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[–] shewhomustbeobeyed 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Thank you for answering, Webby. I appreciate it.
I believe you when you say your site has been attacked, I always have. I just can't follow the line of reasoning that lead you to @Vindicator. All the tech stuff still remains above my head. @MadWorld tried to explain it to me, but I still had a hard time following what was being discussed.
Your ability to spread info across multiple sites has always been admirable, and I am grateful to you for taking the time.
And I miss you on FNGT. Don't you dare stop the music.
Thank you for the update.
Yes please. You know me, I want to make sure all the info is archived. How come you stopped posting PGnews?
You always have taken a teasing pretty well, I will give you that.
Keep shouting from the rooftop.
[–] thewebofslime [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The reason I wanted to have a conversation about it... a polite one... was because the IamQ email accounts all had passwords that matched, but were a few characters off.
fx0xn_1234
fx0xn_1235
etc.
One of those emails with the same password in sequence had "vindicator" in it and he was the one who discovered the IamQ post after it sat for a few years unnoticed. IT was a striking coincidence.
Later, I tracked the actual user of the computer whose email address had "goatblower" as the password, which also seemed a striking coincidence as it was most likely a Voat reference.
That was the evidence I started with. I have acquired more since. I did entertain the possibility that someone was setting vindicator up and even told him that, but his personality completely changed and he became incapable of having a rational conversation about it, then the whole crew jumped in and made sure that I sounded like the crazy one.
My site was attacked out of Sterling, Virginia and the other people being attacked in /v/Pizzagate were not followers of Q. It seemed like a good question to ask as to whether or not Q handlers or bakers or whatever, were behind the attacks. That conversation was never allowed to happen.
It all doesn't really matter to me, now, but I have a gig that is related to news and the people going after my personal life and trying to paint me as a pedophile were problematic for my new direction in life. That is why I reported the harassment to the police and federal law enforcement, then filed a lawsuit. Not that I expect much to come of it, but that is the only avenue to protect my personal life, in this instance. My face is out there. My name is out there and I have a responsibility to myself and my family to stand up and protect it.
Either way, at any point I am willing to listen to those who disagree with my conclusions about the attack on my site and how it coincided with other events; the conversation was just never allowed to reach that point. I also had tinglies because Top Minds of Reddit renewed their attack on me and on Pizzagate at the same time the Voat drama all started to go down.
From where I sit, there are at least two factions within the Q movement, where the one faction tried to move in on QRV and take it over. Since I don't believe Q is reliable, it's not a race I have a horse in. I've always just wanted to get the word out because I have been hoping exposure to protected political pedophilia will result in some movement against them.
The reason I haven't been playing guitar as much is because of my new direction, in life, but I will have time soon. I prefer to spend more time on music than anything.
I'll get you more Finders stuff soon. I can't believe no one has tracked these people down and asked them WTF, yet.
[–] shewhomustbeobeyed ago
What does it mean that the email had "vindicator" in? Was it in the text of the email, or somewhere else?
In all honesty, I found the submission by iamq prior to vindicator posting about it. I just don't do Q stuff. But I am pretty sure that vindicator and I were not the only two people scouring old PG submissions for missed info at that time. This is why it has always seemed just as reasonable to me that he found it right after I did, organically.
Yes he did get his hackles up, but your charges are stiff, I do not blame him for being defensive.
And I also agree that this is where communication stopped.
I agree. Q really does suck.
Is that the same group who were downvote brigading you when v/pizzagate first started? (i 'member)
Me either. Go get 'em.