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

years, in my case

true, it's been going on since the peak era of the noize board...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef015391422b9f970b-pi

...to the present day 77 era

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0y3lcx0CR1qjot01o6_500.gif

this is only classic when names are named imo

i don't understand the question in this thread. plenty of reasons to change your handle, but it can also be a bit cloak and dagger.

everyone knows im tom d, the guy who always runs the metal poll.

xpost I don't think the question is about posters changing their handles. It's about when lame new posters like Raccoon Tanuki show up and people go on a quest to prove that he's really Chris Ott sock or whatever.

I think sometimes new posters show up speaking ILX lingo because they've been lurking for awhile before posting. RT actually seemed like a dude who stumbled on this board while googling Travis Scott, and got himself into a Cootie panic when he saw people writing about Taylor Swift and Charli XCX

xpost we've got to do something with our lives.

http://i.imgur.com/yMCgsil.gif

"Get to live the rest of my life like a sock."

Cootie Panic have some good stuff

people like knowing who they're talking to ime. darragh otm

are you original treeship or a licensee of the trademark

the former, unfortunately. if i was a more distinguished poster i would totally think about franchising though

anyone done Al Shiptree yet?

he has a kid, so

Remember Treeship's earlier incarnation. But in general it is a lot of trouble to keep up, assuming you want to keep up, especially if you are not paying attention to ILX or the right threads on ILX when the transition occurs. Doesn't really matter of course, unless it is a poster you like and you wonder where they went or it is a poster you don't like and you want to maintain whatever filter, whether purely mental or browser doodad, that you use to deal with them.

People don't know who they're talking to on here 80% of the time anyway.

there aren't any new posters

you can only register if your IP shows at least one previous registration. you can register multiple times without having been banned but you cannot register at all if you were not already registered. given that this is the system, it's no surprise that people wonder "who's this?" when a new poster arrives; the system is closed, this is an inherent quality of the system. all new posters are a poster we already know or knew under a previous name.

thought everybody understood this tbh

How depressing.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Screamcover.jpg/250px-Screamcover.jpg

It's somewhat surprising to me how infrequently new people seem to sign up, given how often ilx threads show up through google

Yeah, without avatars I have difficulty remembering who said what. I get so many users mixed up, even ones I like. There's probably only 50 users that seem like distinct entities to me.

xp: New people sign up every day and most of them just don't end up posting.

The spartan accommodations may deter dilettantes.

People don't know who they're talking to on here 80% of the time anyway.

― SCOTTISH PEOPLE ONLY (I M Losted), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:40 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For real.

I've only met IRL ILXors a few times, and there's always this embarrassing sequence of wait, who's that person he's talking about?

one day I will learn who is who out of ogmor oppet and onimo

the former, unfortunately. if i was a more distinguished poster i would totally think about franchising though

― Treeship™ (Treeship), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:09 (46 minutes ago)

Maybe like this? ILF trolls of the future

lol

i would read that novel, then "discuss" it on a message board with short sentences like "i read this" and "i liked this."

I am an OLD poster

I am old

not as old as morbz tho

kinda curious how many different logins lj/branwell/kerr have had over the years

I Am Old (Lunch)

would love if it turned out all 3 were the same poster xp

one day I will learn who is who out of ogmor oppet and onimo

― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:03 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

2 of these 3 are k-classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg1mVv3Z4Xk

Don't out me

i'm afraid of people who won't show me their face
they give me the creeps

green龜y

xp - figuratively speaking i mean
i understand not wanting to post a picture of one's face

oh shit, Dr. C

hi

The spartan accommodations may deter dilettantes.

And thank god for that

there aren't any new posters

you can only register if your IP shows at least one previous registration. you can register multiple times without having been banned but you cannot register at all if you were not already registered. given that this is the system, it's no surprise that people wonder "who's this?" when a new poster arrives; the system is closed, this is an inherent quality of the system. all new posters are a poster we already know or knew under a previous name.

thought everybody understood this tbh

― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:45 (1 hour ago) Permalink

If true, that is completely insane.

