http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=300649440

Gary Weiss is JohnnyB.

New Mexico, the mafia, NSS, etc. LOL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...ions/JohnnyB256

Gary Weiss has taken to battling in favor of illegal stock market manipulation on political blog aggregator DailyKos.com, under the pseudonym “Tom Sykes”....Weiss has a rich history of abusive sockpuppeting, mostly for the purpose of attacking those who advocate ending illegal naked short selling...... one can tie a Yahoo username to a specific IP address, sans ambiguity.
Gary Weiss lives in Greenwich Village, NY, but in August of 2008 he bought a second home upstate (tellingly financed by the property owner, not a bank) in the tiny Sullivan County hamlet of Callicoon Center.
A few months ago, using the above-referenced method, I was able to determine that the Yahoo account belonging to user garyrweiss@verizon.net was accessing the web via IP address 74.64.81.92, which maps to within a few miles of Callicoon Center. Given the tininess of Callicoon Center, this is what one would expect of an instance of Weiss being online at his second home.
(Hint: remember that IP address, for we shall return to it shortly.)
We know that garyrweiss@verizon.net belongs to our Gary Weiss thanks to emails we’ve acquired between Weiss and kindred stock manipulator Floyd Schneider.....It took a few short hours to hit paydirt.
In short, email sent to tomsykes.kos@gmail.com (the address Tom Sykes lists as his own on dailykos.com) induced the recipient to visit the Yahoo message boards in such a way as to reveal his IP address to me.
The result: 74.64.81.92.
This IP address has been conclusively linked to garyrweiss@verizon.net, which in turn has been conclusively linked to Gary R. Weiss, the bumbling sockpuppeteer and defender of illegal naked short selling.
But wait, there’s more.
Among Weiss’s most notable accomplishments has been epic sockpuppeting on Wikipedia in order to cover-up evidence of the damaging impact of illegal naked short selling. Once this finally came to light, Weiss and his home IP address range, which is well known, were unambiguously banned from editing Wikipedia.
But what about Weiss’s new IP address, tied to his new, second home?
Well, as we’d expect, realizing that it was unknown by Wikipedia administrators, Weiss used it, on two occasions, to remove references to Mark Mitchell’s Dendreon-related reporting on deepcapture.com, which had been previously added to the Wikipedia article on Michael Milken. To see these edits for yourself, follow this link, which will show you the only two contributions made by IP address 74.64.81.92. To see the substance of the edits, click on the links that say “diff”. What you’ll then see is a before and after comparison, with the text in yellow being what 74.64.81.92 (Weiss) removed.
What could possibly be motivating Weiss to carry on in this manner?
I see one of two possibilities: either he’s like the 80-year-old Japanese soldier living in the jungles of Guam who refuses to accept that his “side” lost the war, or – as I suspect – he remains in active contact with his “side,” which remains mobilized and intent on subverting all that we’ve accomplished.
So what next?
Well, obviously, the editorial staff at dailykos.com will want to know that they’ve given forum to a deeply conflicted contributor who – beyond simply using a pseudonym – is actively pretending not to be Gary Weiss by referring to Weiss in the third person and linking to his own blog as though it were actually really relevant. You can let them know what we’ve discovered about Mr. Sykes by going here.
In addition, any active Wikipedians among you will probably want to make it known there that 74.64.81.92 is in fact the dread sockpuppet Mantanmoreland/Gary Weiss.

For you WP'ians who need new data to help you ferret out banned users on the WP:

http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-disc...#comment-170533

Tom Sykes on Kos.

All three of these people (Byrne, Bagley and Weiss) seem like right nasty pieces of work. I wonder if Byrne and Bagley would voluntarily disclose their current IPs so we can purge Wikipedia of all 3 of them.

...Tom Sykes on Kos....

You realize that "Tom Sykes" is Weiss, right? And that most of the bloggers he links to in his "diaries" are also Weiss?

Byrne may be a right-winger, but there's nothing particularly right-wing about the effort to stop NSS. Weiss is engaging in nothing more than sock puppetry and character assassination. I doubt that Mr. Bagley and Mr. Byrne have even 1/20th the number of active accounts on various websites now that Weiss has, and that's a conservative estimate.

Byrne may be a nice guy for all I know, but Bagley has again used unethical and possibly illegal means to ID him.

I just wish both of them would leave Wikipedia alone and take their shit elsewhere.

