communities. Early trolling was relatively innocuous, taking place inside of small, single-topic Usenet groups.

The trolls employed what the M.I.T. professor Judith Donath calls a “pseudo-naïve” tactic, asking stupid questions and seeing who would rise to the bait. The game was to find out who would see through this stereotypical newbie behavior, and who would fall for it. As one guide to trolldom puts it, “If you don’t fall for the joke, you get to be in on it.”

Today the Internet is much more than esoteric discussion forums. It is a mass medium for defining who we are to ourselves and to others. Teenagers groom their MySpace profiles as intensely as their hair; escapists clock 50-hour weeks in virtual worlds, accumulating gold for their online avatars. Anyone seeking work or love can expect to be Googled. As our emotional investment in the Internet has grown, the stakes for trolling — for provoking strangers online — have risen. Trolling has evolved from ironic solo skit to vicious group hunt.

“Lulz” is how trolls keep score. A corruption of “LOL” or “laugh out loud,” “lulz” means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium. “Lulz is watching someone lose their mind at their computer 2,000 miles away while you chat with friends and laugh,” said one ex-troll who, like many people I contacted, refused to disclose his legal identity.

Another troll explained the lulz as a quasi-thermodynamic exchange between the sensitive and the cruel: “You look for someone who is full of it, a real blowhard. Then you exploit their insecurities to get an insane amount of drama, laughs and lulz. Rules would be simple: 1. Do whatever it takes to get lulz. 2. Make sure the lulz is widely distributed. This will allow for more lulz to be made. 3. The game is never over until all the lulz have been had.”

/b/ is not all bad. 4chan has tried (with limited success) to police itself, using moderators to purge child porn and eliminate calls to disrupt other sites. Among /b/’s more interesting spawn is Anonymous, a group of masked pranksters who organized protests at Church of Scientology branches around the world.

But the logic of lulz extends far beyond /b/ to the anonymous message boards that seem to be springing up everywhere. Two female Yale Law School students have filed a suit against pseudonymous users who posted violent fantasies about them on AutoAdmit, a college-admissions message board. In China, anonymous nationalists are posting death threats against pro-Tibet activists, along with their names and home addresses. Technology, apparently, does more than harness the wisdom of the crowd. It can intensify its hatred as well.

Link to the rest of the NY Times Article

,,,never look back

“Out on the road today I saw a deadhead sticker
On a cadillac
A little voice inside my head said, dont
Look back. you can never look back.”

Don Henley – “The Boys Of Summer”.

The dichotomies of reality are often a reason to “never look back”. In the case of Kent Barclay that is a dangerous position to take. For years he has terrorized people from the depths of despair that is his miserable life. Imagine if you will 56 years old with no means of support so despicable that you are the cause of your own mother losing her home. He committed forgery, he forced her into perjury, and risked her life because he was too busy trying to lie about and destroy Brent Corrigan for child abuser Bryan Koics.

Look at his history… Noah Walker, Joey Hart, Matt Rush, Court Logan, Christian Owen, Rich Sternberg, Angel Skye, Brad Starr…. We all know this list could go on for days but that makes the point. He has lied about and forced his was into the private lives of all these people. He did it to me and I have never once had any interaction with him. He called me a few weeks ago, I have no idea where he got my phone number, but it really does not matter. This was the conversation “May I speak with Kevin Clarke please”. I said whose calling he said “Damon Kruezer”. I said “Why would I talk to your sorry ass, never call this number again” .

Now what was it that made him think I had anything to say to him. That he in some sense someone who I would talk to. In the last few weeks he wrote a fake interview he claimed was from a former model of mine Ashton Ryan that was full of lies that I had somehow forced my models into having sex with me, and took their money from them. It was full of lies made up to somehow tarnish me, and make himself look better. In this lie filled fake interview he said that there were something’s that were too disgusting to say. Then a few days later his cohort Convicted Child Sex abuser prints a story that came from Kent saying I forced my models to piss and shit on me.

Now leaving aside the disgusting nature of this stuff, why would I talk to someone who would lie about me and my models like that, in league with a convicted child abuser. If that pattern sounds familiar it is just what he did to Brent Corrigon with convicted child abuser Bryan Kocis. That day he also called DeWayne in San Diego to tell him he was going to Florida to represent Angel Skye’s ex wife to help her get back alimony. As if that was going to make people shudder. Now of course the fact that Angel Skye did not have an ex-wife was just a minor inconvenience, he was drowning someone threw him an anvil and he grabbed on to it. Now this is a perfect example of how despicable he is as a human being. When he realized that none of it was true, did he apologize? No. He just looked for more lies to try and hurt Angel with.

