Scott Greenfield, the man behind Simple Justice: Norm Pattis alerted me to this issue Scott faces. To explain the matter to you, I am going to copy shamelessly from Scott’s post (I can do that, it is for a good cause):
“You may have noticed that I included my name in the title of this post. It’s the first time I’ve ever done that. The reason is because my name appears in plenty of posts, usually the ones critical of me or at least being overtly snarky. I know, the snarky ones are meant as an homage, but sometimes they take my jokes too seriously and strike me as being unable to distinguish between the person and the persona. It annoys me at times.
A couple of weeks ago, an email came in about how the write had googled my name and found some insane, vile posts about me on the second page. My psycho stalker is still working hard through the night trying to get his inane nonsense on the first page of google. You haven’t made it as a blawger until you have a psycho stalker. Psychos, by definition, don’t go away. I assume that people who aren’t totally nuts realize that these attacks are the work of a psycho. I could be wrong, but I have no plans on spending my time worrying about it.
By putting my name in the title of this post, it’s likely to appear on the first page of google. It will push the insane posts down the list by one. It would be really great if everyone did a nice post about me and used my name in the title, so that the insane posts could be pushed back to page 28. I don’t expect anyone will think it worth their effort to do so, unfortunately. Simple Justice may matter enough to read, but there’s little concern out there for the writer. I’m more the hired (yet unpaid) help, as far as others are concerned.”
I read Simple Justice (and a few other blogs) but do not know Scott personally. I do know this: there are a lot of crazies out there who would do anything to harm a person’s reputation. And as one lawyer to another, we should help each other.
So here it is, Scott. A post with your name in the title in hopes we get your stalker way beyond page 30 on Google.
Cheers!