David Gerard, Shock Site Proprietor Options

[tarantino]

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David Gerard, anti-censor spokesman and model Wikipedian, said on February 22 this year -

wefixtech.co.uk is a virtual private server. It just got wiped by an idiot at the hosting company. So davidgerard.co.uk, [and several other personal sites listed] are down until they can recover from the February 17th backup. Good thing we got shot of the actual paying customers and it's now strictly our toy.

What does he do with that toy? Why, host the notorious lemonparty.org along with a dozen other lesser known shock sites such as thewillpower.org, yourmom.org and k-k-k.com.

Asked whois.pir.org:43 about lemonparty.org
lemonparty.org = [ 69.65.107.209 ]
Name Server: NS1.WEFIXTECH.CO.UK
Name Server: NS2.WEFIXTECH.CO.UK

Asked whois.nic.uk:43 about wefixtech.co.uk
wefixtech.co.uk = [ 69.65.107.209 ]
Name servers:
ns1.wefixtech.co.uk
ns2.wefixtech.co.uk

Note the wefixtech registrant is not Gerard, but a (former?) business partner.

David Gerard, just the sort of guy to represent WP in the press.

[Somey]

Dave was always a jerk, no question about that, but he was at least tolerable until he became a father about a year-and-a-half ago. I guess that made him turn serious, because he lost whatever sense of humor he still had at that point - and ever since then his behavior has just been that of any other common, run-of-the-mill, everyday jerk.

Dave's one of those guys who has a profound lack of empathy for others, and has no conception of the effect he has or the impression he makes on others. He actually has a few of what, at first glance, seem to be admirable qualities - for example, you'll never see him use a fancy "sig" on any wiki site, ever. Just the four tildes, and that's it. But that isn't because he doesn't want to draw attention to himself, it's because he wants to make everyone else feel bad for trying to draw attention to themselves, since this makes him feel superior.

And of course, he always uses his real name too, and is very open about his physical location, etc. But that's not his only account, if you know what I'm sayin'.

I used to be angry at Dave, but now I just feel a bit sorry for him - if you read some of his WikiEN-L postings and so forth, you can see that he realizes now that he made the wrong move by devoting so much of his life to Wikipedia... There's no future in it for him. All he really gets out of it now are endless opportunities to tell everyone else what they're doing wrong, and even that has to lose its appeal after a while.

[EricBarbour]

But that's not his only account, if you know what I'm sayin'.

Care to share?

I used to be angry at Dave, but now I just feel a bit sorry for him - if you read some of his WikiEN-L postings and so forth, you can see that he realizes now that he made the wrong move by devoting so much of his life to Wikipedia... There's no future in it for him. All he really gets out of it now are endless opportunities to tell everyone else what they're doing wrong, and even that has to lose its appeal after a while.

about 3 years too late. Sorry Dave.
You now have regrets. Like any adult.

I seem to have some difficulty feeling sorry for him.
After all the bullshit he's pulled.....all the IP ranges he's blocked...
And now, we find out he's involved with Lemonparty?

It also links to another site that links to http://thewillpower.org/,
oddly enough. Still having trouble with the sympathy....