Crap Mariner/Laurence Simon Banned from Posting Here

I finally had to block Crap Mariner from posting on my blog any more because he finally weighed up enough violations on my second rule to push himself over the edge.

My second rule is that you cannot incite or cause me RL or SL damages.

Just endlessly posting shit like this isn't causing me damages, it's just vitriol. Vitriol is allowed. Crap Mariner, Laurence Simon in real life, writes this sort of thing often:

I keep waiting for someone to make an intervention, but you just keep screeching on. I'd say throw out your keyboard, Catherine, but you'd just get a Kinect and gesticulate madly to continue to produce your drivel and harass people. Oh well. -ls/cm

I've you're trying to prove my point that doing business with you is a bad idea, you've succeeded. Here's hoping more people don't make the same mistake. -ls/cm

Practically every day (!) as he blogs obsessively about his diet and exercise intentions and actualities, as he tries to "dancing-as-fast-as-I-can" his way out of what is clearly some form of severe depression. He is constantly trying to camouflage this deep depression and angery by frenetically planning all kinds of SL events and pretending to enjoy all these "real life things" even though real life doesn't hold him very much in fact.

(I've never seen such a candid RL/SL blogger who tells you everything about what he ate every day and how many times his cat pooped and how he cleaned it up, etc. who never, ever, ever, in his life has a single thing to say about his spouse except that...she went to the store once.  Like a year ago. And she might go to the store again with him to pick up a new wedding ring which he is hysterical about because the feeling of a lost ring on his finger is driving him insane. I mean, that's the most creepy thing about him, surely. Never talking about his actual wife. Creepy, creepy.)

In this post, he openly calls on Linden Lab to ban me. That's creepy. Because I haven't done anything to be banned for.

In another outside forums somewhere, he stepped in to write something nasty about me, can't find it right now but I remember thinking "This is really getting more and more creepy."

Criticizing Areal Loonie, for example (still can't recall whose alt this is but it's some old FIC oldbie), isn't bad business, it's good business. My long-time tenant returned today and was relieved I had kept his rental available. As well I should. Areal Loonie is renting it out of spite and malice to goad me, not really to use as she has tons of other land -- she just wants the house and other stuff out of her view. Her literalist bullshit in the face of my patient invocation of rules was obviously what it was: an elaborate troll. So for Crap to claim *I'm* the problem with a poor business practice here is fucking absurd.

When people reach the point where they openly disparage my business, accuse me of poor business practices AND openly call on LL to ban me, then they can't keep posting here. I think it's a pretty fair assessment of systematic and finally egregious violation of my 2nd rule.

The reasons why Crap began so viciously to harass me more than a year ago are obscure. He was formerly a friend who chatted frequently with me in world and came to my events. But he didn't like the fact that I joked once that his robot avatar was getting "Uncanny Valley" precisely because it was taking on a more human view. And something stuck in his gullet about my FIC list, or criticism of people like his ex-partner Eshi, or who the hell knows. It makes no sense. He just started an incessant drumbeat, accusing me of being a slumlord and engaging in poor rental practices, constantly calling me by my RL name to somehow "show Google where to point" or something (*rolls eyes*) -- it's crazy.

He's gotten more and more loony lately, posting long digressions about real life and obsessive and frenetic SL posts -- I'm not going to diagnose over the Internet but I will say this: having Aspberger's or severe depression no more entitles you to be a bully and an asshole than having diabetes or cancer does. If there is a medical reason for your bad behaviour, you don't get an excuse for it.

Here's an idea of how insecure this creature is: he says he's going to send me $10 for every pound he gains back, i.e. the idea of that is so horrible that it will keep him from eating M&Ms and drinking Jack Daniels and Coke, I guess. Or maybe not.

 

Comments

[Adam Smith]

Lunatic says what?

[Disappointed Twitter User]

So does that mean you'll block him on Twitter too? Is this the end of seeing Prof-Crap banter on my feed?

[skylar smythe]

I see a trend. I'm sorry I didnt see it sooner because I am experiencing the same thing.

And for my behaviour before I understood completely? I humbly wholeheartedly apologize to you Catherine. I didn't know...

Lori / Skylar

[Prokofy Neva]

My God, growing in your eyebrows AND seeing the light about Fatty Mariner?! Growing up is a great thing... but did the Rustbucket turn on you?

He remains banned here, he continues to write heckling posts about me all over and has lied about me in the past. It reached the tipping point with him, I put up with a lot of abuse but when people start printing lies, i.e. that I'm a grasping greedy landlord or starts propagandizing that I'm going leave SL over LL's failure to instantly remove "agepayers," based on a fake imposter post here, he stays banned.

[Skylar Smythe]

Yeah :) I took your advice on the eyebrow thing. It's a bitch to try to do it without having them look messy for the office.

But I did say a few times that you were right about the eyebrows :)

Yep. He did. For no reason either. He had a couple major verbally assaulting freak outs on me in a single week and I decided ... that living in Edloe was more like living in a mafia. Packed up my house without an argument and left four days before tier was due but I really didn't want to stay.

I had the opportunity for over a year to a free home with my employer in Second Life but had opted to stay close to a couple friends who were living in the five islands. It was nice for awhile... although not particularly private when I wanted it to be. Not a good fit for a gal that likes to snuggle.

Apparently WE LEAVE YOU but YOU DONT LEAVE US mentality exists with some five islanders.

I thought it best to just move somewhere I felt more comfortable. Said nothing. Just left.

Had a brief hoo hah with him.. then silence for months. In the last two weeks he's been at me relentlessly. It coincides with me announcing a show Im excited about and some in world subcontracting opportunities.

Im about the biz... and earning additional income freelancing. I'm not about the SLebrity stuff... it doesn't pay my bills. And there is a sense of "been there done that" now.... a hell of a lot of energy poured into projects that I couldn't put on my CV. Sadly when you say "Second Life" most offline employers make assumptions that lose you contracts.

So I've focused on the tangibles. And some volunteering in SL (going to do the crazy thing of running another module to train freelance writers to earn income from home). I think there are a lot of folks that could benefit from that.

And a fun project with Kit Guardian. Me giving dating advice is going to be hilarious! I've been offered a show (to do it for free) in the past but didn't have the time to. I still don't but I'm willing to do some episodes on this project because I think it will be quality and good fun.

When I read his posts about you and the back and forth ... yeah. It does ring a bell. As does the way he treated Eshi.

Trending.

But I've reached my max bandwidth with him too. He's never done anything substantial for me. He doesn't matter to me. But knowing him as I do... I do feel empathy for him for a variety of reasons I will never share.

But he needs to learn to create without duress. Some folks can only write in angst. I think he's one of them.

I've made many apologies to you in my blog and in Twitter over the last five months. I hope you got some of them.

I understand you (and the circumstance) now with clarity.

Good luck in your ventures Catharine. You never were the bad guy people liked to paint you. You were quite possibly the most honest person on the grid.

xo
Skylar

[Prokofy Neva]

A lot of posts got stuck in the spam filter for reasons that are mysterious, but weren't visible because there were a deluge of commercial spams.

As for Crap, that's a good way of describing it -- you run out of bandwidth.

I didn't realize he was running a cult of five islands. I always thought everything was wonderful there.