Anti-Social Media

At some point on December 4, 2006, the number of reviews of Gary Weiss‘s book Wall Street Versus America dropped from 17 to 10, as all of the following reviewers’ contributions were deleted:

Burton (Baltimore, MD)
Dave Watson (Banning, CA)
Luminiere (Miami)
George (Needham, MA)
Marty Ross (Houston, Texas)
Rich Golden (New York, NY USA)
Ted Dichtler (Monroe, NY)

Jim O’Reilly (New York, NY USA), who did not review Weiss’s book, also saw his 16 reviews deleted.

You’ll note that five of the above eight names (in bold) are the same five we concluded were being deceptively used by Gary Weiss to artificially boost his book’s sales while artificially depressing others.

Of course the reviews in situ are gone and the links to them broken, but we will soon post the full text, which we saved pre-delete, here.

We had concluded that the additional three users were also Gary Weiss, but limited our initial report to five, given the need to conserve space and the ease of proving as much.

Our complete list, for those of you playing at home, also includes the following:

Chuck T. (Chicago, IL)
Elliot Baker (Red Bank, NJ)
Johannsen (Atlanta)
Raymond Stella (New York, NY)

At this point, it’s unclear who deleted these reviews, whether it was Amazon administrators or Gary Weiss himself (as users may delete or edit their own reviews) but the following incident suggests it was Gary.

Soon after the reviews were discovered to be missing, a poster on an investorvillage.com message board noted that the user page of Jim O’Reilly, while devoid of reviews, retained a link to Jim O’Reilly’s “Wish List.” Upon clicking the link, he found “Gary Weiss’s Wish List.” A cut and paste version of it can be seen here.

Within minutes of posting this odd Weiss/O’Reilly connection, the wish list was also deleted. We hypothesize that the account was originally called Gary Weiss and the name was changed to Jim O’Reilly at some point, though the name on the wish list was not.

We applaud Gary Weiss for deleting eight of his deceptive reviewer accounts and call on him to now remove the additional four noted above.

In coming weeks, a new book by Gary Weiss called Ayn Rand Nation will be published by St. Martin’s Press. Antisocialmedia.net wants anybody who considers buying or reviewing the book to know more about the author, based on his own words.

This blog has gone to great lengths to identify many of the pseudonyms Gary Weiss has used online over the years, and Weiss is unhappy about this. You are strongly encouraged to review for yourself, where indicated, the trails of evidence connecting Weiss to the various pseudonyms that follow so that you can feel 100% comfortable of the connection. You are also encouraged to follow the links to the original postings to see for yourself the original racism and homophobia that tend to dominate Weiss’s writing, if you can stomach it.

One of Weiss’s pseudonyms is Ted Dichtler, as you can see proved here. Weiss often used Ted Dichtler to post to the Usenet group Soc.Culture.Jewish, where he frequently engaged in racism and homophobia, including the following:

• Come on, you told us you’re gay. Come out of the closet, for pete’s sake, raghead.
• (in reference to another poster’s mother) She got her tail trimmed? Nice. Is she out in the red-light district of Jenin again, prowling for nice big fat Arabs who enjoy f–king camels? I sympathize, by the way. Must be tough being gay and a raghead.
• (in reference to the poster’s wife) Speaking of fat cows, how’s Mona? Dildo supply holding up, you Nazi f–k?

Another Gary Weiss pseudonym is Lamborghini751. As you can read explained here, Weiss used this one to post to stock message boards where, true to form, he preferred homophobia and accusations of Nazism to actual discourse. Here are some examples:

• (here’s the link)Well, look what we have here. This explains why the homo is so fixated on Weiss. It’s got nothing to do with O’Baloney. Weiss outed his old firm Greenway’s mob connections! Look about halfway down in the story. No wonder the f-ggot is all steamed up! I wonder if the experience at Greenway is what turned him into a pedophile? “But sources describe his (Phil Abramo’s) role as central–as the hidden control person behind Sovereign, a prominent name in the micro-cap stock business, its sister firm Falcon Trading, and two other firms that are major penny-stock brokers and market makers, Toluca Pacific Securities Corp. and Greenway Capital Corp. He is also described by Street sources as controlling other dealers in small-cap stocks through brokers and traders owing allegiance to him.” http://www.businessweek.com/1996/51/b35062.htm
• F-ggot. Pedophile.
• I LOVED how you were crawling. I LOVED the apology. I LOVED how you begged for your IP address to be taken off and how if Weiss didn’t he’d “go to the pokey.” F-ggot.
• By the way, you haven’t answered my question yet. Why do you tolerate anti-Semites in your movement? Are you an anti-Semite or just a weak-kneed, cowardly f-g?

This is the tip of the iceberg, with regard to Gary Weiss’s homophobia and racism. Much more of this to come, as well as a review of Weiss’s pattern of glowingly reviewing his own books on Amazon.com, and evidence that he’s already preparing to do the same when his next book is published.