# Attention whores have privacy rights too, you know! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 15, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157 "2005-02-15T05:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/61 "2005-02-16T23:32:07Z")
So, let me get this straight, **Nordic**. IRL, you’re a human being of above-average attractiveness and receive all the resulting benefits. On an internet message board of all places, some plain folks get some compliments, fawned over, whathaveyou and you get passed by, making you feel like you get lumped in with the “less than spectacular” crowd (not that you’re naming names). You’re right, before this thread, I didn’t know who you were. Now you’ve certainly made an impression. For some reason, I’m not sympathetic to your plight. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/62 "2005-02-17T03:29:10Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > God fucking forbid somebody posts a link, so the rest of us knows what the fuck this is about… I couldn’t post a link since the matter that primarily prompted me to start this thread is currently off limits. I have nothing against the photo threads, and sometimes dip into them to satisfy my curiosity about various dopers. Whatever the rights and wrongs of what an administrator did, I wanted to reflect on the aspect of the matter that was always most salient to me but seems to have attracted little comment. Namely, the fact that someone would write “I am a registered sex offender” in the first place. I really couldn’t understand why someone would do this, or how they would not comprehend the consequences it would have. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/63 "2005-02-17T08:44:16Z")
Is Roger drunk? …I think Roger has been drinking… or … no, never mind, I don’t gossip. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/64 "2005-02-17T08:48:34Z")
At least you’re not citing this thread as evidence that I’m heading for a meltdown, as is being suggested on the dark side. Hic! ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/65 "2005-02-17T13:28:08Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > I think you just shredded whatever tiny fragments of ego he was still feebly clinging to… Nah. Like I said, my self-esteem does not rest on the SDMB. This isn’t even the first time I’ve been called out over something here. I take it all with good humor, and I gladly and sincerely consider any criticism I’m given. As for why anyone should care what I look like, why should anyone care what _anybody_ looks like on these boards? Maybe it doesn’t matter to you, but some people are interested in putting faces to names, as explained by others here already. As I’ve said, one doesn’t have to be an attention whore – or a teenage girl – to want to be included in a group. What’s wrong with that, or hard to understand about it? There are quite a few others in that picture thread who lamented not being complimented. Why aren’t you jumping on them? ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/66 "2005-02-17T14:15:28Z")
> [@Nordic](#): > > There are quite a few others in that picture thread who lamented not being complimented. Why aren’t you jumping on them? Because we like _them_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/67 "2005-02-17T16:23:26Z")
I’m just glad that a couple of people said nice things about my picture. Well, that they said anything at all. It’s nice to know that someone clicked the link. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/68 "2005-02-17T16:51:22Z")
> [@Nordic](#): > > As I’ve said, one doesn’t have to be an attention whore – or a teenage girl – to want to be included in a group. What’s wrong with that, or hard to understand about it? There are quite a few others in that picture thread who lamented not being complimented. Why aren’t you jumping on them? Probably because they’re not man enough to jump into the fray. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/69 "2005-02-17T18:11:19Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > I couldn’t post a link since the matter that primarily prompted me to start this thread is currently off limits. So your OP isn’t about the photo threads but about The Recent Unpleasantness[sup]TM[/sup]? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/70 "2005-02-17T18:59:52Z")
> [@moi](#): > > …The Recent Unpleasantness[sup]TM[/sup]? You must of just looked at my pics… oh…you mean _that_ Recent Unpleasantness[sup]TM[/sup]…I thought we weren’t talking about that. Hooray for my 100th post! Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/71 "2005-02-18T00:23:27Z")
Do I actually have to go and open the damn thread or can I just move on to the “How YOU doin’, **AndyPolley**?” 😃 Because, really, I’m much more about shamelessly flirting with anonymous posters based on their witticisms, scathing humor, or other contributions. It is an Internet message board, after all. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/72 "2005-02-18T01:02:40Z")
Has anyone ever told you you look like my sister, **moi**? ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/73 "2005-02-18T15:06:06Z")
Why **Moi** , feel free to skip the picture thread for I can assure you I am 1. Quite unpleasant 2. Not an attention whore 3. Not as good looking as **Nordic** Although it is my hope to possess at least a fraction of the wit, scathing humor, and/or other contributing powers that you have shown, I do know my place. I’m just a lurker who is a fan of certain posters, like **roger**. On to more pressing matters… **roger thornhill** , I agree with everything you have posted thus far…ever. Although I’ve never met your sister, so I can’t vouch for that last one there. Damn the eyes of any who speaks against you! Except that thing about if you only had one fruit/vegetable/beverage for the rest of your life you’d pick an _onion??_ That’s just fucking stupid! And Milk? I thought you were civilized? Other than that…you’re golden. Waitaminute…sucking up to **rog** isn’t more pressing than shameless flirting… Back to **moi** …So, How are YOU Doin’? Page 4 post #162 just in case…I am NOT an attention whore…I’m NOT! ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157/74 "2005-02-19T02:42:08Z")
best Tom Berenger in \*Someone To Watch Over Me \* phoney Queens accent So, howz ya doin’, **Andy**? Tell ya sumthin’, bud. If evers I comes over to those there States again, there’s no way that I’m gonna meet up with you good folks that comprises mah fayan clerb. It’ll all end in teyehs, don’t ya know? That onion thing was an an attempt to demonstrate my knowledge that onions are the world’s most popular veggie (whatever in the hell that means) before some smartass poster like **Polycrap** (gee - I’ve always wanted to do that - I hope he does vanity searches - like we all don’t!) or **tomn-fuckin-debb** waded in and pointed that fact out. The milk thing was done to further pique the intrigue of those who (ok, “whom” for all the fucking pedants - here’s looking at you, **Poly** - “our Anglo-Chinese missionary”, indeed - did ya sees that dig at me, **Andy**?) I had already sucked into my web (I have a ways with woids, don’t I?). “Does \*\*Roger \*\* (sorry, **roger** ) really like milk? Is he driving at a deeper meaning? Is he referencing a line from \*The Office \* or _Blackadder_? Is it perhaps a more arcane reference to the sociolinguistic research he’s been doing? Or is he being smutty again - making an allusion to breast milk?” Anyway, doesn’t onion describe me perfectly? Layers and all that… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-whores-have-privacy-rights-too-you-know/290157.md?page=3)