The secret life of internet forums - people who make up aliases

[shims]

I use a different user name on each forum I use* but I've never had more than the one ID on any of them, with the exception of one I started myself, where I was the administrator and also had about three regular accounts to try to make it look a bit more traffic-heavy. Not a resounding success, ultimately.

 

I've seen a trend on this forum for as long as I've been here: rather suspect 'new' users jumping very quickly into the more contentious political debates before they have any other posting history, often trolling, not back up their claims, or seeming overly familiar with long standing users they ought not to have any knowledge of. Most of them 'reek' of older banned users who couldn't stick to the rules and come back just to make trouble. When you spot these types on threads they've nearly always registered either this month or last month and rarely have more than a few dozen posts, normally concentrated on just a couple of threads. Then they disappear as soon as they've arrived. Amongst them there is a fondness for user names with the prefix 'Mr' or the suffix 'man'. More appropriate would be the prefix 'cowardly' or the suffix 'the sniveller'.

 

 

 

 

* Probably in some paranoid attempt to prevent me from being cyber-stalked.

[sined15712]

I am me,

If I am not me,

Then I am someone else ,

If I am someone else,

Then who the ----- hell is me ?:hihi::hihi:

[joiner andy]

theres a guy on here who swears he's elvis!

[mj.scuba]

I remember when AOL used to mailshot their install discs and have them at the exit of PC World, and every disc had a password made up of two random words with some interesting results.

 

Some of the user names on here look like they could've been lifted straight off an old AOL CD.

 

If anybody needs ideas for their next alias:

http://www.oocities.org/hobbes_512/AOLWords.html

 

:hihi: