[ SECRET POST #1757 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1757 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 119 secrets from Secret Submission Post #.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I know about trackers, but I mean... So this person makes their request on the kink meme. Someone hates the prompt so much that they put a tracker in a comment to the person's request, hoping that the OP will reply back so they can get the OP's IP address. Once they have the IP address, they have to match it up to an LJ username by scouring comments left on personal journals or comms that log IPs. Which isn't really a one-person job, unless the person is actually a moderator of one of those IP-logging comms. And once they identify the OP, they drive her out of the fandom. All because of a prompt the OP left on a kink meme.

I know it's doable but it's so fucking cray-cray, I have a hard time believing it really happened.

[weekendoffender.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying that's what they did. For all we know, the OP didn't post anon. Or maybe someone found something relating to dolcett in their journal. Or maybe a friend or acquaintance ratted them out. Or maybe someone has a much simpler way to track IP's. Or maybe the OP accidentally posted unanon. Or maybe people are that hardcore about this particular kink meme & really did do all that. Or maybe...

I'm out of maybes.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, it is really not that difficult, especially when you have a few outraged people getting together, especially if any of those outraged people are BNFs. Googling the IP might be enough. I've seen shit like this go down, not for a few years, but I've seen it happen in fandom and I've seen cyberstalkers use IPs to find people's RL info with an hour's work. :/

[(Anonymous)]

But using IPs to find someone's RL info is different from using it to find out who they are on LJ. I've seen the latter thing happen in fandom recently and while it was streamlined by being the cooperative effort of a bunch of people, it wasn't as simple as googling the IP. It was only possible because the person they were trying to identify had posted, logged in, to a community that logged IPs and someone who could see those IPs went digging through posts and spotted it on a couple of the mystery user's logged in comments.

[aiffe.livejournal.com]

Googling the IP will definitely get you their location, which could narrow it down. Say you find out your target lives in Kentucky. Now you ask, "Who's in Harry Potter fandom, active right now, and lives in Kentucky?" Many people have their general region listed in their userinfo, or simply make it known in general conversation. If you're involved in fandom and know a lot of people, knowing a location could really narrow it down for you, especially if the target is someone who also knows a lot of people in fandom.

Then there's the matter of, if you have their RL name, you might be able to find them on Facebook, and some people use the same email for Facebook and fandom activities, or even keep the two loosely linked as an open secret. Would work for Google+ too.

What's a lot more likely, though, is that either the OP de-anoned, or people whispered behind their back. Most people on kinkmemes will tell a friend or two that they think they can trust that they wrote this fic. And maybe those friends are mostly trustworthy, but they share it with a few other people they think they can trust, and so forth, until it becomes an open secret. Plenty of times I've known who wrote something on a kinkmeme because someone (usually the author) told me.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the internet. There are a lot of fucking crazy people on it, and more than a few of them find their way into fandom. I say this as someone who had a way crazy fandom stalker: Fandom knows crazy :(