Rep Returns Comments

Comments went back up on the Rep this morning sometime after 9:00. Jeff Gauger made a small announcement on his blog with no indication if the "robust" changes he mentioned earlier, were effect, or if there had just been a hiatus. That's OK with I Hate Canton. The less the public knows about how the Rep is patrolling Comments, the less chance certain trolls will have of breaking in.

It's only been a couple hours. So far. So good. Only time will tell, though.

Vandals Shut Down Rep Comments

As you undoubtedly know, Friday night Repository executive editor Jeff Gauger pulled all Rep comments until Monday. Jeff posted on his blog at 6:21 PM:

I’m out of other options for dealing with digital vandals during our more lightly staffed periods, especially on weekends, until we are given an appropriately robust user registration and comment moderation tool.

We are in total agreement, though we think "vandalism" might be an insult to vandals.

Before they were pulled and later shut down, the following ugly comments were posted on Preschool Program Faces Ax from Possible State Budget Cuts. Numerous readers have forwarded them to us, and we are not sure in what order they appeared.

DRichard Les Weiner

I really wonder if we the citizens did the right thing in passing this levy for the handicapped. What will come of it? None of these people are ever going to be productive taxpayers to any real degree. Couldn't we cut costs and just have them babysat in large groups or something? They wouldn't know any different and they would still have something to do and it would cost a ton less dough. It is just throwing away good money.

In these tough times I really HATE to see CANTON taxpayers put on the SPOT as we waste there hard earned dollars on people with absolutely no future or potential. Just have them stay at home and we could eliminate mrdd alltogether. I know some people will post now about how awful this sounds but these are the same people who are always on here crying and wailing about everything and are begging for attention. So I would discount them entirely.

Dick Les & Marie Weiner

Richard Les Weiner
why dont we pass a levy for these kids like we did for the mrdd kids. at least maybe one of these kids will grow up and amount to something. the mrdd kids are just money wasted with no hope of ever amounting to anything. the govenor is DARRYLic in his duties to cut spending on real kids who might become somebody

and the indescribably despicable:

Richard Les Weiner
with that new levy passing . i think the mrdd kids could at least help out and pick up the horse poop during the parade. it could be used for fertilizer on a local grave of our favorite sympathy seekers kin

I Hate Canton is not surprised that comments have been suspended, only that it took so long. We realize that Editor Gauger has much better things to do with his time than monitor crackpots, trolls, and vendettaists,. We also believe he has no desire to shut down the paper's most popular feature. There is plenty of room for dissent, disagreement and argument within wide and normal boundaries of discourse. As Don Cirelli wrote on Jeff Gauger's blog today:

Joe Blow” has the right to call Don Cirelli a “damned liberal” if he wants to. He does not, however, have the right to falsely accuse other commentators of criminal activity or to use the forum to perform a virtual dance on someone’s grave. There are limits to everything, and since your paper is a private entity you have the right, yea, the duty to enforce them.

Newspapers have a duty to themselves, their readers and their advertisers to maintain the integrity of all. Newspapers have no duty to let their online pages be the cat box for the mean, the crazy, and the evil.

We look forward to the Rep's "appropriately robust" registration and comments section on Monday. Everyone needs a safe place to post without fear of being libeled or their families dragged through the muck by somebody's sick mind and spastic fingers. Although we don't know what the amended regulations are, it seems to us that the only people who would be upset by the Repository's new standards will those one or two or three people who write with shit on a stick.

Until Monday, we suggest you go over to read the comments on Jeff's announcement. Make make your own conclusions.

Thanks. More Later!

I Hate Canton was away most of yesterday and missed all hell breaking loose. We just went to bed and decided to deal with it today.

We released comments that were sent yesterday about the latest outrage and you'll find them posted on the appropriate blog entry. Thanks to all who took, the time to post.

We'll be writing more later.

Update on Last Night's Shenanigans

First off, thanks to Jeff Gauger and the Rep staff for removing the hijacked posts and banning the identity thief (under the stolen name) from posting. As we know, though, our Octopuppet (or Octopuppets as the case may be), don't go away. They just get mad. And then in some psychopathic way, try to get even.

