February 10th 2011
I agree that the main issue here is the motivation of OP. At this point I think it's a solved issue and I would not recommend any action against OP since we seem to be at an understanding. If you haven't noticed though, every single one of his posts in this thread is oriented toward trying to get you to take action to get the blog post removed, which does not look good for him at all. Whether he intended it or not, it comes across like he's trying to provoke a situation. Even though I said you should be proactive against this type of slander, I think that your decision to ignore this blog post would be justified considering the situation. Just let it be and don't provoke a potential escalation.
At this point I'm mostly spitballing devil's advocate ideas more then offering a serious counter argument and I'm inclined to agree with your assessment for now, but there's a few points that are important to share with you.
You're 20 and haven't had as much of a chance to see a lot of weird stuff online. An alternate account that's a year or two old is absolutely not out of the question, even if it has regular activity throughout the time since it was created. Mentally unwell people do weird stuff, and it's not unthinkable that someone would start living out one of their complexes online and then create another online identity for a complex that sprung up in opposition to it.
The blog author seems to have an online presence going back to 2006 with a bizarre obsession for defending German civilians popping up within the past few years. An account that's 1-2 years old is consistent with that.
In this situation, that would be making a lot of assumptions and I'm not suggesting that's what's happening.
I feel like we're at a resolution point for this issue.
I agree that the main issue here is the motivation of OP. At this point I think it's a solved issue and I would not recommend any action against OP since we seem to be at an understanding. If you haven't noticed though, every single one of his posts in this thread is oriented toward trying to get you to take action to get the blog post removed, which does not look good for him at all. Whether he intended it or not, it comes across like he's trying to provoke a situation. Even though I said you should be proactive against this type of slander, I think that your decision to ignore this blog post would be justified considering the situation. Just let it be and don't provoke a potential escalation.
At this point I'm mostly spitballing devil's advocate ideas more then offering a serious counter argument and I'm inclined to agree with your assessment for now, but there's a few points that are important to share with you.
You're 20 and haven't had as much of a chance to see a lot of weird stuff online. An alternate account that's a year or two old is absolutely not out of the question, even if it has regular activity throughout the time since it was created. Mentally unwell people do weird stuff, and it's not unthinkable that someone would start living out one of their complexes online and then create another online identity for a complex that sprung up in opposition to it.
The blog author seems to have an online presence going back to 2006 with a bizarre obsession for defending German civilians popping up within the past few years. An account that's 1-2 years old is consistent with that.
In this situation, that would be making a lot of assumptions and I'm not suggesting that's what's happening.
I feel like we're at a resolution point for this issue.