Just Following Orders? Nae Excuse!

I have recently received a copy of an email sent by Stevieboy last July.  The member who passed it along assumed that we had already seen it.  Not so.  If others have relevant information that we have not mentioned, please let us know.

When converted to the database time, the email was received at 07:47 am Monday July 19, 2010.

Dear friends, 

I have been asked by Tink to inform you of the situation as it stands right now on the Forum. 
As you might be aware by now, Carlos (Kalua) has resigned as Admin of the site, effective immediately and I and Ross Manarchy (waldog) have also resigned. This is in response to the behaviour by dyebat and Lchris and what is perceived to be an attempt to undermine the Staff. We are also under sustained attack by those member of DJFG's site, who are conspiring to destroy the forum, something they have been trying to do now for many months, even before the recent auction. 

If you wish the bulk of the remaining Staff to remain, then you are requested to say this in the strongest possible terms, for as it stands at the moment, the entire Staff is about to resign en masse.

Thank you,
Graeme

PS Please pass this message on to your friends on the forum, the ones that you can trust!

Tink asked Stevieboy to send the email, so it can be reasonably assumed that she knew what he would say.  I believe that this email further implicates Pickled Tink as one of those coordinating the events of July 2010.

Stevieboy claimed that Dyebat and lchris were trying to undermine staff, but as we have shown, they did no such thing.  They had always expected staff to be in charge, and asked them to return. 

So why had the rumour that Dyebat and lchris wanted to undermine staff been passed around?  Most likely it was the result of their questioning of Kalua’s excessive need for secrecy.  He had refused to provide any identification at all, even though he was to be Director of the Board.  If Dyebat and lchris insisted on it, they had to be discredited.

Stevieboy claimed that the site was “under sustained attack” from DJG members.  We now know that the “sustained attack” had nothing to do with DJG and was done by JudyOkla and Danileo.  But who told Stevieboy that it was the DJGers?

Stevieboy also said that the ”entire Staff is about to resign en masse”.  He asked for members to say if they wanted the staff to remain “in the strongest possible terms”.  This is further confirmation of the ploy by staff to walk out and orchestrate the membership to demand their return.

It is clear that the events of July 18th were coordinated by the several staff members.

It is possible that some of the staff members were unaware that it was a sham and were used by others.  Stevieboy had been trusted by the membership of the forum.  If he knew that that the whole thing was a set-up, it was a betrayal of the forum members.  If he did not know about the activities of JudyOkla and Danileo, it is especially unfortunate that he would be used in this way to spread disinformation.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words.

A brief synopsis of knudt's most recent blogs.....

JudyOkla and Danileo created six new accounts at forum.susan-boyle.com.  They were EvaMarie, kaydaniels (8101), roseym, kaydaniels (8106), Looie and jayme.  They proceeded to give them admin permissions.  Four of the six accounts performed actions as admins on July 18th-20th, including using “access masks” to override forum permissions.

Kaydaniels (8101) was used by JudyOkla on the evening of July 18th.  She moderated posts and modified announcements.

JudyOkla returned to her own account and modified the account of larryF, LonniR’s alter ego. She then edited her own admin permissions as well as those of DocRobbie and lChris.

Danileo logged in as EvaMarie.  The Kaydaniels account was apparently unsatisfactory so EvaMarie 'killed' the account of the first Kaydaniels, removing most (but not all) evidence.

Twelve mins later, JudyOkla switched from her own account to that of roseym.  She performed a variety of actions in the Admin Control Panel before returning to her own account again.

JudyOkla edited the account of 'Nugget' which was another account used by Hulapig.  Then she edited her own admin permissions again.

By 9.12pm, a new (second) account under the name of kaydaniels had been created.  This account was modified and edited by Danileo using the account of EvaMarie. 

JudyOkla edited forum permissions for a variety of threads, using access masks which override other permissions.  This included both Staff room and member threads.  Shortly after 11.00pm, JudyOkla resigned, followed soon after by Danileo.

A mere 10 mins after Danileo resigned, EvaMarie was back on the forum using an IP address of a proxy in Illinois.  EvaMarie edited the account of Looie, another of the newly-created admin accounts.  

