# Do I have a personality? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086 "2001-07-19T19:16:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/1 "2001-07-19T19:16:34Z")
OK, so I have been posting here for a while. I have over 2000 posts. Yet I still feel like an outsider. I am not in on any inside jokes. I don’t share any witty sparring with anybody. I don’t have a nemisis. And hardly anybody responds to my posts. Does anybody have anything but apathy for me? Does anybody hate me? Find amusement in my posts? Feel helped by my advice? Remember any of my posts? Know anything about me (job?age?location?)? Would anybody give a rat’s ass if I quit posting here? Would anybody notice? I hate when the depression sets in. I give this thread 3 hours before it drops off the first page and into obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/2 "2001-07-19T21:09:13Z")
I don’t know who you are(seen you a couple times, but don’t remember the posts), but I know the feeling you are getting. I have to kind of force my way in sometimes. I sometimes get replies to my posts, but when I start a new thread…whiz, bam, fizzzzle, sink. I guess I am not as interesting as I thought I am. I have probably bored you to sleep, or even death. Just one more hour before this thread either sinks or swims by your judgement. I am sure it will keep on floating. Of course I have a tendency to kill threads. Maybe I shouldn’t have posted… ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/3 "2001-07-19T21:13:49Z")
I have the same problem. I don’t have your impressive post count, but I’m reasonably active. Occasionally someone will say something nice about what I said in a thread, but I have yet to see any evidence that anyone actually remembers who I am. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/4 "2001-07-19T21:20:41Z")
xizor, I’ll be your nemesis. Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/5 "2001-07-19T21:24:27Z")
Just remember that people are about 100X more likely to remeber what you say than who you are. If you say interesting, witty, thoughtful things, people will notice repeat them, even though they won’t remember where they picked them up. I’ve had good RL friends repeat back to me things I said to them a few years before–they don’t remember where tehy picked up that piece of advice or that way of looking at the world, but they liked it, so they internilized it. With all the lurkers nad such, that happends 10X as much here. Furthermore, with everything so slow, people tend not to take the time (and the bandwidth) to say “Good idea! Wow, you’re smart!”. That dosen’t mean they don’t think it. Challenge yourself to be a subversive influence, not a celeberity. Up until this morning I would have said that I have been here two years and over 1000 posts and have not established any identity at all, but then Sue Dunym started a pit thread complimenting me-I am still overawed by that. So at least a few people have noticed me. So don’t think that no one has noticed you, or, more important, noticed what you have been saying. ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/6 "2001-07-19T21:33:49Z")
Xizor, I know who you are. Mostly because you use the same name as one of the editors I’m working with over on [http://www.netemp.net](http://www.netemp.net). So I always recognize your posts. Don’t feel bad. No one knows who I am or responds to my posts either. I once asked in a flirt thread if I was invisible. Apparently I was. I stay out of flirt threads now. I don’t think it’s a matter of having a personality, I think it’s a matter of having a personality that plays to this crowd. I’m beginning to think this might not be my crowd. But I like em’ anyway. The teeming millions amuse me to no end even if they don’t seem to respond to my brillant logic and witty comments. But I post anyway in the hope that I have a lurker fan club out there somewhere. And things are looking up for you now. I wish I had a nemesis like Munch. _Sulks off_ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/7 "2001-07-19T21:47:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackclaw \* > \*\*I wish I had a nemesis like Munch. > > \*\* ::Taking off leather glove, slapping Blackclaw across the face with it:: I’ll be your nemesis. Every Superhero has to have an archenemy. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/8 "2001-07-19T22:15:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*xizor, I’ll be your nemesis. Bastard. \*\* Curse you, Munch! I’ll get you for this! ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/9 "2001-07-19T22:19:51Z")
**xizor,** I’ll spar with you but the first time you hit me hard, I’m sitting on the floor of the ring and bursting into piteous sobs. Be warned. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Juliet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cc9497/32.png) [@Lady\_Juliet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Juliet)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/10 "2001-07-19T22:30:15Z")
Ah you people amuse me all together too much. Back to the original post… I don’t know you **xizor** , though I’m new anyways. But from this thread alone you seem perfectly dandy. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/11 "2001-07-19T22:54:18Z")
Want a nemesis? Send ChiefScott _ **LOTS** _ of smilies; the more vapid the better! Really though, I’m just kidding; do it at your own peril. Tell you what; I’ll help nemesis you, you empty headed wiper of other peoples’ bottoms! I wave my private parts at your aunties, I fart in your general direction! Now go away, before I taunt you a second time! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/12 "2001-07-19T23:00:34Z")
