It's Been a While

It's been a bit since I've posted anything. Real life, things that matter, things that aren't whinny brats, have become more important. But I wanted to stop by and say hi and I haven't forgotten about this blog. I thought I'd treat everyone with a nice video. Every time anyone sees a mention of Carol Bryant I want everyone to think of this song. It'll make your day a bit brighter.

Is He A Dumbass Or Just Stupid? Carroll Bryant Has Reached A New Low.

I think Carroll Bryant has reached an all time low. In his latest post he not only plays games but decides to run another name through the mud. 

He claims to have received this "email" from Jude.

In the same email, Carroll Bryant says he painted over the email addresses to not expose personal information. Admirable enough, except for the fact he posted fake text stating that Jude had an abortion! Carroll Bryant plays his little games by saying:

I even had some bullies tell me it couldn't be fake when I suggested that possibility once. They said you can't fake emails.  

Really? Okay then, let's put that theory to the test, shall we? 

In the screenshot below, you will see an email - an actual email that Jude sent me one day. I did one thing to this email, and that is - I whited out her and mine email addresses. You will notice the white gap above her message. That was the area where our email addresses were. (I didn't think it would be nice of me to give her email out to the world)  

However, the message she sent me is real. (Or is it?) This is the question you have to answer. Keeping in mind that if an email can't be "doctored" or "altered" then it would make this email real and true. Then again, if it is fake, then that would open the door to the possibility that the email Jude Henderson showed all of her bully friends (which led to my being attacked) could have been "doctored" or "altered". 

Is the email doctored? Horribly...  I don't think a computer scientist needs to analyze this poorly crafted "evidence." See where the emails have been painted out? You see how the paint brush from the paint application left a discolored edge around the brush where the email address would typically be displayed? Can you spot that same artifacting anywhere else in this message? Perhaps, maybe around the body text of the email?

There are so many things wrong with his latest post, I can't help but put in my personal opinion.

Bryant, are you just downright fucking stupid?

Not only did he clear out the to and from email addresses, he cleared out any time stamps and the subject line. Brian Carroll copied some random email from his Yahoo inbox. There is a reason why ALL information is deleted and not just the email addresses.

The type font isn't correct, you dumb shit. Look it up. Even if you are (Carroll Bryant) going to post fake shit in the name of a game, do your homework and at least make the challenge difficult. You are a lazy dumb ass. No wonder your books are filled with grammar issues. You're too lazy to even research and put in the proper time. At least I have an excuse! I'm not a self-proclaimed author.

And worst of all, the message you display in the email for the sake of shock value.... You ever think maybe there is a reason why people write bad things about you? Maybe because they are true? Maybe because you deserve it.

You're a 48 year old lonely individual who can't stop pining over some girl you met on the internet. You pine so badly that Kristine broke up with you, or whatever her name was, because you couldn't stop. How did that marriage proposal go by the way? That internet girl hurt you so badly you decided to run a smear campaign that spanned into the next year. Good God, get over it already.

Furthermore, who stated that emails can't be faked? Show us the evidence. Give us a screenshot. But you can't. You read my articles about the difference about IP addresses and IPs. You got pissed when I left a comment flat out telling you that you lied, which wasn't published. You refuse to post real evidence backing any of your claims. I even told you how to get this evidence. And let's not pretend that you don't read this blog, aight Zemy?

Anyone that reads this article, I encourage you to report Carroll Bryant's blog for abuse to Google. Posting an obviously edited screenshot declaring that a person has had an abortion is not freedom of speech. It is down right abuse and libel.

You can read how to report a blog for abuse here: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76315

I Thought Carroll Bryant Was Not Against Bad Reviews?

Carroll Bryant has stated that he is not against bad reviews.

But what happens when a reader does purchase one of his books and does honestly give it a bad review?

Carroll Bryant goes into overdrive and deflects as much as possible.

He attempts his deflection so much that the reviewer has to respond.

So what happens when Carroll Bryant receives a legitimately bad review?

Personal Opinion: I've read a lot of people say they won't read Carroll Bryant's books I've seen a lot of comments about GoodReads members shelving his book in a "do not read" list. Yet Carrol Bryant screams and hollers that these are bullying behaviors.

