Ph: Evil: Pray For Merov Tachgovirian (And Others Like Him) Poem by Brian Johnston

My site, reputation, and poetry continues to be attacked on occasion by a man WHO I BELIEVE TO BE a former PH member known as Merov Tachgovirian. I BELIEVE, he is the main and perhaps only person on PH who writes degrading, sometimes pornographic comments to men and women because he judges their work inferior on PH. He also rates others poems multiple times with votes of 1.0 using different email addresses. Several people I know and I, who have been attacked in this way, were able, with the help of PH staff, to BAN Merov from having a permanent base on PH under his own name, but of course all you need to join PH is a valid email address under any fake name. No one checks.

If you are attacked with very low votes on any of your works, please sent me data on the number of poems attacked, their names, and the date of the attack. Also interesting would be the number of times Merov voted on each poem and what the rating was each time. Perhaps by building a table of the frequency of these attacks we will be able to convince PH's management that this is a problem that should be addressed. I will be happy to tabulate the data on this site.

In spite of Merov being kicked off of PH for a 2nd time now, his spirit of malevolence is still alive and well on PH. To help de-incintivize his attacks on ratings and people I will continue to post (in this letter) any letters he or his friends send me in the future that are not so vile that PH deletes them without even delivering themt. Just be aware if you get unkind or scurulous emails from anyone on PH your best recourse is to report them immediately to the web master. Be warned, Merov Tachgovirian and his friends if they exist are not reasonable people. You will not get them to stop harrassing you by kowtowing to them or pretending to like them. As unrepentent and pathological liars, there is no reason for them to ever believe you either. Any attempts to form an alliance with them is wasted effort.

I have removed the letters placed here earlier because they served their purpose already, which was...

1. To expose Merov as a liar, bully, and manipulator and
2. To make his plots and harrassment of innocents very visible not only to PH members but also to PH Staff, whose efforts on our behalf are appreciated, but so far inadequate. I personally have suggested several options available to the web master that would cost but little in terms of programming effort, and make make Merov and his ego as big a failure as the Hindenburg Airship.

In one of his last letters Merov was laughing because of the time he sees me spending to try to make PH a better site. In his eyes he is controlling me, making me dance to his tune on PH. Remember though folks, that is a little like the pot calling the kettle black. Yes there is a smidgen of truth there but only a smidgen. Merov for all of his self-appreciation is simply trash that I pick up and throw away in PH's halls. My concern is simply trash from any source. The fact that Merov has put it there does not make me under his control at all. He is like a living example of the Principle of Entropy (in Physics) in action. Entrophy always moves things from more ordered states to less ordered states. And it is also true that Entrophy always wins in the end. So as Entropy's friend Merov is simply a very slow, annoying but basically brainless dolt. By picking up after him I force him to work harder as well. He is not in control here. I don't even think about his contribution here. He is simply another form of trash in this world. And trash if it doesn't want to be burned better stay out of my sight (and my site on PH as well) .

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A Brief Aside....

But in spite of PH's many virtues, the site seems to be struggling to even stay 'on line' these days. You would think they would ask members if we even care about their 'Treasure Island' program which looks very juvenile to me and seems to be diverting talent from maintaining the site's real purpose. Keep your head in the game guys and forget cotton candy.

Perhaps next they will be mailing out coloring books and reminding us that to win prizes one must color inside of the lines! Ha! This seems to many of us an incredibly silly attempt to create loyalty? Perhaps it does work among the group of us who are 12 years old and younger? This is a poetry site PH staff, give us poetry contests, give us cash prizes, give us more reliable software and email, very few of us give a cow chip hocky puck about Disneyland. Get real guys!