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Abd now attacking Joshua Schroeder

Abd attacks and trolls a new skeptic every few months. He is now personally attacking astronomer Joshua Schroeder and posting slander about him on his personal website [1] (note this blog post has been changed on December 3, 2017) and on forums.

An archived copy, if he tries to remove it.

119.81.64.88 (talk) 05:16, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Abd has deleted the slander he wrote about Joshua yesterday, yet archived evidence remains, so he cannot deny what he wrote! He did this because he is scared he will get in trouble with admins on Wikiversity or Meta-Wiki. Abd has been blocked on Wikipedia, but he still has an active Wikiversity account. Abd claims he is a victim of 'skeptic harassment', actually the only harassment comes from Abd. Not only is he banned all over the web, he stalks and posts lies and slander about skeptics on his website. AstroPhysics (talk) 17:36, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Just an update, Abd's original post about Joshua has entirely been changed. It is back up live, but all the original material has been deleted. AstroPhysics (talk) 15:21, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Abd posting libel about Joshua on the Thunderbolts forum [2], [3]. He will not doubt complain this has been archived as well. The deeper question is why does he sign up to forums to slander people? It is not an offense to archive his harassment. Archiving is for documentation purposes. If he is so concerned about getting in trouble for what he has done, why does he do it in the first place? He is clearly one of these guys who can never own up and just admit he has done wrong. AstroPhysics (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Abd's latest target is again Wikipedia user JPS, [4], [5]. This is getting obsessional. AstroPhysics (talk) 14:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Dishonesty from Abd

Abd on October 4, 2017 attacked Joshua on his blog as a "pseudoskeptic" and stalked this persons identity [6], also archived.

On December 2, 2017 he was warned about his harassment and deleted his offensive blog post. His original post has since been deleted but Abd has been dishonest and decided to completely change it on 3 December, 2017. His new blog post on the same link which is live [7] now attacks another user and a bunch of random IP addresses, who he blames for archiving his original post. Outright deception and dishonesty from Abd. He does not apologize for his original attacks on Joshua, he now hides his original slanderous article, and shifts the blame onto someone else he has a personal vendetta against complaining that this person archived his original post. AstroPhysics (talk) 15:04, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Abd says it is 'harassment' to archive his website posts. Lol. He slandered Joshua, got scared about his original slander and has now tried to hide it. AstroPhysics (talk) 15:20, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
You might want to archive everything Abd writes, because not only is he now removing past material on his own blog, he is now trying to remove negative things he wrote about people on other websites. 46.246.93.60 (talk) 19:07, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Abd banned on four forums for trolling

According to this post written by someone that Abd got in an argument with, he has been banned on four forums. 46.246.93.60 (talk) 19:12, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

It was actually 3 forums he got banned on, the fourth was an Islamic group that he got asked to leave, not a forum. He was likely booted from that group but we do not know the true details. His bans on Wikipedia and Rationalwiki would bring it to 5 though. The guy Zeus46 you linked to described Lomax as the "king of trolls", I would agree with that description. AstroPhysics (talk) 19:28, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Abd in this post claims [8] "I am permanently banned on LF. I actually declared a boycott, that I would not be posting any more, because of extensively deletions of content without warning or opportunity to recover it. So I was immediately banned, there was no other cause or explanation, public or private." Yet according to other users who post over there, he was banned on that forum for arguing and trolling. He then wrote an obsessional 4,000 words on his blog [9], blaming the administration of the forum for his ban. Like I said above, he seems to be someone who can never admit to being in the wrong. His bans have been well documented across the internet but he never admits to his disruptive behaviour. AstroPhysics (talk) 20:17, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Abd and his sock-puppets

Abd was blocked on one called "EnergyNeutral" [10] AstroPhysics (talk) 14:43, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Abd banned on Wikiversity for a year for disruption

Abd was just banned on Wikiversity (31 December, 2017) for a year [11] for "Repeat disruptive editing of pages: you have interfered with a legitimate discussion of the scope of a wikiversity resource."

