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Maketoast is no longer a moderator at WS.
If you are not familiar with Maketoast let me give you a brief background.
Maketoast use to have a site containing many JonBenet Ramsey pictures and such. "Maketoast" was a teenager when he started out.
Supposedly someone else purchased the Maketoast site at the end of last year and started using the name Maketoast on the forums. All the while claiming to be a different "Maketoast."
Maketoast e-mailed me and told me his "real" first name and his "real" job. Said he had been around on the boards for a long time and when the Maketoast name and site went up for sale he grabbed it.
I was skeptical. It's really too long of a story to go into all the details but let's just say I found it hard to believe that someone out of the blue would buy up the Maketoast name and jump into the forums at this late date in the JBR case.
I took over ownership of Websleuths almost 3 weeks ago. Maketoast was a moderator on the JBR site. River, the former owner, told me Maketoast was a good moderator so I let it go.
I then received two bizarre emails from a Richard Gesler or Gusler. Depending on how he wanted to spell his name that day.
Below is one of the emails.
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Patricia. Hi. I am speaking for a large group of posters on the Websleuths
forum community who do not agree with you being the owner of the site. This is not about you personally, but is for the good of the forum. Websleuths has been my life for years now and I would hate to see the values that myself among others have for Websleuths become something of the past. That is why members have started or are starting a site with a petition for Ownership of Websleuths to be turned over to someone else. I will forward you the Web Address as soon as we are up. Patricia, don't take this the wrong way because it is not directed at you as a person, it's just we believe that the future of this site is on the line, and we all would like it to survive. Please give this some thought. How many people must we have sign before something can be worked out?
Reguards,
Richard
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Then I received another one stating that the petition was going up on April 10th and he would send me the link. He never did.
I have traced the IP of this email back to a library in a very small town. This same IP matched one that Maketoast used on Websleuths. It is a definite match. There is no question. Maketoast is the person who wrote this email.
I have been e-mailing Maketoast since Saturday with no response. To me that speaks volumes.
One other thing. I was able to trace other IP's that Maketoast had used on WS. Several of them went back to a suburb of Atlanta.
I really don't think anyone jumps into the JBR case this strong. This late in the game.
By the way the Maketoast site is very pro Ramsey.
I am not sure what Maketoast thought he would accomplish. Perhaps he was looking to take over WS and I put a wrench in the deal. I don't know.
I am going to be talking with people over the next few days about being the new moderator of the JBR forum.
I appreciate your patience and support in this matter.
Tricia Griffith
If you are not familiar with Maketoast let me give you a brief background.
Maketoast use to have a site containing many JonBenet Ramsey pictures and such. "Maketoast" was a teenager when he started out.
Supposedly someone else purchased the Maketoast site at the end of last year and started using the name Maketoast on the forums. All the while claiming to be a different "Maketoast."
Maketoast e-mailed me and told me his "real" first name and his "real" job. Said he had been around on the boards for a long time and when the Maketoast name and site went up for sale he grabbed it.
I was skeptical. It's really too long of a story to go into all the details but let's just say I found it hard to believe that someone out of the blue would buy up the Maketoast name and jump into the forums at this late date in the JBR case.
I took over ownership of Websleuths almost 3 weeks ago. Maketoast was a moderator on the JBR site. River, the former owner, told me Maketoast was a good moderator so I let it go.
I then received two bizarre emails from a Richard Gesler or Gusler. Depending on how he wanted to spell his name that day.
Below is one of the emails.
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Patricia. Hi. I am speaking for a large group of posters on the Websleuths
forum community who do not agree with you being the owner of the site. This is not about you personally, but is for the good of the forum. Websleuths has been my life for years now and I would hate to see the values that myself among others have for Websleuths become something of the past. That is why members have started or are starting a site with a petition for Ownership of Websleuths to be turned over to someone else. I will forward you the Web Address as soon as we are up. Patricia, don't take this the wrong way because it is not directed at you as a person, it's just we believe that the future of this site is on the line, and we all would like it to survive. Please give this some thought. How many people must we have sign before something can be worked out?
Reguards,
Richard
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Then I received another one stating that the petition was going up on April 10th and he would send me the link. He never did.
I have traced the IP of this email back to a library in a very small town. This same IP matched one that Maketoast used on Websleuths. It is a definite match. There is no question. Maketoast is the person who wrote this email.
I have been e-mailing Maketoast since Saturday with no response. To me that speaks volumes.
One other thing. I was able to trace other IP's that Maketoast had used on WS. Several of them went back to a suburb of Atlanta.
I really don't think anyone jumps into the JBR case this strong. This late in the game.
By the way the Maketoast site is very pro Ramsey.
I am not sure what Maketoast thought he would accomplish. Perhaps he was looking to take over WS and I put a wrench in the deal. I don't know.
I am going to be talking with people over the next few days about being the new moderator of the JBR forum.
I appreciate your patience and support in this matter.
Tricia Griffith
