people (he especially liked to target the mothers of dead babies and toddlers). This loathsome little toad, who begged and pleaded with me and offered to rat on all the rest of the trolls so as not to be exposed, was only saved from appearing in the newspaper by the very skin of his teeth (and certainly not because of his pleading). Nevertheless, it all caused him some severe mental and emotional anguish and fear in his real life, something that made me so very, very happy.
A blackness followed me through the days ahead as I delved deeper and deeper into their dark pool. I wanted to find out the identities of all of them and expose them to their families, to their victims, to the world. I trawled through as many of their open profiles as I could, searching for little clues as to their real-life details. After a couple of days I was eventually then able to get the real info - or ‘dox’ * - on a troll who was using the name and photograph of the actor Steven Buscemi. I was led to his real-life account after seeing an old posting he had made on a female troll’s wall about how he had started out by trolling with his real Facebook profile on a page about a restaurant, which he helpfully named. He was a 19-year-old from Minnesota with the initials CS and he had been very active in the Megan Moore trolling, even sending out a ‘troll alert’ as he called it for other trolls to come and desecrate the page. Finding his real profile on that named page I then fooled my way onto it via the use of a fake account of my own, and after satisfying myself that he was the troll I took all of his details - from his small town to his two email addresses - and made a page outing him as someone who happily boasts of his sexual appetite for children. The link to my open page I then spammed all over any Facebook group I could find related to his home town. Maybe he has a real sexual appetite for children, maybe he doesn’t. But that’s what he claimed on the countless RIP pages he attacked, and if it was a joke then I wasn’t laughing. I didn’t label him as a paedophile, just simply crucified him with his own nails. Let the cunt explain his ‘jokes’ to those who know him in real life.
* Internet slang for finding the real name, location, picture, and other such personal details of an up-until-then anonymous citizen of the Web, and derived from an incident in which a hacker placed someone’s private documents - or ’docs’ - onto 4Chan
So I had found myself acting as some sort of online vigilante on his own stupid crusade. Part of why I was doing this was to visit some sort of retribution onto the heads of the guilty, part of it was to show the other trolls that it could come into their real lives. But mostly it was to vent my intense hatred of what they were doing.
Someone linked my page to the trolls and they subsequently flooded it with bleating and complaints, leading soon to warnings and threats. CS himself came on from his real and troll accounts to admit he was the troll, but expressing outrage that I was misrepresenting his comedy genius. Unbelievably, after all they had done and were doing, I got a sense from them that they were genuinely feeling that they were being picked on by me, that one of their number was having a terrible injustice done to him. This was a baffling pattern that I was to see again and again from these shameless little entities, something which must betray real personality disorders and the sense of completely skewed realities. After my doxing of Sean Duffy I had messaged many of his friends on Facebook and told them about what he was doing. This, I later learned, led to him actually contacting the police and a team of solicitors to make a complaint about me, telling them that an awful online bully was causing him to become suicidal. * My mind was completely blown.
* But not suicidal enough in my opinion
The trolls here were threatening me with something called