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So to clear some things up..
Today myself and xPrettyinPinkxx came across a bug on the GuruGossiper website where the email addresses used to create accounts were revealed. We found around 50 emails and the accounts they were associated with and were really shocked to see 15 of them were bloggers. Of course there will be many more but we only came across 15 that we could trace back to bloggers.

If you don't know what GuruGossiper is, it's a forum where people talk about bloggers and YouTubers. Some of it is nice but you can imagine how nasty the majority of it is. It can be very personal and very cruel.
Some of the 15 bloggers registered their GG accounts with their blog/personal emails so it was obvious from the start who they were, others used different emails but by simply googling them you could easily find out who the email and therefor GG account belonged too.
There has been a lot of pressure for the 'list' to be released and a lot of drama about it today.

The 15 bloggers all had accounts they had used to talk negatively about someone else.
Where we would stand legally by releasing the names/twitter accounts/blogs of those we think have the accounts is something stopping us from posting it. Also neither of us wanted to be the start of a whole lot of negativity in the blogging world. Obviously people are going to be upset by some of the people on the list, especially if they are friends or they find out someone has said things about them.

It also feels like sinking to the level of the 'anon' commenters by saying who we believe they are, neither of us are negative or bitchy people so it doesn't necessarily feel right to share these names, as much as some of them have written horrid things about us and people we know.

I don't know what is going to happen or if it will come out eventually. Just please be careful who you trust, and if you use GG then just bloody stop.

The GuruGossiper Usernames we have found owners too:

PPRRTT
Bloggerbaiter
Glitterati
illamasqua
catinthehat
Ridingboots
Ggxx
BeeBee
Louises
Cosmeticcrave
Xoxox
Pinkcow
Bxoxo
Ilovegg
Bloggeronfire
Macyb
Angelcakex

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