1. Please direct us to the announcement of this policy you thought everybody understood.
2. This policy, if it exists, must have been implemented sometime after summer 2012, which was when I created my account.
3. WHY would a site simply stop having new people? Is it that traumatic to talk to new people? Is this what you all actually want? Was there debate on this?

I find it hard to believe & hope it isn't true.

oh dear

calm down, it isn't true

loool

(xp)
Really? I find it oddly compelling and some part of me strongly does want to believe and hopes that it is indeed true.

Don't out me

― 龜, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:56 PM (8 minutes ago)
Sorry. Wasn't trying to. Was just referring to the "I am old" commentary.

Did anyone document why the chicken crossed the road? Anyone!?

No worries. Id on't see too good out of this eye

still get thrown by dr. c vs. doctor casino

is the complainte of ray tabano neanderthal?

Everyone is a sock of the original y2k user 'test'.

It's kind of sad that it was believable. (this is a big fat hanging curve ball of a statement I know)

Old-thyme ILX believed in the troll "Ricardo" so why not this?

kinda curious how many different logins lj/branwell/kerr have had over the years

― mookieproof, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:46 AM (26 minutes ago)

some so drudgesiren obvious that the dn hardly matters

one day I will learn who is who out of ogmor oppet and onimo

― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:03 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

2 of these 3 are k-classic

― 龜, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:55 (21 minutes ago)

they are all good posters

aptly enough oppet first found ilx fame by being mistaken for lj by whiney

Yah I shoulda said the 3rd was also very good, I just don't rmeember enough gold plate moments by them

(xp) Now that isn't true... is it?

one day I will learn who is who out of ogmor oppet and onimo

― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:03 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

2 of these 3 are k-classic

― 龜, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:55 (21 minutes ago)

they are all good posters

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this much I know!

kinda curious how many different logins lj/branwell/kerr have had over the years

― mookieproof, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:46 AM (26 minutes ago)

some so drudgesiren obvious that the dn hardly matters

― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:17 AM (1 minute ago)

if you only think "some" are obvious, you are a bit dense tbrr

there are some posters who "fade into the woodwork." some of these are good too, but their charms are subtle and might not register with everyone

kinda curious how many different logins lj/branwell/kerr have had over the years

― mookieproof, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:46 AM (26 minutes ago)

some so drudgesiren obvious that the dn hardly matters

― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these guys are nuts for doing this so often but I don't get the impression they care about being recognised so much as just get bored of their dns. My favourite name change of all time is prob branwell creating a whole new login to clarify the spelling of branwell!

you'll notice we never post in the same threads

xp - i think lj and branwell have different reasons than kerr

these guys are nuts for doing this so often but I don't get the impression they care about being recognised so much as just get bored of their dns. My favourite name change of all time is prob branwell creating a whole new login to clarify the spelling of branwell!

― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:25 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i always suspected it was breaking up with ilx then getting back together with it but losing the cookie / password

stand & applaud Complainte

that seems plausible matt

if you only think "some" are obvious, you are a bit dense tbrr

― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:23 AM (4 minutes ago)

the open goal was a gift but i was expecting a better zing [shrug]

I think they get all ILXed out, go away vowing never to return and then, in a moment of weakness, come back slightly incognito (in order to feel less guilty about it).

had to end the once a week is ample vs, tbrr

*bs

as just get bored of their dns.
lol, read this as "filling a whole borad with their dns" and picture that one gif of geir as Village of the Damned.

this thread is much less clusterfucky than i had anticipated, thanks for ruining my lunch break

bored of their dns.

This is why I changed mine so much in the beginning. I was just under the impression that everybody switched names a whole lot. But then there was a thing on the jaymc brah thread where it seemed like everyone was really annoyed at me about it.

