Post by distantlight on Jun 13, 2008 0:16:28 GMT -5
He spends all of his free time on the internet, bringing grief to other 'netizens' in various ways.
Nobody knows the origin of this demon, what he looks like, or, for example, what he eats. All that is known is that he has been doing this for a long, long time - since very early in the days of the net.
Back then, you could find him on Geocities, where he kept setting up webpages for people that really exist. These may be people he knew in real life, like that bastard she was now dating, or the Filipino calculus professor Roy. They could also be people that he didn't know at all. He was in utter bliss when some idiots went and made a 'genealogy' webpage, from which he could harvest names of entire families.
The webpages would mock their subjects explicitly and subtly, including embarrassing and most inventive facts about their faces, their physical forms, their characters, jobs, and such. Some sites would be depicted as 'revenge' sites, where the subject is venting out about particular people in their lives, such as their bosses or mothers. This kind of site was a sort of double bonus for the demon. Invariably, every site would somehow link the subject to the act of seeking, or purchasing such livestock as goats, chickens or ponies for sexual purposes.
He would also frequently post to newsgroups, where various tools were at his dispense. A favorite was to 'Godwin' discussions by claiming that one of the participants was spawn of Nazi issue, and that this was the only reason their opinions were as they expressed. When the accused denied - for example, explaining that he was Chinese - he would accuse them of having ancestry with Mao. Another method he enjoyed was to attach pictures of dead insects to empty messages and post them on religion groups. He would then count the number of people who tried to be informative and tell him that such material must be posted at alt.binary instead, and the speed by which such responses arrived.
You could also find him on IRC, where he would often enter rooms and start using the '/me' command to kick random people in the groin. Also, he would open multiple IRC clients and join as two different people. The demon would then play 'good cop, bad cop' with innocent netizens. One time, there was this channel with all these guys and just one girl - the 'Net Griefer went in and started complaining that he had vision problems and about how horrible it was that computer manufacturers didn't support individuals with impairments. This was greeted by the usual comments of consolation and empathy, until, whenever one of the guys in the channel said something, the 'Net Griefer would correlate it with his 'vision problem'. "Well, you see, I think you said something about the pollution in Arizona, but I just can't tell, you see, because my eyes are all messed up, and it is so blurry." Naturally, the guys soon got irritated, and started telling him to 'piss off' or 'go somewhere else'. The saccharine in this investment, for the 'Net Griefer, was when the single girl in the channel started standing up for him, saying, "No, no, cool it guys. He's sweet, he's sweet."
All of that, of course, was before the 'Net became totally corporate and started being peopled by assholes at jobs. The demon found himself evolving into something much larger, more creeping and insidious.
Today, you cannot come across a comment section at CNN.com or news.BBC.co.uk where his mark has not been left. Not only does he grief the non-internet savvy users of such big sites (people like your grandmother that you helped to bring online), but he also brings grief to the drones in charge of moderating the sites. Often he will set moderators from one site (e.g. CNN) up against moderators from competitors (e.g. BBC). Like the time his comment on CNN about how 'Pat Tillman was a greater sacrifice than 1000 British soldiers' incited a riot at the BBC.
He is also frequently on World of Warcraft, where he will stand in front of other characters and try to 'stick' to them while they do such important things as harvest gold, or fight an enemy. But the demon's favorite technique is to join 'clans' for days, building their trust and companionship, and then, in the middle of an extremely important quest, suddenly run amok and kill everyone else.
Nobody knows the origin of this demon, what he looks like, or, for example, what he eats. All that is known is that he has been doing this for a long, long time - since very early in the days of the net.
Back then, you could find him on Geocities, where he kept setting up webpages for people that really exist. These may be people he knew in real life, like that bastard she was now dating, or the Filipino calculus professor Roy. They could also be people that he didn't know at all. He was in utter bliss when some idiots went and made a 'genealogy' webpage, from which he could harvest names of entire families.
The webpages would mock their subjects explicitly and subtly, including embarrassing and most inventive facts about their faces, their physical forms, their characters, jobs, and such. Some sites would be depicted as 'revenge' sites, where the subject is venting out about particular people in their lives, such as their bosses or mothers. This kind of site was a sort of double bonus for the demon. Invariably, every site would somehow link the subject to the act of seeking, or purchasing such livestock as goats, chickens or ponies for sexual purposes.
He would also frequently post to newsgroups, where various tools were at his dispense. A favorite was to 'Godwin' discussions by claiming that one of the participants was spawn of Nazi issue, and that this was the only reason their opinions were as they expressed. When the accused denied - for example, explaining that he was Chinese - he would accuse them of having ancestry with Mao. Another method he enjoyed was to attach pictures of dead insects to empty messages and post them on religion groups. He would then count the number of people who tried to be informative and tell him that such material must be posted at alt.binary instead, and the speed by which such responses arrived.
You could also find him on IRC, where he would often enter rooms and start using the '/me' command to kick random people in the groin. Also, he would open multiple IRC clients and join as two different people. The demon would then play 'good cop, bad cop' with innocent netizens. One time, there was this channel with all these guys and just one girl - the 'Net Griefer went in and started complaining that he had vision problems and about how horrible it was that computer manufacturers didn't support individuals with impairments. This was greeted by the usual comments of consolation and empathy, until, whenever one of the guys in the channel said something, the 'Net Griefer would correlate it with his 'vision problem'. "Well, you see, I think you said something about the pollution in Arizona, but I just can't tell, you see, because my eyes are all messed up, and it is so blurry." Naturally, the guys soon got irritated, and started telling him to 'piss off' or 'go somewhere else'. The saccharine in this investment, for the 'Net Griefer, was when the single girl in the channel started standing up for him, saying, "No, no, cool it guys. He's sweet, he's sweet."
All of that, of course, was before the 'Net became totally corporate and started being peopled by assholes at jobs. The demon found himself evolving into something much larger, more creeping and insidious.
Today, you cannot come across a comment section at CNN.com or news.BBC.co.uk where his mark has not been left. Not only does he grief the non-internet savvy users of such big sites (people like your grandmother that you helped to bring online), but he also brings grief to the drones in charge of moderating the sites. Often he will set moderators from one site (e.g. CNN) up against moderators from competitors (e.g. BBC). Like the time his comment on CNN about how 'Pat Tillman was a greater sacrifice than 1000 British soldiers' incited a riot at the BBC.
He is also frequently on World of Warcraft, where he will stand in front of other characters and try to 'stick' to them while they do such important things as harvest gold, or fight an enemy. But the demon's favorite technique is to join 'clans' for days, building their trust and companionship, and then, in the middle of an extremely important quest, suddenly run amok and kill everyone else.