Is anybody else suspicious that our troll has parthenogenetically reproduced?
Can anyone check the web logs and see if we've got two different users posting from the same IP address? Two users who aren't lizards?
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Rob - Dec 27, 2002 3:37:32 pm PST #1586 of 10001
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 3:49:39 pm PST #1587 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
PaulJ - Dec 27, 2002 3:54:02 pm PST #1588 of 10001
Dunno. If you're talking about the one I think you're talking about, his user ID number is lower than the one of the "original" troll. I find it... counterintuitive to open one account, then open another one several days later, and then start trolling using the second one. So I don't know if they are the same person.
Again, sorry to butt in the admin thread, being a newbie and all...
John H - Dec 27, 2002 3:54:39 pm PST #1589 of 10001
two different users posting from the same IP address? Two users who aren't lizards?
That wouldn't necessarily be proof, though, as IPs get recycled, firewalls cover multiple users, etc. But if it's happening with two suspicious users, yeah.
If we boot him out, is the next Firefly thread going to be called "you can take m-i-e-s-k-i-e from me"?
Fay - Dec 27, 2002 3:56:05 pm PST #1590 of 10001
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Again, sorry to butt in the admin thread, being a newbie and all...
Babe, you're a Buffista. Moreover, you speak sense. You butt right on in.
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David J. Schwartz - Dec 27, 2002 3:57:58 pm PST #1591 of 10001
New, fully poseable Author!Knut.
Good god. We're everywhere. The article on SciFi.com linked to here.
I had no idea.
Rob - Dec 27, 2002 3:59:24 pm PST #1592 of 10001
Two users who don't claim to have anything to do with each other are *so* unlikely to have the same IP address. And if they have the same address in postings ten minutes apart, there's no explanation other then that they are using the same computer or going through NAT, and that means they almost have to be in the same physical place.
David J. Schwartz - Dec 27, 2002 4:00:15 pm PST #1593 of 10001
New, fully poseable Author!Knut.
If you're talking about the one I think you're talking about, his user ID number is lower than the one of the "original" troll. I find it... counterintuitive to open one account, then open another one several days later, and then start trolling using the second one. So I don't know if they are the same person.
I was thinking of someone else -- not the original. I just had the sense for a while today that someone was having a conversation with their own self.
Denise - Dec 27, 2002 4:02:43 pm PST #1594 of 10001
I was thinking of someone else -- not the original. I just had the sense for a while today that someone was having a conversation with their own self.
Yes. The second poster you're talking about, said she scrolled through the thread, and then began agreeing with him about stuff. Why would a self-proclaimed newbie go out of her way to agree with him, after seeing the stir he caused. Definitely smells fishy.
edit. And now they've both disappeared at the same time. Hmm....
Rob - Dec 27, 2002 4:03:06 pm PST #1595 of 10001
I was thinking of someone else -- not the original. I just had the sense for a while today that someone was having a conversation with their own self.
I'm David. But in an agreeing way, not in a same-person-typing-pretending-to-be-two-people way.