Okay I got another story, since the Statute of Limitations has expired, apparently.
A bit of a behind-the-curtain story. Nothing earth-shattering.
I think we all enjoyed Andyman. He had this really cool avatar of a cigar smoking old guy. Hard to describe but it was fun. He would occassionally post stuff - stuff that nobody knew. Not the press, not the Redskins insiders. Nobody. And then, a day or two later, what he said would come true! How cool is that? Being on ES was like having our own private inside source, even more inside then some of the highly regarded media! Pretty awesome.
Meanwhile...
I had created a thread called Everything You Wanted To Know About FedExField. It was a long OP, constantly edited and improved with photos and details of FedExField. All sorts of inside stuff that you couldn't find anywhere else. Details such as where you could sit to be under cover, what row is the row you get rain hitting your knees but not your head, what row was the back row, what seats would have a railing in front of them with irritating foot traffic, what particular seat would drip rain on your head because there was a leak somewhere in the upper deck, etc. It was a pretty popular thread.
This was back in my fairly early days on ES, before I was a mod.
So at some point, there was a member who joined who admitted he worked in the ticket office. But he was also a fan and enjoyed the forum. Fine.
Then a bit later, there were a couple guys who began bullying me on the forum. Fairly new members. And this went on for a while. Then after a while they began accusing me of being a ticket scalper or having a ticket business. After all, how else did I know so much about the stadium? And why? Truth is, I probably knew more than anybody working for the team because I was passionate. You can't beat passion. Passion always wins.
Fact is, I was buying great seats for myself every week, at great prices. Yeah I had season tix, but I had sold them so that I wouldn't have to sit in them. Why should I sit in the front row of the upper deck when I could sit in what were basically Touchdown Club seats? I could get much better seats on a weekly basis on the aftermarket. This was partly because the team was not good, and partly because the stadium, at 90,000 seats, was way too big to market a losing or mediocre team. And partly because, regarding buying, I had a timing method down which worked great.
So then the guy starts PMing with my daughter DLSF, harassing her somewhat but also prodding about what her dad did for a living. Meanwhile, I'm in PMs with TK, kind of complaining about this guy. Not too loudly, but just saying something is weird with him. Why is he so upset? All I'm doing is providing helpful info for members. Didn't make any sense. Why is he attacking me? Why is he harassing my daughter?
So then TK PMed the guy re my daughter and basically told him to knock it off. He sent me a copy of the PM. Stop harassing the young girl. She was in her teens back then.
Meanwhile, DLSF kind of made friends with the guy, and she found out his FB account which showed his real name. She of course relayed this to me. So that was good info. Now I got his name.
But he didn't stop harassing me.
Then it occurred to me, the guy probably has two accounts, which isn't allowed, as I recall. It was against the ES forum rules to have two accounts. He is likely the ticket office guy mentioned earlier, but he's also masquerading as the bully on another account. But I had no proof.
Then I started studying his posts, and he had this weird habit of finishing paragraphs by punching out seven periods. Like this.......
Not all the time, but some times. And when he did it, it was always seven periods.
Exactly seven. Never six, never eight.
And both members, the ticket office guy and the bully, would do this. Seven periods. In my mind, this was proof that it was the same guy.
I pointed this out to both TK and Jumbo, and they didn't disagree. But apparently, they didn't consider it solid proof.
Finally, one day, the bully guy bitched me out in some thread but used my real life name, my last name. And also the real life last name of my friend who was my ally and who was a stadium expert (I mentioned him in another thread here a few days ago re a Nixon photo). It was obvious he had figured out our season ticket seats, accessed the Redskins season ticket database, and learned my last name, and also the other guy's last name. And posted both names in the same thread on ES!
And so, again, I PMed TK and said WTF??? This shit has to stop. This moron is using his position at the ticket office to look up the info on me and my friend and then posting it on the Redskins owned public forum??? Are you kidding me? That info is confidential! What would the press do with this? How about the WP, who hates Snyder? I bet they'd love to print this. What can we do to make this stop??? Enough is enough.
It stopped pretty quick! TK PMed Art. Art talked to Swanson. Swanson talked to the manager in the ticket office. And the manager in the ticket office chewed the guy out big time, and told him he was on the verge of being fired and to stop with the shenanigans.
And shazaam. It stopped that very day! TK PMed me like an hour later and told me the guy was getting chewed out. Boom.
Apparently, he was not fired, which kind of surprised me. But I never heard from the dude again. Haha.
I PMed Andyman and just said "Thanks for the help."
He didn't respond, of course.
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