I have to wonder if Bryant has ever not purchased a product because he heard the bad press about that product. That's what people typically do. They hear something bad about a product from a friend and refuse to buy it. Or they hear about shady business practices on the news and refuse to purchase a product.

That's what happened here. We all heard some shady things going on and we refused to buy his product. Now he screams that we are all bullies for not buying his product. Why would I buy a product from a person that acts like he does and treats people like he does?

Now Jessica Sorenson, that is an upright independent author I have heard nothing but good things about.

References:

http://insatiablebooksluts.com/2012/07/17/reading-rage-tuesday-goodreads-bullies-and-why-authors-need-to-stop-the-crusade/
http://caedyslibrary.blogspot.com/2012/12/review-year-of-cat-by-carroll-bryant.html

Carroll Bryant Doesn't Approve Of Aliases, Or Does He?

Carroll Bryant has stated multiple time and in multiple places that he only uses his "real" name while posting comments or stories.

But it appears Carroll Bryant has decided to leave a comment on my article, A Proposed Debate, under a false name of Zemy96.

Why do I say this? Doing a quick google search for Zemy96 brings up this profile.

Why is this any kind of evidence? See that profile picture? Does it look familiar? Carroll Bryant seems fond of it himself.

So that leaves me with two questions.

1. Why is Carroll Bryant hiding behind an alias?

2. Why would he say that he won't debate me, offer his side of the story, and respond with...

... and then post a comment on this blog under an alias?

Carroll Bryant, you cry that no one asks for your side of the story. I did.  I offered a reasonable debate. You responded with this. 

References:

http://thelookingglassofcarrollbryant.blogspot.com/

http://carrollbryant.blogspot.com/

http://tiredofbryant.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-proposed-debate.html#comment-form

http://www.wattpad.com/user/Zemy96

http://carrollbryant.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-list-2-proof-of-bullies-on-goodreads.html

http://tiredofbryant.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-proposed-debate.html

Am I Tired Of Carroll Bryant?

Let me make myself clear; I am tired of Carroll Bryant. Carroll Bryant is a worthless individual to me. He has no effect on my life. Frankly I wish he would just go away. But Bryant has proven over the past year that he won’t with his continual stalking of other blogs.

The community has tried to ignore him in hopes that he will disappear. It hasn’t worked. When readers ignore Carroll Bryant he cries louder, throwing a temper tantrum like a child while screaming about false evidence and dragging peoples’ names through the mud.

I refuse to sit back and just let him do it. Ignoring him has not worked. Am I tired of Carroll Bryant? Yes. But while he continues his conquest of trying to shame others I will continue my work in displaying proven evidence, with as little personal opinion as possible, that Carroll Bryant is nothing more than a whinny bully child. Carroll Bryant does not tell the truth and spends his days tormenting others.

So you wish to bring hell to others Bryant? You wish to try and run peoples’ names through the mud? Fine. As long as you wish to continue your “crusade of truth” I’ll continue to post your actual truths.

As for you Carroll Bryant, yes I’m tired of you, and no…

Just Because You Say Something An Awful Lot Doesn't Mean It's True

Carroll Bryant insists Amanda is GenX because of some supposable comment GenX made on her blog according to Carroll Bryant.

There is only one problem with his statement; it never existed. Just because you might say something a thousand times doesn't mean it's true. I took a look through GenXpose and could not find a single comment that GenXfiles made that was deleted.

When a Blogger blog moderator later deletes a comment from a blog, including their own, that comment still leaves a footprint. It's the original commenters handle (their screen name) followed by a message that states the comment has been deleted.

But what about an article that's been deleted? Everything lives on the internet forever now, especially thanks to Google caching everything. I took a look through Google's cached pages of the GenXpose blog and could not find a single article that has been deleted. Obviously it's not feasible for me to copy and paste a screenshot of that blog here. So I encourage you to look for yourself.

You can read more about how to look through Google's cached pages here although doing a quick Google search will net tons of guides.

References:
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15633/how-to-modify-a-url-to-get-a-google-cached-version-of-page
http://www.genxpose.blogspot.com/
http://thelookingglassofcarrollbryant.blogspot.com/2013/03/amanda-welling.html

A Proposed Debate

I originally wrote this as a comment response to Carroll Bryant's blog post regarding Amanda. My response ended up being to long. I decided to post it here along with a link and explanation of that link on Carroll Bryant's blog pointing him here.

