My identity being used to "slander" Gala Darling

I used to be a regular reader of Gala Darling's blog, and I have written about her a few times on this blog, mainly using her as a representative of "niche Internet celebrity". I've also asked about bloggers like her on Ask Metafilter, which has gotten the attention of her friends and fans - not all positive. (A lot of them seem to think that because I'm commenting on the subculture she's in I'm attacking her personally.)

Then in the middle of last year quite a bit of drama blew up around Gala and her blog, mainly relating to her finances. A microcosm of the overall drama can be seen in the comments to this Cut Out + Keep post. I found the drama entertaining and did do a JournalFen report about it, but wasn't personally vested either way. I did notice that I got a lot of the same comments about Gala on my previous blog entries - that she was a trust fund kid, that she was selling an unsustainable lifestyle, that she's possibly a fraudster.

The drama died down, I lost interest, and life went on. However, just today my "Tiara Shafiq" Google Reader alert pinged me to this comment:

smq Says:  (March 13, 2010 at 2:54 pm)>p?

tiara shafiq or TS has made it her mission in life to slenderize Gala Darling. She’s lucky she hasn’t been sued yet

...whoa, wait, what? I haven't had anything to do with Gala since July, where did this come from?

I scrolled up to the comments - made mid last year - and realised that most of the anti-Gala comments came from T.S. - my initials. They pop up on the rest of the Internet under different names, and I honestly hadn't even noticed it until this post.

Is someone using my identity to comment on posts by or about Gala to discredit her? I do know that some of my previous online writings about her have attracted negative attention; is smg one of those disgruntled readers? Am I being slandered by being accused of slander?

Weird!

Today's been a completely weird day for various other reasons and this just made it more bizarre. Just so you know - any comments on blog posts claiming to be from me under a pseudonym aren't from me. I tend to comment as Tiara Shafiq or Tiara the Merch Girl. If you know of other places misusing my identity, please tell me!

Comments

1. somebody needs to start IP logging if they’re that worried about slander (or libel, technically).

   Don’t worry tiara, you’re awesome!

   — nitrojane · Mar 25, 09:16 PM · #

2. Hi Tiara,
   First time commenting on here, Hello :)

   I don’t think that someone calling themselves T.S is necessarily appropriating your identity. I’d be more worried about who SMQ is and their erroneous assumption that you are T.S. To me, it seems like SMQ has a grievance with you. Also, your reply comment to SMQ seems to have been deleted.

   — maddercarmine · Mar 26, 07:52 AM · #

3. Hey Tiara. I’m really sorry that this was all played out on my blog. As long as no one was saying anything too nasty I decided to just keep all the comments as they were. If you’d like me to remove the comment from smq I can do so, but I think keeping it along with yours helps clarify the situation.
   It’s strange that it has cropped up again now when the main discussion was happening in June and July!

   I have the email address and IP address of T.S. and smq if you ever need it.

   Also, maddercarmine. Tiara’s comment definitely wasn’t deleted, it probably just wasn’t approved yet when you went to look. The screenshot above shows that it was still waiting for approval.

   — Ms Constantine · Mar 31, 10:13 PM · #