Setting the Record Straight - This is the real SGW
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:37 pm
I am not a sock puppet, I am not here to chastize, to condemn, nor to be a party to any form of name calling.
I came here to set the record straight.
Polygamy porter had acquired photographs of myself and my family and published them here - after he had sent me a friend request.
I inadvertantly accepted it thinking he/she was someone from a different group on Facebook.
When I had checked my wordpress dashboard, I found a link that came from Mormon Discussions. That lead me to the thread where I discovered the Original post about the Journal of Mormon Apologetic Research Studies that I am still working on developing.
Then it went on about me having written erotica.
Did I at one time write erotica? Yes, at the ocean was not the only erotica piece. I wrote five Erotica pieces that had at one time been on my writerscafe.org profile. I actually had (over the past year) removed those content from wherever they are posted.
I have not posted anything recently, however do hop on over to the writingforums.com where much of my threads there can be viewed and some of the comments on my writing. Yes, my writing is atrocious at times and I still work on it.
Do I regret writing erotica? No, however, I do not find it conducive because that seems to be where many young people are going with the LuLu and POD publishing backgrounds.
One individual posted a link to a myspace profile that I have not logged into for so long - in fact, have forgotten that I had a myspace page. Yes, at one time I was wanting to write hardboiled detective stories that pushed the envelop with a bit of erotica in them.
A Lost Kitten Found
The Dame that was not
Dance on my grave one more time
There is a host of other titles where I have half-written story lines.
As for the photo, yes it is copyrighted because it was included with a press release package back in 2006 and was supposed to be included on the back cover of the published novel Mourning Ellyn. However, the publishing company went into the tank and you can read about that here http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/sho ... Publishing
Here is what happened with the work: It was supposed to have been filed with the Copyright office by the publisher (I refused to pay the 45.00 copyright registration fee because legitimate publishers are supposed to file those on their own and out of their own expense and not charge the authors). The person who took over the new publishing business decided to charge authors for it.
In short, I ended up having 30 books sent back to me (which I had to buy from the publisher and lost money on that). I have only three copies of it left. I am still paying people how had purchased the work and never received the copy.
The picture was supposed to have been included with the Author Bio, and that never made it into the Book. I found out that the individual had five different printers she owed money too and it was one big mess all around for many people. In fact, she ultimately had a work published that used some of my original writings in a book called Internet Fatal Error.
As for the picture, yes it is copyrighted, and will be officially filed when I finish producing a newer novel of Mourning Ellyn. As to when and what time, not sure.
Concerning the DMCA Take Down notice - I have investigated this and sending one to Dr. Shades and Dreamhost was not the first DMCA Take down notice. In fact, I had found my writing online by others who had taken my work and had to submit DMCA take Down notices for those works as well. One was for my question - my being that was stolen and published as a teen angst prose.
Now, as for the Board being shut down, I have communicated with Dr. Shades that it was not my sole intention of having the board taken down. The sole intention was to have the images removed or blocked from public view. As to not informing Dr. Shades, I actually did.
In fact, I sent Dr. Shades and Dream host the same email at the same time. The first one was through permissions that one can establish in outlook. Both Dr. Shades and Dreamhost sent me a response back that they could not open up the email, or the attachment and requested to have the email recent without permissions.
So, I complied and the email were sent out.
Hours later, I came back to see if the photos were down and discovered that the entire board was shut down. That was when I posted over at MD&D. It was not my intention to start a board war.
Hindsight and lesson learned - contact Dr. Shades before going to the webhosting company.
As for the actions of Polygamy porter, because of him posting photos of my family and of myself, it has generated alot of mail that threatened my life and my families life. My wife and I started becoming the center for cyberbullying and attacks.
Bilxia - my apologies because I did misinterpret the Oujia Board and for that, I do apologize.
Because of this action, we contacted a friend of ours who is a police officer and he advised that we contact our attorney.
I contacted our attorney and asked what could be done if anything to prevent the harassment, cyber stalking and the bullying from happening.
After our attorney looked at the information, he advised me to send a DMCA take down notice.
Since I could not go for libel, harassment, or bullying the copyright infringement was the course of action we were to take.
Since then, this heightened the bullying (my wife suffers from depression by the way) and has caused some serious conflicts in our marriage because of the action some individuals have taken upon themselves and how they conducted themselves.
I am sure that most of you with family would become angry if you suddenly open up your emails or Facebook messages and there is a message that says "You are a disgusting pedophile and you should go out and hang yourself".
Kevin Graham, calling me a pedophile is uncalled for and if that is how you view me then that is your perogative. Maybe you were the one that sent that message, I don't know.
The point of this is that people took the ridicule and mockery way too far and engaged in unethical behaviors that are actually illegal. Those people, sadly were being defended and praised.
If you want to call me a douche-waffle, an asshat, ignorant, make fun of my writing, make fun of my mustache (by the way, got a chuckle on the wanna mustache-ride; and you folks are not the first to say I look like Ron Jeremy because I used to get called Little Ronny at my previous employment by my fellow co-workers).
I can take the ridicule, but when it comes to attacking my family and hate mails that we have received, the line has been crossed and I will protect myself and my family from those childish buffoon's who can't grow up.
In the end, I have learned there were some mistakes I have made on my part and for that, I am sorry. However, I did what any sane person would have most likely done if they were in my shoes and began to receive such vile attacks.
So, in light of this, I ask that we just get past this. What is done is done. There is no reason to beat the dead horse into China.
I apologize to those of you that were affected by my actions and it was not my honest attempt to get the board shut down, my attempt was to have the pictures removed and to find a way to put an end to the cyberbullying.
