As to the OP, I just want to state upfront that I don’t use real names for my family members in order to protect their privacy. So one day my husband might be “Tom” and another day he might be “Bob.” No matter what moniker I give him, he’s always the same dude. You know, just in case you were keeping track.
And I’ll also say that on the few occasions where posters were busted (aka the dude who falsely claimed to be having a sex change), I do appreciate that other people pay closer attention. There’s something evilly satisfying in busting a poseur.
You may be right, but I’m afraid that large stores of my memory have been committed to remembering the lyrics to 80’s pop tunes. Hence, most other things are forgotten. Kaitlyn/NumberSix rings a distant bell, but I have no idea what timeframe we’re talking.
Kaitlyn was the fake-sex-change guy you mentioned. Before that he was a poster named NumberSix, who all of a sudden claimed he was coming out as a MTF and wanted “her” name to be Kaitlyn or whatever.
Good idea. Just for the record, I’m a young, blonde, lesbian supermodel who hates movies, thinks female singers are wussy bitches, and I’m a right-wing Republican who worships Clothahump, Carol Stream, Bricker and Shodan, and wants to have Rush Limbaugh’s babies. Just so y’all know.
Oh, and, Obama’s a Muslim Kenyan with an angry, uppity wife.
Somewhere between February and April of 2005. Which may or may not help you.
I, however, recall exactly where I was when I was reading parts of that saga, which places it firmly in time.
Unrelated to the above–my favorite thread in which Zoe is show to be an idiot is Vetbridge’s Obligation to Recognize Vetinary Ethics. While I’m not sure vetbridge himself ever responded to the thread, professionals from a wide variety of other fields showed up to report that vetbridge’s behavior as determined from the two threads that inspired that thread, was not inconsistant with their ideas of professional and ethical behavior for veterinarians.
IIRC, the three people who (allegedly) busted Kaitlyn/NumberSix were Satan, Roger Thornhill, and Can of Pineapples. All of whom, of course, are banned.
In other words, the three people who correctly identified a phony are all banned, while the person who repeatedly incorrectly identifies other posters as phonies is not only still here but also is usually considered an upstanding pillar of this here community. Now I realize that Satan, Roger Thornhill, and Can of Pineapples were banned for things generally unrelated to the whole Kaitlyn/NumberSix deal, but it’s food for thought nonetheless.
Of course I’m going off half-remembered anonymous board posts but for some reason I thought it was “common knowledge” that Satan was Can of Pineapples. Yeah, now I’m indulging in the same detective work as the target of the OP, I suppose.
The Kaitlyn/Number Six thing was so strange, wasn’t it? Kind of the SDMB’s “Emperor has no clothes” moment–so obvious in retrospect, but no less a shock to everybody involved. I was on the UnaBoard at the time and Kaitlyn was a member there too. We were all gulled as well. It puts all the “troll-hunting” that Zoe and others do into some perspective: if such an obvious troll as Kaitlyn could go unnoticed for months, how good can Dopers really be at spotting them?