Dealing with persistant fakes and cybersquatters

As you may be aware, this is not the only blog that I write for. I also contribute to Thanet Creative. Which makes sense as I helped found it back in 2013.

I’m breaking in a new section on my blog today, “Other Blogging” where I will talk about blogging I do elsewhere. For this first post, I’m going to talk about blogging about fake Thanet Creative accounts.

The Thanet Canute

One of the things that has always puzzled me is why an entity I have dubbed The Thanet Canute is so obsessed with our little group. Nor am I clear why they are determined to have every fake account they make promote another group – Thanet Writers.

Yes, Thanet Writers used to be part of Thanet Creative (previously Thanet Creative Writers) but is it too much to ask that both sides be allowed to heal, move on, and pursue our different visions for supporting local writing?

Once again, I have found new fakes and once again had to warn people.

I addressed this issue almost a year ago, and still find new fakes regularly.

I’ve no idea what to do about this – other than warn people and report the fakes. If my readers have any ideas, please let me know. Fortunatly these fakes are largely inneffective, unnoticed, and pretty lazily done.

Sorry this one is such a downer. Something more cheerful next time, I hope.