Loser Takes A Break From SL?

Back in July there was a science fiction convention sponsored by the IFT Sci-Fi Alliance and Relay For Life in Second Life.  The theme this year was Dr. Who.  I told you in my first post dear reader that I would include the bad along with the good and here it is.

Word spread that one of the convention's sponsoring groups, led by a turd of a man calling himself Victor1st Mornington, decided to use the convention, which helps raise money to fight cancer, as a weapon to accuse a rival group of deliberately breaking convention rules on what they call split donations--meaning that they sell things through "vendors" and split the proceeds with Relay For Life.  The rule was against announcing that they were splitting sales, which the group apparently did not know.  But Mr. Mornington and his cohorts posted on a blogspot entry that they had deliberately did this and went on to imply that split sales were forbidden at all.

Things got so bad that someone calling himself Anthony Haslage, the chairman of the convention itself, had to step in and correct the record: split sales were, in fact allowed only people were not supposed to advertise it if they did.  Once the rival group became aware they seem to have contacted the relevant folks and straightened the matter out.  Still, the lies kept coming and at one point a thread commenter named Nodster threatened to report everyone who posted negative comments to their ISP's.  Mr. Haslage was not thrilled by that threat and again laid the smackdown, but Mr. Mornington and his thugs were not moved to back down or retract their false accusations.

Why, you may ask, did this take place on blogspot?  Second Life terms of service forbid harassment within their virtual world, including spreading false accusations against individuals and groups.  By posting on blogspot Mr. Mornington obviously thought he would get away with telling his lies.

Now I visited the convention and joined their group so I got notices from it in Second Life.  As a result of that drama, future conventions now forbid posting out of SL blogs attacking others during the convention.  If Mr. Mornington or his people try this again next year and someone takes a screencap and sends it to convention heads, the ____ will hit the fan for them.  I saw that one guy defending the other group, someone named Archangel, was accused of posting as someone else (no proof other then accusations BTW), others keeping up the original lie long after it was posted by the convention chair himself that split sales were allowed, etc.

Now Mr. Mornington has posted announcing that he is taking a break from his group activities saying it has become too much work that it is no longer fun.  Since his activities stem no farther than bullying others until they regret ever having come to Second Life, I am not sure what "work" he could possibly be engaging in that would require a vacation--unless he was asked to take one, but that is only conjecture on my part.

I can tell you this: when I became interested in Dr. Who in Second Life a few months ago, I did not fathom the kind of schoolyard behavior Mr. Mornington and his people put on.  I really got fed up and decided that trying to be active in any fan groups is too much trouble.  Why feed trolls?  If he is not lying about taking a vacation, then I am glad he will not be around to attack others.  His activities, along with his friends', left a really bad taste in my mouth.