Apparently I don’t either. Or at least not on this board. There’ve got to be a ton of us, because there are a lot more people reading threads than responding. But ya know, lurking here is fun too, so it doesn’t bother me much. ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/13 "2001-07-19T23:09:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Blackclaw \* > > \*\*I wish I had a nemesis like Munch. > > > > \*\* > > ::Taking off leather glove, slapping Blackclaw across the face with it:: > > I’ll be your nemesis. Every Superhero has to have an archenemy. \*\* Most Excellent! Of course if you had read my profile you would have known that I am a duelist fencer! ::Removes black leather glove and wallops Superdude with it. Then a worried look crosses his face.:: Say, you wouldn’t happen to be one of those ungentlemanly types that uses pistols over swords would you? Can’t say I like the idea of type of duel. Walk ten paces, turn BLAM! Ouch! Where’s the sport in that? And you say you’re a superhero? I don’t have any super powers at all… I’ll have to get one of those utility belt things I suppose. Say, do you think Batman would let me borrow his? You know, if I promised not to do anything too villianous with it. A little mayham here, a bit of chaos there, a quick grab for power at the next city council meeting, showing nothing but Battlefield Earth on HBO for a month or so… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/14 "2001-07-19T23:10:55Z")
It must be the phase of the moon, or perhaps the proliferation of “Favorite Doper” threads that name the same folks over and over… perhaps we of the less flambuoyant natures should make a pact to mention each other in those love-fest threads. I, for one, wouldn’t mind an adoring mob or two every once in a so often. **xizor** , I think you’re just peachy keen! ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/15 "2001-07-19T23:11:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vestal Blue \* > \*\*Want a nemesis? > > Send ChiefScott _ **LOTS** _ of smilies; the more vapid the better! > \*\* I’ll do my best, but I don’t think I’m his type… ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/16 "2001-07-19T23:13:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*Apparently I don’t either. Or at least not on this board. There’ve got to be a ton of us, because there are a lot more people reading threads than responding. But ya know, lurking here is fun too, so it doesn’t bother me much. \*\* Maybe we should harness the power of the lurkers some way… We could give them their very own forum! Although I suppose blank pages would be pretty dull… Oh great, now my lurker fan club will disown me. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/17 "2001-07-19T23:24:15Z")
Well, I don’t know if this will make anyone feel better, but I immediately recognized all of the names so far in this thread. Then again, I’m here just about every day, so I probably see a lot of names here. I hardly ever remember actual quotes or threads by anyone, though. Part of the reason I opened this thread is because I recognized **xizor** ’s name. Again, I’m not sure I remember any specific posts of yours, but I do recognize you as someone I enjoy sharing the board with. I feel much the way you do as well. There are days I think I could make 100 posts, and I’d kill every last thread I posted to. I’m not looking for a nemisis, mind you, but it would be nice to be noticed. (Yeah, yeah, I know you can all hear the violins). ---
**Author:** ![Tabeitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@Tabeitha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabeitha)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/18 "2001-07-19T23:26:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackclaw \* > \*\* Of course if you had read my profile you would have known that I am a duelist fencer! \*\* [/QUOTE] That’s so cool, I thought about taking fencing with the local club. I always thought it would be kick ass to know how to duel. I get all these fantasy’s of the world ending and I’m one of the few to survive, I have the dueling skills unmatched by any. I am the bad ass babe that saves the day and fights forward with my clan. With that said, no one will probably read it, as I too have been cursed with the thread-closing virus. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/19 "2001-07-19T23:47:41Z")
**Tabeitha** , I will not let your post be the last. This thread can’t die! There are too many here who are being noticed. [Jerry Seinfeld]Don’t die, don’t die, don’t die, don’t die. There’s a fish, there’s a rock. Who cares? Don’t die. I don’t wanna die.[/JS] ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086/20 "2001-07-20T00:21:02Z")
::deb walks in with a rat:: Order up, one free rat’s ass. Hey **xizor** I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I see your name. (But that could just be the rat wiggling) You spend wwwaaaayyyy to much time in GQ, if you spent more time in MPSIMS just posting fluff you would be named more in those popularity threads. But NNNOOOO you are over there fighting ignoracity. Grrr, what ya think this is some “intelectial” board. I shall now have to haunt whatever thread you are in and hijack it to mention the rat. [sub]just kidding[/sub] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-a-personality/73086.md?page=2)