Here is the comment I left on his blog:

Carroll, you say that you are open to debate. I tried to leave a comment here but apparently it can not be over 4000 characters in length. Instead I posted it on the blog. If you wish to read it and debate what I say I am extending you that offer as you have done in your comments previously. If you would like to read it and respond here, that is fine. We can also debate it there as well. Just as a word of warning, comment moderation is off. We can also debate via email correspondence if you wish. Per my policy, written content of emails are not posted and display without prior consent. The choice is yours.

Here is my intended debate response that would not fit in the comment area.

I’ll give you the benefit of debate here. 

I’m wondering how long it will take you to defer this debate to "I am Jon or Amanda" to. 

I’m not really seeing the proof here. I’d like you to explain it out better. And here’s why. 

You edited your post before it went live saying that evidence proves beyond a shadow of a doubt Amanda is GenX. You say this because of a PayPal receipt (I won’t revisit this to much, I’ve read your take already) and a blog post comment on GenX's blog.  

I understand you wouldn’t have that original email of that PayPal receipt but you do have an email from Jon. You say that Jon and Amanda are married. If they are married they would be using the same ISP. You also have emails from GenX. Why not post the email headers from both Jon and GenX in their entirety? That would contain hard evidence that both emails originated from the same household. 

You also make the case that Amanda is GenX because of a comment on GenX’s blog about her blog being backed up. I read through that blog post and the context of that comment meant that GenX backs up the GenXPose blog, not the “Hippies, Beauty, and Books. Oh My!” blog.  You made a reference about others reading one of your comments out of context. Could this be the same case here? 

In this blog article you mention an article Amanda had posted on her Hippies blog referencing you. I didn’t see a time stamp in the screenshot that you had posted. When I checked out the actual blog the timestamp on that article is from July 25th, 2012. Now she did mention you in that article, I’ll give you that. But the context of the article was not about you. It was written about events that regarded you. Around the same time though, there were tons of article written that mentioned you. You posted to one written at the Rex files, didn’t you? How do you know GenX isn’t one of these others, or even is any of them? 

Next I want to bring up those screen caps you posted that of comments Amanda had made on your blog. They are time stamped for the same day that the article mentioned above was written. An Anon commenter posted the links to her blog posts on your blog. She was responding to that Anon that posted those links. Amanda did change her review policy. But if you remember, and you’ve complained about it before, a lot of bloggers did during the summer of last year. There were a number of incidents with indie authors during the summer of last year. I think when the debacle with you started it was the straw that broke the camels back. Her leaving comments last summer doesn’t equate to her being GenX. I found tons of blog articles about you written by others where you had much worse interactions with other commenters..  

You also post a screen shot of a comment GenX post on your blog. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and read the post from Amanda, the comments Amanda left, and the comment by GenX closely. The writing style of all three actually seem very different to me. The comments Amanda made don’t leave enough writing to examine closely, but the comment that GenX and the blog post by Amanda do. The writing styles and tone are extremely different.  

I also want to bring up the comment by Mepis. I did not read anything that said he will “stop at nothing.” To me, that reads as a precautionary legal measure. In fact, this kind of thing isn’t uncommon. It generally looks good in court, if ever needed, to say that you warned someone before hand. And it looks like Mepis did exactly what he said he as going to do and copy and pasted that message to your email accounts. 

At any rate, I’ve been chewing over this and all I see is flimsy circumstantial evidence at best. I can barely call it that. Many other bloggers acted and reacted in the same fashion during the summer of last year. Picking a single one out doesn't seem like proof.

Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t expect much, if anything from these arguments. I know very well your supporters will back you no matter what you say. But you said you were open for debate. I was curious enough to see if you meant that and accept your extended offer. 

I think if you wanted to post real evidence that is beyond arguable than you need to display unedited headers from those emails. Everything that happened last year becomes flooded in the reactions by other bloggers. An email of a PayPal receipt means nothing by itself. I think by Jon's own admission in the comments on GenX's blog he used that donation to get information about that PayPal account that many were wondering about.

I think all of your proof lies on those email headers. Post screen shots of the complete headers so we can see that they are real and the image wasn't tampered with.

Update:

This is Carroll Bryant's official response to my comment posted on his blog offering this debate.

He goes on to respond to others that comment in regard to my comment.

