James Lasdun gets stalked by a female student

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James Lasdun gets stalked by a female student

Unread post by EricBarbour » Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:25 pm

And writes a book about it.

Slate article here.

Lasdun is an award-winning UK author. But his WP bio shows signs of a very weird editwar. Rev-deletions of edits made by an IP address, two editors beating on the article like crazy machines, etc.
At the height of her harassment, she was writing him dozens of daily emails, defaming him online (in his Amazon reviews, his Wikipedia entry, the comment sections of his articles), and sending off denouncements to his colleagues and employers. She is a tireless, mysterious bearer of ill will. She is a nightmare-scenario case study in exactly how easy it can be to “ruin” someone online, or at least to bother him very, very much, to the point where he begins to feel like he’s the one going crazy.

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