This morning, for instance, "nativenewyorker," who we do not remember from previous posts as being particularly malevolent, claimed that regular poster Marley Greiner obsessively hijacks MMRD threads. Hey! We thought Mary Parker did that! No wait, Isn't that what Octopuppet does? Whatever, we're looking through you, as the Beatles sang.

nativenewyorker
MRDD to Lay-Off 42, Not Fill 6 Jobs
Every time there is an article concerning MRDD the nonsense begins. What do all; these crazy posts have to do with the headline. It seems like the Marley person is always at the root of this crap. Let's keep it on subject folks. Every single thread has been hijacked by him. What is a Marley and why is he/it so hell bent on causing disruption. This person has the average Rep reader totally confused. Stop the madness. The Rep has about the worst comment site of any area newspaper. What is wrong here. I usually do not say much but this is out of control and full of disruption. Who cares is the bottom line. Don't some of these people have a job or chores to do around the house? The weather has been beuatiful. Get outside and enjoy it. Get out from behind the computer and enjoy life.

And speaking of hijacking. Later this morning these two wacky posts from "chillbilly" attacking Greiner showed up out of nowhere on WHBC-AM 1490 Changes Affiliates to Fox News, bearing no context to anything posted on the thread. In fact chillbilly had never even posted on the thread until then. The posts were removed.

chillbilly
Marley ,your doing a fabulous job trying to drum up business for ihc. You sure are throwing the word coward out alot lately . You obviously have nothing better to do.

chillbilly
AND NO, I AM NOT THE OCTOPUPPET . Anyone who tires of you relentless attacks is not octopuppet .

Gee, who said you were, chillbilly? Until now.

Should we expect a confession soon?

Identity Theft: "harasxlacidar" is not "harasxicidar"

Add identity theft to our omnipresent pest's bag of tricks.

Tonight under MRDD to Lay Off 31, Not Fill 6 Jobs an insulting comment aimed at Mary Parker appeared under the name "harasxiacidar," the hijack of the name of regular poster and MRDD supporter "harasxlacidar"

One letter off.

Again (in red):
harasxlacidar (real poster)
harasxiacidar (identity thief)

Here is the following tete a tete:

harasxiacidar (identity thief)
mary, you should be ashamed of yourself. i feel you took advantage of me and all the others on here to rally our support for the levy. i think you knew full well of all the horrible cuts and job losses that were going to happen, but you didn't care as long as you were on the winning team.

you have lost a friend. i am young and will recover from this embarassment of following you.

IT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.

i will everything in my power to help future levy attempts fail.

now i see why so many people hate you. i should have listened.

Sarah

followed up immediately by a "cute" new entity (BTW, there is no such site)

ilovecantondotblogspotdotcom (probable OP entity)

Sarah, Don't feel bad. You are not the first one on here to fall for her stories. She has an opinion on almost every story the rep puts on here. And watch out if anyone dares disagree with her. She makes the wicked witch of the west look like Doris Day.

It's not there anymore, but if you looked up the word b*tch in the dictionary, there was a full page picture of her.

Since her family tragedy, she has absolutely nothing else to do but troll the chat boards and comment. It doesn't seem to matter if the comments are nonsensical or outright lies, she has a compulsion to comment.

My advice is to just ignore her. She hates that. Another side note, She probably doesn't know this, but many of the MRDD regular hourly workers hate her and loathe her visits with a passion. She visited today and I got a report of people making fun of her and what she was wearing.

So just ignore her and get off these boards. You should have a real life and not be stuck on here all day with the Lunatic Lunch Bunch.

followed a while later by returning old entity:

gusknows (probable OP entity)

As a person who gave NUMEROUS examples of wastes of money and questionable numbers only to basicly be told 'go to a meeting' or 'call and ask' I find it kind of amusing that some of these sme people are now acting like they didnt know that an MRDD levy would just add more money to be wasted.

Just remember Sarah you should always question anyone who yells the loudest or most.

The real harasxlacidar replied with the following:

harasxlacidar (real poster)

Thank you SO MUCH to whoever thinks that they are me!! I'm glad that someone finds me so interesting that they must impersonate me. Sorry to say, you did make a big mistake when flipping your word. You got Sarah right, but you didn't quite get lacidar. There's only one i in lacidar. Nice try.

Nothing from harasxiacidar is from me, but nice try.

To no one's surprise, our pest has responded claiming innocence.

