Comments on: Earning their $9.95 a Month

By: Christoph

Christoph — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Well, I simply wanted my name removed from the site because its completely outdated. I know my name is just listed here because I ran a bulletin board system about 20 years ago, but the phone number listed here as as well as the forums that my BBS – users once subscribed to are of no relevance anymore; simply dont exist any more.
And I dont “[...]fears that it may affect him professionally.”, as that guy from RepDefender wrote, I simply dont like my name in a text-file (among many others) that is shown in a
“something/s e x/*” directory, god knows why you put it there. I think this is quite a reasonable request.
Btw, I did write Jason and/or the webmaster about this topic before going over RepDef. but didn’t get any answer from him.

So it would be quite nice if you’d remove my name from your site for the reasons listed above. I really dont see any reason why you insist on keeping it there… ;-/

By: sigflup

sigflup — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:51:15 +0000

It’s funny that by them asking that you remove their name that document has probably been bumped up in searches quite a bit. Perhaps they should invest more time in having search engines report positive things about them instead of attempting to change the past.

By: jas

jas — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:11:41 +0000

okay, this comment script is borked

By: jason

jason — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:08:50 +0000

boy that really backfired, didnt it.

why didnt the guy just write jason personally? i’m sure he would have atleast edited out his name from the file

By: jas

jas — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:02:02 +0000

boy that really backfired, didnt it.

why didnt the guy just write jason personally? i’m sure he would have atleast edited out his name from the file

By: mark

mark — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:51:15 +0000

Kind of crazy — you would think that someone with the least bit of concern about their name online would at least buy the .com domain of their name:

No match for domain “CHRISTOPHVAESSEN.COM”.

By: Herby HÃ¶nigsperger

Herby HÃ¶nigsperger — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:10:56 +0000

Sorry, what?

Christoph Vaessen Christoph Vaessen Christoph Vaessen Christoph Vaessen Christoph Vaessen (and once more because it’s fun) Christoph Vaessen once ran a Fidonet Point and BBS (PC tech brownie points) which carried info on HIV/AIDS (”the other” PC brownie points), and he finds that part of his online history offensive or potentially damaging to his reputation?

I don’t get it.

It’s not like he wrote anything remotely perverse like “broomstick death” (part of the “Kaka Sutra” @ http://home.arcor.de/hmvh/2004/273.htm) which I was asked to remove the original poster’s name from (I relented because of the included email addresses).

In fact, I honestly fear we’ll be seeing more requests of the sort as “people search engines” start gaining ground and distorting facts. After all, even http://www.123people.de/s/jason+scott/United+States is into gay porn

“Free speech only goes as far as nobody is being exposed by any embarrassing truths.”

http://hmvh.blogspot.com/2008/01/uncomfortable-past-or-inconvenient.html

By: Daphne B

Daphne B — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:30:16 +0000

It looks like textfiles isn’t the only site with that file anyway.

(PS: Jason, if I click “preview”, I cannot then afterwards click “post”, or your site thinks I’m posting too close together and wants me to wait. That’s kind of against the point of “preview”, isn’t it?)

By: Ryan Russell

Ryan Russell — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:35:26 +0000

Well, that was a mighty quick jump to Google Rank #1 for this page on his name. (Dr. Phil voice) How’s that workin out for ya?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:43:24 +0000

I am amused that this page is now the top hit for Christoph Vaessen on google.