13 December 2006

Hate mail: Jimbo's going to shut down RiotACT

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We all love a good nutter around here. Readers who peruse the comments have, for the last week, thrilled to the antics of the semi-literate multiple personality known as “jim/peter”. Predominantly this can be found on the thread about Amber Jane Westin but there were other outbreaks. As Jimbo has demonstrated on this site that he’s a self-serving liar and fraud it’s hard to take anything he says too seriously.

After a while his ranting was serving no purpose so he was warned to stop it or we’d start deleting comments. When he persisted he was warned we’d block his IP address from accessing the site. This has now been done so he’s off around the internet finding all the freaks, weirdos and perverts out there we’ve crossed swords with in the past, and furiously (but, one imagines, rarely comprehensibly) agreeing with them about how pernicious we are.

Along the way he demanded that we give him contact details for our “boss” and Seepi very helpfully told him to contact Simon Corbell’s office.

In the way of the very crazy and the very stupid Jimbo is not a man to either take a hint or give up easily. This morning I received an astonishing email confirming he has been in touch with Simon’s office, amongst other things.

From: ske02991@bigpond.net.au
Subject: Re: ill be back
Date: 13 December 2006 11:24:33 AM
To: johnboy73@gmail.com

John I was trying too ask questions but don’t expect to get insulted.

and there are comments that I read that are not suitable for under age people .

I believe in listing to people but I don’t put shit on them because of spelling.
You seem to be educated but john what about treating every one equal.

and if I was a person with a disability I may of had rights to sue.

you warned me But what about your friends that on every page have been rude too not just me but lots of readers.

I have made enquires about your site from the acma about the unfair treating and foul abuse.

John am not there to be rude to you.
but if this site is were any one can leave a comment don’t insult them for it.
you may insult the wrong person and your headlines may be seen up there.

Its not a friendly world at the moment and there lots of hate.

and for Simon and other your not liked.

I have read other pages on the net and john am not the only person to be mistreated.

There is a good chase for slander charges to be laid for if there was action too take.

I have downloaded your site and the rude insults that all people left about any one so if you were to remove the filth is no good.

And for the police there just watching your site.

Under the new laws some thing are not excepted.

As I said am not here to fight with you .

and if you wont my address and info I can give it to you so you can send the police to me

I don’t think john your site needs to go to court as it my be good news for you as you have may people that dislike it.
and a class action is looking good.

I didn’t have a problem with you but your goons need to be warned .

I await my fate with equanamity, and particularly look forward to hearing from ACMA (and/or a class action of aggrieved nutters and criminals), but you goons have been warned.

(Incidentally I wonder how Simon feels about standing on the same side as CrazyChester, John B1_B5, and Jimbo)

UPDATED: Jimbo’s moronic attempts to impose himself on the dialogue are continuing and (very slowly) he’s learning things. Which is a positive, when he finally wises up he might realise he can’t fight the operators of a site, on their own site. There may be some delays in your comments appearing as various moderation strategies are deployed. We’ll try and keep them to a minimum. Feel free to email jimbo and express your feelings about the disruptions.

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Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E1310:09 am 21 Aug 08

I think it reasonable that if agecies make enquiries of particular posts (such as in the course of an investigation), that the RA crew provide a tunnel to the poster with their consent – and report accordingly.

If the poster does not consent, then its a court matter.

It’s a co-location so we still own the iron and Velocity don’t have access to our server logs (although depending on their setup they could possibly make some very well educated guesses).

No that RA is hosted by velocity net. Would you think a request for your data would go straight to them (seeing how they are the ones in possession of it)?

We do have a policy on this sort of thing.

This case was made special because the ACC was using us to make a flagrant and grossly defamatory attack on a factional rival for their own purposes. We had removed the comment from view long before anyone came looking for the details.

As such we felt no obligation to protect them, particularly as there was a real danger our server would have been removed for days or weeks while it was investigated.

I understand, that the information gathered was used to expel them from the party.

In the case of comments we’re willing to have on the site at all, we won’t just be handing over the information without at least discussing all the issues with the poster.

Pandy,

This goes back a few years.

Back in the day before you needed to sign up to RA, anybody could leave comments to threads anonymously as “Anonymous Cowardly Canberran”. On a thread about a local politician an ACC called him a “F***ing *****” [ED – we’re NOT repeating that episode].

Said politican was not happy about this so made a complaint to the police. Detectives investigating the complaint got the intel section to request from RA, the logs of the thread to ID the poster’s IP and therefore the poster.

