Last night, an individual who will for the time being remain nameless took it upon himself to launch an attack against What The Christ? I’m not going to divulge the nature of the attack, nor am I going to share the outcome.

I am, however, going to do something about it.

This individual is under the impression that he’s anonymous. He’s not. In fact, we know his real name and street address. (He’s a VIP member. Oh, the stupidity.) We haven’t decided how we’re going to respond at this point, aside from suspending VIP account sales until we can get a new payment mechanism in place. (That was one target of his attack.) We’re still discussing options. Whatever we do, it’s going to involve our lawyer.

What we have decided, however, is that we need to take measures to ensure that we don’t have problems like this in the future. Unfortunately, this means that we’re going to have to burden you all with some minor inconveniences.

For starters, anonymous commenting is about to disappear. We’re going to require users to register from here on out, and you’ll need a valid email address to do so. We just don’t have the time or the patience to chase trolls out of the yard anymore. We’re also going to take an aggressive stance against anonymous proxy connections to the server.

And by “aggressive”, I mean we’re going to sue the fuck out of anyone who pulls shenanigans that result in downtime. I tried to be a nice guy about this sort of shit in the past. No more.

I realize that this is all rather unpleasant and I don’t want to force the majority to endure a hassle because of a few bad apples. I do, however, feel compelled to protect the site that we have invested so much time and effort into building. As always, I’m nothing but thankful to those of you who have continued to show us support over the past few years.