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According to a blog posting by Blaine Lee Pardoe dated 8 July 2021, "Faith McClosky" does not actually exist as a real person. Instead, according to Pardoe it is a false identity online persona created in bad faith (and thus not merely a pen name) by a "middle-aged man" identified as "J" who lives with his grandfather, "pleaded guilty to issuing Terroristic Threats with intent to terrorize another, and Harassment in a Pennsylvania court in 2020" and is "banned at his former place of employment", as a matter of public record. After being threatened personally by "Faith McClosky" he wrote that he involved law enforcement, who eventually found out the person's identity, and a legal team who "secured a temporary PPO, Virginia’s equivalent of a restraining order" and sent the person a cease & desist letter. He also wrote that while he wasn't sure where "McClosky" had obtained the photos used by the Faith McClosky accounts, the person pictured would presumably be "shocked that someone was misusing her image in this manner."<ref>"[https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2021/07/08/the-truth-about-faith-mcclosky/ "The truth about Faith McClosky"] entry on Blaine Pardoe's blog</ref> | According to a blog posting by Blaine Lee Pardoe dated 8 July 2021, "Faith McClosky" does not actually exist as a real person. Instead, according to Pardoe it is a false identity online persona created in bad faith (and thus not merely a pen name) by a "middle-aged man" identified as "J" who lives with his grandfather, "pleaded guilty to issuing Terroristic Threats with intent to terrorize another, and Harassment in a Pennsylvania court in 2020" and is "banned at his former place of employment", as a matter of public record. After being threatened personally by "Faith McClosky" he wrote that he involved law enforcement, who eventually found out the person's identity, and a legal team who "secured a temporary PPO, Virginia’s equivalent of a restraining order" and sent the person a cease & desist letter. He also wrote that while he wasn't sure where "McClosky" had obtained the photos used by the Faith McClosky accounts, the person pictured would presumably be "shocked that someone was misusing her image in this manner."<ref>"[https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2021/07/08/the-truth-about-faith-mcclosky/ "The truth about Faith McClosky"] entry on Blaine Pardoe's blog</ref> | ||
| − | Faith McClosky subsequently challenged many of Pardoe's facts and allegations on her blog, outright calling him a liar and denying to have threatened him; regarding the protection order she said it was granted based on an agreement by which he would drop accusations of defamation (maintaining it was still baseless because there had been to threats). She also claimed to have insights into "J and his position", suggesting them to be separate people, but notably despite all the | + | Faith McClosky subsequently challenged many of Pardoe's facts and allegations on her blog, outright calling him a liar and denying to have threatened him; regarding the protection order she said it was granted based on an agreement by which he would drop accusations of defamation (maintaining it was still baseless because there had been to threats). She also claimed to have insights into "J and his position", suggesting them to be separate people, but notably despite all the other denials never actually denied Pardoe's assertion that "Faith McClosky" was just an online persona used by "J" and that they were in fact the same person.<ref>[https://faithmccarron.blogspot.com/2021/07/ Blog] by Faith McClosky</ref> |
According to the Faith McClosky blog, [[CGL]] would cease to communicate afterwards and further ''Shrapnel'' submissions were rejected with no comment. | According to the Faith McClosky blog, [[CGL]] would cease to communicate afterwards and further ''Shrapnel'' submissions were rejected with no comment. | ||
Revision as of 17:51, 31 July 2022
| Faith McClosky | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| BattleTech forum handle | FaithBomb |
| Homepage | https://faithmccarron.blogspot.com/ (Blog) |
Faith McClosky is a writer who has been published in Shrapnel magazine with one story in the fourth issue (15 March 2021). The author registered with the handle "FaithBomb" on the BattleTech forums on 19 December 2018; the forum profile linked to a blog existing since 2015 where the author identified herself as a lesbian nurse from Tennessee. McClosky was noted as a particularly fierce critic of BattleTech author Blaine Lee Pardoe regarding both his writing as such and his political leanings and activities in forum posts and other online activities.
False identity?
According to a blog posting by Blaine Lee Pardoe dated 8 July 2021, "Faith McClosky" does not actually exist as a real person. Instead, according to Pardoe it is a false identity online persona created in bad faith (and thus not merely a pen name) by a "middle-aged man" identified as "J" who lives with his grandfather, "pleaded guilty to issuing Terroristic Threats with intent to terrorize another, and Harassment in a Pennsylvania court in 2020" and is "banned at his former place of employment", as a matter of public record. After being threatened personally by "Faith McClosky" he wrote that he involved law enforcement, who eventually found out the person's identity, and a legal team who "secured a temporary PPO, Virginia’s equivalent of a restraining order" and sent the person a cease & desist letter. He also wrote that while he wasn't sure where "McClosky" had obtained the photos used by the Faith McClosky accounts, the person pictured would presumably be "shocked that someone was misusing her image in this manner."[1]
Faith McClosky subsequently challenged many of Pardoe's facts and allegations on her blog, outright calling him a liar and denying to have threatened him; regarding the protection order she said it was granted based on an agreement by which he would drop accusations of defamation (maintaining it was still baseless because there had been to threats). She also claimed to have insights into "J and his position", suggesting them to be separate people, but notably despite all the other denials never actually denied Pardoe's assertion that "Faith McClosky" was just an online persona used by "J" and that they were in fact the same person.[2]
According to the Faith McClosky blog, CGL would cease to communicate afterwards and further Shrapnel submissions were rejected with no comment.
See Also
For published BattleTech works by Faith McClosky, see Category:Works by Faith McClosky.
References
- ↑ ""The truth about Faith McClosky" entry on Blaine Pardoe's blog
- ↑ Blog by Faith McClosky