It's kind of sad that it was believable. (this is a big fat hanging curve ball of a statement I know)

― Vic Perry, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:09 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o but tis true

the way the system works is it detects your ip range.

eg. if x registered in ip range 4000-5000, iLxoR allows anyone in that ip range to create a new user.

all it takes is a pre-existing user a within a given ip range y to allocate a user to any specific ip within it

as well: any existing user can log in from anywhere. anytime.

boredom usually plus for the first 5 years i posted under a new name every day to annoy my friend ferg who half the time thought other posters were me.

the latest name change was purely because i lost my old log in (think it was deleted after 6 months when i stopped posting last year.) I never deny it when people say are you cosmic slop or pfunkboy or ag etc if it is me. would be weird to not do that.

lj and branwell have had good explained reasons elsewhere.

I generally end up with some variation of pfunkboy in the name anyway.

I never knew anyone ever cared or was bothered about this.

Lost track of you a while back so thanks for the explanation/explication.

I feel like this thread is tagging posters like migratory animals, tracking their passage on the boards in the hope of divining a pattern

http://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/chart1-redemption.jpg

the open goal was a gift but i was expecting a better zing [shrug]

― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:30 AM (13 minutes ago)

awww sometimes i forgo a good zing out of <3 for a fellow ilxor

Wonder if we could track that one poster HI DERE and see what pattern he is making?

think he might be hid 'ere

I just password bombed my former DN at a time when I was really focused on my Virgo Rouge project.

I can't believe Vic Perry didn't know about our policy. That was a well-discussed topic around the time it was implemented, but I still believe strongly that it was the right choice.

You are a bit late with this joke. If it's a joke. Punk me again friend.

Everyone contradicting it was posting well before 2012, makes you think

Link pls.

Nah, you're 45 minutes late. Could have had me then.

Also nobody try to "show me the captain's log", I won't fall for that one twice.

we call it the admin log here, iirc

Oh well that's different. Please show me the admin log.

http://multimedia.pol.dk/archive/00530/The-Log-Lady-twin-p_530119a.jpg

phew was worried we'd get a stet bowel movement there

[Removed Illegal Link]

lol what

just go to the list of boards, scroll to the bottom, and there be the admin log

you can't go back to 2012 to see the poster mandate, though.

licence plate logg

The most painful of all loggs.

http://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5748281/il_570xN.118853585.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrAVpK9blw

xp dmn you shakey

it's big it's bad it's wood

it's log log everyone loves the log (or something like that omg i haven't thought of that in forever)

i haven't read this thread so I have no idea what is going on here but i saw sarahell posting and to make sure she saw the recently on ILX dreams thread where I had a dream that she was a sock who belonged to Forks.

oh i thought this discussion was today but it was last night - sorry

lol

i'm afraid of people who won't show me their face
they give me the creeps

― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, this beard trend has got to go

Nah LL wants teeth on display iirc man, teeth.

Violet Jynx — new or rebranded?

^^^

the thought had occurred to me too

Violet Jynx is definitely an old poster, most likely that one with the lady rolling up her sleeve and saying 'We Can Do It!'

i'm still nude spock.

sarahell? xp

No.

sarahell still posting as sarahell

not what this thread was for

fav old poster
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/eb/bd/c0/ebbdc0f5fc90856cd307953b86fddf49.jpg

Once a thread is born it makes its own way in the world and its parent just has to wave their hankie and hope for the best. xp

threat of the author iirc

xxp I have that on a tshirt

That poster's pattern doesn't resemble mine at all!

well that too

I straight up asked and got no response - the mystery deepens!

rude btw

otm

how is that rude?

deems and me are strictly Old World

the sergeant wouldnt ask you that sure

the bishop wouldnt!

http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d0tnM91R1rw7fjjo1_500.gif

Someone did this to me and I thought it was kind of rude but I was probably being a dick anyway

I have a theory who this might be.

thats as maybe the point is its rude to directly ask you about whether or not you are a previous dick

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,