Yes but Weiss is one of a (small?) number of sockers protected by the cabal as the Rfar showed.

Weiss accuses Byrne of stock fraud on his blog as Sykes. Byrne may be a nice guy for all I know, but Bagley has again used unethical and possibly illegal means to ID him. When the IP allegedly belonging to Weiss edited the Michael Miliken to remove negative information, he was reverted by an IP from Nevada, 71.83.125.186 (T-C-L-K-R-D) , who is probably Judd Bagley, adding negative information to multiple BLPs sourced to his own blog investigation. I just wish both of them would leave Wikipedia alone and take their shit elsewhere.

It seems to me that you have fallen for the Wikipedianism that somehow an IP address is a highly secret and personal piece of information rather than part of the mechanics of the Internet. It's like complaining that someone took your photograph while standing outside Buckingham Palace. It was the SlimVirgin trick of suggesting that putting an image into an email was spyware - a meme that still lives on today that using an everyday mechanism that every single website uses (and could have been blocked) was akin to putting software onto the PC to nefariously track and log activities.

Wikipedians have never seemed to get over the fact that Weiss fooled them and their enthusiasm for silly rules that led them down a path of backing the wrong horse. You are still more fixated on the arbitrary rules rather than understanding that Wikipedia is being used as a tool to abuse real people, and that real people have a right to use whatever legitimate (real world) means they can to defend themselves.

In this case Bagley says he used javascript code to capture Weiss' user name, email address and IP address. (That also means, presumably, he captured the same information for everyone who read the message containing the embedded code.) To me, this is unethical, and it also appears to be a violation of Yahoo!'s TOS (see para 6a). I don't know whether or not it is illegal as "Sykes" yells on his blog. If Yahoo Finance visibly tagged every post with its IP address (as some boards do), it would be a different matter.

So, CheckUsers should freely give IP information about Wikipedia editors to people who complain? Without waiting for law enforcement or the civil courts to determine the legitimacy of the complaints? Because IPs are no big deal, after all.

So, CheckUsers should freely give IP information about Wikipedia editors to people who complain? Without waiting for law enforcement or the civil courts to determine the legitimacy of the complaints? Because IPs are no big deal, after all.

What they should do is what they're (ideally) supposed to do, which is check out the validity of the complaint by verifying the evidence it contains, and looking for corroborating evidence, possibly discussing the case with others who are more familiar with it, etc.

Try to look at it this way: Most police departments operate "tip lines," so that people can call in their suspicions of criminal activity without necessarily identifying themselves. No honest policeman would ever go out and arrest someone solely on the basis of one anonymous tip, right? The honest policeman would check any accused people for criminal records, look for clues, check with informants - in other words, do the job.

But even if he didn't want to do the job, what that policeman wouldn't do is immediately call the accused person, tell him "we got a tip about you," and then begin a discussion of how best to find the tipster and eliminate him.

I think the problem is that the tipster was not an anonymous do-gooding citizen. I don't know the exact sequence of events, and I don't want to overstretch the analogy, but if a policeman happens on a bar fight, and breaks it up and sends both patrons home with a warning, he might be dubious when, the next morning, one patron calls him to report the other patron as having committed a crime. And it would hurt his cause even more if he followed the policeman's girlfriend home and made annoying phone calls to her.

Two things here: First, Bagley has always maintained that he felt he was "doing Wikipedia a favor" when he reported that Mantanmoreland was likely to be Weiss, and that he actually thought someone would say "thanks for the heads-up!" or something to that effect. (You can ask him...)

Second, Bagley, and to a lesser extent Byrne as well, have since maintained that they're not all that interested in being "Wikipedians" and would, indeed, leave the site forever - I vaguely recall the term "in a heartbeat" being used at one point - if they thought they could trust the WP'ers left behind to keep Weiss's activities under control. Some Wikipedians supposedly tried to give them that assurance in the Mantanmoreland ArbCom base, as I recall - but the fact is, they can't keep Weiss's activities under control, couldn't even if they wanted to, because Wikipedia simply does not have effective preventative measures in place against abusive editing - other than page protection, which can just as easily be used to prevent ameliorative or corrective editing.

It seems to me that you have fallen for the Wikipedianism that somehow an IP address is a highly secret and personal piece of information rather than part of the mechanics of the Internet.

