Not being online 24/7
A few years back, I had no smartphone so a trip out for the day meant a whole day with no internet. I could just about handle this if I was doing something sufficiently interesting, which this day in question was.

During this several-hour period offline, someone I had put on moderation for being a complete twat decided to post to a Yahoo group which got about 5 posts a year at the time. It now gets one, the automated birthday reminder. At the time she had acknowledged it was best to put her on moderation as she said things she sometimes regretted later. However, when posted to the group while I was out for a few hours, not being approved within minutes was not good enough.

At first it was a few angry emails and calls, not generally acceptable behaviour from anyone but this woman had previously shown to obviously have severe mental health problems, despite regular assertions from her that she didn't. When I still didn't approve her message, on the grounds of being many miles from my computer and having better things to do than search Bristol for an internet cafe for her benefit, the calls got more regular and more venomous. At peak they were every couple of minutes, maybe even several a minute, despite having made it very clear I could not approve her message because I had no internet access, I did not want to speak to her, and if she kept this up I would contact the police. She even phoned my parents a few times to complain about my unacceptable behaviour.

In the end I did call the police, even after I had called them and made it clear the only thing she could do now was not make the situation worse, it carried on. They got in touch with her but weren't an awful lot of help because she'd sent me some angry messages telling me to stop harassing her, which unfortunately they took as having some smidgen of face value that she wanted to cut off contact with me rather than being the work of someone with some serious delusions. It helped a bit for a few weeks, then got bad again, and eventually a second police intervention made her fuck off for good. It's a pity that me not being a relative meant there was nothing I could do to make sure she got the help and close supervision she needed.

After she left me alone she did the same thing to several other women (gender-ambiguous username but female). I have no idea where she is now. I really hope at some point she got banned from phone and internet use without supervision from a carer or social worker, for months after this I dreaded the phone ringing because it would probably be more abuse from her.

I can't remember if her message was worth approving. And Yahoo Mail doesn't work on the phone I have now anyway.
(GothicTechie, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 17:49, 4 replies)

I've not seen a post form Janet in a while?

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 9 Jan 2014, 19:15, closed)

Why did she have your parents' phone number?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 20:19, closed)

I was about 17 and living with parents when I first got in touch with her and she hadn't shown her true colours.
(GothicTechie, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 20:25, closed)

having better things to do than search Bristol for an internet cafe not wanting to stop touching dogs on the bumhole for 5 minutes
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 20:36, closed)