As some of you know by now, Daniel Brandt recently published a list of all my friends on Facebook. The timing strongly implies he did so in response to my decision to step forward about having been the target of violent threats.
It is a great pleasure to report I now have more Facebook friends than I did when Mr. Brant published. Gerard Meijssen has set up a Facebook group called "Durova and friends" in protest against harassers and their enablers. The group is growing rapidly.
On a more practical and serious level, one thing that could have helped in David Shankbone's situation is if there were a global block feature, and perhaps a global protect for user pages. David's stalker followed him across dozens of projects. One thing that often happens with such people is that they test boundaries and become aggressive when they discover that boundaries are weak or absent. By erecting better boundaries onsite we improve the chances that a problem will end swiftly.
-Durova