A new post at Defending the Defensible looks at what happens when stalkers try to appear legit: Moderated Hate.

This comment from the stalker site is especially rich with crunchy hypocrisy…

26. gclaghorn on 24 May, 2009 at 2:47 pm

I set the registration system so that you cannot register with the usernames “Sharmuta”, “Killgore Trout”, or “Charles.”

… Because “gclaghorn” has tried to register at least four times at LGF — and the last time he tried to use the name, “Charles Johnson.”

One of the “moderators” at the stalker site, “savagenation” (whose real name is Marc Thomas Donato, pictured at left) was banned from LGF for posting comments like this one — about his daughter’s boyfriend:

You know, I should have shot that f-cker and locked myself in the damn bathroom and shot myself too.

There were hundreds of similar comments from Donato, before he was finally banned and all of his ravings deleted. My only regret is that I didn’t ban him much sooner.

UPDATE at 5/30/09 4:54:17 pm:

Sure enough, as soon as I link to Defenseman’s blog (no, “Defenseman” isn’t me, by the way — I don’t have time to start another blog), stalkers start to show up and post smears in the comments. This was posted today by “Perpetua:”

And it seems right to keep people from nick-jacking. So, I am not sure what the problem is with having people register. …

I think a lot of people have a problem with Charles Johnson because he seems not to be interested in the debate. I was pretty surprised that the lizards liked to see people who disagreed with the dominant paradigm at LGF get banned. I was used to blogs that welcomed the debate with the other side.

This is a textbook case showing the dishonesty of these people. “Perpetua” was originally banned for getting into absurd prolonged pissing matches with other people at LGF, and for going on a down-dinging spree where she would hit the minus button on every comment and every thread that was posted. Basically, for acting like a child.

Since that first username was banned, she has come back no less than five times and tried to register under different names:

Felicity’s Friend
Tricia
Simply Me
Deja Vu
Liquid Amber

And now she’s over at Defenseman’s blog, complaining that people are banned from LGF “just for disagreeing.” These people should be ashamed of themselves.