Started out wondering if Lin was going to be wrongly accused but this hit closer to home that I expected. First off Lin appears to be a POS but what hit me was this line:
> While each of these incidents in isolation may appear relatively harmless, the cumulative effect of this behavior is both harassing and indicative of a significant attachment, disproportionate to the amount of time they spent together.
Specifically the first part "While each of these incidents in isolation may appear relatively harmless". I've had friends harassed online and when you try to explain to law enforcement it sounds petty or minor but I've seen first hand it weigh on my friends who have experienced it.
Services like TextNow and Pinger and amazing tools for someone looking to make someones life a living hell. I've still got screenshots of PAGES of new text messages (from different numbers) all from some asshole who has nothing better to do than harass people.
In my situation I had finally had enough and thew up a webpage explaining how to block ALL TextNow/Pinger numbers and calling out the individual in question (trust me this was done tastefully and with tact) then ran Ads on FB to raise awareness in my community. Turns out way more people that just my immediate friends had been affected by this toxic individual (I had a number of people reach out to me). I spent $40 on ads for 67 clicks, 1,465 reach, and 37,454 impressions. It was worth every penny. I'm not going to say this will work for you OR that it worked for me (the harassment stopped but, you know causation/correlation and all that) but I know I would do it again in a heartbeat.
It's important to note the police were next to useless for this entire saga. I'm not sure what percentage was apathy vs a lack of skills but yeah...
That's amazing!
Last year I was desperate for extra work, and met a guy hiring programmers on Craigslist. I ran his name and found a website from a guy saying never do business with him, that he doctored financial documents and was a liar. It was kind-of a crazy site, so I met with the liar anyway, and he brought it up pretty quickly, saying it was an old neighbor and that he's crazy. I went to work for him, but he kept bringing it up, wondering how he could get the site taken down (queue me trying to explain slander and him saying "there's gotta be another way!"), until one day he was exploded with a "I could go over to his house and fucking kill him!".
I already had a new job lined up at that point, so I just left my key on the desk and never came back. I still wonder if I should email the guy that made the website just to let him know how much it gets under his enemy's skin.