The intel guy quoted his power to receive the information as a section of the Crimes ACT 1914 relating to harrassment by telecommunications (which posters pointed out specifically stated that internet services were excluded from the offence). RA admin sent the logs anyway to the police (who visited the home of the poster but didn’t proceed as it could not be determined who’s fingers were on the keyboard at the time amongst the residents).

RA admin went public with their decision on the site which received some local media attention. JB used the interest to get some attention for the site.

It’s brought up every few years by JB who has described the situation as being bullied by police to carry out a private investigation on behalf of a politican. (as per above).

I’m part of the camp who still thinks that RA did the wrong thing by releasing the info as they were not legally required to do so. This comes from my perspective as a police officer who would like to believe that RA would have my back if I happened to post something out of school or critical of my employer. Since then I post minimal work related posts. The police involved in this matter would not have wanted to get involved but come under the influence of their bosses and their political masters.

I’m not saying that the RA shouldn’t release IP logs to the police in genuine criminal matters. But as something that occasionally professes to be something akin to journalism, I would like to think that some protection of posters/sources would occur.

(JB, can you consider a policy on this sort of thing)

Monster of the Deep said :

Too funny for words. This is one of those little nuggets of hilarity amidst the stinking bile the internet throws up every now and then.

I love you, RiotACT.

If Kramer ever recovers the archives we’ll do a “best of”.

This was top ten material but probably not top 5.

As for number one, Richard Mulcahy getting the police to do his civil dirty work remains without equal.

Go to work for a day LOL WORK is wehere I stay in touch with RA (For themost part)

Hi Boss !!

Monster of the Deep8:43 pm 20 Aug 08

Too funny for words. This is one of those little nuggets of hilarity amidst the stinking bile the internet throws up every now and then.

I love you, RiotACT.

scootergal said :

Wow, I actually go to work for a day and look what I miss?

We could have the goons like the seven dwarfs, all with special names…I’m sluttygoon.

Does FabGoonForty sound like an eighties band or what ?

I’m GoonGetFolked

I’m oldtoothlesscodgergoon.

Wow, I actually go to work for a day and look what I miss?

We could have the goons like the seven dwarfs, all with special names…I’m sluttygoon.

haha, lord no.

Jimbo’s going to shut down RiotACT

Can he do that?

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E134:24 pm 20 Aug 08

@Skid – as I have already suggested to another poster today, I was exercising the use of the search button in the top right hand corner to find some old information (displaying I can practice what I preach).

In the course of that search I found this thread and noted that sufficient time had passed for there to have been some kind of response – thanks JB for filling us in on that note.

Since that time I’ve been sitting here laughing at the posts and wondering what a moo card is.

I think it fair to say that the poster concerned has long disappeared though.

i reckon the guy sounds intellectually disabled, if so calling him a nut or similar derogatory title may be less than PC or even very insulting. He is certainly opinionated, obviously misguided but probably no threat to anyone.

Damn, How did I miss this many comments by a regular fruitcake. Note to self – log in more often. It’s so hard to catch up when half the comments have been moderated and I don’t mind having a dig at crazy people. Love a good threat though – well worth posting them up for all our entertainment.

JB just so we get this sorted. I will never refer to you as a god in any shape or form and don’t wish to be a Johnboy goon. I will goon for Kramer gladly though – I owe him a couple due to an incident with some bricks.

Maelinar doesn’t like the warm ones because they push back?

Bear in mind this was a debate from 2006 which Maelinar has chosen to drag out of the crypt and re-animate.

Beserk Keyboard Warrior3:00 pm 20 Aug 08

Give the guy a break – at least he’s improved his literacy since his Amber Westin posts.

At this rate he’s in danger of hitting the second grade level.

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E1312:43 pm 20 Aug 08

@PBO I think another thread he made claims to being the owner of Heaven or the Cube or something like that, which was quite sternly debunked quite quickly as another rioter actually knew the owner.

Well can “They” get “his” act together? Should we send him a group email or will one address suffice?

j said :

Maeliner

We tha was intresting
I use to own night clubs and drank alot but after having kids I stopped it.
I may have a beer if offered but mainly drink carlton cold.
And for J being a girls name what is the crap name your using mean

I thought it was pretty obvious what his name refers to. What nightclubs did you “own”? Are you the Dentist/Dealer/Clubowner that used to operate in civic?

PBO said :

Isnt it time for J to interject?

We’re talking ‘j’, we’re talking ‘jim’, we’re talking ‘peter’…. It’s a very long mod queue they’ve made for themselves!

