The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

It might amaze you to learn that in spite of the above directions: 1) a good 25 percent of emailed activation requests don't tell me their username . I have no idea which account I am supposed to activate, among all the spambot accounts which come in every day. 2) a good 35 percent don't include "Pl...

Sponsor page updated again. Please check and make sure you are listed correctly.

We are now at 8.08% participation. That's 48% of the way to our participation goal.

Thanks all so far!

Sponsor page updated again. Please check and make sure you are listed correctly.

We are now at 8.08% participation. That's 48% of the way to our participation goal.

Welcome, Quatuor! It might be helpful to know what country you are located in.

On what grounds are they claiming you owe another $1500?

Can anyone offer advice to this person?

Vortex has apparently/allegedly scammed someone else for $4500. Never delivered a bought machine/system. Perhaps this person will post soon. I'm just getting emails from them, can't confirm the truth of their claims.

Sponsor page updated again. Please check and make sure you are listed correctly.

We are now at 7.66% participation. That's 45% of the way to our participation goal.

Sponsor page updated again. Please check and make sure you are listed correctly.

We are now at 7.66% participation. That's 45% of the way to our participation goal.

Sponsor page updated again. Please check and make sure you are listed correctly.

We are now at 7.66% participation. That's 45% of the way to our participation goal.

Further update .... I'm still seeing an alarmingly high number of site visitors, but the site seems to be functioning ok. Please alert me (at lathetrolls@gmail.com) if you experience any site crashes or error messages.

It appears the new firewall is adequately deployed. Guests visiting the site are around 250, instead of the 48976 (mostly bots) we had two days ago. Let's see how it goes over the course of today. Thanks for your patience during the site crashes. I had to needle their tech support several times a da...

We've had some kind and helpful additional contributions in the past few days: just in the nick of time for the firewall upgrade the site is going through! All contributions are reflected on the Our Sponsors page. (Please make sure I got it right.) We've now had 6.7% fundraising participation from t...

We've had some kind and helpful additional contributions in the past few days: just in the nick of time for the firewall upgrade the site is going through! All contributions are reflected on the Our Sponsors page. (Please make sure I got it right.) We've now had 6.7% fundraising participation from t...

We've had some kind and helpful additional contributions in the past few days: just in the nick of time for the firewall upgrade the site is going through! All contributions are reflected on the Our Sponsors page. (Please make sure I got it right.) We've now had 6.7% fundraising participation from t...

Awww thank YOU!

This site is once again experiencing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This may show up as an error message: "The user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time." We need to upgrade our firewalls. I'm on it.

We now had 5.5% fundraising participation from those who have used the site in the past year. (Our goal is 16 2/3%) It's not too late to participate, and even smaller contributions add up.

Your contributions are very much the reason this site can continue to exist.

We now had 5.5% fundraising participation from those who have used the site in the past year. (Our goal is 16 2/3%) It's not too late to participate, and even smaller contributions add up.

Your contributions are very much the reason this site can continue to exist.

Thanks to our 2025 Sponsors-so-far! I believe our wall of thanks has been updated fully, as of 30 minutes ago. Please check and make sure you've been listed correctly. Your contributions are very much the reason this site can continue to exist. Our 20th anniversary fundraiser is underway. If you mis...

Thanks to our 2025 Sponsors-so-far! I believe our wall of thanks has been updated fully, as of 30 minutes ago. Please check and make sure you've been listed correctly. Your contributions are very much the reason this site can continue to exist. Our 20th anniversary fundraiser is underway. If you mis...

Sponsors re-updated! Thanks to all so far! it means a lot, and it helps a ton.