Have you ever been investigated for something you've said or done here on DailyKOS? Well, I have. It's not really a big deal for me as I post under my own name and everything the "investigators" turned up was public record anyway - one of the benefits of not being anonymous and having nothing to hide. For your reading amusement, follow me beyond the fold.
I consider myself a progressive but one with a libertarian streak a mile wide and even deeper. It is my philosophy that, in theory, no comments should be "hide-rated." Now, in practice, of course, I realize that is not entirely practicable. When I have come across a comment being "HRed," rightly or wrongly, I have taken it upon myself to uprate comments that I honestly believed did not meet the site standards for hide-rating. Apparently some people here are highly offended at this practice.
At any rate, over the last couple of days, I uprated some comments and got into a mild, mostly comical (from my standpoint) tete-a-tete with some fellow Kossacks. Yesterday, however, after I uprated David Sirota who responded appropriately, in my opinion, and of course, we all know what opinions are like, to unwarranted attacks upon a diary he had written regarding his future professional plans, the objectors to my action became somewhat more virulent but still comical from my viewpoint. It got to the point that one of the site contributing editors stepped in and put me in my place. C'est la vie. I do enjoy a good tussle.
This morning, an interesting website came to my attention and I thought I would check it out. Here is the link to the website. It seems that the website was started back in early September by a fellow Kossack who I'll leave nameless for the time being.
I started reading diaries and comments on the website. It was very interesting. It appeared to me that some Kossacks were coordinating their DailyKOS "site moderation" activities on this website. Based on previous observation, I thought this might be happening but it was informative to see it in action. The founder of the site did not use the same handle that he uses here on DailyKOS but some of the participants did.
So, as I was reading through the diaries and comments I came to the following exchange, reproduced here in its entirety:
Funny uprates by George Gould there. (4.00 / 2)
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by: ugog @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 12:22:15 PM CST
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I think that's dave: (4.00 / 2)
http://www.dailykos.com/
The use of "voila" is not accidental.
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by: ugog @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 12:24:47 PM CST
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doesn't have to be dave for that (4.00 / 2)
any of the FSZers with a pathological interest could have done it and the uid is in the 128 Ks.
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by: trashablanca @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 12:54:27 PM CST
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Yup, I spoke too soon. (4.00 / 2)
I'm starting to see dave everywhere.
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by: ugog @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 12:59:00 PM CST
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whomever GG is, (4.00 / 2)
it seems he has had no prior contact with any of us, and now suddenly is deeply hooked up to all the meta.
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by: condo @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 13:02:59 PM CST
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I didn't think (4.00 / 2)
this one was funny.
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by: condo @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 12:26:02 PM CST
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George Gould: (4.00 / 2)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/
The email addy and bio match too.
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by: ugog @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 13:05:44 PM CST
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George Clavel Gould (4.00 / 2)
his Flickr page
seems legit, actually...comments go back a ways.
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by: condo @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 13:18:39 PM CST
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his (4.00 / 2)
bidniss
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by: condo @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 13:20:47 PM CST
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Yeah, I'm arriving at the belief that he is who he says he is. (4.00 / 2)
1949
Jul 4, 1949 - She was married to Hugh Veley Gould on 4 Jul 1949. Children were: George Clavell Gould, Sandra Jean Gould, Kathleen Marie Gould, Heather Ann Gould. bullet Brannen She was married to Thomas O'Leary.
There's more on him than most folks. He's still an asshole however.
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by: ugog @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 13:26:17 PM CST
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Hmm... my fellow Kossacks had conducted an investigation of yours truly.
When I confronted the founder of this website about this he justified his investigation of me with the following:
Your participation in yesterday's thread was contextually suspect. There have been a couple of people who have claimed real identities that weren't really them lately. The "investigation" wasn't done to out you nor was it used to do so but to see if your self description held up. You gave your frikking DOB fer crissakes, if that's not an invitation to look I don't know what is. If you like I will delete that subthread although the benefits of doing so are somewhat diluted by your posting it here.
Now, like I said, by posting in my own name and having nothing to hide I am immune to activities like this. How about you? I just thought you should know.
UPDATE: The following links are to articles I wrote at LewRockwell.com (referenced on the website above)
(NOTE: While they were written for a libertarian site, I don't think you'll find too much to complain about other than at the time I wrote them I was supporting Ron Paul for President for his anti-war, mostly pro-civil liberties position (I disagree with him on choice and found some of the racist writngs in his earlier newsletters disturbing))
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