wondering if new poster x is an old poster: c or d?

like

it'd be weird not to consider it relevant in interactions with them, non?

and it totally changes the dynamic in how you'd view a new challopy kinda presence imo, some new dn hitting ilx points a lil too on the nose is yknow suspicious/delicious/curious and you'd often be doing em a favour to assume a panto act tbrr

idk when I see protestation overmuch against the phenomenon of the question even being asked I always think hmmm. but for some ppl its seemingly one of ilxs worst tendencies.

I think x is an old poster but I don't think it's c or d

old x's c or d

if x dares to eat a peach, I am satisfied with whatever else they may do or say on ilx

Annoys me a bit when I don't know who people are and have been wondering where old ILXors have got to when in fact they're still there and have been all along. Only now I don't like them anymore.

its not a q of "changing ilx identities and pretending not to have done: c or d" because that is p much always d obv

Yes, I don't know why people persist in doing it too.

don't see anything wrong with this, you return to the same community and get found out tough luck imo

I've considered it so my ILXmail doesn't go to an ancient Hotmail account. Don't think there's a way to change the associated email addy otherwise. But would make it clear it's still me.

i'm still shaken up by waterfacegate

it makes a big difference. i noticed i was much less quick to roll my eyes at branwell posts before i realized who it was, for example. or even last week during the albums poll i thought Amory Blaine was Noodle Vague, and patiently pored over many a random post looking for that shred of NV wisdom

who was waterface?

snrub

not who, what

some ppl are stylistically so recognizable that there's really nothing they can do to not be found out

most ppl imo

or so they want you to think

took me awhile to figure out that Aimless was a geir hongro sock but then the scales fell from my eyes

some ppl are stylistically so boring that i've seen there dns a thousand times and still couldn't tell you anything specific about them

geir was totally in my mental category of "aim-full" posters, it was the perfect disguise

ya ya

but lookit

I'm not asking is it easy or hard to spot em either

im asking why ppl think its a weird thing to ask, or wonder about

can't remember who said it on what thread before but someone basically put it thusly: if u turned up at a party or group event where everyone knew you in a wig, fake nose, what have you, its very strange behaviour to ignore and/or deny the disguise or yr identity"

I'd v much agree with this and if anybody would like to argue contra (because we've none such at the moment AFAIK and therefore it hopefully won't be construed as any type of specific query) I'd be very interested in their pov

it depends on the person and circumstance, also a message board is a message board not a party or group event

ya true ok if someone turned up to a message board in a wig and false nose that would be weird ok?

there are different social modes on here, difft identity mixes / characters people are displaying, i mean generally i agree with you. also there's probably just some baseline anxiety about socializing in a medium like this, and a history of people using the internet to escape irl.

this is obviously a classic

people who don't wanna have their spot blown up should not have such predictable posting style

Two things:

1) FP regardless

2) Don't mind except when it's Bo Jackson Overdrive / San Te/ Neanderthal / whatever with yet another new name

85% of posts sound the same

VP otm

gtfo VP

And why do you posters on this board
Let me start so many Now polls?
When you should have seen what I was
On the last board
On the last board
You should have seen what I was
If I was a stranger
I was worse than a stranger
I was geir hongro

why wouldn't people speculate

I guess some profess not to have any interest in who the people they're talking to are; good for them? seems natural that others would wonder tho

I appreciate the reasonable sound of "seems natural that others would wonder" and from the OP, "it'd be weird not to consider it relevant in interactions with them, non?"

In practice it's random accusations whenever an argument goes south.

with all due respect I think you may be missing the fact that a lot of those "accusations" are made jokingly

Could be.

On the other hand this thread is about the sincere feelings behind the doubt, so.....

the first time i saw wins post i thought it was my friend dean, a psychologist from wales with a similarly insouciant and anarchic sense of humor

we are one and the same

http://blog.dundee.ac.uk/atliteraryfestival/files/2014/10/bright-club-logo.png

*bright* *club* brains funny meats

it's so beautiful

http://www.wndu.com/station/bios/sports/4321892.html

he also reminded everyone of Dean

Dean of Local Sports vs. Dean of American Rock Critics

dean's big into his local sports too, loves his rugby and gets down to the millenium stadium as often as he can, loves cardiff city and fancies himself as a bit of a rascal when he's on the terraces

he did a hilarious jpeg last year when they were taken over by a malaysian billionaire that made him look like a bond villain

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/02/vincent-tan-james-bond-villain_n_4531509.html

The evening will be compered by Chris Chopping and the line up will be:

