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.
;o)
Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.
'Shindig'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Fay - Dec 27, 2002 3:56:05 pm PST #1590 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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.
Connie Neil - Dec 27, 2002 4:03:48 pm PST #1596 of 10001
brillig
But was he offensive? I thought the conversation was funny.
PaulJ - Dec 27, 2002 4:04:31 pm PST #1597 of 10001
Well, I was thinking of "Mike P" as the supposed doppelgänger. Is that what you are talking about?
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 4:04:34 pm PST #1598 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
David is already Hec. That's why he's Knut.
Please excuse me while I expire in a cloud of oldtimerness sautéed in a light oil of obscure injokery.
John H - Dec 27, 2002 4:04:36 pm PST #1599 of 10001
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.
Plasmo and I work for the same corporation.
We live a twelve-hour-plus drive away from each other and very rarely meet in real life.
But our IP addresses on the web would be the same during work hours because we're behind the same corporate firewall.
Of course Plasmo and I aren't claiming to be nothing to do with another.
Also, I don't know what NAT means.