Carroll Bryant thus far has refused to reasonably debate any person regarding his claims. I have found no evidence showing otherwise. Carroll Bryant claims that he started "Through the Looking Glass" in defense of himself yet he only posts libel and character defamation. 

Inappropriate Relationships

Carroll Bryant claims to not have had a relationship with Jude Henderson outside friendship. Yet his twitter accounts are filled with references to Jude and Carroll Bryant has comments regarding her scattered throughout his blog. He still claims to have never been romantically involved with Jude.

I wanted to display a few particular screen caps that might suggest otherwise.

Personal Opinion:

Why would someone write such things if they were never in a relationship with someone? It sounds as if it ended rather badly.

References:

http://carrollbryant.blogspot.com/2012/04/carrolls-journal-14-getting-married.html

http://carrollbryant.blogspot.com/2012/03/carrolls-journal-12-meximelt.html

http://thelookingglassofcarrollbryant.blogspot.com/2013/02/goodreads-or-good-pedophilia.html

Doc Dropping is Not Cool, Part 2

I ran into another piece of information I wanted to share while researching another article. I’ve read other comments that Carroll Bryant has made in various places that he doesn't doc drop or that he believes it’s wrong. As I stumble on these comments I will post them as references in this article. There is a lot of information to sift through.

This comment he made on his personal blog appears to display otherwise though.

Update: Positive Proof

I will state, at the time of writing, I have not found any posts of Carroll Bryant actually releasing personal information.

References:
http://carrollbryant.blogspot.com/2012/11/goodreads-bullies-at-it-again.html
https://twitter.com/CarrollBryant  : Tweeted on May 28th, 2012

Doc Dropping is Not Cool

I continually see proponents of STGRB asking for proof that the website (StopTheGRBullies) did indeed doc drop personal information on their website. While I was researching another story I came across some rather circumstantial evidence that appears pretty damning.

I want to state that these screen caps exist in other places on the internet. I merely stumbled across them. I did not take them. I can not claim validity of them.  I say this because STGRB’s original website was removed after a DMCA take down notice according to Ann Somerville in a comment she has made on GenX’s blog and elsewhere. Somerville’s own explanation can be read at the LogoPhilos.net link in the references.

I can find no reason to say that these screen caps are fake though. The writing style in these caps is consistent with the same style used on StopTheGRBullies’ website.  I also examined the pictures closely for editing artifacts. The pictures do contain the typical censoring bar edited in, presumably from the source (the first reference site),  after the fact. But otherwise I see no evidence of digital tampering. You can easily find numerous crash courses on the internet if you would like to verify this yourself. I would recommend using an open source tool called Gimp. It’s free and will serve the purpose perfectly.

It's claimed that this screen cap originally appeared on an author's blog by the name of Melissa Douthit and was later removed. Melissa Douthit is currently suspected to be the owner/operate of the STGRB website.

References:
http://behindstgrb.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/top-8-reasons-why-stgrb-is-the-biggest-bully-in-romancelandia/
http://www.genxpose.blogspot.com/2013/01/stgrb-facts-rumors-speculation.html
http://logophilos.net/blog/index.php/2013/01/the-smell-of-rotten-fish-is-so-hard-to-disperse/
http://www.gimp.org/

ISP Confusion

Here is another screen cap of Carroll Bryant claiming he has proof of Amanda Welling being GenX by comparing ISPs. He mentioned an email, probably the same PayPal receipt email I mentioned in my last post. That email can also be found at GenExpose.Com under the article Somnambulation. I’m assuming that he meant that he compared the header files from that email. I say this because this is the only place in an email that would contain ISP information.

Here’s the issue. Comparing ISPs from a header file means absolutely nothing. An ISP is an Internet Service Provider. There are only so many in the US. In fact, in most markets there are very few. An ISP would be a company like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, and Road Runner to name a few. This is the company that provides you with your internet connection. Obviously it would be very difficult to say that just because two people use Comcast as an ISP that they are the same person. Myself and millions of other Americans use Comcast to provide an internet connection.

A more accurate way of proving that two people are one in the same is by comparing IP addresses. Think of an IP address as a personal home address for your internet connection. An IP address is specific to one computer, or in case of the typical consumer, one gateway or your cable or DSL modem. There are still issues with this though. Most ISP providers typically use dynamic IP addresses. Otherwise meaning, they get recycled between other customers. Explaining this more in depth goes beyond the scope of this article though.

