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I think all of these multiple identities that keep popping-up all over the Square is funny. Two Nancys. How hilarious is that? Reminds me of this... 
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Our newest member, however, is joeythelovesponge.
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Zorro has been away for too long.
Matters have gone from bad to worse in the Town Square!
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Nancy wrote:Our newest member, however, is joeythelovesponge.
Here's what's going on. Someone is creating new identities by adding an empty space at the beginning of the existing screen names of the popular posters here. (as a side note, it can be easily coded in the db rules to disallow that form, but you'd first need a db administrator, and it doesn't look like they have one around here anymore.) The newly created impostor identity looks like the original, but you can easily spot which one is fake by looking at the post count. For example, (space)Nancy has 4 total posts, while the real Nancy has a couple more than that. The square's newest member is (space)joeythelovesponge, so I figure my stalker is back at it again. The new joeythelovesponge has yet to post, but I can't wait to see it when it does. To me, this looks like a weird kind of hero worship because only a very puny person would admire someone who wastes all their time posting to a crappy little message board like this. Nancy, you and I should feel smug knowing there are even lower forms of idiot out there than we are. Do you think it's possible that my stalker and your stalker is the same person? I think it's possible, and I think I know who my stalker is.
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joeythelovesponge wrote:Nancy wrote:Our newest member, however, is joeythelovesponge.
Here's what's going on. Someone is creating new identities by adding an empty space at the beginning of the existing screen names of the popular posters here. (as a side note, it can be easily coded in the db rules to disallow that form, but you'd first need a db administrator, and it doesn't look like they have one around here anymore.) The newly created impostor identity looks like the original, but you can easily spot which one is fake by looking at the post count. For example, (space)Nancy has 4 total posts, while the real Nancy has a couple more than that. The square's newest member is (space)joeythelovesponge, so I figure my stalker is back at it again. The new joeythelovesponge has yet to post, but I can't wait to see it when it does. To me, this looks like a weird kind of hero worship because only a very puny person would admire someone who wastes all their time posting to a crappy little message board like this. Nancy, you and I should feel smug knowing there are even lower forms of idiot out there than we are. Do you think it's possible that my stalker and your stalker is the same person? I think it's possible, and I think I know who my stalker is. Ok who is this?
The dickens you say.
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2rottieguy wrote:
Ok who is this?
this is joey...who is this?
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Wow...this is just like being in high school. Sad.
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cuddles wrote:Wow...this is just like being in high school. Sad. Oh, lots worse than that. What's happening here is just like what we fear at Mayfair. That something good and valuable can be wrecked by careless people who don't have the imagination or foresight to understand what they're doing, or, worse, who just get pleasure from breaking something and don't care about the consequences for everybody else. I wonder if (space)screen name understands how similar he/she is to an out of control thug at Mayfair?
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde (anticipating, well over 100 years ago, anonymous Internet discussions)
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izzie wrote:cuddles wrote:Wow...this is just like being in high school. Sad. Oh, lots worse than that. What's happening here is just like what we fear at Mayfair. That something good and valuable can be wrecked by careless people who don't have the imagination or foresight to understand what they're doing, or, worse, who just get pleasure from breaking something and don't care about the consequences for everybody else. I wonder if (space)screen name understands how similar he/she is to an out of control thug at Mayfair? I would suspect this person gets pleasure out of it. The name calling assaults....virtually always unwarranted...and often very personal in nature have shown this person to be bad news from the start.
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joeythelovesponge wrote:Nancy wrote:Our newest member, however, is joeythelovesponge.
Here's what's going on. Someone is creating new identities by adding an empty space at the beginning of the existing screen names of the popular posters here. (as a side note, it can be easily coded in the db rules to disallow that form, but you'd first need a db administrator, and it doesn't look like they have one around here anymore.) The newly created impostor identity looks like the original, but you can easily spot which one is fake by looking at the post count. For example, (space)Nancy has 4 total posts, while the real Nancy has a couple more than that. The square's newest member is (space)joeythelovesponge, so I figure my stalker is back at it again. The new joeythelovesponge has yet to post, but I can't wait to see it when it does. To me, this looks like a weird kind of hero worship because only a very puny person would admire someone who wastes all their time posting to a crappy little message board like this. Nancy, you and I should feel smug knowing there are even lower forms of idiot out there than we are. Do you think it's possible that my stalker and your stalker is the same person? I think it's possible, and I think I know who my stalker is. Strange. It is pretty sad to think that someone has spent so much time and energy on this project. I agree that it's some weird kind of hero worship. I don't know who my stalker is in real life. I have some ideas about who it might be in TTS world. It would be stranger, still, if it were the same person. I've always assumed that I'm a target because of my ideological perspective and you and I are not on the same wavelength as far as that goes. But who knows? Maybe we both managed to set this obsession in motion by ticking him off in some small way that nobody else would even have noticed.
