I didn't think you'd know about it. I'm hardly a SMOF, and the thing with Seanan happened years before she was a published author. These were two separate incidents, but this is actually not uncommon.
They're always small sites that harassers set up themselves, usually on blog sites. Seanan's 'troll' was working out of a wiki site, most of what I saw, as well as posting abusive material on LJ. I don't know how they put an end to that but I believe Seanan and her other friends managed to get that stopped.
The one who went after me (mostly) and to a lesser degree several other of the people who were doing Lightning War (which is a fanworks mashup of about 20 fandoms) was making fake live journal accounts (and blogs, on blog sites) which were presenting themselves as mine, while posting abusive trash on any account we owned that wasn't locked to friends. This person is one of the reasons LJ developed a ban evasion policy because at one point everyone in Lightning War had a bunch of accounts banned. I lost track at 30 or so. They were eventually banned from LJ forever. That one stole photos I and friends had taken of me and defaced them and posted them on a Blogger site that they lost because we DMCA'd them for stealing our pictures.
This is actually very common behaviour in junior high and high schools; it's called 'cyberbullying'. Kids will make fake accounts, post doctored pictures and slurs and accusations about people they don't like, and put them up on the web for the whole school to see. Unfortunately kids and their parents don't usually know how to stop it and once it's been seen by everyone the damage is done, so there have been suicides.
Unfortunately, in fandom there are people who are not above this sort of behaviour even though they are adults; fortunately, most adults in fandom are conversant enough with website rules and applicable laws that we can usually eventually get these sites taken down.
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They're always small sites that harassers set up themselves, usually on blog sites. Seanan's 'troll' was working out of a wiki site, most of what I saw, as well as posting abusive material on LJ. I don't know how they put an end to that but I believe Seanan and her other friends managed to get that stopped.
The one who went after me (mostly) and to a lesser degree several other of the people who were doing Lightning War (which is a fanworks mashup of about 20 fandoms) was making fake live journal accounts (and blogs, on blog sites) which were presenting themselves as mine, while posting abusive trash on any account we owned that wasn't locked to friends. This person is one of the reasons LJ developed a ban evasion policy because at one point everyone in Lightning War had a bunch of accounts banned. I lost track at 30 or so. They were eventually banned from LJ forever. That one stole photos I and friends had taken of me and defaced them and posted them on a Blogger site that they lost because we DMCA'd them for stealing our pictures.
This is actually very common behaviour in junior high and high schools; it's called 'cyberbullying'. Kids will make fake accounts, post doctored pictures and slurs and accusations about people they don't like, and put them up on the web for the whole school to see. Unfortunately kids and their parents don't usually know how to stop it and once it's been seen by everyone the damage is done, so there have been suicides.
Unfortunately, in fandom there are people who are not above this sort of behaviour even though they are adults; fortunately, most adults in fandom are conversant enough with website rules and applicable laws that we can usually eventually get these sites taken down.