We are supposed to look at this as a "coincidence?"

harasxiacidar (identity thief)

i did not even know of your posting id. mine is my name, Sarah Radica IX. so hopefully that eliminates the confusion here.

Sarah

harasxlacidar (real poster)

I'm glad that comments defending myself are deleted while ones that are slanderous are left up for the world to see.

Thanks CantonRep.com moderators, you're doing such a fine job at doing nothing.

Again, harasxiacidar is NOT me. Nothing that is said by that person is true to what I, harasxLacidar believe or think.

In a sea of bile, real poster harasxlacidar has always been an island of calm, writing constructive non-insulting posts, usually on the subject of MRDD. Now, suddenly, she is the object of the wrath of our multiple personality poster disorderly. Why? We dunno. Maybe her handle is easy to fake. This should put everyone on notice that they may be the object of identity theft at the hands--or should we say tentacles--of our OP. To the best of our memory, this is the third time a name hasa been hijacked. harasxlacidar doesn't deserve this, but then neither do Mary Parer's deceased son and all the others who are tramped on by this cybermonster.

We don't think there is any need of analysis here. Words and actions speak for themselves.

The Rep and Jeff Gauger has been informed and we hope to see the offending posts removed in the morning.

Octopuppet: The Reign of Terror Continues

Octopuppet twanged it's evil tentacles today, posting two vile attacks on Mary Parker and her deceased son. The remarks were removed, but we have archived them. They were posted under the hijacked name: "Marley Don Parker:" Marley Greiner, Don Cerelli, and of course, Ms. Parker.

Under the ironically titled Name Calling Just Encourages Acts of Extremism we find:

Marley Don Parker
my son who was retarded was always called names. now he is gone. i hope to heaven but i am probably wrong.

Marley Don Parker

and even worse, under the thread initiated by Mary Parker's own letter to the editor, Loved Ones of MRDD Clients Didn't Dream So Many Layoffs were Coming:

Aren't those meetings held down there in hell? If so, I prefer not to attend. Why don't you have Darryl attend? Isn't he living nearby? Just a thought!

Marley Don Parker

The comments, heretofore, civil, lively, and informative, were shut down; thus, giving Octopuppet another victory.

We have struggled for a couple hours writing this blog. Our words simply fail. The words of the poster who has stalked Mary Parker for years on the Repository; however, speak for themselves. They are posted here as a public condemnation.

Unlike Mary, Octo has no friends or support. We would like to feel some sympathy for such a damaged, psychopathic soul, but we can't. We trust that "Marley Don Parker," "Levypassed Everyonegetsaraise," "Darryl and Shirley Reddling," "Darrell Parker," "MR Dede" and every other name that Octopuppet has requisioned or invented to harm Mary and her son who was incapable of hurting anyone, are consigned to a place where they will never see the light of day again.

Mary Parker has shown character and grace that few people would under similar circumstances. She wrote her thoughts on these attacks earlier, and they are worth reading again. In part:

My son suffered greatly here on earth. His entire life, from birth to death he was the object of ridicule. To now see him desecrated by ignorant writers in your newspaper is almost more than I can bear. When he died, I thought the snickering, the teasing, the crude remarks were over. Little did I know that people would be allowed to come on your comment section, almost daily, and still degrade him. I never dreamed that the Repository would be used as a vessel to taunt me about my son.

I Hate Canton stands with you, Mary.

UPDATE 1: While we were writing this blog, the following was posted to the "Name Calling" thread." It was removed:

Mort U Wary
I did not see anywhere on here that anyone called anyone else retarded. If it happened, it must have been pulled quickly.

A word of advice, many of the regular posters on here are sick and tired of you always bringing up your dear innocent deceased son in at least half of the threads that you post on. I'd guess I've had to read about him 500 times in tha last year.

PLEASE GIVE IT (and him) A REST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody has close ones die and we don't go around begging or hinting for pity and sympathy on internet chat discussion boards.

Here's another hint - Your chat 'friends' are sick of it too but are too nice to tell you to lay off the constant woah's me boards you post.

So just stop and maybe the trolls who you say follow you around the message boards will stop as well.