Still waiting to hear back.

Now that made me laugh JB….

Cheers 🙂

Next time someone meets me in person – ask for a moo card…

I tend to agree with Nik_the_Pig – can’t we just ban this bloke and be done with it? He either genuinely has a disability or enjoys making a complete and utter fool of himself.

PBO said :

Thanks for clearing that up Peterh, i was hoping it wasnt you. You seem to have your head together.

Koo Koo Catchoo

you know, appearances can be misleading…

my wife would disagree.

SheepGroper said :

If he interjects I hope he wipes it off afterward.

this from a person called sheepgroper??

LOL!

If he interjects I hope he wipes it off afterward.

Isnt it time for J to interject?

I now don’t know who I am then

No, I’m Paul. And so’s my wife.

What about:

I’m Granny, RiotACT Granny. Licensed to Carney. Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.

*hehehe*

I reckon us premium members should get our own RiotACT goon cards:

Granny
Hired Goon for Hire

Be afraid. Be very afraid

*chuckle*

Thanks for clearing that up Peterh, i was hoping it wasnt you. You seem to have your head together.

Koo Koo Catchoo

I am the walrus

I am a fan of the goons, and hope to aspire to being a goon one day myself.

I have 2 names, as I have pointed out previously, that i use on RA. peterh & peter@home.

I am open about it, and from time to time my wife will use the peter@home login when I am on as peterh.

I must categorically state that I am not Peter / Jim.

I am a peter, just not THAT one.

Wow he actually contacted Corbell’s office.

It’s things like this that make me miss working in Humphries office.

J/Peter/Jim, Wow. How do i begin this? Who is the dominant personality? Or have we not met them yet? I am not saying give up posting as i really enjoy reading multiple conversations, as well, if you put all your points in one post then everyone can make sense of you. Thats all i have to say right now, but i will give you one bit of advice that i tell most Emo’s when they cut their wrists: Remember, it’s up the road, not across the street.

Still waiting to hear back.

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E138:48 am 20 Aug 08

Hey, just to bring up an old thread – would those RiotACT pins in current circulation be in any way related to our RiotACT goon status ?

And any updates JB ?

How did the much anticipated court case go with Jimbo ?

Maeliner

We tha was intresting
I use to own night clubs and drank alot but after having kids I stopped it.
I may have a beer if offered but mainly drink carlton cold.
And for J being a girls name what is the crap name your using mean

Anytime Big Al, Thumper and I generally head down there for an indepth chat about the lack of management skills within the executive of the public service every Friday – and other thought provoking issues such as why does Guinness taste the way it does…

I can’t believe old mate actually managed to spell a word properly though, it’s seriously knocked me!

Although do I take it that I’m meant to be melanoma ?

I’ve been drinking the dan murphy’s unlabelled wine that they were flogging for $3 a bottle a few weeks ago, it’s surprisingly very good for $3 wine – I hazard it’s a result of the glut in the wine market.

I don’t feel any less manly for admitting I drink wine, infact I find it quite bemusing that somebody that can barely string a sentence together can take issue with my masculinity when theirs is questionable – any male I know would have recognised that they had a problem and fixed it (the currently recognised manly way of doing things around here), rather than being a girl and ignoring the problem until a man found it.

(Foreward apologies to all the girls I just offended, J is a girls name too)

I’ve actually started slowing down my consumption of beer in the leadup to Christmas, and have been drinking vodka instead. I’ve been theorising that I may have a yeast/hops allergy, so I switched to spirits to check it out, sounds like a manly enough reason to drink vodka anyway.

The one thing I will not drink ever, not even if the taliban have a gun to my head is VB, the beer. Just like they won’t eat pig on account of it’s a filthy animal (their opinion), I won’t drink VB on account of cat’s wee should be in the litter box.

contravening any laws.
you you were born

Absent Diane11:53 pm 17 Dec 06

is the law that a man drinks beer written down anywhere? if so can you stipulate?

Personally I enjoy beer, spirits, port, occassionaly a wine but would hate to be contravening any laws.

“all melanoma has is hate in his eyes as he doesent like the truth and he drinks wine”
WTF

big Al
all melanoma has is hate in his eyes as he doesent like the truth and he drinks wine .
A man drinks beer

Two of clubs9:48 pm 17 Dec 06

Well, see that’s just insulting.
If he considers you to be his arch-nemesis, he could at least do you the courtesy of getting your name right.
Particularly as it warranted all-caps.

