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You’ve been a member of this Message Board for a few

months. You have been active, making many posts.

Suddenly, there is a change.

Maybe Trolls have taken over the MB, maybe the Moderator

has allowed it to become an S/M hangout, maybe you’ve

become the target of every attack. Whatever the reason,

this is no longer “home.”

Your first impulse is to log off and never log back on.

Bad idea.

You have already posted quite a bit of personal

or semi-personal information. You need to erase

that data. You need to do it quickly and quietly.

If you betray yourself, others might start quoting

your posts, the moderator might freeze your controls,

and your data will remain.

Your very first action is to give the appearance

of no action.

Go into your Control Panel. Alter or remove personal

information, take down your avatar. Shut off “alerts”

so you will no longer receive email from the Message Board.

Don’t change your email address yet. The Moderator might

have one of those “all member” spam fests, and your copy

of her email bouncing back will be a give away.

Starting from the oldest, find your posts and delete

them. Where you can’t delete, edit to gibberish.

Try to begin in “dead” threads where the “latest” post is

a week old. You want no one aware of what you are doing.

It takes effort, but you don’t want “come backs.” You

don’t to be on another Message Board and a Troll pops

up spewing personal details you left behind.

It is worth the time spent deleting and changing your

posts for when you leave that Message Board, you leave

nothing behind.

It might take days for you to complete this task. However,

remember, you are dealing with the lowest form of humanity,

a Troll. You don’t leave crumbs behind.

Once you have cleaned up “dead” posts, carefully wend you

way through the live ones. Stop editing before you reach

your most current.

Every post up until your last two should be destroyed on

every thread.

Now that you have only the most recent remarks still alive,

you must deal with them in one sitting. This is to prevent

the Mod or Owner or Troll from “catching” you.

Log on using a Proxy Server. That is, not your ISP. Each

time you log on your IP is captured. By logging on from an

IP not your own, the new dotted quad replaces the old one.

For those who have no idea what I’m writing; every site

has an address made up of a dotted quad. That is four

series of numbers separated by a “dot”.

Your ISP might be 121.34.28.10. And a search will resolve

that to a name, so one can tell if you log on in California

or Wales by the ISP you are using.

You may think that by not using your user name and just

lurking on a site, no one knows it is you. Untrue. It

is “your” ISP which has identified you.

By using a proxy server, that is a computer someplace

else in the world, the ISP that will be captured will

be of that proxy.

Although you have always been 121.34.28.10, when you

go through a proxy, the IP might be 78.34.23.19. This

means your old (and true) ISP will be replaced by the

new one.

Log on with your user name and password via the proxy

so that you will now have those other numbers attached

to your account.

Move quickly. Where you can’t delete, turn your posts

into slop. For example, “take this sentence; change it to;”

“rex ampe, tkthi sntnce; chngtto”

Once you’ve completed, get to your control panel. Change

your email address to noone@nowhere.com. If you can change

your nick before you leave, do it. Change your sex, your

age, any information, change or delete it. Once you log

off, you are off forever.

There will be no way to contact you. Your email is non-

existent, your IP address puts you in Bulgaria, and

nothing you posted during your sojourn on that Message

Board can be used against you.