He seems to get banned from everywhere. AstroPhysics (talk) 18:51, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

He has now been banned indefinitely. Previous to his perm block he had been blocked 8 times [12]. This guy is obviously a serious online harasser and trouble-maker. Anti-Fascist for life (talk) 22:08, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Nope, he was blocked 11 times actually (between 2010 and 2017). Mad. He has since blogged about this claiming he has been incorrectly blocked. Yeh right, incorrectly blocked a total of 11 times, funny stuff. This guy has traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. He seems to think no matter what he does, he is always right and everyone is wrong and should bow down to him. He's been blocked on various cold fusion forums, Rationalwiki, Wikipedia and Wikiversity by separate admins... yet some how everyone is wrong about his disruptive behavior and he should be unblocked. AstroPhysics (talk) 08:47, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Still trolling

I see Lomax is still trolling people online. Zeus46 (talk) 15:41, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax is now siding with activists from the far-right

Lomax is now siding with alt-righters who hate Rationalwiki. He has just written an article on his blog defending Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Richard Lynn and the Mankind Quarterly. He has also admitted to being a "friend" Ben Steigmann for "years", but does not mention Steigmann's holocaust denial. Convenient. Anti racist man (talk) 23:06, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

I am a Wikipedia user who has been harassed by Abd Lomax. I think Rationalwiki should take legal action against Abd ul-Rahman Lomax, on his Cold Fusion Community blog he has defamatory material and is cyberstalking Rationalwiki members by posting their families house addresses. He also said he would legally defend a pedophile. He appears to be a very disturbed man. No doubt the police have him under their radar. El Badboy (talk) 20:53, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Suing people is not without risk. First it opens one up to a discovery process by the person one is suing. Second it can be very costly. Third the grounds for suing may not be very strong. In the US, everyone accused of a crime (including pedophiles) is entitled to a legal defense. Bongolian (talk) 21:34, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I am well aware of this. The issue about Lomax though was also raised by another editor I noticed [13] Lomax has about six defamatory articles about Rationalwiki on his Cold Fusion website and he spams them onto this website on sock-puppet accounts. He is obviously looking for trouble. Would it not be possible for the RationalWiki Foundation to take legal action against him? The RW Foundation as far as I know are not anonymous. Trent Toulouse etc. Wouldn't they take interest in this? El Badboy (talk) 21:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
I don't think that the foundation should be bothered by anything posted by this twit thusfar. I've looked at the pages on his blog and they all are obviously the ravings of a complete raving loony and crank. If one or more of the supposed editors he claims to have doxxed takes offense, then it's up to them to do something about uit, and not Rational Wiki. His insane ramblings do not rise to the level of anything action except for ignoring it completely, or poking fun at the idiocy of the whole thing. Just my observation, Cosmikdebris (talk) 21:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
I was merely curious, given Lomax's shall we say tenacity.
PS: I've been to his blog, mainly out of curiosity and found that it was very poorly formatted. ☭Comrade GC☭Ministry of Praise 21:59, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

171528 words, 19 articles attacking me and counting

http://archive.is/KH2bC

So I decided to copy and paste all the posts Lomax has made attacking me on his website (19 articles in total, filed under one category).

By copy & pasting all his crazy rants on Microsoft word and using their word count: 171528.

He's also sent me about a dozen harassing emails.ODS (talk) 23:10, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Abd Lomax now banned by WMF (global ban)

He's now globally blocked.

Note that that a WMF Global Ban "is an extraordinary permanent measure to help assure the safety of users of the Wikimedia projects" without having to go through the typical blocking processes - so this type of ban is for only the most extreme vandals or harassers and only about 30 users by the Wikimedia Foundation have been banned this way.

Lomax has been harassing the families of various wiki editors, including mine (on/off the wiki); this includes doxing, libelling and cyber-stalking us by posting personal house addresses and phone numbers (that he acquired through a paywall) on his blog; writing up to 20 defamatory articles of his victims to abuse Google searches, as well as causing mass disruption on the wiki by filing fake sock-puppet investigations and posting ad hominem non-stop. The guy is seriously deranged. I'm glad WMF took this action.ODS (talk) 22:20, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Laughable legal threats by troll harasser Abd Lomax

http://archive.is/IIY3s

Since his global ban by WMF, and his ban by RationalWiki, he now posts a bogus legal threat threatening to sue loads of people, including myself. lol

In possible legal action, you will be named as an additional defendant. The primary defendants will be people who happen to be local to me, whom you deceived into supporting your demands, and who were, in their actions, negligent and with intention to harm, and, of course, the WMF, which would not, until the global lock, have had any liability at all. Now they do, because of the false claim of TOS violation.

