Popularity ranking

Why a pupil (16) made a “hit list” of girls

At the Euorpagymnasium Auhof in Linz, tempers ran high.(Bild: Harald Dostal)

At the beginning of March, a pupil (16) created a popularity ranking of female pupils at the Europagymnasium in Linz, using the e-mail account of a fellow pupil. Thanks to the IP address, the police have now been able to track down the "nerd" and he has confessed. But what were his motives? 

"Scandal at school: popularity ranking of 223 schoolgirls outraged" was the headline of the "Krone" newspaper on March 3: A "prankster" had obtained the pictures and names of all the girls in the upper school at the Europagymnasium Auhof in Linz and used them to create a popularity ranking on the internet.

The homepage was online for just under two hours - but the "joke" upset many girls immensely.