I feel SO MUCH BETTER since discovering that there is a name for what has happened to me ... and much documented evidence about such occurrences across the Internet.
INTERNET TROLLS!!
Who would have thought??
And here I was wasting months of time and energy and angst trying to figure out what I had done ... when it wasn't me at all. I was a target because I was high visibility. And sadly, they hit their target and took me down. And I let them. I certainly let them.
I think more research needs to be done on Trolls and Established Message Boards. Especially when a beloved member of the board, for some reason, turns into a Troll and works from the inside to take the board down. This activity seems to me to be particularly insidious. Now that I know that there is documented evidence of the existence of TROLLS, I will keep reading to see what has happened in other forums. I know newsgroups and popular Blogs get trolled a lot ... but what about an established community of women who just meet to enjoy each other's company? Has this happened in other such communities??
Someone needs to alert Admin_Jen .... she has a great paper in the making ... right there in her domain.