Mort U Wary

UPDATE 2: And this just in. Octo continues to exploit children
Mort U Wary
Nine-year old Injured When Van Rolls Over Him
Thankfully the child will be ok. I know a gal who lost her son awhile ago under different circumstances and she still is wailing about it to all who will listen

Mort U Wary

UPDATE 3:
Mort U Wary
Name Calling Just Encourages Acts of Extremism
Homicides are horrible tragedies. But at least the families of these recent incidents are NOT flooding the message boards begging for sympathy and pity. They hold there heads high and move on, while grieving in private. They have class and should be respected by all.

Some of the regular posters on the rep should consider doing this themselves instead of the constant, day after day, week after week, month after month reminders of their loved ones passings.

UPDATE 4
Mort U Wary
LeBron James Moving Camp for Kids from Akron to San Diego
Leave LEBRON alone.

i know a women with a son in the EXACT same situation .

Only diference is that her son never played basketball, never had any kids, didnt have a girlfriend, and is not alive anymore either.

but besides those differences, they are exactly the same.

so that is that and a big shout out to my boyzzzzzzzzzzz at the hate website.

hugs and kisses

xoxoxoxoxo

Rachael

Update: It's Baaacckkkk!!!!!!!!

Last week we had a couple days of relative quiet at the Rep. Our favorite multiple personality poster disorderly was momentarily silent, licking its wounds after diligent Rep staff chopped off some of its busy little fingers

By midweek, though, using a couple of unchopped tentacles ("Tom Dewey" and "Zachary") it returned, taking swipes at former council-at-large candidate and neighborhood activist Cindy Vignos in a moderate (for it) attempt to discredit her. Regrettably, the Rep removed the missives before I Hate Canton got around to archiving them. We do remember, though, that OP referred to Vignos' neighborhood as "sketchy." We were not aware until that post that the Edgefield & Washington Park area had become the arts district. We thought that was downtown. Canton is so confusing.

Other names our MPPD has posted under lately are "princessofthehoodrats" and "Mikey Goldmill." We suspect others.

Leaving no opportunity unturned, our OP has dragged LeBron James into its lunatic vendetta on Mary Parker. This appeared a few hours ago--clearly a veiled but recogizable attack on Ms Parker via her advocacy for the mentally retarded.

Mikey Goldmill
LeBron James Moving Camp for Kids from Akron to San Diego
Don't be so down on LeBron for taking a vacation. You 'people' are unbelieveable. Whats he supposed to do all summer, go down to Eastgate and make cornhole games or something?

We thought Mikey/Mickey died in 1981! We wonder how he likes sharing the bathroom with ""Nathan Jessep," "Theodore Donald Kerabatsos," and "Fawn Leibowitz." We hope he remembers to put the seat down.

Village Idiot of the Day, June 22, 2009" Sourdough Sal, darnlevy

I Hate Canton doesn't even know where to begin with this one: Hitler was a liberal!

Yes, you heard that right! And if you don't believe us, ask "Sourdough Sal" and "darnlevy" who have been reading way too much Jonah Goldberg. In fact, our duo spews out Goldberg's Liberal Fascism nearly verbatim. What next? Lyndon LaRouche?

From comments to Letter: Name Calling Just Encourages Acts of Extremism

SourdoughSal
Excuse me but the Holocaust Museum killer was NOT right wing. He was a christian hater, jew hater and socialist. His next target was a conservative organization! He belongs to you left wingers!

Guys, you did not notice the hate the past eight years? Movies and books about killing Bush? What about now? The article in Playboy that was about Conservative women they would love to hate F---! The class war that has been started by the Left? Give me a small break- you leftists are not only the biggest hate mongers, you are so hypersensitive!

Sourdough Sal
Yes, Hitler was called right wing, but he was not right wing in this country's views. I am currently reading up on Mussolini, Hitler, and Lenin, etc. I see the cult of personality (Obama) and the way they changed their countries (Obama). So gentlemen, I do not have time to go into this now, Fascism, Nazi-ism, and all the other idealologies are more aligned with the Liberal or Progressive parties. The point that I was making is that the holocaust museum killer and nazi's etc are a group that hates Jewish people. Conservatives and republicans are overall Christian and closely aligned with the Jewish people and Israel. We do not hate them, we align with them. Liberal or Progressives align with the terrorists trying to end Israel and the Jewish people.