Jenny Kitzinger – talking about putting on a Festival about death and dying

David Melkevik – talking zombies

Ezzy Pearson and the Death of the Universe

Dean Burnett and working in a mortuary

Dan Mitchell and working as an undertaker

Brendon Common and working in hospitals

lol

https://davidmelkevik.wordpress.com/

When someone new starts posting, and this instant mania develops about who it is or isn't, it always reminds me of the big slab and the opening scene of 2001. I find it really, really weird.

yeah, i don't think it's strange to wonder and speculate, but sometimes people seem bizarrely convinced that someone would spend time inventing a naive, challopy persona and committing to it for weeks on end. but maybe this has happened before and i'm the naive one

xp theories is different we encourages theories sos we does

I mean, it’s a theory bolstered by evidence.

the best kind of theory

def

Heh.

Ya know, you can always look at when someone stopped posting and see when the new user started posting.

You can look for similarities between two posters or a place in which a new poster might say something untrue to throw off the fact that they’re the same poster as someone else.

They mind both have a fondness for the same sort of thread.

The very fact they won’t tell you who they are might be interesting.

u arent getting worked up about this now are u?

u mustnt get worked up

Shh, it’s my alt and I don’t want anyone to know.

(It isn’t my alt. I don’t have an alt.)

"A Previous Dick"

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Based on the novel by l0u1s jagg3r

heaven save us all

director of photography: tyn4n d3l0ng

adapted for the screen by dr morbius

Reviewed by Calum RW

after a treatment by t4-nehasi coatez

music by oops & kenan

appropriately slated on an internet message board by garu g

all posters by the sockpuppetmaster of ilx

http://i.imgur.com/eWuIDw8.jpg

sup

I think controversial posters should be allowed to rechristen and reinvent themselves, what's amazing is they almost never do the reinvent bit

*Machiavellian laugh* nobody will suspect that this brand new poster with the exact same verbal tics and challopry as me is in fact me

I think of Darraghmac as a new poster.

all posters not you are me

the lengths that I will go to

i renew in the 'mirror in february' sense pf

I don't know that sense!

I think I just mean you were not around in 2001. Unless you were, under another name :O

any excuse really

Mirror in February

The day dawns, with scent of must and rain,
Of opened soil, dark trees, dry bedroom air.
Under the fading lamp, half dressed -- my brain
Idling on some compulsive fantasy --
I towel my shaven jaw and stop, and stare,
Riveted by a dark exhausted eye,
A dry downturning mouth.
It seems again that it is time to learn,
In this untiring, crumbling place of growth
To which, for the time being, I return.
Now plainly in the mirror of my soul
I read that I have looked my last on youth
And little more; for they are not made whole
That reach the age of Christ.

Below my window the wakening trees,
Hacked clean for better bearing, stand defaced
Suffering their brute necessities;
And how should the flesh not quail, that span for span
Is mutilated more? In slow distaste
I fold my towel with what grace I can,
Not young, and not renewable, but man.

to the poetry thread!

(I used to read a fair bit about Kinsella but in truth I have very rarely actually read him, especially of late.)

who is violet jynx, sleepingbag? i get the spazzy political posters mixed up a lot

I like how just asking someone who they are is rude, but stuffing a thread with random speculations, in-jokes and half-assed "detective"-style speculations is perfectly acceptable.

speculations, I say!

You can look for similarities between two posters or a place in which a new poster might say something untrue to throw off the fact that they’re the same poster as someone else.

― the ghost of markers, Thursday, May 18, 2017 4:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

were you wearing a fedora and a duster when you wrote these posts

My guess is Connor Smedley, but then my guess is always Connor Smedley.

I think controversial posters should be allowed to rechristen and reinvent themselves, what's amazing is they almost never do the reinvent bit

― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague)

how many fucking david bowies do you think there are in the world

I like how just asking someone who they are is rude, but stuffing a thread with random speculations, in-jokes and half-assed "detective"-style speculations is perfectly acceptable.

― Οὖτις, Friday, May 19, 2017 1:56 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

speculations, I say!

― Οὖτις, Friday, May 19, 2017 1:56 PM (five minutes ago)

lol who cares

seems like ol shakey is trying to throw up some roadblocks here...wonder why that might be?

but the thing is ive explicitly said thread isnt for the speculums

straight up asking is rude tho

rejoining and pretending not be yr previous dn is also rude imo

its a minefield

ms. manners over here

way to msgender me i mean wow

figured I might as well double down on the rudeness

^^^there's not enough

he's a strong man for the rudeness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2qKi36j4xw

maintaining my position on this

Is this about the new international left.

sir,