The planet concept

Posted Dec 18, 2009 12:08 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
Parent article: GNOME ponders its code of conduct

The "Planet" concept is a nice one, it offers a way for the community to
interact on a different level than mailing lists. When curated well they
offer interesting insights into a shared interest, when done badly they are
just a collection of random blog posts connected purely by the fact the
contributors have a common interest. I must admit I've looked at Planet
Gnome before and thought it contained too much of the second to make it
worthwhile adding to my feeds. Looking at it today however was a lot more
interesting as 90%+ of the posts seem in some way Gnome related. Maybe this
is the after effect of the discussion?

I understand RMS's point about the potential for Planet posts to be
interpreted as the "voice of the Gnome project" but I'm not sure how many
people actually treat it as such. Perhaps all that is needed is a
clearer statement on it's make-up on the front page?

you need to understand Schlesinger aka 'stonemirror' and his long history...

Posted Dec 19, 2009 19:29 UTC (Sat) by SandalFoan (guest, #62580) [Link] (4 responses)

David "Lefty" Schlesinger aka 'stonemirror the great and terrible' (his own chosen appellation) has been behaving in a vicious and literally demented manner online and in person since at least 1996, when he began his long career of legal threats, threats of violence, defamatory websites and general stalking and abuse - began with the stalking of Kathy Sutphen, which is well documented. Lefty has also written hideously sexist articles for the notorious troll site 'encyclopedia dramatica', and this is documented as his work beyond any doubt.

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Stone Mirror aka David Lefty Schlesinger
to me
show details Oct 3 (10 days ago)

These messages were sent while you were offline.

2:01 PM
Stone: dont be a ninny, no ones trying to fuse Linux with Microsoft. thats paranoid rhetoric, but coming from a mental case such as yourself, its not surprising.

Groklaw is taking much abuse for their stance, as can be seen in the comments. Bad move on PJs part.
2:04 PM
Do you happen to know Celeste Lyn Paul.? Shes the head of the KDE Foundation Board
2:05 PM
She was in the audience at GCDS and tweeted her dismay at Stallmans bit of harmless fun while it was happening

May you know Stormy Peters?

Shes the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
2:06 PM
she was there, too, and not happy, either.

itll be interesting if Dr. Stallman finds himself blacklisted from both KDE and GNOME events in the future, wont it?

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documented evidence, mainly from his own emails and blogs, of David Lefty Schlesinger (he is an ACCESS employee) and his long career of illegal and menacing threats, stalking, harassment and blackmail.

here:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4902686590059408...

and here:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4902686590059408...

Lefty has written heinously sexist troll articles for the notorious troll site encyclopediadramatica.com.

I try to stop a bit short of full-blown monster-hood. David Lefty Schlesinger aka stonemirror

there is more evidence here, much much more. RMS has examined it personally, and he encouraged it as a complaint to the Gnome Foundation. He found it all credible and well evidenced, especially the abusive, defamatory websites that Lefty maintains for years on end over the slightest grudge, and in self admitted defiance of the DMCA. Lefty is also in his own emails and blogs (verified by whois and headers) actually blackmailing people over alleged sexual images he claims to have, which if they exist, were never public in any fashion.

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Re: David Lefty Schlesinger aka 'stonemirror'
« Sent to: sandala lafoan on: December 12, 2009, 02:44:27 pm »
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Yup, I've read about it most of it. Are you the book seller that he had a quarrel with? Most of the pages from his old "stonemirror" website are still in the WayBack machine, where one can read his taunting of the mentally ill, etc..... But, I try to stay away from the more gross stuff because most people wouldn't believe it even if you sent them the WayBack URL's.

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Re: David Lefty Schlesinger aka 'stonemirror'
« Sent to: sandala lafoan on: December 12, 2009, 02:29:34 pm »
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I've done an extensive investigation into "stonemirror" and the acolytes which populate his blog. You haven't seen the worse. "Lefty" exploited the "Linux isn't woman friendly" blowup a couple months ago in order to push MONO by trying to label those apposed to MONO (and thus Microsoft's API) on Linux as being "sexist". Those who were crying crocodile tears over RMS or Shuttlesworth's "sexist" comments have made identical jokes or statements themselves in times past. The "proof" often given is that 26-30% of corporate coders are women but "only 2%" of Linux coders are women, ergo Linux supporters are "sexist". However, they claim, since most .NET/MONO developers are corporate related, MONO is not sexist. It can be shown that 80% of graduates from Computer Science programs are women.. For just the 2.6.30 kernel alone there were 1,150 coders from 240 companies contributing code. IF the it is corporate policy to employ as many women as possible then roughly 250 of those coders should be women, but they are not. Whose fault is that? It's certainly not because Linux is "sexist". What it does prove is that the "sexist" charge is being used by pro MONO people to belittle the traditional Linux community to make it easier to subvert the Linux API from C, C++, GLib, GTK and Qt4 to C# and MONO.

Some of the MONO supporters bait those who do not support MONO with private messages, which they quote in public blogs, out of context, in attempts to discredit those who appose MONO.

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Re: David Lefty Schlesinger aka 'stonemirror'
« Sent to: sandala lafoan on: December 12, 2009, 04:12:55 pm »
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It's a "Lefty" trademark to threaten to sue people he's had online fights with. I suspect he sends out pseudo legal letters from "lawyers" to further the intimidation.

One of his current web pages is http://stonemirror.wordpress.com/, which also contains links to a theme he apparently has brought back out of retirement: Marsupials. On his front page he is posting attacks against "LiveJournal", which used to host his website but expelled him.

On the Marsupials page he's continuing his ranting at a variety of people, like "Mikey", and on a variety of topics.

Stop.

Posted Dec 19, 2009 22:14 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (3 responses)

There will be no more of this here. I am getting tired of people using LWN to throw darts at each other. Can we please put an end to it now?

Stop.

Posted Dec 19, 2009 23:07 UTC (Sat) by SandalFoan (guest, #62580) [Link] (2 responses)

and now censorship? that is not healthy at all.

Stop.

Posted Dec 19, 2009 23:09 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

Your catfight does not belong here. I left your original comment despite the fact that it's the kind of thing that leads to encounters with the courts because censorship is very much not our thing. But you have been asked to stop, and I will enforce that. LWN is not the place for that kind of thing.

truth

Posted Dec 19, 2009 23:24 UTC (Sat) by SandalFoan (guest, #62580) [Link]

the truth, evidenced by hard facts, is absolute defense against any accusation of libel.

read the man's own words, on his own websites and blogs and emails.

I rest my case, and this is not a 'catfight', it is a demand for some justice for the people he has harmed.