Here is an excerpt from darnlevy's analysis of Mein Kampf and Hitler. Apparently, darnlevy believes that every "revolutionary" is "leftwing."

darnlevy
About Hitler:

Nazi themes, such as emphasis on the organic (including environmentalism, health food, and exercise), the rejection of rationalism, and most of all the transcending of class can all be placed firmly on the Left that you see and hear about today

Hitler firmly believed he was a revolutionary. Hitlers followers agreed that he was a revolutionary, yet for decades now the Left refuses to see him that way. Todays Left is ever changing (the living constitution, revolutionary in idea and thought) and the Right is said to be the party that holds firm and refutes change. The Left will reject Hitler was a revolutionary because either he was a force for good or revolutions are seriously bad. And yet all the evidence is there. Hitler rejected bourgeoisie, traditionalists, aristocrats, and monarchist.

Further proof to put Hitler in the realm of a revolutionist (left) is that his favorite play was Hanns Johsts Der Konig. In this play a heroic revolutionary meets a tragic end because he is betrayed by reactionaries and the bourgeoisie. Hitler saw this play 17 times. A non-surprising fact, the heroic revolutionary in the play takes his own life.

In Mein Kampf Hitler declares he is a Nationalist (socially for the better of the entire nation, Left) not a Patriot and he believed modern German culture was politically and spiritually corrupt. The country needed to return to its pre-Christian times. (far-Left)(side note: atheist don't go along with the Right)

Looking at one of Hitlers heroes, Dr. Karl Lueger, you will see that Hitler loved a man that led a Social Party. This party was a mix of socialism, populism, and anti-Semitism. This is important to note that Hitler, an anti-Semitist, was learning from a man that was clearly Left...

Let me say that I dont care if Hitler was Left or not. What I do care about is how history gets taught to us in this country. Hitler was evil and he was not Right. Hitler does not make the Left horrible. But, it sure would be nice if the Left would own up to the political spectrum and quit spreading the fallacies of Right wing terrorism. Peace.

Sal and darnlevy are part of the growing army of nincompoops who turn language on its head. African Americans are racists; feminists hate women; liberals hate Jews (conservatives love them they spent decades keeping them out of Ivy League schools, private clubs and exclusive neighborhoods and kept them from marrying their daughters.) Why darnlevy believes that revolutionaries are required to be "leftwing" is a mystery.

We could post more, but frankly, does this deserve any further treatment? At least this morning. Wouldn't you rather just sip your coffee and munch your bagels without this stress?

Without further adieu, I Hate Canton names Sourdough Sal and darnlevy the co-Village Idiots of the Day, June 22, 2008.

Village Idiot of the Day, June 21, 2009: dlarry, badlarry

Even Father's Day is not immune from our Reppie ranters. A Father's Day feature on McKinley High School 's much loved and respected band director Chris McFarren was vandalized.

McFarren's "crime:" being a white man married to a black woman. He and his wife Leatha have three biological sons and recently adopted a daughter from Ethiopia. Their pictures appear with the story. (If the vandalization about anything else, we'd love to know!) Thankfully, comments by "larry" were removed quickly.

dlarry
McKinley Band Director Turns up the Tunes for his Family
i wouldnt want 2 know him from what i see??

followed in quick succession by

badlarry
nice going canton paper just what ppl want 2see on sunday morin

badlarry
unreal 2 have a pics like that on sunday morin

badlarry
shame there notting better 2 put in sunday paper

Hey! We thought racism was dead in Canton! That's what our Reppies tell us.

Hats off to Larry! June 22, 2009 Village Idiot.

"Braxton:" "He should of just killed the woman..."

This does not qualify for a Village Idiot Award. It might qualify as a threat.

According to a comment posted by "Braxton" around 11:00 Saturday night, James Mammone murdered the wrong people. He should have killed his ex-wife Marcia, not his children and former mother-in-law. Marcia Mammone deserved to die.

braxton
Mammone III Pleads Not Guilty to Killing His Children, Ex Mother-in-Law
Mammone killed his kids and mother in law. That was wrong. He should of just killed the woman that was cheating on him. We all know that's the bottom line. The paper said she had a freind with her the day he tried to break in. A freind my butt, how about a lover? If you play with fire, you get burned. In this case a lot of innocent people got burned. What Mammone did was wrong, he just took his anger out on the wrong parties.


UPDATE: The Rep has disabled all comments on this story. One person spoils it again.