I expect a series of co-plaintiffs, also thoughtfully created by you because you attacked many, but, for now, a list of possible co-defendants:

Michael Umbrecht, Rhode Island (or close), bureaucrat on Wikiversity Joshua P. Schroeder/Tan, New York, long-time disruptive Wikipedia user, who lied about harassing email from me. Guy Chapman, England, with a vendetta against me with many public defamatory comments, for almost ten years, Oliver D. Smith England, creator of attack articles on RationalWiki, doxxers and trolls and libels against many The WikiMedia Foundation, which acted without balanced investigation on the requests of the above and others, identities unknown, and, of course, The RationalWiki Foundation, host of defamatory articles, which has blocked attempts to correct these articles and allow response, which has also thoughtfully been collecting funds to protect against lawsuits, which, of course, makes them a more attractive target. I think these would fit nicely into a U.S. federal action, and I’ll be looking for counsel, to advise and assist, and other support.

(To those of the possible defendants listed above who see this, you may expect formal letters, from me or from counsel, in the near future. You may also contact me at this time to see if some compromise or settlement is possible, even before the involvement of counsel. I cannot speak at this point for other possible plaintiffs, but attempts to resolve issues in good faith will be respected by me — as I offered before to Oliver D. Smith.)

Note by "resolve issues in good faith" he means spamming your email inbox like he did mine with harassing emails.ODS (talk) 15:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

In this and in many recent comments, ODS has been outing himself ("myself").

That does look like a legal threat, all right, but not posted here, except, of course, by "ODS," identity obvious. Lomax has published the emails from "ODS". Smith wrote him, not the other way around, and there has been no harassment by Lomax, the latest mail was from ODS, complaining about trolls commenting on Lomax's blog]. Responding to an email is far, far from spam or harassment. So, here, ODS is lying as he (and/or his brother) have been lying for years.

See and compare what ODS wrote on the same day:

  • 99.9% of those accounts are my twin brother.email January 25, 2018
  • I have no control over his activities, he doesn't now live with me, although does sometimes visit. I cannot comment on allegations of his disruption since I don't know nor am interested in what he edits on wikis. The overlap between us is actually very minor. We both have different qualifications, interests etc; for example I have no interest in debunking the paranormal, while he does. What little I do know is that he is linked to 'skeptic' organisations, supposedly is either paid or works with other people.email January 25, 2018
  • The only people I’ve united against me are crazies and pseudo-scientists whose RationalWiki entries I created or edited for past 6 years.[http://coldfusioncommunity.net/anglo-pyramidologist/emails/#January-25-2018 UNZ January 25, 2018

Is he lying about his brother? Regardless, it looks like that "paranoid conspiracy theory" as touted for months by ODS socks was right on. The chickens are coming home to roost.--109.201.137.39 (talk) 00:08, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

I wish you people would take your drama, your feuds, and all your other crap and just sort it out via email like normal people... ☭Comrade GC☭Ministry of Praise 00:16, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Lomax is a habitual liar. "No harassment by Lomax" shows the insanity and delusions of this guy; he was just globally blocked by Wikimedia Foundation for harassment and I received this confirmation email today:

Hello Oliver,

Thank you for your patience while we reviewed this. I just wanted to close the loop on this matter as we concluded our investigation. We've taken what you've sent into consideration as we reviewed Abd's conduct in a larger context in regards to whether the Foundation should take any action. We determined that the conduct did merit Foundation-led action and yesterday, 24 February 2018, we proceeded in enforcing a Wikimedia Foundation Global Ban against Abd. This means that this user is no longer welcome on the Wikimedia projects, under any username he has used or may use in the future. While we obviously can't guarantee our global ban will stop the issues the community has been facing I'm hopeful that it will help. We will continue to watch and listen for future issues, moving forward, but please let us know if you have any questions or believe there is something else we can do to help. Warm regards.

As I noted above, a Wikimedia Foundation Global block is rare and only applies to severe cases of harassment. I have no further interest in responding to Lomax - he sent me harassing emails. Why is it Joshua P. Schroeder also has said Lomax sent him harassing emails, if I'm making this up? Why is Lomax banned from Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Meta-Wiki, RationalWiki and now a Wikimedia Foundation Global Ban? It's obvious to anyone the guy is a notorious troll and internet harasser.ODS (talk) 02:36, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

The "paranoid conspiracy theory" started by Rome Viharo that Lomax mentions, has no basis in fact. Read my reply: "The overlap between us is actually very minor", is that not clear enough? There's virtually no overlap with our edits; secondly Viharo spreads a rumour, that my brother is "paid" by a skeptic organisation. As I noted above, I don't know if this is true or not. So congratulations at the end of the day - there are brothers who have edited this website, almost entirely on different topics and articles - not at all like Viharo's conspiracy that a covert or shadow skeptic organization is paying two brothers to "harass" random people. The allegations of "harassment" are of course nonsense - we've simply used this wiki to document and debunk pseudoscientists.ODS (talk) 03:08, 26 February 2018 (UTC)