I came here to set the record straight.
Polygamy porter had acquired photographs of myself and my family and published them here - after he had sent me a friend request.
I inadvertantly accepted it thinking he/she was someone from a different group on Facebook.
When I had checked my wordpress dashboard, I found a link that came from Mormon Discussions. That lead me to the thread where I discovered the Original post about the Journal of Mormon Apologetic Research Studies that I am still working on developing.
Then it went on about me having written erotica.
Did I at one time write erotica? Yes, at the ocean was not the only erotica piece. I wrote five Erotica pieces that had at one time been on my writerscafe.org profile. I actually had (over the past year) removed those content from wherever they are posted.
I have not posted anything recently, however do hop on over to the writingforums.com where much of my threads there can be viewed and some of the comments on my writing. Yes, my writing is atrocious at times and I still work on it.
Do I regret writing erotica? No, however, I do not find it conducive because that seems to be where many young people are going with the LuLu and POD publishing backgrounds.
One individual posted a link to a myspace profile that I have not logged into for so long - in fact, have forgotten that I had a myspace page. Yes, at one time I was wanting to write hardboiled detective stories that pushed the envelop with a bit of erotica in them.
A Lost Kitten Found
The Dame that was not
Dance on my grave one more time
There is a host of other titles where I have half-written story lines.
As for the photo, yes it is copyrighted because it was included with a press release package back in 2006 and was supposed to be included on the back cover of the published novel Mourning Ellyn. However, the publishing company went into the tank and you can read about that here http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/sho ... Publishing
Here is what happened with the work: It was supposed to have been filed with the Copyright office by the publisher (I refused to pay the 45.00 copyright registration fee because legitimate publishers are supposed to file those on their own and out of their own expense and not charge the authors). The person who took over the new publishing business decided to charge authors for it.
In short, I ended up having 30 books sent back to me (which I had to buy from the publisher and lost money on that). I have only three copies of it left. I am still paying people how had purchased the work and never received the copy.
The picture was supposed to have been included with the Author Bio, and that never made it into the Book. I found out that the individual had five different printers she owed money too and it was one big mess all around for many people. In fact, she ultimately had a work published that used some of my original writings in a book called Internet Fatal Error.
As for the picture, yes it is copyrighted, and will be officially filed when I finish producing a newer novel of Mourning Ellyn. As to when and what time, not sure.
Concerning the DMCA Take Down notice - I have investigated this and sending one to Dr. Shades and Dreamhost was not the first DMCA Take down notice. In fact, I had found my writing online by others who had taken my work and had to submit DMCA take Down notices for those works as well. One was for my question - my being that was stolen and published as a teen angst prose.
Now, as for the Board being shut down, I have communicated with Dr. Shades that it was not my sole intention of having the board taken down. The sole intention was to have the images removed or blocked from public view. As to not informing Dr. Shades, I actually did.
In fact, I sent Dr. Shades and Dream host the same email at the same time. The first one was through permissions that one can establish in outlook. Both Dr. Shades and Dreamhost sent me a response back that they could not open up the email, or the attachment and requested to have the email recent without permissions.
So, I complied and the email were sent out.
Hours later, I came back to see if the photos were down and discovered that the entire board was shut down. That was when I posted over at MD&D. It was not my intention to start a board war.
Hindsight and lesson learned - contact Dr. Shades before going to the webhosting company.
As for the actions of Polygamy porter, because of him posting photos of my family and of myself, it has generated alot of mail that threatened my life and my families life. My wife and I started becoming the center for cyberbullying and attacks.
Bilxia - my apologies because I did misinterpret the Oujia Board and for that, I do apologize.
Because of this action, we contacted a friend of ours who is a police officer and he advised that we contact our attorney.
I contacted our attorney and asked what could be done if anything to prevent the harassment, cyber stalking and the bullying from happening.
After our attorney looked at the information, he advised me to send a DMCA take down notice.
Since I could not go for libel, harassment, or bullying the copyright infringement was the course of action we were to take.
Since then, this heightened the bullying (my wife suffers from depression by the way) and has caused some serious conflicts in our marriage because of the action some individuals have taken upon themselves and how they conducted themselves.
I am sure that most of you with family would become angry if you suddenly open up your emails or Facebook messages and there is a message that says "You are a disgusting pedophile and you should go out and hang yourself".
Kevin Graham, calling me a pedophile is uncalled for and if that is how you view me then that is your perogative. Maybe you were the one that sent that message, I don't know.
The point of this is that people took the ridicule and mockery way too far and engaged in unethical behaviors that are actually illegal. Those people, sadly were being defended and praised.
If you want to call me a douche-waffle, an asshat, ignorant, make fun of my writing, make fun of my mustache (by the way, got a chuckle on the wanna mustache-ride; and you folks are not the first to say I look like Ron Jeremy because I used to get called Little Ronny at my previous employment by my fellow co-workers).
I can take the ridicule, but when it comes to attacking my family and hate mails that we have received, the line has been crossed and I will protect myself and my family from those childish buffoon's who can't grow up.
In the end, I have learned there were some mistakes I have made on my part and for that, I am sorry. However, I did what any sane person would have most likely done if they were in my shoes and began to receive such vile attacks.
So, in light of this, I ask that we just get past this. What is done is done. There is no reason to beat the dead horse into China.
I apologize to those of you that were affected by my actions and it was not my honest attempt to get the board shut down, my attempt was to have the pictures removed and to find a way to put an end to the cyberbullying.