Hey thanks for the free publicity Daryl MacAskill. Then again I see you have no traffic. I won't return the favor and talk about you on my blog, it would just bring your traffic up.

You're obsessed, I might require a restraining order just like SH did.

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The case began on Feb. 28, 2012, when Stockhouse filed a notice of claim against Mr. MacAskill at the Vancouver courthouse. It identified him as a sometimes carpenter who lives in downtown Vancouver. He had been a frequent user of Stockhouse's forums over 12 years, posting under aliases that included "stoxxman," "Ace Ventura" and "Jeff Drakes."

The problem, as described in the claim, began in November, 2011, when Stockhouse attempted to block Mr. MacAskill from the site. It said he was creating a large volume of accounts using e-mail addresses of other people, at one point creating as many as 184 per day. Mr. MacAskill used the accounts to post material to the forums that was either defamatory, inaccurate, threatening or inflammatory, Stockhouse said. The company claimed to have spent a considerable amount of time and resources trying to minimize his activities on the site.

MacAskill's prior legal battles

The lawsuit against Stockhouse is not the first that Mr. MacAskill has fought on his own, without the benefit of a lawyer. In 2009, he launched a lawsuit against Hudson's Bay Company, claiming that he was tortured by store security. He complained that while he was at the company's store in Brentwood Town Centre on Dec. 10, 2008, a security guard detained him and refused to allow him to go to the bathroom, which he urgently needed to do. Rather than suffer the humiliation of urinating himself, he chose to knock himself out by banging his head on the wall, the suit stated. His next memory was waking up in a puddle of urine (which he claims was not his own, but that of some other person security had detained). He was then escorted from the store by an RCMP officer. He was not charged. He later agreed to drop the suit on undisclosed terms.

Mr. MacAskill launched another self-filed suit in August, 2007, against a former employer, Kor Alta Construction Ltd. of Alberta. He claimed that the company constructively dismissed him from his job as a supervisor at a job site on Boundary Road in Vancouver after he complained about a lack of a plan to deal with asbestos at the site. Kor-Alta, in response to the suit, denied any wrongdoing and said Mr. MacAskill had worked at the company for only a short period of time. A judge later dismissed the case, finding that it was an abuse of the process of the court.

Earlier court records show that Mr. MacAskill landed in criminal trouble in 1995, when a judge convicted him on 10 counts of tax fraud over GST refunds he had collected for a number of companies. He was sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay a $13,500 fine.

The lawsuit sought an injunction barring him from using the Stockhouse website, as well as damages, interest and court costs. Vancouver lawyer Ludmila Herbst of Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP filed the claim on Stockhouse's behalf.