Ignoring injunctions
An email landed in my Inbox yesterday.
This in turn landed a somewhat onerous task on my lap.
As some of you may be aware, I had the privilege of restoring Anna Raccoon’s site a while back. This involved combining multiple files from multiple sources into one coherent form. It was reasonably successful and I would estimate that I got the vast majority back in readable form.
As websites go, it’s a quiet little backwater with visitors in the double figures each day. It’s not the busiest site in my little nest but it’s not the quietest either. I’m glad that people are reading it and that Anna’s work still lives.
The email yesterday was from some legal crowd in the UK and was about Anna Raccoon.
It appears that some nasty little troll has been up in court, or rather one of his victims; I’m not quite sure which. Anyhows an injunction has been obtained and all the Troll’s work has to be removed. And that’s where Anna becomes involved as he was somewhat active on her site.
The problem is simple. Or rather it’s very complicated, depending on which way you look at it.
The simple view is to go in and delete all the Troll’s comments.
The complicated view is that there are thousands of files where each has to be searched and paragraphs of coding removed without disturbing the surrounding code, as comments [contrary to appearance] are now actually embedded in each post.
On the other hand, I have a deep antipathy towards Trolls and hate to see them get away with anything. I have a nasty feeling my conscience is getting the better of me.
This is going to take awhile as our Troll friend was prolific in the extreme.
I’ll be back.
Go on, tell us who it was. Wonder if his moniker starts with D.
Heh! No. [I know who you mean]. I have written back asking for some clarification.
In the meantime I have fucked up the site….. 🙁
Am I right? If you bung it in the Cloud deleting things is pointless. But I may be wrong.
What you did with Ms Raccoon’s site was heroic.
It is pointless, as the Anna Raccoon Project showed. The new site was created after the old site was deleted and after the hosting provider had deleted all their backups. The information will invariably be out there somewhere, the only difference bing that it’s not so readily found.
Well! To me a total ignoramus that is amazing. I suppose this is the area the police comb for anything they need to catch you. Cripes.
Jurisdiction?
I did make them aware of that fact and that I wasn’t obliged to do anything, but I don’t like trolls so am happy to so the work.
*phew* for a minute there I was worried your liver had finally given out and as you went down your fingers brushed against the Big Red Button on your desk.
I don’t have a Big Red Button. I have a Black one if that’s any help?