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18 Responses to “Go Away, Stephanie Adams!”

1. Response #1

   Vash The Stampede (IP) on October 1st, 2002 at 7:40 pm

   I must say this makes us think about Playmates in a whole new light. As many have said I would most certainly not have the calm, cool attitude that you do, Richard. p.s. Has anything else happened since this was posted?

2. Response #2

   richard on October 2nd, 2002 at 9:34 am

   Most definitely, yes! She’s even created separate websites of her own dedicated to lambasting, slandering, and abusing me and my family — all of which I have been able to have removed with a single call to the respective ISPs. And, I’ve still had to ban most users from posting comments as she appears to be checking my website almost every day. I re-opened up the ability to add comments just a few days ago. By the next morning she posted another several hundred inane comments, causing me once again to remove access to the masses. What a senseless waste of empty real estate between her ears that could be put to better use! Any attorneys out there that want to take on a supposed multi-millionaire on a contingency-fee basis? - RDL

3. Response #3

   Kitty (IP) on December 5th, 2002 at 5:12 pm

   Hi, it has always been a dream of mine to pose in Playboy, because of the respectable nature of the magazine, but after reading this and seeing what kind of people I may have to work with if I was to pose has certainly changed my mind. P.S. I can’t believe that a lady would behave in such a way…

4. Response #4

   Jay Vincent (IP) on February 20th, 2003 at 3:12 am

   Richard. This Stephanie Adams saga is the best thing I HAVE EVER READ on the internet, in fact, anywhere. I found your site, coincidently enough, looking for bad web sites so I could contact them offering them web design (I myself am a 15-year-old webdesigner from the UK). I came across your first article about her and I was hooked on the story. I am recommending your site and in particular these articles to everyone on my recreational site ‘randomcat’. Has any legal action been taken against her? You could sue her for $10,000 or something, easily! So once again, I applaud you and your excellent website, and laugh at Stephanie and her appaling designs.

5. Response #5

   Sean (IP) on February 22nd, 2003 at 2:16 pm

   So, Richard. What are your thoughts on his http://www.jaydesigns.co.uk site and samples? - Sean (who’s been known to poke a stick at a tiger or two (or, at least, to encourage his friends to….))

6. Response #6

   Jay (IP) on June 19th, 2003 at 12:33 pm

   Hey Sean! Back up, mate! I’m only 15, I try my best, I think my websites are pretty OK, it’s not my job, I’m still at school trynna make a bit of spare cash. I’m not the one claiming to be a multi-million dollar business which attracts serveral thousand visitors a day. (Refering to Stephanie of course).

7. Response #7

   richard on June 20th, 2003 at 10:32 am

   No, Jay’s designs aren’t bad. The HTML is flawed, not well formed, uses frames excessively, and will definitely have difficulties with a few mainstream browser versions, but (on the plus side) it seems to be handcoded and the designs seem at first glance to be fine. Readable. Navigable. Functional. Not award-winning, but leaps and bounds beyond Stephanie’s designs. However, I also don’t remember what Jay’s design samples looked like four months ago. Perhaps his skills have continued to evolve. - RDL

8. Response #8

   Jay (IP) on June 22nd, 2003 at 2:32 am

   Cheers, please don’t have a dig at me, I don’t think that’s fair, especially when I’m complimenting your site, and you only seem interested in finding fault with me. I appreciate that my websites aren’t astonishingly awesome, hence the price. I am also continuously looking to improve my skills, so Richard, could you tell me why you think my ‘HTML is flawed’? I would be interested to see the reasoning behind your opinion. Cheers!

9. Response #9

   richard on June 22nd, 2003 at 11:23 am

   No, not digging at you at all — sorry you took it that way. My stance was that I would NOT characterize your designs as bad (merely technically a bit flawed, but workable and usable from a design standpoint) and that I was defending your work in light of Sean’s comment above including your site in a possible discussion of bad website designs. I believe that I realistically presented both the positives and negatives of what is presented as your sample work. Since you ask for specific examples of flaws, the source code of many of the pages I viewed did not contain a DOCTYPE tag or closing BODY and HTML tags, the HTML is not well formed (i.e. missing quotation marks around values), the stylesheet is embedded within the HTML code when it really should be separated (a minor point), an alternate to Microsoft’s Tahoma font is not specified for non-Microsoft browsers or platforms, most IMG tags are missing ALT attributes, the ID properties within A and TD tags are not unique, and the “£” sign should always be represented as £ in HTML. That should be enough examples. I would make the same recommendation to anyone I worked with to help them improve their skills and marketability. I recommend checking out the W3C MarkUp Validation Service - RDL

10. Response #10

    Jay (IP) on June 23rd, 2003 at 12:55 pm

    Ok, thats cool, thanks for the advice. Speak to you later, keep up the good work on your site.

11. Response #11

    Stan (IP) on July 2nd, 2003 at 3:55 pm

    Richard, I found your site looking for ways to deter an internet stalker. I was completely captivated by this saga. Thanks so much for posting it.

12. Response #12

    Richard (IP) on January 17th, 2004 at 4:22 am

    This is the best soap opear ever! Was this the end of the saga? Did Playboy respond to your fax? I know there has to be more. Stephanie didn’t just stop her crazy antics I am sure!

13. Response #13

    richard on January 17th, 2004 at 9:43 am

    Knock on wood, it has been six months since any activity on her part, and I am willing to let things go because I just can’t afford the huge expense to sue her from across the country at this time. - RDL

14. Response #14

    Joel (IP) on March 22nd, 2004 at 3:09 pm

    I found your blog via Google (oddly enough, searching for freebie Photoshop shapes) and was instantly intrigued about your rant about bad design, and hillarified for several minutes as well. As someone who is approaching this in retrospect, congratulations. People forget that their actions can be traced, recorded, and people are not as anonymous as they always like to be. I may not be a very good designer myself, but as a user of the internet, I also know çráp when I see it. ;D

15. Response #15

    gaffar (IP) on November 4th, 2004 at 3:32 am

    i came across your site, searching for the term ‘fragments of my imagination’ on google and found the story on stephanie adams… at that time, i was quite busy with some schoolwork (I am only 15 by the way), but i was distracted by the story and kept on reading the follow-ups… those emails stephanie sent rendered me speechless… hey, is that the end of the story? there must be more right?

16. Response #16

    richard on November 4th, 2004 at 10:43 am

    Thankfully, that’s pretty much the end of the story, apart from the rare ripple of evening prank calls. Stephanie appears to have come to her senses and gone away, and only some idiot in Southern Texas continues to call once every few months. - RDL

17. Response #17

    phil hill (IP) on January 26th, 2005 at 12:51 am

    Thank you for your detailed storytelling. Well done. This psycho woman needs to be locked up. http://www.mynameisphil.com

18. Response #18

    troy (IP) on January 27th, 2005 at 11:01 am

    Wow… *LOL* I know that you hear it all the time, but ENTHRALLING does not even BEGIN to cover this one… awesomely insane drama man, I had a blast reading it, didn’t want it to stop, and was pulling for you the entire time… some legal drama sure would’ve been fun! *L* Great job

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