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2rottieguy wrote:joeythelovesponge wrote:Nancy wrote:Our newest member, however, is joeythelovesponge.
Here's what's going on. Someone is creating new identities by adding an empty space at the beginning of the existing screen names of the popular posters here. (as a side note, it can be easily coded in the db rules to disallow that form, but you'd first need a db administrator, and it doesn't look like they have one around here anymore.) The newly created impostor identity looks like the original, but you can easily spot which one is fake by looking at the post count. For example, (space)Nancy has 4 total posts, while the real Nancy has a couple more than that. The square's newest member is (space)joeythelovesponge, so I figure my stalker is back at it again. The new joeythelovesponge has yet to post, but I can't wait to see it when it does. To me, this looks like a weird kind of hero worship because only a very puny person would admire someone who wastes all their time posting to a crappy little message board like this. Nancy, you and I should feel smug knowing there are even lower forms of idiot out there than we are. Do you think it's possible that my stalker and your stalker is the same person? I think it's possible, and I think I know who my stalker is. Ok who is this? It's joey. The only way you can tell, now, is by the number of posts.
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So am I to understand that the way to really know if you have "made it" on TTS is to be stalked and replicated? That's too bad. I like the good lively discussion that happens naturally. I guess I like being a nobody then.
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actress wrote:So am I to understand that the way to really know if you have "made it" on TTS is to be stalked and replicated? That's too bad. I like the good lively discussion that happens naturally. I guess I like being a nobody then. By that definition, The Troll has "made it". The Troll is so grateful<  )
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izzie wrote:I wonder if (space)screen name understands how similar he/she is to an out of control thug at Mayfair? Maybe the whip is too little. A thug deserves to feel the prick of Zorro's sword!
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actress wrote:So am I to understand that the way to really know if you have "made it" on TTS is to be stalked and replicated? That's too bad. I like the good lively discussion that happens naturally. I guess I like being a nobody then. I could do with more lively discussion and less stalking, too.
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I am me.
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Is it true that it is a criminal/civil offense to impersonate another person....even when the persons real name is not being used...if members of the community can associate the real person to the anonymous name ? Maybe Mark is waiting for this impersonator to hang himself legally ?
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prodigal son wrote:Is it true that it is a criminal/civil offense to impersonate another person....even when the persons real name is not being used...if members of the community can associate the real person to the anonymous name ? Maybe Mark is waiting for this impersonator to hang himself legally ? I don't know. I am using part of my real name and I think that a substantial number of other forum members know my last name as well. The RL identities of some other members have also been established.
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prodigal son wrote:Is it true that it is a criminal/civil offense to impersonate another person....even when the persons real name is not being used...if members of the community can associate the real person to the anonymous name ? Maybe Mark is waiting for this impersonator to hang himself legally ? If you are impersonating an anonymous personality on the web you probably don't have a virtual leg to stand on if you wish to prosecute. Especially if the virtual impersonator commits the impersonation from another jurisdiction. Disclaimer: This is not a legal opinion. Just conjecture. What I do not get is why some of you are getting your undies in a bunch over this. With all due respect Nancy - I think you sometimes go out of your way to draw fire. If someone posts some idiocy - just ignore it.
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Gas Pains wrote:prodigal son wrote:Is it true that it is a criminal/civil offense to impersonate another person....even when the persons real name is not being used...if members of the community can associate the real person to the anonymous name ? Maybe Mark is waiting for this impersonator to hang himself legally ? If you are impersonating an anonymous personality on the web you probably don't have a virtual leg to stand on if you wish to prosecute. Especially if the virtual impersonator commits the impersonation from another jurisdiction. Disclaimer: This is not a legal opinion. Just conjecture. What I do not get is why some of you are getting your undies in a bunch over this. With all due respect Nancy - I think you sometimes go out of your way to draw fire. If someone posts some idiocy - just ignore it. My thought on this goes along the following lines. You have a blog, and you go by the name Gas Pains. If someone starts cranking out smut using your Gas Pains name and people start to think that's coming from you.....I think you might start thinking about not ignoring it...especially if people are confused and really think you are saying things you would never say. It surprises me a little bit that you wouldn't care if someone did that to you.
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