# Hbk4894 - What's up with his posting history? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 17, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841 "2016-10-17T14:33:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/1 "2016-10-17T14:33:32Z")
[Tell me about the place you live.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=807269) [Where were you born?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=799163) [Tell me about your last name.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=807140) [What’s your birthday?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=805555) [Who’s your favorite teacher?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=804698) These seem suspiciously like some sort of manual phishing. Add in the fact that he’s very rarely replied to anything. My sincere apologies if he’s just harmlessly curious, but that’s a hard position to defend. May I respectfully suggest the mods consider cornfielding his threads in case these responses are collected and used against the members who posted? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/2 "2016-10-17T16:30:44Z")
I see what you mean. Replying to those questions truthfully would enable a phisher to zero right in on you. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/3 "2016-10-17T16:50:46Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I see what you mean. Replying to those questions truthfully would enable a phisher to zero right in on you. I’ve ignored all his/her threads because it seems like they’re all generic attempts to get information from strangers. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/4 "2016-10-17T16:57:03Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I see what you mean. Replying to those questions truthfully would enable a phisher to zero right in on you. Good thing I never told him the first concert I went to was The Bay City Rollers. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/5 "2016-10-17T17:10:23Z")
Or that my first pet’s name was Oberon. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/6 "2016-10-17T17:23:40Z")
Good thing I didn’t give him my SSN of [078-05-1120](https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/7 "2016-10-17T17:29:54Z")
_quietly shelves plans for “What was your mother’s maiden name?” thread_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/8 "2016-10-17T17:35:01Z")
The statistics look pretty bad, too: 71 total posts 68 Threads started. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/9 "2016-10-17T17:50:48Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > Good thing I didn’t give him my SSN of [078-05-1120](https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html). Which eerily is also my phone number. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/10 "2016-10-17T17:53:29Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Which eerily is also my phone number. _Soul socks!_ ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/11 "2016-10-17T17:54:17Z")
[Drunky lives in Andorra!](https://sizes.com/media/phoneurope.htm) How about those local sports teams! And also your favourite colour? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/12 "2016-10-17T17:54:31Z")
Good catch, **Whiskey Dickens**. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/13 "2016-10-17T18:24:56Z")
I began to get a little suspicious with the “What Is Your PIN?” thread. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/14 "2016-10-17T18:29:07Z")
My mother, whose maiden name is Cowznofski, taught me never to reply to questions like that. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/15 "2016-10-17T18:34:42Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I see what you mean. Replying to those questions truthfully would enable a phisher to zero right in on you. I ignore such threads even when from established users. It’s one of those cases where one bit at a time, you reveal far too accurate a portrait of the RW/private you. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/16 "2016-10-17T18:59:36Z")
Note that he did get [moderator attention](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19701959&postcount=4) for opening so many threads. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/17 "2016-10-17T19:00:37Z")
I figured he/she was gathering data to write a novel. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/18 "2016-10-17T19:19:39Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > My mother, whose maiden name is Cowznofski, taught me never to reply to questions like that. _Helen Profiterole_ Cowznofski? Hey, cuz! ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/19 "2016-10-17T19:44:57Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I ignore such threads even when from established users. It’s one of those cases where one bit at a time, you reveal far too accurate a portrait of the RW/private you. I ignore them just becuse I have better things to do. They are threads in which everbody posts but nobody reads. They’re vanity threads for the OP. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841/20 "2016-10-18T00:53:14Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Note that he did get [moderator attention](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19701959&postcount=4) for opening so many threads. And yet he’s [still at it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=807691) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbk4894-whats-up-with-his-posting-history/768841.md?page=2)