EvaMarie returned after midnight on July 19th using yet another proxy, this one in the UK.  EvaMarie altered the record of the original account of Clix Pix.  Then she continued to edit Looie's account.  EvaMarie also edited access masks (permissions) for forum threads.

Then JudyOkla logged in as kaydaniels from her own IP.  She also edited Looie, edited permissions for the Red Room and altered the history for the account of Luz. She also modified/edited the account of jayme.

In the afternoon of July 19th, Danileo logged in as EvaMarie, this time from her own IP, to view the account of a member. 

On July 20th, kaydaniels used the same UK IP that EvaMarie had used, strongly indicating that this IP was a proxy. 

In mid August, JudyOkla and Danileo both admitted to creating new admin accounts but denied using them to change anything.  The evidence suggests otherwise.

One indication that the new admin accounts were not legitimate is the clean up used to hide the evidence.  The first kaydaniels account had been killed.  JudyOkla and Danileo both altered the records of the new admins.  

Pickled Tink viewed the IPs of EvaMarie and Looie, so she was aware of who had used them.  Then she “killed” the accounts.

On July 23rd Pickled Tink checked the IPs used by EvaMarie.  Then she killed that account.  On July 25th, Pickled Tink checked the IP for Looie and then killed that account as well.

A couple of weeks after killing EvaMarie and Looie, Pickled Tink posted the following in the 'Debunking Some Rumours' thread on the forum at SBFII:

"The Investigation in the issues around hacking will be followed through proper channels. We would be  grateful if folk could avoid speculating about “Who done it” as that is counterproductive and actually hinders rather than helps. The fact is that we do NOT know who did what, if anything, at this stage and so speculating and suggesting it might be A, B or C is unhelpful – everyone is innocent until there is evidence and incontrovertible  proof that they are guilty of something."

It appears from the record that Pickled Tink knew far more than she ever admitted.

Facts Are Stubborn Things.

I have prepared a synopsis/summary of relevant points as some readers told us that it would be helpful.  This is the story so far:

No former members were unbanned on July 18th.

No banned members were approved, contrary to the comments made by Pickled Tink in the Board report.

False rumours of forum takeover were spread by staff including LonniR, Waldog and Truus. The cybertroll known as Orgonon/Mark Conner/Walkerd/willson/MaryAnn (et al) was in direct contact with most staff members and told them lies which they believed and acted upon.

LonniR rallied support by perpetuating the lies among certain members.

JudyOkla and Danileo created at least six false identities and attempted to give them Admin powers. They were partially successful. They altered records to hide when the false member accounts were created and when they were given Admin powers.

A new member account was created which Lonnirose used in the name of larryF. This account information was also altered to make it appear that 'he' had joined the forum in 2009. LonniR used this account solely to spread misinformation.

EvaMarie/Danileo logged on to the forum as an Admin. After JudyOkla and Danileo announced their resignations and had apparently left, they continued to work in the Admin Control Panel under false names. EvaMarie/Danileo returned with the same user account, but using two different proxies. A proxy is a way of disguising identity and location when online.  One of these proxies gave a UK location as described in my previous blog.

 

Stay tuned!  Watch this space.....

*Title credited to John Adams.

"Draw the curtain, the fraud is over."

At 8:29 pm, EvaMarie had used the IP address of Danileo. At 11:33 pm, EvaMarie began using the IP address of a known proxy in Woodstock, IL. At 12:18 am on July 19, just 43 minutes later, EvaMarie began using an IP address located in the UK.  There are three possible explanations for that.  She had given the account information to someone in the UK, who had then logged on to the account.  Or she had invented teleportation and could move around the globe with ease.  Or, most likely, that was also a proxy.  (Knudt's blog April 7th)

I want to discuss the fact that EvaMarie (aka Danileo) went to the trouble of using a UK IP at 12.18am on July 19th.  

I feel this is extremely relevant for the following reasons.

We have already established false rumours were circulated, by staff and certain members who had been encouraged by staff, that DJG and his forum members were attempting to take over the forum at susan-boyle.com.

There were also false rumours that a forum I help administrate was involved. On July 18th (the day before) Hulapig had posted in the Transparency thread and hinted that I 'would have a clue' when a member asked who was letting 'banned members' back on to the forum. Knudt has clarified, from the records, that no-one, in fact, was guilty of that.