In this case Bagley says he used javascript code to capture Weiss' user name, email address and IP address. (That also means, presumably, he captured the same information for everyone who read the message containing the embedded code.) To me, this is unethical, and it also appears to be a violation of Yahoo!'s TOS (see para 6a). I don't know whether or not it is illegal as "Sykes" yells on his blog. If Yahoo Finance visibly tagged every post with its IP address (as some boards do), it would be a different matter.

Wikipedia is just not equipped to deal with the argument that "Weiss should not be here because he is trying to destroy the free market system and ruin my company's business" any more than Wikipedia can choose sides on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, Macedonia, or Pallywood.

Byrne and Bagley don't have to keep Weiss in check any more than ScienceApologist has to keep homeopaths in check or the IDCAB has to keep IDers in check.

When people appoint themselves as defenders of the ONE TRUTH (whatever it may be for them), they often get into trouble.

Weiss accuses Byrne of stock fraud on his blog as Sykes. Byrne may be a nice guy for all I know, but Bagley has again used unethical and possibly illegal means to ID him. When the IP allegedly belonging to Weiss edited the Michael Miliken to remove negative information, he was reverted by an IP from Nevada, 71.83.125.186 (T-C-L-K-R-D) , who is probably Judd Bagley, adding negative information to multiple BLPs sourced to his own blog investigation. I just wish both of them would leave Wikipedia alone and take their shit elsewhere.

What "Sykes" said happened was he was sent a Yahoo search link from "Dangelo" that returned the following two results.

Byrne is a gold shill

O'Byrne gold whore

Now normally if you try to use html in yahoo group posts it will display as plain text. However, if those posts are displayed in search results the markup works. In this case the results window will automatically load an image from antisocialmedia and run an activemeter script if you have js enabled.

Well then, it should get itself "equipped," don't you think?

By the way, Weiss just attacked Byrne again on his blog.

The man's gone completely off the deep end. He still thinks the SEC is going to prosecute Patrick Byrne for some metaphorical, and probably jocular, comment he made in a conference call four years ago?

I just nailed Weiss sockpuppeting on DailyKos.com. It's a very familiar story. The one difference is that, unlike on Wikipedia, when confronted with the evidence, Kos banned Weiss immediately.

but rather go around shouting, "Smith is BAD, get rid of him."

Sorry, who was "Smith" again? Somebody told me once, but I forgot. :P

Here[/url] is his response to my question about whether he might be acquainted with Gary Weiss or not.

Well, at least he doesn't just blank the entry when asked by an AnonIP 80 minutes later... That's the nice thing about ol' Gary, he's always looking out for the "little guy"!

Actually, by the time most people read this, he will have blanked it.

That Word is good....he's very very good....

Don't worry. Utah is still not Nevada, and I have no desire to improve your silly encyclopedia. So cram it.

Those interested in the neverending rest of the story will enjoy this new wordy bomb. And it doesn't even mention good ol' Gary even once (shocking!), but does feature his wikidiki kiwi partner, johnny hemp. Who ironically is actually a player, not just a has-been ex-journalist.

http://www.deepcapture.com/the-stories-beh...-lawsuit-story/

The Facebook material word puts up is a new twist. And since he'd already featured WP on an earlier movie, no mention of it here. This movie is probably there to go with the articles out today featuring a lawsuit settlement that plugs deepcapture a bit.

That Word is good....he's very very good....

And WP's favorite scribe, Cade, has some interesting input:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/09/ov...k_settles_suit/

A new editor removed the Register story and rewrote the part about Copper Trading in the Overstock.com article.

14:24, 9 December 2009 (hist | diff) Overstock.com ‎ (→Board of Directors: Dr. titles only used for medical doctors)

AmishPete, the amazingl born again SPA POV Warrior on the Byrne/Ostock/NSS saga really really doesn't like Mr. Byrne, lol.




Johnny is not a fan of Cla68. Go figure!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=330685874

He's concerned about his neutrality, lol. Johnny's about as neutral as a neutron wordbomb.

That's not a big settlement...

Gary Weiss/John Hempton timeshare sock "johnnyb256" just opposed Cla68's candidacy.

That's a positive thing for Cla68, lol.

Who is John Hempton...

...and why do you think he is sharing the JohnnyB256 account?

http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_arti...s-patrick-byrne

New "marketwrap.com" article today. Carry on.