Neighbor to neighbor.
I came on TOTV in July of 2007 looking for a new place to vent about frustrations with my project about making practical resources for victims/survivors of crimes more accessible which a Villages Daily Sun reporter Gary Corsair covered to a very limited extent and with many errors and omissions back on May 28, 2007 in the Neighbor to Neighbor section. We had already been living in the Villages for two years by then having moved here in late June of 2005.
I had tried Findlaw's boards which the Sysop (Systems Operator) had told me was a very good venue for this Project (around 2001 through 2005)when I first started in 2001 or so but I soon attracted one of the nastiest and cleverest trolls who frequently made extremely sophomoric posts. He posted to pretty much everything I did with personal attacks going after every from my sex life, personal and family's safety, mental health, and anything else he could come up with to harass, annoy, and irritate me. This went on for four years or so. The troll turned out to be a defendant in a white collar crime case in Chesterfield County, Virginia who was very angry with me and others on Findlaw's boards who would not supply him with the court cases he needed to argue his case which it sounded like he was doing on his own (i.e. without a lawyer). He was very friendly with his regular account but would post with a new alias and use it to make extremely outrageous comments. It did take me years to figure out his Mr. Hyde split personality like online. Probably to the entertainment of many people. And, very much a huge headache to the Findlaw sysop who had to look for a myriad of aliases probably posted from various places.
I try not to bore people too much with this project and only mention it on occasion on TOTV. It is very important to me. Leveling the playing field for survivors/victims of crimes, defendants who may be innocent, etc. seems to me to be something that the Founding Fathers would have strongly agreed with as they were often self-made men who needed all the access to practical information they could get. Their survival often depended on it.
Neighbor to neighbor though is a good description of my feelings towards TOTV. I post on a variety of topics and value the opinions of others-- as long as they are thoughtfully presented with a certain degree of courtesy and maturity. Hate it when it becomes something you might find a on junior high school bathroom wall as it often did (and does) on various other web-sites.
And I am not competing with others to see who can make the most posts, get in the last word, or whatever.
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