Maelinar, nice list.
I add “Drisc”.

Hey Mael, if I swing by for a beer (the Durham is just across the road from my office) maybe vg and you can swing a double act – you biff J and vg works me over!

you have a big mouth

Seriously, I don’t get it.

perhaps it’s the 2 wines I’ve had already, although I wouldn’t consider myself pissed, I can’t fill in the gaps on this word D_I_C

Duiac ?
Driuc ?
Drilc ?

J, welcome to my idiot list, here’s how it goes; you may ramble, you may blubber, I am not listening. I may refer to you in conversations, however as of now I’m not talking to you, nor will I answer.

Feel free to come negotiate the terms anytime you desire at the Durham Arms, any given Friday between 4:30 and 5. I’ll be the person at the end of the fist in your eye.

Big Al
did you say thick

Did j even manage to get the spelling right in his big, dramatic revelation of The Name?

You’ll have to go read The Concatenate to find out.

J – In the dick department well let’s just say that while I mightn’t be good – at least I’m quick!

Two of clubs5:20 pm 17 Dec 06

Did j even manage to get the spelling right in his big, dramatic revelation of The Name?

big al
little d-i-c you fill in the rest

I believe my work here is done.

Maelinar
so you still watch that baby show with Yoda

Maelinar
Big Al
im crying.
I didnt start the abuse you guy did.
Any i have read your comments on other pages and most are crap.
Free speech a problem for you?
You goons are the one making insults not me.
ME retarted so i have a disability

J, you’re a legend! I couldn’t be arsed reading any of the other shit you’ve posted under various names yet somehow I still can’t escape the feeling you’re an A-class dip-shit. What’s your beef mate? Free speech a problem for you? Alternate views of the world perhaps too outrageous for you to manage? If it makes it easier I’ve provided a translation below:

J, legend you are! I koodn’t be arsed reeding any of the shit other you’ve posted under names various yet some how eye still kan’t escape the feeling you’re a dip-shit A-class. Beef what’s your mate? Speech free you a problem for? Alternate of views world perhaps too outrageous for yoo to manage?

johnboy
can you set up a site all about smart comments about me.
And call it the goon squad

Maelinar
intellectual you are not

Well that came as no big surprise, and short of putting your current address and phone number on the FAQ – which J/Peter/Jim I suggest you read, again, and again, and again, and then again just to make sure you understand it.

Just so you get what I’m saying J, read the FAQ.

You will also find out why J.Griffiths calls himself ‘Johnboy’, and other great items of knowledge you can throw at us just to show us how intellectual you are.

Sorry, I should have let everyone know that Jim had been reborn as J, albeit with a particularly well formed moderation system which will stop his comment appearing until the story author can be bothered releasing them from moderation.

I think the revelation of my identity can be put down to making morons happy.

And seeing as how I make them so unhappy with everything else I do, it’s a small price to pay.

It is rather amusing, though, that mentioning JB’s real name appears to be some big state secret acording to j (ooh, j is the first letter of jim – could they be the same person? gosh, I wonder…). Particluarly when it’s plastered all over Concatenate, the site linked here with the words “Johnboy’s new project”.

J, usually (although admittedly, not always) a post relates to the thread.

Big mouths always get bad luck and there are lots of losers here.
I hope the fine was big and the bill to repair is bigger JOHN GRIFFTHS

yay! Jackets!

I refused to be named after boxed wine

Goons, hired Goons, now there was a band – whatever happened to them?

Its alright RG, I have just found someone that behaves supicously like him over here.

Okay AD – but only if I get to be “Fruity White”.

Absent Diane8:57 am 14 Dec 06

perhaps as opposed to goon as the subname… you called take on the names of various goons. Eg Fruity Alexia (sp???).. not being a wine connoisseur boxed nor bottled I would really know any other names.

I’d say you can only use your goon moniker when you’re ganging up on some unfortunate (a la Jim) on JB’s behalf, Maelinar.

Can we have sub-goon names ?

goon-Maelinar ?
goon-Jey ?
goon-Thumper ?

When do we get the bomber jackets ?

crazy people are funny.

well we do already have the “RiotACT” category where these things appear.

Dunno if a book would be as amusing for those who are not initiated into RA lore.

We might think about putting some of the taglines into a calendar though.

sexynotsmart10:10 pm 13 Dec 06

I just want to support Absent Diane’s suggestion of “The Pool Room”. Top idea!

