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Sometimes stalkers come to my notice. Their actions give them away.

They are sitting there lurking and watching Facebook profiles. Once you know what to look for it is easy to discover them.

Phillipa Sturges…is a friend of mine on Facebook (well not now)..she is only friends with well known people…banal useless profile updates and most importantly easily discoverable photos of other people claimed as their own.

Nineteen mutual friends…Lives in Kaitaia, I think not. Funny ow none of her friends live in Kaitaia.

Take this picture (left) It also happens to be a picture of actress Krista Allen…an uncanny likeness including the same shirt, sunglasses and jewelry.

Tin Eye is such a useful tool:

Profile Picture 1: match

Profile Picture 2: match

Profile Picture 3: match

That is pretty conclusive evidence that Phillipa Sturgess is fake.

Then there is Google Image Search.

Even the photo of her with a bloke is pinched from another site. Only a truly creepy person would find photos and crop them to suit some sort of fantasy existence.

Phillipa Sturges is an inept attempt at lurker. For those people who are my friends who are also friends with this fake tart might I suggest a de-friending. It will either be some Labour tragic or a bunny-boiler psycho bitch that is just days away from making your life miserable.

Yesterday we had a useful discussion about commenting on the blog. Now that the blog is cemented at number one in the NZ blogsphere I think it is time to share some thinking about commenting.

I don’t want to ban people like The Standard, I also don’t want to have to moderate everything like Red Alert. I pretty much want people to discuss issues from all perspectives. I believe in airing opinions and prefer freedom over regulation.

However this is my house and so it is my rules. I don’t tolerate shouty children, I certainly wouldn’t tolerate shouty guests. So don’t do it here.

I had to slap up Phil U a bit, but it is because he is actually a smart guy and we have had a beer or two together that I thought we should discuss it.

The poll gives an indication of the level of frustration, but some regular commenters have swayed my thinking. Phil can stay. My normal rules apply.

However please take this as a guideline for the future…this applies to ALL commenters.

• Stick to the topic of the post.
• Do not comment as though you are writing a blog post…tl;dr pisses me and others off.
• Argue the points raised without resorting to silly name calling.
• I’m trying to lift my game how about lifting yours.
• Where possible try to use your real names. It makes life far more civilised. Criticise Phil all you want but at least he uses his own name.

Let’s see if we can’t improve the number one NZ blog…eh?

UPDATE: There is a “Flag Comment” feature in the commenting system. If something is untoward flag the comment, move on. I will be notified of the flagging and will moderate or not as I see fit. If it gets out of hand then I may need volunteers for comments moderation.

It appears that now Farrar is just a travel blogger I have inherited his trolls. I’m over it. But just so I don’t get accused of being a nasty censoring dictator we shall have a vote.

Do I get rid of the dope smoking, vegan, dog loving dropkick who is fond of over use of ellipsis?

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I binned it because the embed software was causing comments to black hole.

Normal service has resumed.

UPDATE: I have re-posted the poll but with the older software.

Mostly American blogs but some of the ones I read…does that mean I am an amalgamation of the thoughts.

Slackstory explores what your favourite blog says about you.

It’s Mum’s birthday today.

Love you Mum.

Running a blog generates email. Loads of email.

I dealt with a total of 37,967 emails in 2011. You can get a similar email report from Toutapp.

Elections create email.

Emails by the Week: I send more emails in the beginning of the week

Emails by the Day: I send most of my emails between 9PM-10PM

David Farrar and I along with a number of elected councillors and the Mayor are being threatened with physical harm by a commenter at The Standard:

For the record Lynn Prentice, the administrator, issed this Millsy character with a mild rebuke. If you are from the right of centre and place a comment much less offensive than that you can easily be banned and many are. But threats of assault from left wing commentators are met with a mild rebuke from the “sysop”.

I have been assaulted by unionists before, and threatened by them too. This is nothing. I welcome the attention. If Robert Mills of Palmerston North, a long time left wing nutter who has threatened violence wants to lead the attack on me then he can go right ahead. I understand he has the body of a half sucked throatie so shouldn’t be too much of a challenge. He should however give Mark Gosche a call and ask what happens to unionists to assault me.

What I do not welcome though is the defamatory remarks by author James Henderson who alleges that I apparently have a going rate of $10,000 for attacking unions. I think I will let their comments thread run on that one though and see how bad it gets.

This is an interesting development but I think the rate is far too low, especially now with threats of physical harm.

What I want to know is who I send the invoice to?

But it is quite hilarious that a leftwing blog that once attacked me for being a beneficiary is now attacking me for working. Worse it appears they are the ones setting my rates and conditions!

There is no way I’d do what I am doing for $10,000 as a fixed fee, for something like the Ports of Auckland I’d probably do it for $20,000 after a discount for the sheer fun of union bashing. Ask Trevor Mallard he knows my rate for leadership coups is $30,000. But for $10,000? …good grief I’m not some flea blog struggling for traffic.

Here is a list of things I am looking for in 2012:

• A duck pond/swamp/lake/river bend within 2 hours of Auckland for duck shooting season ( I want to build a cool maimai)
• Some good upland game spots within 2 hours of Auckland
• Some land that I can build a little cabin or campsite on…the land must have deer wandering through it periodically.
• Plentiful varmint shooting within 2 hours of Auckland…rabbits, goats, possum, cats
• Some corn or grain fields with a pigeon problem that needs sorting