Now email address headers do contain IP information although it’s not easy to read. I linked an article for reference below that can explain it better. The header is capable, although not always, able to contain the IP address of every computer, and server, that the email had to bounce through to reach its destination. Think of the header as a passport that gets stamped every time it comes off the plane.

With that said, if Carroll Bryant did indeed mean to say IP instead of ISP then go ahead and post the email headers. It’s definitive proof. Seeing how the letters ‘I’, ‘S’, and ‘P’ are so far apart on the keyboard though I doubt it was a typo.

References

Http://StoptheGRBuillies.Com

http://www.genxpose.blogspot.com/2013/02/somnambulation.html

http://whatismyipaddress.com/email-header

Grasping At Straws

I ask that you stay with me for a moment because I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one. Carroll Bryant claims to have definitive proof that Amanda Welling is GenX. He claims this apparently because Amanda Welling’s old blog, “Hippies, Beauty, and Books. Oh My!”, was removed, and GenX also makes a comment in a recent post about backing up their blog often.

Carroll Bryant’s comment. To be fair, you may want to read his entire article. As I said, it’s a confusing mess that is grasping at straws at best.

Here is the specific piece of GenX’s article that makes a comment about backing up their blog. Again, I would recommend skimming through the article to decide the context of the comment yourself.

I also found this. Here is “Hippies, Beauty, and Books. Oh My!” It is obviously still online. It has not moved from its domain. In fact, it’s a Blogger blog which implies it can’t be moved so easily. Pay attention to the time stamp on the posts though. That is the latest activity on the blog. Click through the reference link to verify it yourself.

References:

http://www.hippiesbeautyandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/

http://www.genxpose.blogspot.com/2013/02/somnambulation.html

http://thelookingglassofcarrollbryant.blogspot.com/2013/02/amanda-welling-goes-mental.html#comment-form

IP Woes Continue

Carroll Bryant claims to be tracking IP addresses in a recent blog post comment.

I want to bring this up to put reader's fears to rest that he is logging and tracking personal information such as IP addresses. I mentioned in another blog post that this could not be done with Google products (Blogger, Analytics, etc...) A few quick Google searches will verify this information.

Be warned, the rest of this post is long. I will be posting a screen cap and his page source. The reference link will be posted before the screen cap.

You can verify the validity of the page source information yourself by viewing the HTML of his blog from your browser. I also used a page break. All relevant information is in view. If you wish to view the page source HTML code please click the 'Read more' button.

I explain more regarding IP tracking and Google Products here:
http://tiredofbryant.blogspot.com/2013/02/whats-in-ip-address.html

Personal Opinion:
Why do I post his page source? It would be a fair assumption that if he wanted to log IP addresses he would be doing it for all of his blogs. He removed the other blogs being referenced in his comment though so I am posting the page source for his 'Looking Glass of Carroll Bryant' blog.

Reference:
http://thelookingglassofcarrollbryant.blogspot.com/2013/02/amanda-welling-goes-mental.html#comment-form

What's in an IP address?

What's the point of this post? I want to provide further evidence that Carroll Bryant is a pathological liar.

Carroll Bryant claims he can track IP addresses as per this comment.

Yet his blogs are hosted via free vendors like Blogger as you can see by the sub-domains.

List of Blogs:
http://thelookingglassofcarrollbryant.blogspot.com/
http://carrollbryant.blogspot.com/
http://thecarrollbryantcollection.blogspot.com/


Google's TOS (terms of service) will not allow any IP tracking. This includes Google Analytics.
Google Privacy Centre

What’s In a biopic?

Carroll Bryant has been accused of using a model’s picture as his biopic in various places. This issue has been exhausted relentlessly. Feel free to search through the blogosphere for more information and others opinions regarding this topic.

I do however take a certain issue with a comment Bryant has made on his blog regarding this issue, specifically the remark about this being a joke.

In turn, I would like to present this evidence I found and let you draw any further conclusions from there.

As you can see, the timestamp on those comments dates back to 2010.

References:

http://thelookingglassofcarrollbryant.blogspot.com/2013/02/carroll-bryant-lies.html

http://barsetshirediaries.wordpress.com/an-interview-with-carroll-absolom-bryant/