As of today, April 4, 2012, my livejournal is friends only. This is why.


I long ago banned yamamanama - a couple of years ago, actually, if not more, because of his rampant idiocy on jordan179's blog, which he attempted to bring to mine. Before his presence benighted our community of people who enjoyed intelligent political, fandom and other interesting topics for discussion, our journals were open places, where, as long as you were civil and abided by the house rules, you were welcome to enter the discussion - livejournal account appreciated but not required. Since then I've banned the various openID sockpuppets he uses to get around jordan179's ban on his own LJ, when we all resorted to screening anonymous comments.

( Long history of being stalked behind the cut )

I am making my blog friends only, so you cannot harass my readers from now on, based on the opinions they display in my place of discussion.

If you wish to be added, drop a message here or PM me if you'd like to avoid becoming a further target of yama's extremist liberal hacktivism and stalking, as I have no idea how yama is able to trace where I post and when (Either he did something to LJ code, which is illegal... that allows him to trace me, or he obsessively refreshes every single one of my friends' comment pages, or he has a script that does that for him... either way, it's highly, violently creepy.) He'll probably see you added on my friendslist if he continuously monitors THAT on my profile page, but at least you won't immediately be attacked by him.

I also hope you won't mind, but I will have a look at least at your profile and recent posts, to see if you and I have a mutual friend, and to determine if you're a Russian spambot. (I get a few of those friending me now and again, and they don't get friended back. As of this posting, there is a Russian blogger viewing my LJ, but his posts tell me he's a real person.)

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