On a related note… I was in A&R buying Christmas presents for sibling progeny and noticed the large amount of web content printed as books. (Hello Dr Karl.) Mae West said “Always keep a journal and one day it will keep you”. I reckon a collection of RiotAct rants could be next year’s hot Christmas gift. And if there’s an audio version… does anyone know how we could get Christopher Walken to read Jim/Peter?

“I missed this! I cant believe I missed this guy.”

well that’s why I put it up, thinking of you Al.

Thumper, you are so a goon!

I missed this! I cant believe I missed this guy.

johnboy – five years ago the likes of Jim were on IRC causing the same sort of headaches they now cause here. It’s only beacuse ‘blogs’ (I use the term loosely) are now more popular that the wackos are showing up.

Stand firm JB.
I think we are infected with far too much PC crap as it is. everybody going around pretending to be ‘oh so sensitive’, but in reality harbouring completely different views.
Long live free speech and the rights of Riot Act contributers to mock idiots.

I blame Bill Gates for making web-browsers available to the poor and stupid. (the poor and smart can use linux)

5 years ago the Jims of this world troubled us not at all.

From New Scientist:

“Technology and medicine, by enabling almost everyone to have children, could be causing “reverse evolution” by preventing unfit genes from being purged from the gene pool.”

I think this Jim character is a perfect example.

I only believe in goon marriage when both goons are hot.

I can see it now…

Knock knock knock (front door)
Who is it ?

Goons.

Hired goons.

Crazy Chester, Jim, et al are classic examples of PBKAC.

Jim’s speech is entirely free, on his own site.

Sorry s4nta, can’t see him on the basement level here.

JB, I expect my pay tomorrow for being your goon. And yes, your damn right I get payed weekly!

Can I just say, what a nutter, talk about taking things to far….two words ‘FREE SPEECH’. While JB cant leave everything into free speech, he at least tries to maintain most of it.

Well he won’t go far in the frontoffice at HREOC.

Sure, you can all be my goons.

Put it on your business cards even.

So is that to be “RiotACT goon” or “Johnboy’s goon” on the business cards. Plus what do you call someone in charge of goons? A goon commander? Do goons have ranks? Major goon, Sgt goon, etc? And surely goonie is the plural form of goon, ie 1 goon, 2 goonie, 3 or more goons. Or is it when you down a goon in one less strike than par?

Jimbo must work in the backoffice of EDS…

Lisa: (crying)They called me a ‘P.C. thug’!

Homer: Yeah… I’ve been called a greasy thug, too. It never stops hurting. So here’s what we’re gonna do… We’re gonna grease ourselves up real good and trash that place with a baseball bat.

Sure, you can all be my goons.

Put it on your business cards even.

Am I one of the goons?
Oh, please let me be a goon!
:p

His racist jibe towards Hasdrubahl ain’t gonna help his cause.

From time to time I think the readers need to understand what we go through for them.

That way it makes more sense if we (I) snap at them from time to time.

Plus there is a need to deter vocal crazies or I’ll end up one myself.

My computer says the keyboard is missing and I go to press F1 to continue but it doesn’t work……

yeah, wheres the bugger who stole my “Any Key”?
I keep getting told to press it but can’t find it anywhere

The ACMA will receive his letter, attempt to comprehend it, fail, and reject it.

Perhaps John/Peter will get an ambivalent message back from the ACMA, however if any of you guys out there are reading this, don’t bother.

Engaging communications with loonies will merely reinforce to them that somebody is listening, kind of like inviting spammers to send you more stuff.

I know I’m a bit of a net nanna and I’ve asked this before but can’t we just ignore the nutters? I know you seem to take some small pleasure JB out of the seeming justice of parading their corpses around as if as a warning to others but it seems to me just a little bit distasteful to draw additional attention to these poor individuals who seem to be missing a few keys from their keyboard, both figuratively and literally in most cases.

Someone has some harsh lessons to learn about free speech and the internet.

You sure it wasn’t Borat writing in from Kazakstan???
Buy the weigh, wat doos equa…equan…equanamititity meen?

Crazy Chester MKII

Absent Diane12:45 pm 13 Dec 06

hehe… he took a particular dislike to me (which I am used to!)… despite the fact I was mostly polite.

Perhaps you could start up a hate mail archive (the pool room?) This would be a good one to start with…

And for the police there just watching your site.

Half the police comment on the darn thing!

“That’s the biggest tag line I have ever read!”

I suspect it might actually make a great many tag lines.

I’m a goon! I’ve never been called a goon before, that’s kinda flattering really.

you must be shakin’ in your boots.

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