The game's up, trolls.
Enough is enough when it comes to online abuse, which is why thousands of Australian women have joined together to call out abusers.
A Twitter hashtag #EndViolenceAgainstWomen was launched to name those who abuse women online. It is the top trending hashtag on Twitter in Australia as of Friday afternoon, where it has remained since earlier that morning.
The campaign comes after the excess of vitriol toward feminist writer Clementine Ford, after a man who called her a "slut" on her Facebook page was fired by his employer due to his online conduct.
Dennis Adkins #endviolenceagainstwomen https://t.co/KYgZofeVfX pic.twitter.com/9rvPSyn53n— Jessamy Gleeson (@jessamy_sesame) December 3, 2015
The campaign was championed by another writer, Kerri Sackville, who wrote about the reaction from the Clementine Ford saga on her blog on Friday: "I was stunned by the vitriol. Stunned by the hatred. Stunned by the language. C**t. Slut. Whore. Rape threats. Threats of violence. It was horrifying."
Tanner Waterbury #endviolenceagainstwomen https://t.co/iwlK6Fx7zH #tannerwaterbury pic.twitter.com/fX6jFxrjZb— kateforster (@kateforster) December 3, 2015
Sackville, speaking to Mashable Australia via email, said that she's "been amazed by the response," after sending out a message in regards to the campaign on to her friends, who comprised mostly women in the media, on Tuesday afternoon.
"I was hoping to get maybe five or 10 women to join me in tweeting out the names of the men who sent Clementine Ford abusive tweets, just to show solidarity," Sackville said.
"The women sent out the message to other women, and the message group kept growing, until it was suggested I start a private Facebook group. Within 24 hours the group it had over 300 members. By this [Friday] morning over 1,000."
Shane Ryder - Why are you so angry? This is not acceptable behaviour. #endviolenceagainstwomen pic.twitter.com/640w5Eg9M5— Adam Buck (@sydneyadambuck) December 4, 2015
As of Friday afternoon, the private Facebook group "Twitter Campaign - Stop Violence Against Women" now stands at 13,000 -- however many others are joining the #EndViolenceAgainstWomen campaign by writing tweets, retweeting, or pasting the names into their tweet.
Sackville says there hasn't been much negativity in regards to the campaign, with the reception overwhelmingly positive from women and men.
@Bird_Roasts @KerriSackville I'm one of her biggest fans and I don't even have that many copies!— Robin Elizabeth (@RobinElizabee) December 4, 2015
The "odd troll" has appeared for Sackville, although she's had some hilarious responses: "The funniest was a man who told me he bought six copies of my book just so he could burn them. Six lots of royalties for me! I was thrilled!"
As to where next, Sackville hopes that the #EndViolenceAgainstWomen campaign will evolve. She hopes to keep the Facebook group going, where they will "continue to support each other and call out instances of violence and abuse against women online."
"Now that the community has been mobilised, now that we have realised that there is something we can do, that we do not need to sit back and accept abuse, I cannot imagine we will go back."
Bad news for trolls everywhere.