Danileo/EvaMarie was already using an Illinois proxy. Why change?  What did the second  proxy have that the first didn't?  The answer is a UK IP address.

DJG and I both have UK IP addresses.

Why on earth would Danileo/EvaMarie go to the trouble of using a UK proxy if it were not an attempt to cast suspicion on one of us?

*Title is a quote by Francois Rabelais

The Smear Machine

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims. (Alan Barth)

On 5th August last year, just three weeks after the events of July 18th - 21st, there was a contrived effort on the part of staff and certain 'key players' of SBFII to 'move on' despite the fact that nothing had been resolved as far as determining who had created so much confusion on the forum.  The voices of those who had posted most accusingly in July were heard loudest in August, whilst those members whose names had been smeared were equally as determined that they would not allow the matter to be merely swept under the carpet.  Despite the fact that the party line was to move on, with the general understanding that mistakes had been made on all sides, posts continued to be made by staff members that were inflammatory and that belied acceptance of that premise.  Here is one such example.

LonniR posted the following in a thread started by Pickled Tink entitled, 'Debunking Rumours':

"...Neither Tink nor I resigned until after the hacking and 3 of the new mods never did. That night all the mods were suddently and without warning stripped of our accesses. For a while there we did not know why or what had happened, and then realized we were being inundated with banned members on the forum and were powerless to stop them. I later understood we were locked out for security reasons, but at the time it was as though we had all been fired without notice. It was a very trying situation for everyone involved, but it's all been resolved now and we can move on.

At the time of the July incident, members could join the forum provisionally, subject to moderator approval. No banned members were approved during that period, yet LonniR still perpetuated the rumour and exaggerated the run of events.  Inundated? As a moderator she would have been aware that only three former members had joined, and that none had been approved. 

LonniR claimed that it had 'all been resolved' last August, but had anything been resolved?  Had members discovered the truth about what happened?  Was any retraction made by the Staff or Board of Directors of SBFII regarding the ludicrous claim that 'the DJGers' had planned to take over the forum?  No. The facts had not been uncovered.

Is the truth of what happened then worth any less today than it was then? 

Despite the apparent effort on the part of Staff to persuade members to 'move on', beyond the July events, permission was granted by management to CanadianBill to attack members of another Susan Boyle Fan Site, in the form of his thread entitled "Some Urgent Questions For All".  This information was given to him by Mark Conner/Orgonon (aka the cyber stalker bully.) 

Was the sanctioning of this thread conducive to 'moving on''? 

Now Paulie's forum members and I had become victims of the SBFII smear machine.  The attack against me, personally, was scathing.

The smear machine is the opus operandi by which several members and former members of SBFII (formerly susan-boyle.com) had their characters assassinated either actively or by passive resistance of the administrators.  

The cyber-troll promoted the notion that several forum members, who had had the good fortune to attend Susan's performances several times were stalkers. No firm statement was made to deny or counteract those  allegations by the administrators at SBFII.  Not only were those allegations not denied; they were in at least in one case passed along by Pickled Tink! There is not a shadow of doubt in my mind that the rebuttals should have been immediate and unambiguous.  No such  support was forthcoming from the administration and so these good peoples' names were smeared.  Why?

At the time of the trouble last summer, Danileo inappropriately used her professional nursing experience to lend credibility to her false claim that Dyebat was suffering from dementia.  This unsubstantiated, incorrect and damning diagnosis was perpetuated by Mirrim, and others.  

It was, obviously, a total fabrication that was both erroneous and malicious.

JudyOkla also started making none too subtle references to lchris's state of mind, feigning concern for her well-being within the community.  Every effort was made to suggest that lchris's judgement was impaired through lack of sleep and overwork.  Nothing could have been further from the truth.

Whilst outwardly the impression of 'moving forward together' was promoted by the staff, a very different story was being played out behind the scenes.  The cyber-stalker was still in communication with staff and certain members. He was still believed, despite the fact that the staff themselves recognised him as the pest they had banned on many previous occasions.  Why?

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. (Albert Einstein)