When Angel finished the last Michael Lucas project he worked on Kent claimed that he had sources that told him it was a flip flop with toys and pissing. Then when Angel did not do what he wanted it all of the sudden was terrible, had to be re-edited, without a word of explanation about his first set of lies he told a bunch more. Lies being the operative word here. Then he has one of his alter ego’s a fictional lover named Marcus Say this..” Let's be clear: There are ZERO court filings, charges or anything else on tap against Kruezer or his supposed alters. Angel Skye and Kevin Clarke LIED in saying there were, so where's your moral outrage and the Truth Squad about THEIR blatant lies? Just where did I say that Kent? The lie is that I never said that.

As I have said for some time now Paul Baressi said to me regarding you “Our country has a wonderful legal system”. I agree. My dealings are there. Not filing false 2257 violation complaints, or contacting people’s family members, but rather giving documented facts to law enforcement. When they come knocking on the door Kent this time hiding in the bathroom behind your mother will not work. As my Irish grandmother would say “The wheels of the lord grind slow; but exceedingly fine”. With law enforcement they take the information corroborate it (Like you did not do with Angel’s ex wife) and then they move. Slow but exceedingly fine…

posted by Kevin Clarke

Sethj 2

“What Seth J. says is of ZERO evidentiary value in any CURRENT situation. Fact is he actually leveraged that situation to his and his mother's advantage by the very sweet settlement they received because of all the rules the housing people broke, a fact Seth J. totally omits. I think that was their goal all along, to get a big lump sum to pay for the 2condos they bought. Sweet!”

Now Kent/NG lets look at the facts. In the above handwritten description by your mother in the court documents of the Norwell Housing Authority VS Barclay your mother states how she is ill and stressed by this situation and it is unfair. You say you leveraged something? Are you saying this was an attempt to defraud the Housing authority? Fraud like your mother committed when she listed your address as being the Del Prado mail drop as she perjured herself to scam the housing authority?

Now Kent as the court papers stated your mother was 5 months behind in her rent. The rent was under 300 a month. You amassed a treasure of 1,500 in unpaid rent and with that you bought 2 condo’s? Were they just bigger mailboxes at the Del Prado address? Are you claiming that you received money from your perjury and fraud from the Norwell Housing Authority? Enough to buy 2 condo’s? Well Kent $1,500 might not be worth going after but enough to buy 2 condo’s that is Grand Larceny.

Now do tell us when Rich Sternberg went to the head of the Quincy Housing authority and was told that Barbara lived there at Tobin Towers was he being lie too? Or are you lying now?

"Nope you guys have failed so markedly in your persecution of the man and his loyalists, because you've yet to lay a glove on him for anything of actual evidentiary value beyond reasonable doubt or involving actual probable cause."

Keep telling yourself that Kent/NG. We showed in black and white forgery, perjury, and theft of government services.

"All of his accusers were in bed with him one way or the other so any claims at this late date have been "legally vitiated" says the attorney monitoring this matter."

That actually makes no sense Kent/NG. As if you could afford an attorney…. Is he the one that wrote every claim that was denied in the Norwell case?

"We hear Angel Skye and Kevin Clarke just can't understand why their Seth J type complaints have gone nowhere fast, and they are being mocked and ridiculed by The Kruezer because of where he actually lives, reportedly in either Revere or Brockton Mass. with some property in his aunt's name in NYC."

Let me post here an excerpt from your email to David Forest regarding your property in NYC.

“As for "made up stories", it so happens that it's 100% TRUE that I was acquainted with Heath Ledger on the basis described. Heath and I did converse, at length and in depth, and unlike you - who has never had what everyone who knows the real Damon describes as the "pleasure of my company" - Ledger did indeed seek me out for companionship and emotional support, two things I was most happy to provide that tormented, lonely man.

I do indeed own property on Broome Street, which is where Ledger had his place. So tell me, why WOULDN'T I have run into him and engaged him in conversation? I did, and we clicked. I am missing Heath very much.”

You own property Kent/NG? Now that you are trying to cover up a lie it is your Aunt’s name? Yet you own it? When you make up more lies to cover old ones you should make up ones that do not like scamming the housing authority that point to illegal activities? Of course there is no prop
erty owned by you on Broome St., nor by your Aunt, but you just said you are hiding property that is yours in someone else’s name? The IRS maybe?

"It'll be interesting to see what the news is from him from SD PRIDE and from his web chat, now that we hear he's "got the goods" on DeWayne so determined is he to expose him."

There you go again threatening people with words that will never be connected to anything. We have court documents and the reality that you are still squatting in a continuing criminal conspiracy with your mother to defraud the state of MA. Keep telling yourself no one will knock on the door Kent/NG….

posted by sethj