Stravinsk
Composer and Artist on Flat Earth
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2016
- Messages
- 4,562
- Gender
- Male
- Religious Affiliation
- Deist
- Political Affiliation
- Conservative
- Marital Status
- Widow/Widower
- Acceptance of the Trinity & Nicene Creed
- No
I've been doing forums for a very long time.
I usually use "Stravinsk", although sometimes I have used other names on other websites. I am also not the only Stravinsk that does online forums, or uses that name on various other internet media.
That said, I think by far the most involved I've been on any forum was CF. I approached it like most other forums, looking to get to know people and voice my thoughts and opinions. It is also the first online forum where I began to notice some very strange things.
When I was relatively new, I remember browsing a few people's profiles. Some people had pictures up. One thing I never forget is someone's face. I usually only need to see it once and that's enough. Names, yes, but faces no.
Well, some years later when looking at a profile I saw the exact same picture. I thought to myself "hey - I know I've seen that before, but the name is completely different". Strange. Then over the course of time I had a conversation with someone that was eerily similar to a conversation I had with another username sometime back. The details, I remember the details and the subject matter being very very similar.
This was all before getting perma banned and before I ever resorted to using a sock account. It was becoming apparent to me that people were starting new accounts or changing their names. That was the start of the strangeness, but not the most strange. On the other forum, there was a list of avatars one could choose from if one didn't have one or wanted to make their own. A particular Administrator had one that he always used. It was also on the list. After being temporarily banned, I came back and started a thread. A username using the same Avatar as the male Admin was one of the ones that responded - except now the gender was female. I immediately suspected that the male Admin had created the account and out of habit or mistake used the Avatar. It turns out I was wrong.
Another Admin, a female one, had borrowed that avatar and started a female account. This Admin thought it might be a good idea to test me or something - because it asked me if I wanted to send a link I was thinking of posting publicly, but instead to send it pm. The link was nothing serious, but it did contain quite a bit of profanity and textual sexual references - from bible stories but using modern profanity instead of the euphemisms found in the bible.
Now I didn't know this (about the account being the female Admin's and not the male Admin I suspected) until quite a long time later, when this female Admin said (under her main account), and in passing that our last conversation had occurred at (this date). So I thought about that, and remembered who I had a brief conversation with at that time. It wasn't just this though - when I had implicated the male Admin on the board's private area - I noticed that this particular female admin visited the account and right at that point the avatar was made blank.
So very interesting.
You know what else is interesting? Some of the Admin have multiple accounts on Facebook. I've blocked quite a few of them.
I usually use "Stravinsk", although sometimes I have used other names on other websites. I am also not the only Stravinsk that does online forums, or uses that name on various other internet media.
That said, I think by far the most involved I've been on any forum was CF. I approached it like most other forums, looking to get to know people and voice my thoughts and opinions. It is also the first online forum where I began to notice some very strange things.
When I was relatively new, I remember browsing a few people's profiles. Some people had pictures up. One thing I never forget is someone's face. I usually only need to see it once and that's enough. Names, yes, but faces no.
Well, some years later when looking at a profile I saw the exact same picture. I thought to myself "hey - I know I've seen that before, but the name is completely different". Strange. Then over the course of time I had a conversation with someone that was eerily similar to a conversation I had with another username sometime back. The details, I remember the details and the subject matter being very very similar.
This was all before getting perma banned and before I ever resorted to using a sock account. It was becoming apparent to me that people were starting new accounts or changing their names. That was the start of the strangeness, but not the most strange. On the other forum, there was a list of avatars one could choose from if one didn't have one or wanted to make their own. A particular Administrator had one that he always used. It was also on the list. After being temporarily banned, I came back and started a thread. A username using the same Avatar as the male Admin was one of the ones that responded - except now the gender was female. I immediately suspected that the male Admin had created the account and out of habit or mistake used the Avatar. It turns out I was wrong.
Another Admin, a female one, had borrowed that avatar and started a female account. This Admin thought it might be a good idea to test me or something - because it asked me if I wanted to send a link I was thinking of posting publicly, but instead to send it pm. The link was nothing serious, but it did contain quite a bit of profanity and textual sexual references - from bible stories but using modern profanity instead of the euphemisms found in the bible.
Now I didn't know this (about the account being the female Admin's and not the male Admin I suspected) until quite a long time later, when this female Admin said (under her main account), and in passing that our last conversation had occurred at (this date). So I thought about that, and remembered who I had a brief conversation with at that time. It wasn't just this though - when I had implicated the male Admin on the board's private area - I noticed that this particular female admin visited the account and right at that point the avatar was made blank.
So very interesting.
You know what else is interesting? Some of the Admin have multiple accounts on Facebook. I've blocked quite a few of them.