Has anoyone else ever left a message on a MB for family members or RL friends?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Earlier today, I was reading the thread about Goo being famous, and had to go over to G’Dope to have a look at the thread linked therein. After posting a couple of times to G’Dope, I decided to log in to ezboard so I wouldn’t have to supply my username and password every time I replied to a topic (hey, it saves time!). While doing so, I saw that I had three posts to my credit, instead of the two I was expecting. Yes, today was the first time that I posted to G’Dope, let alone any ezboards. (despite registering with them when TheLoadedDog told me about it, about two months ago)

So I decided to see what was up with that. Luckily, there was an area on the page that gave me links to the sites I’d recently visited. There was a site that was completely unfamiliar to me. I figured that my sister had visited an ezboard and posted something using my identity. No big deal, if so. Then I went to the site linked. (no link for you because it’s a church Fellowship message board, and I don’t want anyone spamming or abusing it)

When I got there, I found out that it was my brother who had posted something under my name. I posted something agreeing with a post he had made under a nickname that he’d obviously thought of AFTER he’d posted something under my name, then replied to his earlier post under my name. Basically, he had said that the name he was posting under (“Flamsterette”) was my creation; he had no idea what it meant, but had some ideas. So then I had to post to explain what my nickname meant, plus tell him (and the site creator) some other things.

Afterwards, I felt kind of weird. It was the first time that I had ever left a message for my brother on a message board. Of course, I’d emailed him and left ICQ messages for him, but this was different. Email and ICQ messages are private, and a message board is public. Never mind that the people who visit the Fellowship message board are likely to know who my brother and I are, and are likely to be Fellowship or church members; it’s just sort of different, but in a good way. No, I won’t be leaving him sundry messages on the site all the time, or even after this: it’s a message board for their fellowship anouncements and such, and I respect that.

So the upshot of all this is, have any of you ever left messages for your family members or your RL friends on a message board? (doesn’t have to be this one; it could be any one at all) Share your experiences! (whether the person got the message, what their response was, etc.)

And if it’s too personal, then what were you doing leaving a highly personal private message on a public message board in the first place? :stuck_out_tongue: Just kidding, of course.

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Soph, stop looking at what I’m doing here and ask mum what’s for dinner.

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Have people left messages for others here or elsewhere? Yes, they have; it’s pretty much regarded as a “just don’t even think about airing your private shit here” thing on the SDMB if it’s anymore than a passing comment (as in a “hi Mum, what’s for dinner?”) aside to a post.

I share the EZboard problem with my son (as I do with all messageboards on which we both have accounts) - sometimes we each forget to log out. In the case of EZboard the answer is to create local accounts (it’s only our global ccounts which cause us problems).

As one of the admins on G’Dope, I’m concerned if anyone - including your brother - has been posting under your nick.

Could you please PM me through the G’Dope so that we can talk about ways in which to establish a unique user identity for you?

Many thanks.

Merryl

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Only to tell my brother to quit drinking and go to bed. :wink:

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The red crow flies with the hippos. 6:30. C’ya!

Zev Steinhardt

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Far less funny, but along the same lines…

A co-worker and I are both members of http://qaforums.com. We regularly read and post questions to and from other QA folks.

Last week, he posted a message complaining that an application he was using to write code was hanging when he tried to run it. Everytime he tried to run the program, it would just lock the computer. He asked if anyone had seen this behavior before and if anyone had any advice.

I responded with, “Maybe the program knows what buggy, crappy code its loading and refuses to run on principle!” Then I sat back and waited for him to see the post.

When he finally did, he got a good laugh. However, other folks on the board didn’t know that we worked together and were pretty shocked at my “rude” response.

Told you it wasn’t funny. <shrug>

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Got your email; have responded. Thanks.